25-04-2025
Flashback Friday: Going dancing at the Empire Mall
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Since its opening in 1977, The Empire Mall has always been one of the top places for Sioux Falls residents to get the latest fashion. However as Dennis Flanagan shows us in this week's Flashback Friday, back in 1982 the Empire Mall was much more than just a place for shopping.
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You go to a mall to shop right? Well that isn't necessarily all. How about an art show? It provides an interesting way to spend an that about 20 years ago there was no such thing as the consider them as places to gather almost social consider what it would take to get someone to dance before a couple hundred answer? A fashion show. How often can it be said I'm going to the mall to perform, perhaps more often than you'd think and for some it is a new experience.'Are you nervous?''Uh-huh''Describe what you're going to be doing.''Have to go out there and have to walk down the ramp and then have to do some poses and then I have to walk back and hopefully I won't trip.'Imagine modeling in front of so many people it does not necessarily come easily.'Its a robe and gown set out of a satin material, like a wedding night type of thing.''Are you nervous?''A little bit'How about aerobic dance for all the world to see?'I was talked into it actually because they said it didn't matter what you wore, so i could come in my own clothes, and age they wanted to know that older people could do this, and they also wanted to know its alright to forget the steps.'For others the public commitment to exercise comes a bit easier.'How much coaxing did it take to get you to come out here and dance in public?''Oh none, I love this dancing and I like performing.'Perhaps you thought that malls were just for shopping, well they have become a way of life.
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