Your Daily Dance Totals

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

If a busy day, about 1 hour, mostly around the computer speakers or home stereo.

If a normal day, about 3 hours, at home or in the car or somewhere else. Of course car-dancing counts, that's where I invent sooo many moves.

If a slack day, easily 4-7 hours of solid dancing, alone, with people, everywhere, in elevators, parking lots, hallways. I eat a lot on these days too, unsurprisingly, and I think I swear more.

Do you ever go a day without dancing?

Do you think that if a person doesn't dance, there's something wrong with that person?

How many moves do you invent per week? (Tonight I tried a new one in the club when "Debaser" came on and the slicing up eyeballs part came up, and I started screaming at the DJ from 2 feet away and pretending to cut my eyeballs out with my index finger as a knife, with my arm shuddering, and people seemed to enjoy it. My Korean friend did his Jesus Dance again, where he just collapses on the floor, doesn't move, and when enough people mill around he just 'resurrects' himself and acts like nothing happened at all. Less people seem to enjoy that one, but I think it's genius.)

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

If a busy day, zero hours.

If a normal day, zero hours.

If a slack day, zero hours.

I go every day without dancing.

I do not think that if a person doesn't dance, there's something wrong with that person, because that's how Nazi Germany started

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

That's hot.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

I fell in love with Steve Bug because he dances in front of his decks the same way as I dance sitting in front of the computer.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

on a happy day:

lots of dancing all over the place, in the kitchen, at the busstop, shop queues etc

on a crappy day:

none, nowhere, not even in a nightclub!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

The reason I started this thread, aside from wanting to talk about the eyeball-slicing move, is because I was reading again Kogan's answers to that rockcritics.com Writing about Dancing survey. For a while I used to print out the paragraph about making up the 'hmmm' dance and put it into mixCD sleeves to teach the children, and I can only hope they're learning. It's all for the children.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

The last time i danced i had an air-rifle pointed at my feet by a local psycho. This was in 1978. I've associated dancing with fear and pain ever since.

― bg, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Damn local psychos.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

"You're a fool whether you dance or not... so why don't you dance?"

very impressive totals, LC. on a good day i manage about 30mins to an hour unless i go out to Optimo where i dance for the entire time i'm there.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

I once danced 14hrs without stopping.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Now I've got a pedometer and have got caught up in the whole 10k steps per day thing (admittedly ridiculous, but OHHH the Excel charts), I've started doing late-night catch-up dance sessions with my headphones on, to bump up the totals. 30 mins max, though.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

The key for everyday dance total improvement is to allow yourself as many jam breaks as possible, where you work for like 20 mins with the vol at 5-ish, then peak the shit out and jam for like two songs, drink water, smoke, and work again. Keep repeating this. The only possible roadblock is if you have a restrictive live/work atmosphere (which you should obviously change to improve your totals). Team?

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

monthly average for me is only about 3-4 hours. quality not quantity!

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

But do you count any micro-dancing? Miniature moves and negligible energy expenditure, but still counts, steve!

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rockcritics.com/features/discocritics1.html

Wow they changed the links around, but that's the bible in question. I am so so going to jizz when his book drops.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

it's been ages since i *properly* danced. dunno why, maybe because i'm very blue these days? could be. anyway, i love dancing. i rarely if ever dance at home. i just feel awkward dancing in my living room or anywhere else in the room.

hah rockcritics once called my blog one of the essentials. *sigh*

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

(i mean house of course)

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

Why sigh, natty? You're the shit! (But by gosh, don't you just know it!?) (((((huGz))))

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

But do you count any micro-dancing? Miniature moves and negligible energy expenditure, but still counts, steve!

I thought your totals were insanely high! Counting micro-dancing is CHEATING though if we do count it I suppose my totals get bumped to 'most of my waking hours inc. when I am not listening to music'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

It's NOT cheating!

To settle this I declare a micro-danceoff. We'll do it in a mall with no music so people will just think we're disabled.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Challenge totally accepted, totally!

I love micro-dancing but it's only cheating because PROPER dancing in apublic is so much more worthy of recognition, like dancing all the way down a deserted Tube platform complete with spinning round on my heels and ninja hand movements only to find...oh, it's not deserted after all then. THAT counts.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

I fell in love with Steve Bug because he dances in front of his decks the same way as I dance sitting in front of the computer.

The fact that he isn't half bad looking didn't play into it at all, hmm? ;-)

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

haha micro-dancing. 'Candy Shop' was on AGAIN as i was flicking the channels last night and I felt content to indulge in some upper-body bopping whilst sat on the sofa, safe in the knowledge that no-one was watching. damn that infectious beat.

― Sven Basted (blueski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

the computer chair in my apartment is kind of bouncy and really ideal for micro-dancing.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Can someone post some sweet micro-dancing videos? Preferably to micro-house?

― Will M. (Will M.), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm yeah I dont think i get quite that many hours dancing, but my numbers are still what i'd consider pretty high (esp compared to even 2 years ago) and weekends I'm getting in a good 6/day easy.

My friends and i invent dances all the time, "spin the rim," which I'm sure someone else somewhere has also invented, the parallel park (wide left arm circles, look to the right shoulder, right arm extended as if behind the seat) etc. I'm also a master at dancing to the percolator. My friend tried to make a movie of me and my other friends dancing to "Dancing with myself" a year ago and that was the point I really started to step my game up, when I saw a video of myself and it was entertaining for a while and then really boring.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

This thread is so great where is everybody.

― deej., Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

Microdancing has to count because I live in LA, so most of my dancing happens in a Volvo. I realize now that I've gotten pretty complacent about it, though. I've been playing not to lose. I need to set some positive goals.

Tomorrow: singing, plus a couple friendly fist pumps to strangers.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm usually far too depressed and spastic to dance. Occasionally I will twitch in a jaunty manner, but that's about it.

― Telephonething, Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Depressing.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Thursday, 7 April 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Yes. It is ze ennui and ze crushing weight of existence, and to a lesser degree laziness. But mostly the ennui thing.

― Telephonething, Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Dancing (Locking, Liquid/Digitz, Popping) is my hobby. http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ykoh/www/emot-dance.gif

If there's a good beat on, I can't sit still. Help me.

― Yejoon (Yejoon), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't dance much, but I made an exception this weekend when my friend the Princess of Cairo was in town and we did the Rubberband Man dance to most of the Spinners catalogue.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh if microdancing counts an hr a day but y'know sometimes I long to MACRODANCE

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

D03S R0LL3R SK4T!NG C0UNT, MR C0Q ??

― Vic in Shiny bLAdes, Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

sadly getting a 9-5 killed my ddts :(

― deej, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.