This has happened before, yes, but that doesn't mean it's not special each and every time, down to the white socks. So much better than a mariachi band. Or a stripper, in our humble opinions.

People dancing excessively in public is usually best left to flashmobs and those annoying fountain guys in Washington Square Park. But Staten Island has now been blessed with the presence of their own street dancer. And this guy isn't just your three-minute-and-leave-type dancer. He wears head-to-toe black and dances and jogs around for what seems like 24 hours a day. There are currently two Facebook fan pages for the local celebrity: "The Dancing Black Man of Staten Island" and "The happy guy who frolics around Staten Island."More >>

It comes as no surprise that the First Lady is skilled in any number of areas, including the Dougie, which she demonstrated at a D.C. school yesterday as part of her "Let's Move!" campaign. She can do the Running Man, too. Of course she can.

Because it's fun to watch people dance, foolishly, and because it's more fun when they are Russian presidents, here is Dmitry Medvedev (in the gray) dancing his ass off to "American Boy," but not the version you're thinking of. While Animal NY thinks that Medvedev's rigid dance is akin to treason, there's a certain jazziness about the arms that we believe could do wonders for international relations. Of course, it's hardly Assange-level, but then, nothing is.

Look at how the Archbishop of Canterbury gets down. Would that this were real, but alas, it's a T-Mobile ad.

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Is this video of a subway dance party, taken on an L platform -- it's always the L -- on a recent Saturday night, fun or lame? Would you squeeze past these shiny happy strutty people with a look of annoyance and superiority, vexing the repetitive live band stylings that bear a surprising kinship to the guttural moans of a dying water buffalo, and you are just trying to get home, for the love of God? Or would you, perhaps, join in?

[via NYC The Blog]

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