Not Just Dancing

Dances to dads take various forms, some more fathomable than others.

Various father-daughter dances are scheduled for the next few weekends (pre-Valentines Day, but in possible conflict with the Super Bowl) to try and bridge the usually unbridgeable chasm between what a dad knows and what his teen or pre-teen thinks he should.

Then there is the choreographed movement of Welshman Marc Rees and two friends which will be performed as a tribute to their fathers. For Rees, his father's passing from cancer at 78, left him with memories and the seed of gratitude for who he became, that evolved into "3 Men Running,". Says Rees, "We were very close. My father was a very quiet man but I would ask him to do crazy things, such as be filmed for my work, and although he sometimes didn’t understand what it was about, he would do it. He was incredibly devoted."

Finally, there is the bizarre dance of life/death (?) fromRobert Farley, 63, who on New Year's Eve grooved to The Temptations' "Papa Was a Rollin Stone" after having killed his 93 year old dad. Reportedly, his dad disapproved of him dumping his terminally ill wife.