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It’s the slept-on Times piece I can’t stop telling people about. A Dublin-born woman named Caroline Duggan has started an Irish dance troupe at PS 59 in the South Bronx, a school where 98 percent of the population is black or Hispanic. The kids, most of whom were attuned only to hip hop dancing or the merengue prior to Duggan’s arrival, absolutely love it. I love the story. Is it because it’s yet another piece of evidence proving cultural norms can be transcended and reworked? Perhaps in part, but it’s also because the kids are so damn cute. Read everything here. |