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Residents of a retirement home in rural Newfoundland and Labrador say they should be allowed to dance together again now that they’re all fully vaccinated. And to make their point, they’re showing off their moves in a Footloose-style music video.

The video, released Friday, shows residents and staff at Alderwood Retirement Centre in Witless Bay, N.L., shimmying and shaking to Kenny Loggins’s Footloose, the 1984 hit that served as the soundtrack to a movie of the same name about a U.S. town where dancing is illegal.

“We wanted to illustrate … how joyful people are when they’re dancing,