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The Dance Thread: hate it? love it? experiences?

Dancing! Hot or not?

  • Ballroom/Latin dancing... hot!

    Votes: 7 29.2%

  • Club dancing... I like to... grind!

    Votes: 7 29.2%

  • Ugh, dancing... too shy.

    Votes: 8 33.3%

  • Dancing? I don't even bob my head in a car when listening to music.

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • I'd like to learn but I'm too lazy so I stick to Dancing with the Stars.

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Total voters
    24
Ballet lessons for a few years as a kid.
Ballroom/Latin lessons as a teen.
Belly dancing lessons a few years ago. Unfortunately, the place I was going closed. Would love to try again, but so far I can't find anything affordable and convenient.
 
^ Oh, it's good. Trust me. :angel:

(I have not done a square dance in decades but I would love to try again. Or, failing that, a waltz or stationary cha-cha.)
 
thestrangequark said:
I do like dancing steps, though, and I'm considering taking dance lessons because I think it will be fun and will also improve my self-confidence as a dancer overall.
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It is fun. It also does wonders for your self confidence in general. You can see the improvement after just a few months and everyone in the class is in just about the same boat, so everyone is supportive and nonjudgemental.

Shanndee said:
Hubby and I keep threatening to take some sort of ballroom lessons. Is there some sort of dance that 2 "rhythmically challenged" people who have a lot of fun on a dance floor could learn without feeling too bad about ourselves? ;)
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Start with a nice East Coast Swing and commit to practicing the steps at least one night a week when you are not in class. Muscle memory helps. As for the rhythm, no one is as rhythmically challenged as I am. However, after a few months of classes and practice, I realized one afternoon that I was tapping my feet precisely to the beat of the songs on the radio and I have not looked back. It takes practice to get there, but you can do it.

iguana_tonante said:
Also, I have been a tame iguana for a long time now.
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A tame iguana? How the heck did that happen? I thought that wasn't allowed. ;)
 
macloudt said:
Some amazing belly dancing. The drumming is excellent, too.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohAxpboJAs[/yt]
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That was amazing!

Here is one of my favorite dances, the Hoop Dance. I never learned to do it, though I always wish I had. It's more of a men's dance (though women do sometimes do it), and I think when I was a kid and more involved in the tribe there just weren't any girls in Hoop dancing. We did a bit of jingle dancing, which is an Ojibwe dance. The Hoop dance is unique, because pretty much every tribe does it, and although it probably originated with the Anishinaabek, no tribe lays claim to it, and there are national competitions with dancers from all over the country.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS0QshbclDA[/yt]
 
Thanks for the suggestion Captain Ice (and for the encouragement {Emiia}). I will check around to see if any of the dance studios here offer beginners East Coast Swing!

I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time tripping over my own feet, but I'll have fun doing it!
 
The hoop dance is astounding, tsq! I'm assuming that throughout the dance movement of the feet must be continual, yes?
 
macloudt said:
The hoop dance is astounding, tsq! I'm assuming that throughout the dance movement of the feet must be continual, yes?
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Indeed. The best part is that it is a story telling dance. You may have noticed that he fashioned the hoops into different animals and globes multiple times. He's telling the story of a boy on an adventure, the globes are the sun rising and setting on each day, he battles a serpent, rides a horse and an eagle, etc. Just love that dance. :)
 
Shanndee said:
Thanks for the suggestion Captain Ice (and for the encouragement {Emiia}). I will check around to see if any of the dance studios here offer beginners East Coast Swing!

I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time tripping over my own feet, but I'll have fun doing it!
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If you can't find a studio doing East Coast, beginning Ballroom classes are not any harder. Just a different step and different music.
 
I didn't see a poll choice for square dancing or medieval dance. Those are the only kinds I know how to do, unless you count learning a few disco dances in phys.ed. in junior high (it was the '70s... :p).

"Couch dancing"... glad there's a name for it. :p But since I don't own a couch, I'd have to call it "computer chair dancing."

I love watching ball room dancing and ice dancing. We have a folk festival here every year on Canada Day, and I have fond memories of watching bhangra dancing, Ukranian dancing, Scottish and Irish dancing, and lots more.
 
Back in high school we had square dancing and ballroom dancing as part of our Physical Education classes. I had no use for square dancing ever again, but the ballroom dancing has come in handy several times since.

I've gone dancing in clubs a few times. I liked it well enough, but it's not something I cared enough about to do regularly.
 
we could gang up and give Mr. Laser Beam a refresher course. It's been a while since I was last "angel-ing" but I don't think I forgot much :)
A pity one can't dance online. Some figures are ok with a webcam, I suppose, but how does one perform a "weave through" on the internet?
 
Locutus of Bored said:
Back in high school we had square dancing and ballroom dancing as part of our Physical Education classes. I had no use for square dancing ever again, but the ballroom dancing has come in handy several times since.
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Damn it, now you're even more awesome in my book. The mod that can shoot down every troll with ease can also DANCE!
 
^ Yes, that is awesome!

Between the belly dancing video and the hoop dancing video -- and all the drumming! -- this is one of my favorite threads ever.

TSQ, I've watched hoop dancing, but I had no idea it was telling a story. That is so cool!
 
Locutus of Bored said:
Back in high school we had square dancing and ballroom dancing as part of our Physical Education classes. I had no use for square dancing ever again, but the ballroom dancing has come in handy several times since.

I've gone dancing in clubs a few times. I liked it well enough, but it's not something I cared enough about to do regularly.
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We had square dancing, but not ballroom. It came in handy a few years later when the company picnic was at a ranch and there was square dancing. Did some "club dancing" in my twenties, but my girlfriend at the time wasn't into it. She studied ballet for years as a young girl and teen, so maybe that had something to do with it. Though years later, after she became my ex-girlfriend, we danced the entire night at SF convention dance. Basically to keep the creeps away from her. (at her request). That's pretty much my dance history.
 
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