Can you dance?

Chain Smoker

Well, can you? Do you enjoy it*? Have you ever been the victim of someone's terrible dancing?
If you can't, have you a thing you do when in situations where dancing is required?


For my teenage years, I could never figure out what to do with my hands so I just left them by my sides and severely over compensated with my legs, pounding around the dance floor like a sh*t Michael Flatley having a seizure, almost certainly kicked a few people pretty hard. I've hardly ever been on one since, probably afraid that I'd still be like that.

* obviously excluding the empty house risky business type dancing, everyone loves doing that

uch

I can dance like someone having a fit while drinking a bottle of Jemmy through a Lemon

DivingDuck

Everyone can dance.

The only question is whether or not you can dance in a manner which others find appealing/acceptable.

Peregrine

Nope, not a tap.

Gran Hermano

Im a straight white Irish male, of course I can't dance.

Diamond Doll

Ick, no. I can't dance and I hate trying to. I used to feel obliged to attempt it it when I used to regularly go to nightclubs back in the day, but now I'm old and decrepit (29) so don't really go to nightclubs any more, and if I did I wouldn't bother going near the dancefloor. I just feel so ridiculous when I attempt to dance ... I don't see the point of it!

Funnily enough, my boyfriend loves dancing. The odd time we do go out, he'll sometimes attempt to drag me onto the dancefloor with him, but doesn't usually succeed!

Ed_Stephens

The great Bill Hicks said that women judge how good a guy is in bed by how good a dancer he is which is complete rubbish cis if he is a good dancer then he's gay.

Fudge all people can dance, falling around the dancefloor be more like it pretending to be like a celebrity.

uch

I should add, when you go to your Daughters 18th birthday and all her friends are there, you have to dance like you're looking for a fix, just to annoy the fuk out of her, then everybody in the room thinks you're great, except the Daughter of course

NachoBusiness

No, the only thing about me is the way I walk.

Crazy_Fool

I'm a full of rhythm, effortless, born to move sexy beast. Unfortunately my extreme shyness means that only the walls of my house will ever see this. It's such a pity really, you'll just have to take my word for it

The Domonator

Yes, and very well too. But I was a teenager during the days of acid house, rave etc.

Aglomerado

Nope. Despite many attempts by friends to teach me.

As Niles in Frasier said when he was being taught to dance:

"This is difficult, yet boring."

One eyed Jack

Well, I wouldn't dance on my own, but I can dance when I have someone else with me to share the embarrassment, then I get woeful brave altogether and start doing dirty dancing, shaming the life out of onlookers, but when you're dancing with someone else who gives as much a crap as you do, it's that much easier

whisky_galore

Yes and yes.

Akrasia

5 stars on Frozen's 'Let it Go' in Just Dance 2015

Need I say more

Medusa22

I can't dance at all, but that doesn't stop me from trying when I'm on a night out Mostly I'm just grinding up against my partner on the dancefloor, but she amuses me a lot because she can't dance in any kind of sexy way at all, she looks like a five year old let loose on the dancefloor. It's very endearing for me though

citytillidie

Competed in a strictly for charity must say got three 9's from the judges

*shuffles off, jumps in the air and clicks heels*

cson

You can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. Cause your friends don't dance. And if they don't dance. Well they're no friends of mine.

I used to have trophies for Ballroom and Latin American dancing. That was a loooooonnnnnng time ago.

Nowadays I'm rubbish.

One eyed Jack

Actually I saw this a while ago on YouTube, one of the funniest dance related videos I'd seen in a long time, had me thinking "You wouldn't get away with that on the dance floor nowadays!"

Adamocovic

I can dance. Am I good is an entirely different question, and an entirely difference answer.

RayCon

I think dancing is the most unnatural thing you can do. Hate it.

Rough Sleeper

Well I definitely enjoy it anyway. From the age of 18 I was regularly going to electronic nights, starting out with cheesy trance, then electro-house, then tech-house, house, techno and dubstep with my weekly clubbing outings finishing up with that nebulous fusion of genres sometime referred to (rather wankishly) as post-dubstep. I'd hit the floor for hours and by the end of of it I could wring torrents sweat out of my t-shirt. I wasn't working out or eating well at that time but my weekend exertions had me ripped. It's primal, amazingly cathartic and, though I still get the odd jive in, I miss it quite a lot.

hairyslug

I think I can dance,but the only times I dance are normally when I am so sh1tfaced that I dont remember much the next day.
my wife says "I make a scene" but in reckon she's just jealous of my moves

whisky_galore

RayCon wrote: »

I think dancing is the most unnatural thing you can do. Hate it.

