We have prison rodeo, they have prison dance team.
Here’s something completely different. The 1500+ prison inmates at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Phillipines participate in a dance rehabilitation program, as do at least 7 other Phillipines prisons. What a concept! Can you imagine if we implemented a program like this in American prisons? YouTube has many videos of these guys dancing to songs that vary from “Soulja Boy” to “Thriller” to “I Need a Hero.”
Apparently, they perform for audiences of family and community members. At one performance, the announcer introduced “I Need A Hero” as a tribute to the peace makers throughout history.
“To highlight the art of dance as a non-violent approach to rehabilitation and to emphasize that the inmates, too, have learned to love peace as a lifestyle…”
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Soulja vid Boy has no audio…an apparent copyright claim by the producers rendered the video silent. Too bad.
Don’t think it would ever work in American Prison…too many race/gang/set violence. Again…too bad.