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title: Dancing the Shag and The New Lion King
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  - carolina
  - shag
  - dancing
  - wedding
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  - king
  - remake
published_date: "2019-07-21 12:38:48 +0000"
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Not all of my posts are huge, and they probably shouldn't be. Amy and I had a
really great time yesterday at Two Left Feet Dance Studio, learning more about
how to dance the Carolina Shag in preparation for our wedding (which is in less
than 20 days)! An enormous swing band is going to play all of our favorites
from the brass band/swing era, and one of the easiest dances to do to that
music is the Shag. I wrote a paper on the Shag a few years ago for school but
never actually learned how to do it. The steps are simple for us to remember
and it's easy enough to add flair or mix it up so we look like we know what
we're doing during our first dance.

We also got out to see the new Lion King remake and I can honestly say it was
worth it. If anyone's a Lion King purist, it's Amy. It's easily been her
favorite movie since she was a toddler, and to see it tastefully redone almost
25 years after it was first released was thoroughly enjoyable. There were minor
alterations to literal sentences in the script that all added some context to
things that were always kind of assumed in the original (clarification on
Scar's backstory, etc.). I did however feel like they were trying to throw
Beyonce lines the way a middle-schooler tries to turn a 500-word paper into a
700-word paper. Regardless, it's definitely re-living the classic, not
re-hashing it.