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Who Could Ask For Anything More?

By Jonathan Goldsbie

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Two months ago, I Want Rhythm organizer Nicole Stoffman was just another former Degrassi star-turned-crooner of French torch songs, eagerly handing out “Let’s dance in the street!” flyers to people leaving Spacing‘s not-a-mayoral-debate. Now, five installments of I Want Rhythm later (having been written up on Torontoist and the Spacing Wire multiple times, as well as in the “real media“), Nicole is one of Toronto’s new “It” girls of public space interventionism.
So come one, come all, when the eighth edition of the event that “transforms a functional space, the sidewalk, into a living space, a moving dancefloor” returns tomorrow afternoon (Sunday, January 7). The boogying gets underway at 2:30 at the northwest corner of Yonge and Gerrard. If you have no interest in “challenging the cultural prejudice against dancing in the street for no reason but pure joy,” we are deeply, deeply sorry for you.
Photo of the Dec. 17th I Want Rhythm in Kensington Market by todd.in.toronto.

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  • The Dilettante

    To be fair, it’s a law, not a “cultural prejudice”. One could just as accurately argue that cars driving all over the sidewalks are merely challenging their own “cultural prejudice”. It is, in other words, too snooty by half.

  • http://thespiritofman.blogspot.com/ Winston

    nice weblog. Just found it… keep it up

  • http://www.publicspace.ca Jonathan Goldsbie

    “Street” in this case simply means the pedestrian right-of-way, i.e. the sidewalk – although the Yorkville event did include some impromptu incursions into various stores along Bloor, most of which were receptive to the merry-making (Holt Renfrew not so much).

  • http://null Jenelle

    I’m quite the fan of dancing on sidewalks and in the street. And in malls. And in the subway. And on table tops. Heck, almost anywhere.

  • http://null jay

    I’ll do it if I can yell out “All the way with Stephanie Kaye!” as I dance.

  • http://www.newmindspace.com lori kufner *

    She totally rocks :)

  • http://www.publicspace.ca Jonathan Goldsbie

    Actually, Lori, before being edited down by David, my post read:
    … Nicole is Toronto’s new ‘It’ girl of public space interventionism (Lori no longer qualifies, as she’s been inducted into the Hall of Fame).