clipped from: www.boston.com   
We humans are natural dancers. Dances can be celebrations, or for praise, or for an audience - or just a simple act of letting the rhythm move your body. Dancers can communicate ideas, preserve cultural identities, strengthen social bonds, or just have a lot of fun. Collected here are recent photographs of us, human beings around the world, professional and amateur, in motion for all of the reasons above and more. (39 photos total)
People dance under the rainbow as they refuse to let the wet weather dampen their high spirits during the Bela Music 2009 rock festival
Villagers dance during a ceremony for the opening of housing units
Employees of a marine park perform an underwater mermaid dance routine
Tommy Tucker and Sarina Robinson swing dance in Central Park
Festival visitors wear plastic bags around their feet as they dance during a rain shower