Merritt Johnston
People love babies, but we really love dancing babies. Do a search on YouTube alone, and you’ll get over 200,000 results that include baby break-dancers, Beyonce-spoofing babies, and even some moon-walking toddlers. So what’s the big deal? Why do we love seeing a baby dance?
Maybe we just enjoy thinking about the days when we had that same sense of freedom and uninhibited joy, when the mere sound of music moved us enough to make us dance. We didn’t care who was watching or if we were on beat. But that changes for most of us, probably around ...