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

Maximus Alexander

Get a few Guinness into me and I can dance with the best of them. And by 'dance with the best of them', I mean flail around the dance floor like a salmon on a riverbank, much to everyone's amusement, utterly convinced that I chose the wrong career path.

whisky_galore

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Actually I saw this a while ago on YouTube, one of the funniest dance related videos I'd seen in a long time, had me thinking "You wouldn't get away with that on the dance floor nowadays!"

Something a bit more subdued perhaps??

MaroonAndGreen

I used to not dance, but then I met Molly and have never looked back. Dancing is epic

ghogie91

I shuffle around the dancefloor cuttin shaaaapes!

does it count?

Crumpets

I quite like dancing WITH someone but if I'm going solo and I'm sober, I'm like a terrified horse in the middle of a frozen lake or something.

Pure awkward.

Rosie Rant

I think I dance a little bit like this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwO8smpOM7Q

Rough Sleeper

Rough Sleeper wrote: »

Well I definitely enjoy it anyway. From the age of 18 I was regularly going to electronic nights, starting out with cheesy trance, then electro-house, then tech-house, house, techno and dubstep with my weekly clubbing outings finishing up with that nebulous fusion of genres sometime referred to (rather wankishly) as post-dubstep. I'd hit the floor for hours and by the end of of it I could wring torrents sweat out of my t-shirt. I wasn't working out or eating well at that time but my weekend exertions had me ripped. It's primal, amazingly cathartic and, though I still get the odd jive in, I miss it quite a lot.

Send 'em home sweating. My clubbing started off in the days when Sir Henrys was full of the types stripped to their white Levis with whistles and smog masks who would go for hours fuelled on E. Some people get it, many don't, but they were amazing nights. Anyone who could be there and not dance just didn't have a pulse, it was the ultimate fusion of dance and energy and beat and stimulant and fun.

I miss it too. I miss it a lot. Life goes on and all...but they were just heady times. And if I'm on a night and a DJ plays good house music, I'll still hit the floor...but those nights are rare.

Robsweezie

Gran Hermano wrote:

Im a straight white Irish male, of course I can't dance.

Check your privilege!!! ;-)

Rough Sleeper

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes, and very well too. But I was a teenager during the days of acid house, rave etc.

Those old videos of acid house and hardcore raves fascinate me. You didn't have everyone facing the stage, they just moved in whatever direction their buzz took them, and the dancing seemed really uninhibited and creative. I usually roll my eyes when oldskoolers start rambling on about "real" dance music and £20 pills as big as dinner plates that kept you rushing through three sunrise parties etc. etc., but I have to say the floor looked a bit more lively back then.

Does your username refer to your year of birth btw? Props if you're still keeping it lit.

Rough Sleeper

Rough Sleeper wrote: »

I usually roll my eyes when oldskoolers start rambling on about "real" dance music and £20 pills as big as dinner plates that kept you rushing through three sunrise parties etc. etc., but I have to say the floor looked a bit more lively back then.

I envy them! I'd love to have been one of the crowd driving round the Orbital in London in 1990 looking for directions to a rave. Even Dublin when Johnny Moy and Decal and the Sound Crowd and so on were on the go. Sir Henrys was great alright. It certainly was lively. Wasn't that hardcore about it, so certainly was no snob about "real" dance, and did throw my hands in the air a lot in the trance and euphoria days too, and will even stick on minimal now and have the windows bulging out when the wife isn't around. And yes, 74 was when I was born, so any dancing now is when I'm at some party and in control of the music!

Aongus Von Bismarck

Yes. I attended formal dance lessons in Vienna with my partner at the time. So have a good grounding in Waltz. We were also tutored on the importance of good etiquette and manners when approaching, leaving and inviting a partner to dance at a ball.

