Ballongdansen!🎈

Ballongdansen: (the balloon🎈 dance) A comedy stage performance where naked or semi-nude participants cover themselves with balloons that pop as the dance goes on. 

Ballongdansen has been going on in many parts of the world for decades.  Although the dance has British roots, it's maybe best known as a Swedish Phenomenon where it both is performed, and had a song and singing group.  In 1982, the comedy routine made its massive, iconic debut in Sweden during the first season of the SVT television show Nöjesmaskinen. It was performed completely naked by Sven Melander, Lasse Åberg, and Bosse Larsson, who used only balloons to strategically cover themselves.

Since then, balloons have been blown up and placed over the penises and breasts of many dancers and performers.  Today in Scandinavia s a viral  graduation tradition where students perform a choreographed routine completely naked, using only large balloons to strategically block their bodies.

Three are many versions of the dance on the net, but they all use the same performance basics.  The dancers line up and attempt to move in unison, passing their balloons back and forth as they change positions.  Although naked performances tend to be erotically focused, the balloon dance is more lighthearted and done for laughs more than thrills.

Some of the laughs come when those balloons don't get passed fast enough, and the audience gets peeks of the penises of the guys involved.  As you can see in this video, (especially with the guys on the right) there are plenty of moments where the balloons get get where they're supposed to be going fast enough.  Most of the cute students in this video don't really seem to mind.