“Danser Encore” was a countercultural phenomenon ignored by American media.
In 2020, songwriter and performer Khadour Hadadi was set to begin a live performance for a crowd of keen, wholesome ticket-holders. He abruptly realized that the venue, underneath the stress of emergency declarations, had abruptly canceled the present.
KH, as he’s recognized, received the thought to strike again artistically towards those that had–unnecessarily, per scientific analyses–ended his tour.
A 12 months into the oppressive social distancing mandates in Europe and the U.S., , many components of the U.S., and past, KH penned a tune referred to as “Danser Encore” (pronounced “Don-say On-core”). The tune, with calypso and jazzy thrives, struck a chord and impressed viral flashmobs for much-needed social connection.
This group first met on March 4, 2021 on the Gare du Nord (North Prepare Station) in Paris. The motion unfold quick, each on the Web and in parks and public stations.
Dancing and singing collectively watered the human spirit like rain in a desert. It rekindled bravery, freedom and camaraderie in defiance of constrictive overreach.
French by nationality, the affect of KH’s “Danser Encore” can be first and strongest felt in Western Europe, and transfer east to Central and Jap Europe, and even Asia. “Danser Encore” was spontaneously translated into many languages, and flashmob dances, sans masks, occurred shortly throughout Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Greece, Eire, England, Korea and extra by July of that 12 months.
Previous-world international locations typically have infrastructures constructed for foot site visitors, laid lengthy earlier than vehicles. This incessantly permits for sturdy, in-person socializing, and could possibly be one of many causes tyrannical lockdown-loving Democrats have picked up the mantle of outward sprawl.
What bustling streets and cafe tradition imply is that Europeans and others discover the act of group dancing in public extra second-nature than fashionable People. And so, it was Europeans who felt a craving for “Danser Encore.”
Particularly, they thirsted for what it supplied to their sense of being and belonging, And boy, did they choose up the mug and drink.
They not solely met up, danced maskless, and posted their movies, however they interpreted “Danser Encore” to different types of expressive artwork. The tune grew to become a line dance, piano preparations (right here, right here, right here and right here), an educational guitar video, an acrobatic horseback model, a flute efficiency, an Arab-inspired model, a melancholic ballad, a harp ensemble, a duet, and an accordion solo.
In our hemisphere, “Danser Encore” did come to jap and western Canada. Argentina, Peru, Haiti, and Mexico received down with “Danser Encore” by July, too.
It later arrived in America. Yours really was alerted to it and took part in the summertime of 2021, and I used to be hardly alone.
YouTube and different mainstream “Danser Encore” movies from US cities seem to have been wiped away. Regardless of that, U.S. flashmobs of peaceable and joyful COVID dissidents countered the mainstream media narrative, and movies are nonetheless discovered and shared on various chat and video sharing apps, like Telegram, that governments in European international locations limit.
“Danser Encore” referred to as with assured urgency for restoring human joie d’vivre. It didn’t need to scream anybody down; relatively it raised a pleasing melody and sported dance strikes marked with on a regular basis dignity.
It sang a melody that resonated with rebel towards overreaching emergency rule, setting an inspirational bar for different pro-freedom musicians to come back out sturdy, together with 5 Occasions August and musical legend Van Morrison.
Notably, the liberty motion from 2020-2024, and persevering with right now with MAHA urgent to alleviate extra mandates, reminds us that the secular and the spiritual of the world dwell in essentially the identical actuality, whether or not or not they agree on theological issues.
Whereas “Danser Encore,” got here from the extremely secularized better Paris space and tapped into liberty amongst largely secular European communities, different actions had been spreading in prayer communities. That included the Sean Feucht-led “Let Us Pray,” which, for its half, unfold like wildfire via religion.
Extra freedom actions, together with the White Rose, produced artwork loved by individuals whether or not secular or spiritual.
What these have in frequent is invoking love to fulfill arduous challenges.
To search out out if Hadadi nonetheless to this present day feels the identical concerning the human rights to assemble, sing, and dance, his web site remains to be up – solely, sadly for non-French audio system, his web site and Wikipedia pages are in French.
The title of his tune “Danser Encore” can however be seen gracing the 2 final paragraphs of KH’s bio, and the French phrase “proceed” seems there. So after all the pieces KH has absolutely been via, it seems he continues to declare that we must always carry on dancing.
Clearly the requires spiritual, medical, and expressive liberty rights are pulsating at the moment, together with calls from organizations bridging the secular and non secular. Sustaining true liberty isn’t a contest between the spiritual and secular views, and each have their function.
So long as now we have music and one another in small and enormous teams and the perfect of reality, we can’t be stored down, and freedom will rise.