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Hey Geoffrey -- I have most of those in my fitness video library!!!! They still work too!

I never did "dancing in the Spirit" .... but plenty of moving and grooving to the music. Like I said, my upbringing was just normal enough that a few of the other mothers thought mine was an utter reprobate (and me too by extension) because of that normalcy. I went to school dances, and that's where I did my hip-shaking.... NOT in church.

Had I done my dancing in church though, it wouldn't have been quite as bad as Elaine's from Seinfeld, but not nearly as graceful as a Maria Tallchief .... or quite as bold as Josephine Baker's. It could best be described as "Silly 80s Teen Dance."

Now, some of my other personal favorites that I saw included (1) the Fast Woodstock Jerk -- similar to the "hippie-style" dancing you might see at Woodstock, but faster and not as graceful; (2) Running Man -- just as it sounds; and (3) Modified Clogging -- I suspect these people knew how to clog (sort of an Appalachian version of the Irish step dancing) and just used the same moves.

Of course, having grown up in the 80s, I'm surprised there wasn't a teen movement: Breakdancing in the Spirit.