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15th Feb 2016

Derry Celebrated Valentine’s Day in Quite a Unique Way

Cassie Delaney

Ah, Valentine’s Day, a day of love and celebration and general cheesiness.

But hey if you’re not into that, it can probably come across as being awkward AF.

And what better way to celebrate awkwardness than with a big old awkward slow dancing in public. Ahh.

The city of Derry fully embraced the discomfort of slow dancing by hosting an Awkward Slow-Dance flash mob in Guildhall Square.

The organizer, Nicky Harley told Belfast Live that the event was about “embracing awkwardness”.

She said: “There was nothing more awkward than a slow dance at a teenage disco and today was about celebrating that.

“So much weight and pressure in the act of side stepping to slow music.

She also said that passers joined in temporarily.

“It was a gorgeously odd thing to see people of all ages just commit to dancing in broad daylight in the city centre” she concluded.