{"id":21568,"date":"2017-02-09T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/blog\/2017\/02\/raise-heart-rate-met\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T20:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:47:35","slug":"raise-heart-rate-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/blog\/2017\/02\/raise-heart-rate-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise Your He(Art) Rate at The Met"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monica Bill Barnes (left) and Anna Bass are offering literally breathtaking tours of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Paula Lobo\/The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/p><\/div>\n

Reposted from NPR<\/a>. Heard on Morning Addition reported by Sean Rameswaram:<\/p>\n

Seeing a great work of art might quicken your pulse, but now New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is hoping you’ll break a sweat, too. The Met is currently offering a “Museum Workout”<\/a> \u2014 part performance, part workout, part art tour.<\/p>\n

On a recent morning, 15 of us gather in The Great Hall before the museum opens. We line up behind two tour guide dancers \u2014 both wearing sparkly cocktail dresses and sneakers. A guy with a portable speaker stands nearby.<\/p>\n

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image via www.monicabillbarnes.com<\/p><\/div>\n

He presses play, and with disco propelling us forward, we power walk, we punch the air, we daintily jog through the otherwise empty Met at 9:00 in the morning. There’s a lot of light, a lot of antiquity … and some stink eye. Museum security looks like they’ve never seen anything like this.<\/p>\n

“We were approached by the Metropolitan Museum to make a dance,” explains Monica Bill Barnes, one of the workout leaders. “We counteroffered, and asked to make a led tour that’s a workout.”<\/p>\n

Barnes’ dance company wanted to get people moving in the Met \u2014 and jumping jacks and yoga poses seemed a lot easier than teaching amateurs a complicated dance routine. Read the fully story here<\/a>. Go to Met info<\/a> here. <\/p>\n