Can you dance? Properly I mean?

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Feeling all frilly after Rainy's 'curtsey' question, I was wondering if we could recover other aspects of older, more refined behaviour. Can you dance in a Jane Austen style, for example? (I have HUGE problems with Jane Austen, but the balls are quite fun, no?) Can you polka? Foxtrot? Can you even salsa? Come on ev'rybody, lets return to the era where GIRLS danced with BOYS. (But BOYS can dance with BOYS and GIRLS can dance with GIRLS too - let's celebrate the more liberal attitudes of today, as well!)
Who's dancin'? I'm askin' !
a little question tacked on the end. Which ILEr would you love to cut a rug with?

― Will, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― Will, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No. Not even improperly.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

um, i'm actually quite good at dancing. but with one vital condition - i have to really like what is being played. cant do it if record is only 'ok'.

― gareth, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

am rubbish at dancing. used to do tap and ballet, so you'd think i had at least a modicum of grace and sophistication, but no. jumping up and down and shouting "yaayyyyyy!" when Psycho Killer gets played is about the beginning and the end of it i'm afraid. oh, and attempting to "Rhumble" *cringe* :)

― katie, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bollox, i've just read the question properly. sorry, i've never done those things so i don't know

― gareth, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dance properly at Metal concerts and mosh at Raves.

― Kodanshi, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely attempting to get ready to Rhumble. No Rhumbling actually took place in the song, IIRC.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've not danced since junior school. I don't think I would like to embarass myself.

― james, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's going to have to be girls dancing with girls as I have yet to meet a bloke who could co-ordinate himself sufficiently to learn actual dance steps rather than shuffling / jiggling shoulders / nodding head self-consciously. Also today's Modern Girl finds it very difficult to be led by someone else when dancing especially when the someone leading is leading you into the path of others / the buffet table.

― Emma, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I did ballet until I was 13 and will give you a demonstration if you get me drunk enough. I can also polka, because we had to do that at ballet.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i would love to cut toraneko's rug.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually rick it said "Get Ready.... get steady... and Rhumble - everybody Rhumble!" then they started getting ready again. SO THERE!! just cos they only Rhumbled a *bit*.

― katie, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dance like Elaine Benes. Seriously.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm pretty good, but i'm rubbish at remembering more complex moves. i was quite the gymnast and that helps apparently. also i are not being scared of looking like a nancy at school as i was the braney one, so was already being called a poof etc, hence got pretty good at it. i did a bit more at college (just for those poncey college balls).

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I swing dance.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, you have met ME, ergo your statement is patently false.

Joei and I danced a tango as our first dance. We also rhumba, foxtrot, and do a little swing. This reminds me, we still have lessons left at that dance studio...

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You are crude Geoff.

I cannot dance to save myself despite doing classical & jazz ballet and highland dancing in my childhood and teen years. I can do barn dancing though (Heel & Toe Polka, Pride of Erin, Strip the Willow etc.) but I think everyone can do these.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I have HUGE problems with Jane Austen, but the balls are quite fun, no?)"
Isn't this more a Mark C/Nick Dastoor thing?

― DG, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, that sounds like Big Balls by AC/DC.

Yes I can dance, and reasonably well.

― suzy, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't know that Jane Austen's balls were so much fun! Oh wait, someone made that joke...

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I tried various forms of Scottish dancing this past July. My legs were not broken, so I take that as a positive sign.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My favorites are the old fashioned waltz , Gallo, Plain dancing. Done of course with handsome gentlemen :) Teen years was the Locomotion! :) Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I forgot that I can waltz! AND I can POLKA! FEAR ME!

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think everyone can do these

shyeah... if this were 1880s ireland. nice moves, toraneko. the clsest i can come to "folk" dancing is appalachian-style "contra" dancing which is where you stockpile weapons and try to overthrow grassroots left-wing governments with US support.

I can jitterbug. Oh yes I can. (jitterbugs, with "air partner")

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dance like the devil himself had taken hold of me. Not refined dancing. To hell with that. That Groove Armada song really had my ass shaking on Thursday. Not to mention Wheres Your Head At. A few drinks and I dance like a lunatic. Got a compliment recently so I take that as total vindication of every dance move I've ever done.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DAvid and I rock the seniors center where our weekly sqaure dancing takes place. Its us and 70 year old married couples, they were scared but we impressed them with our mad doesy do skillz . That and we brought donuts !

― anthony, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In the stuffier parts of the south they compelled us to learn formal dancing. Aspiring debutantes and their future escorts, even at age 11, were absolutely insufferable. I'm glad I learned to dance properly, I suppose, but I'm much happier that punk rawk steered me away from that little world within a few years.

― Benjamin, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also today's Modern Girl finds it very difficult to be led by someone else when dancing especially when the someone leading is leading you into the path of others / the buffet table.

Okay, this answers a question about why so many girls I dance with tend to try to lead, this and the other bit about slump-shouldered, shuffling boys.

― Benjamin, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

some drunk irish guy told me today that i dance like a pokemon, whatever that means.

― phil, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I never told you that............oh.

― Ronan, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't dance but I do like the idea of being a wall flower. The conversation, the scandal, the pretty people moving in formation. Life is a spectator sport

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey! I could probably do the Locomotion too! Also, I can half remember the dance to TRAGEDY to my great chagrin there is a part I can't remember. The same goes for ONE FOR SORROW. Also see THE TIMEWARP.

I think I could probably do a CHA CHA CHA because, hey, it sounds great. I can probably waltz too (my parents did ballroom dancing when I was wee). I would like to learn the dance they did at the MASQUERADE BALL in Romeo and Juliet. They got to shake bells and stuff and didn't half look like right CHARLIES. But Juliet = vvvv pretty (I am of course thinking of the Zefferelli version, not the BBCs ahem, "lo-fi" attempt).

― Sarah, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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