Fear of Dancing

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• 2020
• 1 hr 18 mins
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Most infants have what seems to be a natural want to move to music, dance as it will, but some grow up to be chorophobes: people who have a fear of dancing. Michael Allcock is a self-professed chorophobe who has video evidence of loving to dance as an infant. He examines chorophobia in general and his own situation. He speaks to among others dance and other professionals about the connection humans have to dancing, to a dance psychologist who admits to fifty different people having fifty different reasons as to the cause and manifestation of their chorophobia, and to an author about one specific situation of mass hysteria leading to that fear of dancing. But he primarily speaks to other chorophobes about their own self-assessed situations about their fear, some who take measures, in whatever form, to address those fears. In discovering that dancing is in large part of connection to one's environment and that chorophobia often has some cultural pressure to conform as an underlying cause, Allcock himself tries to understand what has caused his fears, and takes a few measures to try and address that fear, one measure being to tackle one situational cause head on.