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Moves Like Jagger

8/27/2015

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Summer vacation is over and I have started back to work. Someone asked me today: “what was the best dance performance you saw this summer?” After thinking about it for a while—because I saw a lot of excellent dance this summer—I realized it was Mick Jagger! Yes his moves are legendary, as various SNL spoofs and the Maroon 5 song attest. But I was completely unprepared for how truly vibrant a mover he is in the flesh. And I certainly did not expect to be so dazzled by the dancing at a rock concert.

I went to see the Rolling Stones play at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh at the end of June. My parents generously organized it as a family trip. (Keith Richards is sort of a deity to my dad.) I was excited about the concert, for I grew up on the Stones and I love them. But I expected the show to be a watered-down, nostalgic victory lap; after all, the bandmates are mostly septuagenarians now. And though Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, and yes, even Keith seemed a little worn at times, about Mick Jagger I couldn’t have been more wrong!

The man is a kinetic force. At 72 years old he was able to sing in a clear strong voice while dancing more than any frontman I’ve ever seen. He danced the whole show straight through, taking only 


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