DANCE

I can't 'illustrative or specific' as i've already said i don't dance.

I shared a house with a woman who'd won lots of dance contests, many years ago, and she told me I was very good and liked dancing with me, but that was about 20 years ago. I am old and unfit now, and dance little, sadly.

What, dangling from a rope?

The Police 'Message In A Bottle' and 'Roxanne'
The Specials 'Rudy (A Message To You)'
Oasis 'She's Electric' (argh! wtf?!)
50 Cent 'In Da Club' (well, a little shuffling but mostly just standing with friend agreeing that this isnt very good)
James Brown 'Get Up'
Sean Paul 'Get Busy'
Michael Jackson 'Billie Jean'
Beastie Boys 'Sure Shot'
Blondie 'Denis'
White Stripes 'Seven Nation Army'
Blur 'There's No Other Way' (i did my supposedly ironic 'Bez' moves of course)

and i can't quite remember what else but all in a similar vein, hey who says i hate fun?

Okay. Salsa dancing: I put my right hand behind my partner's left shoulder-blade (all very proper), and take her left hand in my right, holding it at about shoulder height. One the first count of the measure, I step forward with my right foot. On the second count I left my right foot a little bit. On the 3rd count I bring my right foot back to the left. On the fourth I pause (sometimes adding a tap, kick, drop, etc.). On the fifth count I go back on my right foot. . . I don't think I have the patience for this.

luna, why do you never appear on my salsa threads, or do you?

Mostly I like to do Latin dancing: salsa, cha cha cha, merengue, bachata. Can do minimal ballrom rumba as well. I used to take a jazz samba class and that was great too. In salsa, I can't make up my mind whether I want to be smooth or whether I want to be sort of chunky and get down, or maybe more accurately: it depends on the music.

I don't like most "dance music" in the narrow genre sense, but since it's always changing, I can't say that with complete confidence.

I actually have learned a variety of dancing, waltzing, tap dance, african dance, jazz/modern dance, even some breakdancing; but usually my body just sorta undulates at it's own free will in various degrees, depending on the music.

well, this was largely the case wasn't it?

um, as to style. who knows? i try and manifest the beat in my body shape and movements, if you know what i mean.

2. Within the last year, my favorite shows I've gone to are the ones where I've danced the most -- like Sleater-Kinney and The Sea and Cake. Essential to this: proper room to flail your body around and not bother the coolly smoking hipsters on your side.

3. But the other night I was at a party and dancing with this girl. We were both high and flirtatious, and it was great, until she tried leading me in that popular partner-dance everyone knows but me. The one that involves twirling around and then your hands are on each other's shoulders and then they slowly slide off and you grab their hands again. But I don't know it, so she had to guide me along while I twirled her in all the wrong directions and wound up with, like, my arm around her throat. Ahhh! So I tried to freestyle but then I was no longer touching her. And I felt very dumb and incompetent.

Beats the hell out of me. I'll pay more attention...

Luna, if you're just skimming, you must have more of a life than the most of us.

Anyone listening to salsa?

Scattered favorite salsa songs.

Timba: pro- and anti-

That and you repeatedly saying "You're coming with us, Santa. You're coming to town." at my birthday party ;)

I dance to anything too, and generally after a couple of drinks start dancing like a stripper--ultra low grinding and bobbing, that sort of thing. I danced with Matos and those British sluts though, don't let him fool you!

(i) I dance better on carpet

or

(ii) I dance better when no-one is watching me?

this may be resolved by inviting everyone on ILX round to my house to watch me dance in my bedroom or carpeting the floors of every club everywhere. I strongly favour the latter option.

http://www.m-tex.net/images/curtis-spaz.gif

People worry sometimes.

Lately the boy and I have taken to doing spazzy loungeroom dances for no reason at all. He did a victory dance last night cos he'd figured out some bit of code or other that had taken him all day. I like to do retarded silly dances while pulling faces and the like, just for fun.

I haven't been dancing in aaages. But I do love it - I am another Ian Curtis style dancer. I like it when you get up to dance and then try but it doesn't work. The song is just impossible to dance to. I never used to dance - too nervous. But I have since been known to dance on a completely empty dancefloor if the right song comes along.

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Ha, okay, so I really, really like dancing, but here's the problem -- what I dance to and what I hear out and about are usually two completely different things! Like, I have ZERO clue as to how to dance along with a rap song and a lot of what I hear at receptions IS rap. Add the country and Tejano that also always gets played and... ick, no, no dancey tonight, just bored stiff staring into space.

But then I come home and play the Human League or Thompson Twins at HIGH volume and dance dance dance to let the horrible music shake itself out of my system and feel better.

(Oh, and I trained as a ballroom dancer. The waltz, the rhumba, the cha-cha, the tango -- all of those I still know how to do. Not like I could put that to good use anywhere.)

the lifetime network's dance moms, you guys.

anyone?

abby lee really just said, swear to god, "they need to step it up and bring their A game."

There was a 4 hour version of a longer set of dance footage being shown in a festival here last year. I found that clips of that video mix and a list of the dances involved were on a website I hadn't looked at before last weekend. It doesn't give the full effect of the 4 hour one projector version or the multiscreen version that preceded it. It does give a taste though and the version shown here was quite breathtakibg.

That there's a website with a sampling of the videos and a list of teh dances involved from the video I saw the 4 hour version of at teh TULCA festival last year.

Video clips here
https://www.universaltongue.com/video-edition

and separate alphabetical lists of the forms of dance here
https://www.universaltongue.com/dance-styles-az

the 4 hour version is quite mesmeric and kaleidoscopic and I think a much shorter summary of a much longer original mix.
THey mixed a stack of video together for the film they wound up with. All edited to teh beat.

I just came across a reference to some of the voguing from Paris is Burning over the weekend which I think had some clips included in the mix, if not directly from there similar vintage voguing which was just one

I just saw this clip on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/464953141

which is also thankfully on youtube. Not sure if you needed a sign in for the vimeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahrsjrbeCvg