There's a block party coming up in June and Ryohei--a b-boy I met at a hip hop show--and I are putting a routine together. Despite the language barrier, things have been coming along pretty smoothly. We put this first part together in about 10 minutes:

I find that amazing. Not the dance itself, but the fact that we were able to choreograph it so quickly without speaking each others' respective language. The routine itself isn't complex, but we literally only communicated using the music and the moves. And it was equally created so we both had to do some "talking" and "listening".

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said that "music is the universal language of mankind". Does that make dancing its sign language?