Thread: Tell me .. do you dance?

I have been ballroom dancing (salsa, cha-cha, rhumba, swing, waltz, etc.) for a little over 4 years now and I wish I had started as a child cuz I love it so much.

Does anyone else out there dance .. be it ballroom, country/western, tap, ballet, jazz, club or even belly?

If so, which dance and for how long?

If not, but would like to start.. which dance would you like to learn?

I've never taken classes but "So You Think You Can Dance" makes me wish my parents had forced me to as a child!

Hmm I would love to learn Irish Stepdancing.. something Indian like Bharahanatyam (something like that, too lazy to google the exact name).

Okay FINE I googled it. That's how you spell it and here is a pic:



I think I'd like to learn ballroom as well. Not so much into contemporary...

Does pole dancing count?



just kidding

Heaven... I'm in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardlly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancin' cheek to cheek

Cheek to cheek - it's the only way I've ever danced.

Otherwise, my preference is to be on stage hiding behind an instrument.

Originally Posted by Burns

just kidding

Liar!
Haha


But yeah, I love dancing, and I know a few different styles, most of them hip hop and techno based.

I do a lot of popping, which is the style that the guys in the white vests are doing (once they all take off their jackets) and I'm slowly learning how to lock, which is what the guys in the black shirts are doing.
Video

I can floor-glide


I can liquid (though I have a better version of this song than this guy does. Hehe.)


And I eventually intend to learn some breakdancing moves:
(The guy in the beginning of that video is fucking amazing, and the rest of the vid is great too, but damn, that guy is crazy. I don't have the upper-body strength for all of that. Haha.)

And here is a nice little popping battle between two girls and two guys. The guy in the hat, Salah, is one of the best poppers/wavers I've ever seen, his moves are absolutely surreal. The part where he drops down on his back looks like it defies gravity. Simply awesome. The girl with the ponytail is pretty tight, too.

Battle

Oh, and I've been dancing, off and on, since I was like 17-18 or so, and I also wanna take Salsa lessons.

Originally Posted by Burns

Does pole dancing count?

Only if you're good at it!

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

And here is a nice little popping battle between two girls and two guys. The guy in the hat, Salah, is one of the best poppers/wavers I've ever seen, his moves are absolutely surreal. The part where he drops down on his back looks like it defies gravity. Simply awesome. The girl with the ponytail is pretty tight, too.

Battle

That Salah is unreal.. it just doesn't seem humanly possible to move like that! The girls held their own (especially the girl with the ponytail)!

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Oh, and I've been dancing, off and on, since I was like 17-18 or so, and I also wanna take Salsa lessons.

I would so love to teach you!

Originally Posted by Clairity

I would so love to teach you!

I would sssoooooo love for you to teach me.

Originally Posted by MellC

But the bad thing is that not many guys know how to dance and I really like partner dancing.

I love partner dancing (which is why I ballroom dance) but as you stated, there is a HUGE shortage of guys that know how!

I do movements on the dance floor that have distant feeling of rhythmic moves. So, I usually just drunk dance.

Seriously, I trained couple years for competitive ballroom dance. ( maybe its that in English)

Here's a video of my silhouette dancing. Lol. I knew it was going to come out dark, but I didn't think it would be this dark. I put hardly any energy into this, since I've got a pretty good buzz, but I just wanted to post what I had. I also couldn't floor-glide at all, because my shoes stick to well to het hardwood. I'll upload another vid when I can get some better light. Probably in the garage, when I've got some daylight.

Go O!!! Go O!!! Git down wit your bad self!!

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Heheh @ Clairity.

MUCH better video. It's still not great quality, because my cam pretty much sucks for video, especially when there is not bright, direct light in the scene. Still, you can see it good enough. I'd just gotten home from work and hardly even felt like dancing, but I just wanted to throw something together real quick. I could'a put a bit more energy in it though. Heh. Oh well.


[Edit: Oh, and sorry about having to pull up my pants every five seconds. I had gym shorts on, beneath them, and I had to pull them up before I glide(d?), because they kept making my pants slide down. ]

Nice one O

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

[Edit: Oh, and sorry about having to pull up my pants every five seconds. I had gym shorts on, beneath them, and I had to pull them up before I glide(d?), because they kept making my pants slide down. ]

and you're saying your pants sliding down would be a "bad" thing?

jk.. ya know I'm a big fan!!

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