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There is no better fun than ballroom dancing - when I was at
university my flatmates and I would go out into the suburbs to find
those war memorial halls which offer thursday night ballroom dancing.
Of course, they would be stacked full of the most available cohort of
women...those over 70 and we would make their week by waltzing them
until their false teeth fell out. Such fun, and a public service too.
Everyone should be forced to learn, at the very least, the foxtrot.
― debaser, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
The world would be a much better place. When I go to college I am
going to find people to do ballroom dancing with me (apparently a lot
of them have lessons and clubs and such) because that would be great.
― Maria, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
'waltz time = sublime' - do you mean good old 3/4 or are you talking
about sth more sophisticated and beyond my ken? 3/4 is pretty
standard stuff - I can't see why it's more sublime than 4/4.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Haven't we done a waltzing thread? Nick, if we have, your standards
are slipping love. I'm sure I've told IL* I could waltz. I may be
hallucinatin
― Anna, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
two months pass...
Well, obviously I'm very sympathetic to the gist of the original post.
I do think there has been a bit of a revival of interest in partner dancing over the last decade, with the swing revival and the expanded interest in Latin dancing among non-Latinos. On the other hand, it's still somewhat exceptional.
Partner dancing is an amazing way to meet potential lovers, spouses, etc. It forces you to make some sort of contact with other people. Once you know how to dance a little, you are immediately of some value and use to other individuals who are involved with dancing. Dancing itself is mildly mood-altering, and so the psychological changes which occur as a result of it make social intercourse that much easier. Of course, I guess it's not so good for men who are unable to learn how to dance reasonably well.
If I weren't so tired, I would have gone out salsa dancing tonight while my quasi-sweetie is out of town.
Anyway, partner dancing (which is a less confusing term than "social dancing" but a less potentially narrow term than "ballroom dancing") is still there for those who want to take advantage of it--granted, you have to make a special effort, and most of us don't get instruction in that type of dance as teenagers.
(This week I had a fox trot lesson. I'm still learning the basic.)
― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 20 October 2002 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link