Etiquette and manners that almost certainly don't exist in places like 'Coppers'. Red-faced and sweaty men full of beer creeping their way onto the dancefloor so they can shuffle over to a group of women dancing in a pack of about 20. This dancing having all the grace and poise of a donkey trying to escape from a ditch.

Menas

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Yes. I attended formal dance lessons in Vienna with my partner at the time. So have a good grounding in Waltz. We were also tutored on the importance of good etiquette and manners when approaching, leaving and inviting a partner to dance at a ball.
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One of my finest memories is dancing the Viennese waltz, with 100,000 others as the clock struck midnight on one of the street squares in Vienna on new years eve 2008. Shure you could not beat it with a stick.
The austrians do dance and new years eve very well.

Gooners

I am a fantastic dancer with a great sense of rhythm and styles.

Can't understand why my kids insist I don't dance at any function they are at!:mad:

Son Of A Vidic

I love dancing, whether it's House music, Drum & Bass, Hip Hop, Disco or Soul. I'll move to anything that gets the moves flowing and I'll dance all night if the tunes are good enough. As to how good I am? As a Jamaican friend once said to me at a wedding, "Corvus you skin maybe white, but you're a black man on the dance floor."

Rough Sleeper

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

As a Jamaican friend once said to me at a wedding, "Corvus you skin maybe white, but you're a black man on the dance floor."

Love it.

razorblunt

I say Yes.
Wife says no.

Tell you what though, nothing better than breaking out the early 00's dance trend of arms behind the back and foot sliding and kicking like Darude Sandstorm is blasting out.
Hitting the dancefloor at Scottish weddings doing this is hilarious ... for me!
Her? Not so much, it ends up being dragged off like a bold child.

robman60

No, can't dance. Honestly, I don't know why people find it entertaining. It doesn't seem like a natural to good music to me, and as a result I just feel awkward dancing.

If I'm really drunk though I will move in an uncoordinated manner.

shalalala

I love dancing. I actually spend most of my day dancing in some way or another. It is probably my one true love. And everyone can learn to dance!

shalalala

shalalala wrote: »

I love dancing. I actually spend most of my day dancing in some way or another. It is probably my one true love. And everyone can learn to dance!

I dunno. I think you can or you can't, like singing. All the training in the world will only give you a set of choreographed movements, but dancing is not about learning by rote.

Casshern88

I'm a guy and i love dancing on nights out, cant understand those lads who just hang on edge of dance floor or by bar, I would consider my self a decent dancer but hell im not trying to impress anyone just enjoying myself, I would even go as far as to say if i couldn't dance on a night out it would take away a lot of the appeal as nights wouldn't be half as fun.

whisky_galore

Deleted User wrote: »

I dunno. I think you can or you can't, like singing. All the training in the world will only give you a set of choreographed movements, but dancing is not about learning by rote.

A lot of it is, muscle-memory, and dancing the living sh!t out of a move until you get it right.

That said, if you don't have the enthusiasm or the will to see it through, it just won't work.

Rubberlegs

I head butted my friend in the face whilst moshing to Guns n Roses, a few years back. I doubt she'd commend my dancing skills!

shalalala

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I dunno. I think you can or you can't, like singing. All the training in the world will only give you a set of choreographed movements, but dancing is not about learning by rote.

When I said everybody can learn to dance, I don't particularly mean that they will be able to dance well enough to be the best dancer in the room, but they can learn enough to enjoy themselves. I just think it is a great stress relief!

One eyed Jack

razorblunt wrote: »

I say Yes.
Wife says no.

Tell you what though, nothing better than breaking out the early 00's dance trend of arms behind the back and foot sliding and kicking like Darude Sandstorm is blasting out.
Hitting the dancefloor at Scottish weddings doing this is hilarious ... for me!
Her? Not so much, it ends up being dragged off like a bold child.

Heh, I know that feeling!

But that was a long time ago now when I was being introduced to her friends for the first time and we were in the club, dance floor was empty, and then a song came on and I just had to go with it - backflipped around the dance floor like a right nutter, then I spotted my girlfriend with her hand over her face and her friends jaws dropped, realised I'd just made a woeful tit of myself

20 years later her friends still aren't sure what to make of me, but I don't have to meet them that often :pac:

RayCon

whisky_galore wrote: »

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

That explains it so ... my horizontal desire is to sleep.