At clubs such as Bar Code, teens bump and grind in bliss, without attracting as much as a curious glance from bored bouncers. Also barred are freak-friendly tracks such as the Thong Song and Back That Thang Up . At Gabriel Richard High in Riverview, Mich., students who want to attend a dance must pass a quiz on acceptable dance-floor behavior. In Washington D.C., more than 40 private school administrators gathered to consider techniques for stopping freak dancing. For us to allow them is another.
Teens say their baby boomer administrators are hypocrites.
It's enough to put them only a few degrees from Kevin Bacon, whose character caused an uproar when he brought big-city dance moves to a small town in the movie Footloose in 1984. It's just the way everybody dances. Honor roll kids do it. Church-going kids do it. In fact, almost anyone can do it.