Do you know how to waltz?

I would not mind learning more in the way of formal dance. There is something to be said for elegance. But I would prefer to do it to someone like, say, Kraftwerk.

I'm taken with the idea of elegance but it's so largely implausible, requiring as it does an amount of work that's unjustifiable in the face of more meaningful problems, plus a terrible sense of exclusivity in order to maintain its own elegance. Lately I enjoy the idea of conducting oneself elegantly in the least elegant of places.

It's totally useless knowledge though, cause noboy else ever knows how and I even tried teaching my boyfriend and it was pretty tragic.

Mike Daddino to thread! I do believe we have red hot flaneur action here.

My college had near-monthly waltz parties in glorious McDowe ll Hall, oldest American college building still in use. People would get gussied up, dance in the Great Hall, and watch others dance on the balcony as they drank too much champagne.

Succumbing to the biases of the student body, the folks who put on these parties eventually transformed what once were waltz parties with swing interludes into swing-dancing parties with waltz interludes. This sucked beyond measure because I can't Lindy for the life of me. I bet these parties must be insufferable now, thanks to the unkillable musical remnants of the nu-swing movement.

Actually, my real love was the polka, which pretty much made me a dancin' pariah.

God this is sexy.

I have since taken my lovely wife, an actual Viennese person, to a St. John's Waltz party, where she was stunned by the FEROCIOUS DIREGARD FOR OTHER HUMAN LIFE. This is not a matter of lacking technique -- it's more a matter of an alternative, DEADLY form of technique.

But, yeah, Mikey D. could move. More than I could, anyway.

We waltzed around the office once and everyone was very impressed. (I take "Fucking hell, Anna and Ben can actually ballroom dance!" as an appreciation of our style and grace.)

Nitsuh, that alone takes a certain skill to pull off. Tis quite easy to do, actually;> But being "elegant" doesn't _necessarily_ equal being exclusive. Bit of time, nice suit (or dress) and you can fool anyone.

And yes, I can waltz quite well. New York lofts are great for skidding across the floor.