Mcgarth's A Private Dance

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Matt Harding from "A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No" (McGarth) would best be described as Couragous. He dances "at lunchtime or during an awkward pause"(McGarth) as a for of "nervous tic" but he doesn't let this stop him in any way, he actually embraces it and it takes him to new levels. he could have let his nervous tic embarress him and even hinder him, but instead he has traveled to "69 different locations, including India, Kuwait, Bhutan, Tonga, Timbuktu"(McGarth) and many more. This started as a friend of his videotaping him dancing and posted in on the web, on the third attempt the internet swept through and loved it. He started off dancing alone, and sometimes for audiences consisting merely of animals, but as he has progressed

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