Can you dance?

Rosie Rant · 26-06-2015 10:35AM

I think I dance a little bit like this guy

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

26-06-2015 10:40AM

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 · 26-06-2015 10:42AM

Gran Hermano wrote:

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

Check your privilege!!! ;-)

Rough Sleeper · 26-06-2015 10:44AM

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.

26-06-2015 11:00AM

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 · 26-06-2015 11:00AM

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 · 26-06-2015 11:04AM

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.
.

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 · 26-06-2015 11:06AM

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 · 26-06-2015 11:26AM

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 · 26-06-2015 11:34AM

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 · 26-06-2015 11:44AM

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 · 26-06-2015 11:56AM

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 · 26-06-2015 12:02PM

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!

26-06-2015 12:09PM

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 · 26-06-2015 12:12PM

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 · 26-06-2015 12:13PM

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 · 26-06-2015 12:17PM

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 · 26-06-2015 12:25PM

[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 · 26-06-2015 12:45PM

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 · 26-06-2015 12:52PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

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

Absoluvely · 26-06-2015 01:36PM

We can dance if we want to

razorblunt · 26-06-2015 01:42PM

Absoluvely wrote: »

We can dance if we want to

We CAN leave our woes behind.

Can you dance?

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