dances
March 27, 2025
Mennonites can dance: GC’s story of resistance
I live a short 58 minute drive from Payson High School, in Utah, where the movie Footloose was filmed. Footloose, which was released in 1984, is about a boy named Ren McCormack, played by Kevin Bacon, who moves to a small midwest town where dancing and rock music have been made illegal. He spends the rest of the movie trying to convince the town that dancing should be allowed. In the end, a prom is held behind a grain mill, across town lines, and the teens dance the night away. Imagine my surprise, when I learned that Goshen College...