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+title: Dancing the Shag and The New Lion King
+categories:
+  - life
+tags:
+  - carolina
+  - shag
+  - dancing
+  - wedding
+  - lion
+  - king
+  - remake
+published_date: "2019-07-21 12:38:48 +0000"
+layout: post.liquid
+is_draft: false
+---
+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.