Dance Fever

You're kidding, right? This sounds like an episode of Seinfeld.

Benji Schwimmer chuckles every time the judges on the hit reality show "So You Think You Can Dance" say performers are dancing for their lives.

While on a mission to Mexico for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Schwimmer said, gang members threatened to kill him and his companion. Instead of panicking, Schwimmer prayed and then struck a deal. He devised an impromptu dance-off with the gang leader: If Schwimmer won, he and his companion could walk away.

"I played it all innocent. The guy started dancing, and then I walked up, took off my backpack full of Books of Mormon, and started dancing," he said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. "To make a long story short, afterward he asked me if I could teach him to dance."

The full article courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune.