{"id":72,"date":"2008-02-25T13:24:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/2008\/02\/25\/boston-silent-dance-experiment"},"modified":"2008-02-25T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T17:26:17","slug":"boston-silent-dance-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/2008\/02\/25\/boston-silent-dance-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Silent Dance Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thoroughly modern event took place at Boston&#8217;s historic Faneuil Hall this Saturday. Braving the snow and the cold, about 400 people turned up for Boston&#8217;s First Silent Dance Experiment! <\/p>\n<p>Silent dances, also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KwHNLlR9R3M\">flash mobbing<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nP2foRwR_AU\">mobile clubbing<\/a>, have been organized in cities all over the world to great success. They are a particular consequence of digital technology.  Organized and publicized entirely through the Internet, carried out with mp3 players, silent dances are only possible because of our technology. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike most other silent dances though, the participants here in Boston weren&#8217;t dancing each to their own music. Bandito, Misteriosos, the group organizing the event, put out an mp3 that gave out directions to all the dancers &#8212; pose like The Thinker, swim, swing dance, march&#8230;.. Amazingly, everyone was in sync.  iPods are usually thought of as isolating &#8212; we plug in our earbuds and tune out the rest of the world &#8212; but here they went into creating a sense of community. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the Boston area and interested in such future experiments, look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misteriosos.org\/\">Banditos Misteriosos<\/a>&#8216; homepage. (A past pillow fight was a great success too.) Also up is the original mp3 for those curious as well as photos and videos from the Silent Dance. Our own Digital Natives video to come soon!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thoroughly modern event took place at Boston&#8217;s historic Faneuil Hall this Saturday. Braving the snow and the cold, about 400 people turned up for Boston&#8217;s First Silent Dance Experiment! Silent dances, also called flash mobbing or mobile clubbing, have been organized in cities all over the world to great success. They are a particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}