Okay, so I recently discovered a YouTube channel devoted to these dancing prisoners in a prison in Cebu, Philippines. Apparently, this guy, Byron F. Garcia, is testing out this new form of rehabilitation for inmates at the prison. One of the videos has over 28 million hits as of the day I am posting this article. It is the one of them doing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” dance. I also enjoyed their version of “Jump” by the Pointer Sisters. However, the one that really got my attention was their cover of Super Junior’s “Sorry, Sorry” here:
This got me thinking. I started to think about other songs that I would have prisoners dance to if I ran my own prison. I started to think about all the classic songs from Broadway and movie musicals. I would love to see them do “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story. I think “Getting To Know You” from The King & I would also be an excellent rehabilitation song:
And “Shall We Dance?” from the same musical:
And my favorite song from a movie musical is “The Lonely Goatherd” from The Sound Of Music. Don’t you think having prisoners dance to this song would melt their cold, embittered hearts?:
I was talking to one of my friends from the UK about this. And he said he wanted to see them do songs from 80’s movies like Fame, Flashdance, Footloose and Dirty Dancing. And he wanted them to do synchronized swimming, as well. I agreed that those were fine choices. I would like to add hula-hooping and ballroom dancing to that list. I think the hip gyrations required to do the hula hoop would stimulate their chakras and open their third eye.
Finally, I suggested that for the most hardened criminals, we experiment with DMT and magic mushrooms. Any prisoner who is overly obstinate and resistant to reform, I would love to just pump them full of DMT and magic mushrooms and see what happens. I wonder if they would realize that life is all one. And perhaps, they would communicate with aliens from another dimension who would teach them more peaceful ways of living. HAHAHA! Ah, yes! How I love to let my imagination run wild. I think I would make a fine prison warden.
–Kelly Magovern
