Rich Man's Frug Through The Years

Dance was my passion and, for some time, serious involvement since the age of 7 when we had ballroom dancing classes at my school up to the time when a lower back injury made me quit my jazz dance and modern ballet pursuits. I can really appreciate when a dance is conceived and executed good; great choreography can well me up.

Rich Man's Frug - a superb production by inimitable Bob Fosse has inspired a series of spin-offs and take-offs throughoutthe yeears. Some are quite spectacular but most are just not up to snuff.

Get Me Bodied by Beyoncé (click the link as the video is protected from embedding)

In Get Me Bodied Beyoncé finished the cricle by bringing the dance that heavily borrowed from Afro-American dance tradition back to the 'hood she pulled it with some class and distinction.

That, unfortunately, cannot be said about Freemasons' who seem to have been on a very tight budget to make this video for When You Touch Me so they had to hire a dancing act from their local drag show. Even clever editing and camera work do not hide the fact that it is probably the performers' sophomore project in a provincial dance academy. Where Beyoncé (or her video producers) put a new twist on the original routine, injecting it with some cool soul vibe, Freemasons only managed an unflattering take-off. Bob Fosse would not have been proud of this.

Emma Bunton apparently had a bigger budget for her video, must be the money she saved on the rather lacklustre song. At any rate, Baby Spice did some justice to her inspiration, the one and only Rich Man's Frug.