Grease - Central Station Antwerp.

[bindeweede]

It's a few years since I visited Antwerp and its fantastic railway station. I stumbled across this on YT and couldn't resist posting. Great fun.

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[Tony.Williams]

This reminds of this: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtESUuA2gTc[/youtube] an extract from a BBC4 programme on clog dancing from about five years ago. I remember seeing it then - great fun indeed!

[Matt]

That looked like fun. Very good of the non-participants to stand aside so neatly.

[bindeweede]

That looked like fun. Very good of the non-participants to stand aside so neatly.

Geordies are generally very accommodating.

[Tinkerbell]

Wonderful! I would love to witness a flash mob event. I would want to join in though! :)

[Tony.Williams]

Wonderful! I would love to witness a flash mob event. I would want to join in though! :)

You'll need a pair of hard, wooden clogs...

[Tinkerbell]

Wonderful! I would love to witness a flash mob event. I would want to join in though! :)

You'll need a pair of hard, wooden clogs...

I fully admit to not understanding that comment...explain please..?

[Tony.Williams]

Wonderful! I would love to witness a flash mob event. I would want to join in though! :)

You'll need a pair of hard, wooden clogs...

I fully admit to not understanding that comment...explain please..?

I was referring to the clog-dancing flash-mob in the second message: no clogs = no dancing!

[Tinkerbell]

Wonderful! I would love to witness a flash mob event. I would want to join in though! :)

You'll need a pair of hard, wooden clogs...

I fully admit to not understanding that comment...explain please..?

I was referring to the clog-dancing flash-mob in the second message: no clogs = no dancing!

Ah! I missed that link for some reason, have watched now, yes very good!

[Croydon13013]

There have been quite a few at Liverpool Street Station in London over the years. It is particularly well laid out for flash mobs apparently.

[Tony.Williams]

It's a pity, really, that such activities are so rare. I have read (and I can well believe it) that communal singing and dancing are very good for people, individually and collectively. They strengthen social bonds and improve both mental and physical health and well-being. And they cost nothing. Yet they have almost disappeared from our culture. I wonder why?

[chaggle]

Perhaps not quite the same but I would say that community choirs are having a renaissance at the moment- possibly due to the prominence of Gareth Malone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Malone

Certainly I have friends and family who sing in choirs in their towns - and they're not really singers but nevertheless sound OK and enjoy it immensely.

[Tony.Williams]

Estonia provides a fascinating example of using communal singing for social purposes, and on a different scale to anyone else. For their regular festivals there is a vast outdoor amphitheatre near Tallinn which can accommodate an audience of 100,000 (about 10% of the population) who gather to listen to choirs of 20,000-30,000. Must be quite an experience.