Dancing = Political Maneuver ?

Somewhere between using my Curious George toothpaste (in excess) and rushing off to rehearsal I found time to my dance history paper. The assignment centered around how dance began with the ballet de cour in France. Competing dukedoms often had dance masters choreograph for the nobility to demonstrate their political prestige. Moreover, dance was used to guarantee certain agreements, like marriages, were carried through.

Now all I can think about is how different things would be in politics today if dance was still used by governments worldwide as a tool to show power. What if the undocumented immigrants in 2006 did not march in thousands to demonstrate political power but instead danced in the thousands?! Latino dancing filling the streets of California. It could work. Or what if Russia evacuated Georgia after America sent it's troupe of dancers to the borders? Perhaps even NATO could establish peace treaties through dance...hmm.