We had a band instead of a DJ, in large part to avoid the Obligatory Wedding Songs. Looking back, a DJ with strict instructions and no schtick might have been a better choice, but oh well.

The Hora is a Jewish dance. (Well, I think that, if you want to be really technical about it, it's an Israeli dance.) The song it's usually danced to is Hava Nagila.

edit: although, now that I've done a bit of googling, it looks like the Hora is also the name of an ancient Greek dance that's still danced in Romania

edit again: and a bit more googling tells me that the Israeli hora was influenced by dances brought by Romanian Jews, who were probably influenced by the Romanian hora, which was probably based on that Greek hora.

I went to a Palestenian cultural thing with a friend of mine in college and they did a dance called (iirc) a dubke. I asked him why the hell they were doing the hora.

have the best time 'suela!

happy birthday anne!

The thing about those cheesy dances is (in a lot of crowds) they really do get everyone up on the dance floor -- at least all the women -- from grandma to little kids. At my aunts' wedding, the 13-year old was teaching all the rest of us all the dances, and it was hilarious.

I love the Electric Slide. I am an Electric Slide MASTER! (not that there's so much *to* master, but I love it) And like Jesse says, it gets everyone up and boogeying, and then, often some will stick around after that.

I fuck up the Electric Slide every single time. I don't even try any more.

However, I am quite good at the Alley Cat. And while I dislike conga lines, I am fond of the Bunny Hop.

ATROCITY???? I love that song, and the dance.

So, so wrong. Now I've almost exclusively seen the "dance" performed by painfully rhythmically-challenged people (yours truly included), so that may have affected my analysis.

Of course, since I fully intend to do the macarena at my putative wedding, it's possible I've just admitted myself right out of the arena of reason.

Really. Huh. That's a lot flailing limbs right there. Might want to set up a first aid station.

Plus, it looks like the CB creators put out another show that Adult Swim will be playing (Wolf somethingorother). Has anyone else heard anything about that?

Calli, if you're still around, it was Wolf's Rain and I got very hooked on it. At least 2 characters have the same hair shape as Spike. It looks like a teen anime until you grasp how very dark the story really is. Yes, the characters are pretty, but the action is very brutal at times. It's also deadly serious. None of the humor that Bebop had.

Best wedding reception I ever went to was when my friend married an Iranian. Those Persian men LOVE to dance. And the music and the men are very pretty.