If dance can bring tears to the eyes, this can.
YouTube - Chinese Ballet Circus pas de deux troupe du Guangdong
"David, wearing a priestly linen outergarment, dances before the Lord with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel bring up the ark of the Lord with shouting and the voice of a trumpet." (2 Samuel 6:14-15)
He did not stumble. If America stumbles, if Christendom falls in worldly paths, it will be from a softness that does not seek excellence. To tolerate the average and not advance the best will put us on our knees in the arts first — the field we ignore — and in civilizational morality, finally in industry, engineering, science, medicine. To ignore a blessing is to reject it. To fail to seek is to lack confidence (faith) in success. It is legitimate to reject a "praying for dollars" doctrine; it is less legitimate not to work in all ways as though for God. And in the arts, we communicate our exultation as worship to Him and our delight to one another. If indeed these depicted dancers are non-believers, the culturally Christian West must step up or ask to whom it will yield the stage as it bows out: the Muslim or the Han? "Is there anybody out there?" (Pink Floyd, The Wall)
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