Do You Like To Dance In Public? Do You Dance Well?

[arwalden]

Are you willing to be the only person (or the only couple) on the dance floor to get things started? Or when the dance floor is crowded do you feel better blending in with the crowd?

I don't mind being first-out... but I don't want to be the ONLY person on the dance floor forever. I can hold my own, but (like Ellen Degeneres says) I've only got a dozen or so freestyle moves, and then I start repeating myself.

-- Allen

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. I used to love to dance...

Haven't done so in years ~sigh~

Mr GoddessOfGuinness isn't into it...

[arwalden]

2. Line Dances: A conformists paradise?

I used to be able to do the original "Hustle". Given a few minutes I could re-learn the "Electric Slide".

But my short-term memory isn't good enough to instantly pick-up the sequence of moves for today's line dances. (Does that say something about my PERSONALITY or my MENTAL CAPABILITIES?)

-- Allen

[patdem]

3. Honey, when I dance I make Elaine of Seinfeld fame look good!

and I dance ANYWAY...or used to. I am now 'oldandintheway'...by the way...where is oldandintheway these days?

[prolesunited]

8. I'm sure you can't be THAT bad!

"Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching."

[arwalden]

11. I've Never Seen The "Elaine Dance"

Where can I find a quicktime or real player or windows media download of it?

-- Allen

[oxymoron]

28. You can see a quick clip of the Elaine dance here...

http://tinylink.com/?ikR8sHrdue

Watch "The Little Kicks" clip.

[patdem]

18. I love that quote...VERY good advice to everyone...

The funny thing is my sig other is black and the MOST CONSERVATIVE dancer I have EVER SEEN...he is (used to be humiliated) that I would move my body parts and NOT look like I was a party from "Dawn of the Dead" We met sitting and not dancing, so I could not hold that against him!! LOL :bounce:

[Southsideirish]

4. 55th & Peoria - 1960's - the coolest dancers ever!!

At my Catholic girl's school - what fun-loving exhibitionists we were. They used to let us dance in the gym on our lunch hour and we were the best dancers you ever saw - talk about rockin'! We did all the dances of the period and did 'em with sexy style and abandon. Now the guys on the north side who did that "traveling" kind of semi-jitterbug - so cool it would leave you breathless. I remember one time the Chgo kids got to go on "Bandstand" and they were way better and hipper dancers than those guys. Those were the days...in all modesty I have to say I am a hell of dancer to this day.

[TrogL]

5. yes. no.

I've actually been complimented on my dancing (mostly by falling down drunks or people trying to pick me up) but if you actually analyze what I'm doing, I'm doing the steps to a polka and waving my arms around.

[KG]

6. typical white boy here.

i have been mistaken for someone having a seizure. :)

[SOteric]

7. Yes, and yes.

[Blue-Jay]

9. I only know how to swing dance.

My cousin Bev & I were forced to take swing dance lessons when we were kids. Flashy yes, but I'm useless in most dancing situations that don't involve throwing my partner over my head.

[arwalden]

26. When I Was 10 My Mother Taught Me How To Jitterbug!!

That was the first dance step I ever learned.

-- Allen

[cmf]

10. Depends on the type of dancing.

I love to dance, especially latin and swing dancing. I don't mind performing for people if I have a good partner. I think it's a real rush. Freestyle dancing, not so much. I don't like being the only person bopping around on the dance floor.

[leftist_rebel1569]

12. in public? Only when i'm

playing Dance Dance Revolution in the arcades. And, i'm okay at it, I guess...:)

[catpower2000]

13. Hell yes!

I am a darn good dancer and I love it--I'll dance alone in the middle of a totally empty dance floor. But then, I have no shame. :)

Cat

[mlawson]

14. OMG, no!!!! Never!!!! n/t

[kmla]

15. Yep. and yep..

Back in the day (when I was a lounge lizard), a lady friend with good rhythm and I would actually clear off most of the dance floor. People would stand back and watch (not to the extent that John Travolta did in Saturday Night Fever, though). Not that I would do the splits or anything like that, but I used to have good rhythm for a balding dorky guy.

But that was then. About 15 or so years ago. And 25 pounds....

[matcom]

16. I INVENTED The "Blind Pecker"!!!

its a HUGE hit in Georgetown even to this day!!

Steps:

A)Place one hand over crotch
B)Place other hand over your eyes (shading them as if looking into the sun)
C)Put on your BEST "White Man's Overbite"
D)Grind back and forth, PREFERABLY AGAINST the beat of the music

Once the ladies (men) see THAT, you are SURE to attract attention!

:P

[arwalden]

24. Now That Sounds Like One I'd Be Able To Do...

... will it work equally well with Country as well as Techno or Old School Disco?

-- Allen

[matcom]

25. ANY kind of muzac!

just make sure you 'avoid' the true beat :P

:loveya: Allen!

:hi:

[Kamika]

17. I dance like a goddess

When im drunk.

Im way too shy to be first out or something othervise

[Rowdyboy]

19. My partner can tear up a floor!

I resemble a poorly programmed, socially awkward robot. Thats why we mostly slow dance, unless we're alone, at home, where I can loosen up a little.

[Lizz612]

20. Not always and yes.

Hell, I'm in college, you either grind or mosh. Grinding is what you see on all those spring break videos, mosh is the seizure stuff except in a crowd, and more jumping vertically. Moshing is easy, grinding, well, you just can't be shy about physical contact.

[leftofthedial]

21. yes. I ama Chippendale's dancer so I have to.

just kidding.

No. After 35 years as a professional musician watching lame-ohs make writhing fools of themselves night after night, I just can't do it anymore.

Unless I've been drinking, which is all the time. So, yes.

[arwalden]

27. Okay... So What's Up With The "Chicken Dance" At Weddings?

It's a horrible, horrible train wreck. Why do people insist?

-- Allen

[patdem]

22. OOPS I Mispoke...I am on venue that will NEVER see me dance...therefore

Honey, I have been BEGGED, yes BEGGED by the Rockettes to come dance with them...to be their LEAD DANCER...yeah, that's the ticket...SEE...majically I can be transformed from nothing to everything simply by being anonymous!

[geniph]

23. I love to dance

I'll dance to nearly anything, anywhere, and I dance well enough to keep myself happy. If anyone else doesn't like it, they can look at something else. I could care less what other people think of my dancing provided I'm not on their table or wearing their lampshade.

"If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing."

Everyone should sing and dance. We don't all have to be professional-quality. We just have to have fun.

[GOPisEvil]

29. I have the basic white guy moves...

...I like dancing in a crowd best - preferably a huge group of friends.

Now, I was with a friend at a reggae show. The bass player actually stopped the show to point him out. He was trying to give him rhythm lessons. When I started laughing he said, "I don' know whatchu laughin' 'bout, you not much bettah." :-)

[jumptheshadow]

30. I try not to dance.

I'm the stiffest Celt in town. But I like to watch...

My partner, on the other hand, is a head-bobber and a free-spirited mover. It makes me smile every time I think of her dancing.