Oasis Chorale dancing

[JohnH]

I was recently made aware that Oasis Chorale performances now involve dancing.

Is this a new trend? I am surprised that the various plain constituencies are okay with this.

(If you want to discuss whether or not plain people should embrace dancing, start another thread for that.)

[Valerie]

I was recently made aware that Oasis Chorale performances now involve dancing.

Is this a new trend? I am surprised that the various plain constituencies are okay with this.

(If you want to discuss whether or not plain people should embrace dancing, start another thread for that.)

Ancient Jewish trend more like. I have yet to see this on Oasis but have been to Churches that some dance (not quite like the Jews did, but worshipful just the same) so I’ve been exposed to it for decades nothing new under the sun.

[JohnH]

I was recently made aware that Oasis Chorale performances now involve dancing.

Is this a new trend? I am surprised that the various plain constituencies are okay with this.

(If you want to discuss whether or not plain people should embrace dancing, start another thread for that.)

Ancient Jewish trend more like. I have yet to see this on Oasis but have been to Churches that some dance (not quite like the Jews did, but worshipful just the same) so I’ve been exposed to it for decades nothing new under the sun.

Valerie, I think you're confusing Oasis Chorale for Oasis Tabernacle. The specific dancing has nothing at all to do with "Jewish dancing" (of which there are two varieties; there is the "Jewish dancing" that homeschooled evangelical people who are Gentiles do, and then there is the kind you might see at actual Jewish weddings, celebrations, and so on; oddly enough, I have been part of both, although for the latter I had to keep sneaking away from the venue where it seemed every single one of my coworkers was dancing.)

[Judas Maccabeus]

I was recently made aware that Oasis Chorale performances now involve dancing.

Is this a new trend? I am surprised that the various plain constituencies are okay with this.

(If you want to discuss whether or not plain people should embrace dancing, start another thread for that.)

I would have to see what you are talking about. In general, people of the moderate-conservative orientation would not permit dancing.

[Valerie]

I was recently made aware that Oasis Chorale performances now involve dancing.

Is this a new trend? I am surprised that the various plain constituencies are okay with this.

(If you want to discuss whether or not plain people should embrace dancing, start another thread for that.)

Ancient Jewish trend more like. I have yet to see this on Oasis but have been to Churches that some dance (not quite like the Jews did, but worshipful just the same) so I’ve been exposed to it for decades nothing new under the sun.

Valerie, I think you're confusing Oasis Chorale for Oasis Tabernacle. The specific dancing has nothing at all to do with "Jewish dancing" (of which there are two varieties; there is the "Jewish dancing" that homeschooled evangelical people who are Gentiles do, and then there is the kind you might see at actual Jewish weddings, celebrations, and so on; oddly enough, I have been part of both, although for the latter I had to keep sneaking away from the venue where it seemed every single one of my coworkers was dancing.)

Oh sorry, I was confusing the two

[JohnH]

I was recently made aware that Oasis Chorale performances now involve dancing.

Is this a new trend? I am surprised that the various plain constituencies are okay with this.

(If you want to discuss whether or not plain people should embrace dancing, start another thread for that.)

I would have to see what you are talking about. In general, people of the moderate-conservative orientation would not permit dancing.

Wouldn’t Oasis Chorale be more in the fundamental-conservative direction?

[joshuabgood]

I haven't seen Oasis this season but I have seen them before and while they did some staging of the songs with movement and light choreography, it doesn't really bring to mind the connotations of the word dancing.

(And I am not a teetotaler when it comes to dancing for a bunch of different reasons.)

[JohnH]

I haven't seen Oasis this season but I have seen them before and while they did some staging of the songs with movement and light choreography, it doesn't really bring to mind the connotations of the word dancing.

(And I am not a teetotaler when it comes to dancing for a bunch of different reasons.)

I’m going to propose that I have more formal, academic instruction in dance than you do, plus far more experience actually dancing, ranging from my days in Montreal’s discotheques to modern dance performances to Messianic Jewish style dances to ECD. (I will admit to no experience with ballroom or salsa with speaking of.) Consider this an appeal to authority and indeed to formal fine arts education.

What Oasis does is dance. It has been trending this way for a while. I wondered about it a few years ago but dismissed the cocncerns from my mind.

A good side effect of this might be that plainer groups will stop letting Oasis come around.

[Ernie]

I was recently made aware that Oasis Chorale performances now involve dancing.

Produce a link to a video of this and then we can discuss this intelligently.

[JohnH]

I was recently made aware that Oasis Chorale performances now involve dancing.

Produce a link to a video of this and then we can discuss this intelligently.

I’ll see if I can get one; I don’t generally take videos or photos of people.