Are you parents good dancers or just downright embarassing?

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Just saw my wedding video last night and I admit, I must get some dance lessons from my father. The man can move ladies and gents. He was busting some fantastic moves with his girlfriend to Barry White. Apparently my father and my mother won many awards for dancing in the disco era. My mothers boyfriend on the other hand was a complete embarassment. Holy shit, he looked like some sort of chicken. He was gyrating his pelvis in every direction to "superstition".

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

my mother's a bit of a groover.

my dad is not.

I think this may have led to some tension in the past.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

My mama don't dance. Except at her sons' weddings, when she has to.

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

DV - exactly the same here. Mum loves dancing, dad loves propping the bar up. It causes friction, put it that way.

― lol p xx, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah... I remember being at a wedding once and my mother was really cutting a rug. So I said to her "Did you go out dancing a lot when you were younger?" and she said "Oh yes!" and then, sharply "But not with your father".

oh no, my dad knows my e-mail address, so he will google me and discover that I have revealed his non-dancing shame, and then I will be disinherited. disaster.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum used to dance with the wicket keeper at all my dad's cricket-related dancing evenings. Fortunately I look just like my dad, otherwise I'd be worried. The one good thing to come out of my mum's penchant for dancing is that at least she had legs strong enough to drag me dad home after he'd propped up the bar all night.

Oh yeah. That used to cause friction, too.

― lol p xx, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Dad, when dancing, does the jig known as the White Man's Overbite. But he used to make US do the Popcorn Dance, which involves pogoing while the corn pops.

My mum is too cool to dance and will tell you this repeatedly if you pressure her about it.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother was apparently a good jitterbugger in her time (and had some ballet lessons as well), but gave it up when she married my (Methdodist minister) father, since some elements in the church frowned on it. From what my mother said, my father could do a competent fox trot, but that was about it. I wish she had lived long enough to see me Latin dancing.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Never seen my parents dance much except at a couple of weddings and they stick to the gently graceful approach. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

My dad always does this, "No dear, I don't want to dance... no, I just want to sit... well, ALL RIGHT" routine, then blows everyone off the dance floor. All he needs is a jumpsplit and he could have ruled old-school Soul Train.

There are excellent pictures of both sets of our parents dancing in our wedding album. Awwww.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't remember ever seeing them dancing, or even touching as closely as old people's dancing would entail. They would have been rubbish, no doubt at all.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

They have yet to be tested but I pH34r the results

― DG (D_To_The_G), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i've never seen my parents dance - ever! tho ironically my dad is actually a practising ballroom-style dancer (yeh i know...) - and i'm not bad so we do appear to have some sense of rhythm in our genes - for which i am extremely gratefulsome

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to a wedding where they were playing fifties and sixties rhythm and blues and my dad grabbed my arm and showed me the moves. He must have been really cool back then - he has great rhythm.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum was quite a good dancer in her day, her mum being a dance teacher and all that, my dad has a good sense of rhythm, but I think both of their dancing days are behind them.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I still bear major psychological scars as a result of my mother doing some kind of Apache wardance to "Firestarter" at my sister's wedding.

― Tag, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

what dg said.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum is a great dancer cos she loves it so much. I envy her.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 28 November 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I have only ever seen ONE of my parents dance, ever, in my entire life.

We were on safari (OK, we were going to visit an Ostrich farm) somewhere in South Africa, staying at this posh hotel when my dad and his best mate decided to get utterly pissed. My mum, in order to try and slow their drinking, sent my dad to put us kiddies to bed. We refused to go to bed until my father had done The Ostrich Dance.

In his inebriated state, he DID The Ostrich Dance the entire way through the hotel and all the way back to our room. (I cannot describe the Ostrich Dance using words, you just have to imagine an incredibly tall and skinny hippie pretending to be an ostrich, stepping on his head, etc. etc.) It was the BEST DANCE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.

(Did I really have any choice but to become a dronerocker later on in life?)

― kate, Thursday, 28 November 2002 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Both. They are fairly good ballroom dancers but they go and spoil it by showing off at every given opportunity. I have a photo of them at a fancy dress do over the summer in costume as Danny & Rizzo from Grease doing a cha cha cha (or maybe it was a rhumba) to Althea and Donna's Uptown Top Ranking. I was DJing at the time, so could not run away and hide in the ladies.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 29 November 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"Are your parents good dancers?"

"Whaddaya MEAN are my parents good dancers?"

"Well, how do they dance?"

"Gross. Very. very. GROSS."

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 November 2002 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

DO YOU SEE??????

― Graham (graham), Friday, 29 November 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha at my brothers wedding, his female friends took my Dad out dancing during Bohemian Rhapsody. Anyway when we watched the video they'd been kind of taking the piss, and he was doing like this insane ballet type stuff. It's probably the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life, he kept like taking one step and then turning really slowly, or putting his hands in the air. It was just fucking hilarious, my Mum left the room it was so ridiculous. I mean if I sent that in to that competition that was on Graham Norton there is no question that it would win. Absolutely no question.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 November 2002 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

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