Do you dance?
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0bleak
A Liniment's Evil Work
Person with ill skillz - reveal thyself!
Don't be modest!
I'm also curious about anyone that answers no - would they feel comfortable revealing why?
Do you have trouble with figuring out what to do and when?
To give some background: I used to not dance at all up through most of my teens.
It's not that I couldn't "feel the beat", but more of an issue of not knowing what to do and when - and I certainly didn't have the ability to really learn or copy other people's moves due to my nvld.
Just eventually having the courage to "just do what feels right" shuffling, stepping and moving parts of my body with the beats, and over time gaining more confidence to where I wouldn't even care if I was the only person on the dancefloor, and even gaining notoriety and attention for my "footwork" (which I wouldn't even think about doing today - I'd seriously injure myself).
Don't be modest!
I'm also curious about anyone that answers no - would they feel comfortable revealing why?
Do you have trouble with figuring out what to do and when?
To give some background: I used to not dance at all up through most of my teens.
It's not that I couldn't "feel the beat", but more of an issue of not knowing what to do and when - and I certainly didn't have the ability to really learn or copy other people's moves due to my nvld.
Just eventually having the courage to "just do what feels right" shuffling, stepping and moving parts of my body with the beats, and over time gaining more confidence to where I wouldn't even care if I was the only person on the dancefloor, and even gaining notoriety and attention for my "footwork" (which I wouldn't even think about doing today - I'd seriously injure myself).
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
shakahislop
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regular dancer. it's got more comfortable over the years. like most people in the uk did not grow up in a culture of dancing, which was gradually left behind over the 20th century. but d&b and jungle were unavoidable and that was a good way in for me, coz the chaos prevents slinky dancing, it's a bit of a free for all. you sort of wonder if that's why it appeared in the uk rather than anywhere else. mostly feels comfortable now and quick enough to slip into it. i think the idea of being good at dancing is a bit destructive, it blocks most people out.
Murphy
cat malogen
Used to live for it, all weekend. A mate misappropriated the term “on the bus” for having it on top of an actual crusty bus if a track warranted such
As Jack alluded to, wedding celebrations tend to be more of a focus in contemporary life. I have to carry our own kids, nephews and nieces on my shoulders because they squeal in delight as you fake losing balance only to pull the human tower back up
Miss dancing a lot, the wife can jive too so we have fun when and where we can, time permitting
As Jack alluded to, wedding celebrations tend to be more of a focus in contemporary life. I have to carry our own kids, nephews and nieces on my shoulders because they squeal in delight as you fake losing balance only to pull the human tower back up
Miss dancing a lot, the wife can jive too so we have fun when and where we can, time permitting
i’ve been called ‘ian curtis’ (lol), ’mr robot’ , ‘wicked dancer’ , bods shaking hands ‘good dancing‘ when leaving the floor after a long session (many times), a cunt (many times) …
ill sklilz? dunno. i’m twitchy and angular and regular I get v v v into it if a dj picks me up right I love it when the dance gets automatic almost machinic-mantric I can go all night (ahem)
i am a techno kid and I love dancing to techno best and all the sinewy acid. my fav dance music is streamlined with enough space for body, a sort of fitted sonic bodyglove but just the right space, just the right syncop and enough kick will do.
the perfect aesthetic hit in the club for me tends to be the most functionalist dancefloor-dancer oriented stuff. do house, disco, warmer stuff to with a different gait of course.
ov yr ‘nuumy genres ukg /2step is my fav to dance to (and indeed is some of the greatest music to dance to), but just don’t need no proggy ‘breakbeat scizzenszze’ justifications in da club sozzy.
not been for a while mostly cos the others retired. don’t like being the only greyhead in da club but my body’s just the same. i’m both fitter and looser even I want it back.
the ig’s ideal dancing music:
ill sklilz? dunno. i’m twitchy and angular and regular I get v v v into it if a dj picks me up right I love it when the dance gets automatic almost machinic-mantric I can go all night (ahem)
i am a techno kid and I love dancing to techno best and all the sinewy acid. my fav dance music is streamlined with enough space for body, a sort of fitted sonic bodyglove but just the right space, just the right syncop and enough kick will do.
the perfect aesthetic hit in the club for me tends to be the most functionalist dancefloor-dancer oriented stuff. do house, disco, warmer stuff to with a different gait of course.
ov yr ‘nuumy genres ukg /2step is my fav to dance to (and indeed is some of the greatest music to dance to), but just don’t need no proggy ‘breakbeat scizzenszze’ justifications in da club sozzy.
not been for a while mostly cos the others retired. don’t like being the only greyhead in da club but my body’s just the same. i’m both fitter and looser even I want it back.
the ig’s ideal dancing music:
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People would think I'm either a dealer or a copper because I wouldn't hand my coat in to the cloakroom cos I'm scared of losing my ticket.
Goth Feet ASMR
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I bet I could beat any members of Dissensus Website in a dance contest. Footwork, Jitting, Breakdance, Butoh...I'm just an incredible performer and also very attractive
0bleak
A Liniment's Evil Work
I bet I could beat any members of Dissensus Website in a dance contest. Footwork, Jitting, Breakdance, Butoh...I'm just an incredible performer and also very attractive
I dunno - I might take you in butoh, especially if were to involve staggering around and rolling down stairs like a toddler like in the start of this video.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
It was me! Or I was the first one, anyway.
I do fucking love to dance, when the music's good and I'm in the right mood. Drugs or at least some booze help, obviously, but funnily enough one of the best times I've had dancing involved none of the former and very little of the latter.
A good friend of mine got married in Amman, Jordan, nine years ago. (It wasn't an arbitrary or dickishly exotic choice of venue; both he and his wife are from that part of the world, and have relatives who either live there or live not too far away.) So I flew over and stayed in his mum's house along with his two brothers. The venue was the penthouse floor of this fairly swank hotel they'd hired, and some of his other relatives, and hers, were staying in the hotel. What was interesting (to me as an outsider to the culture) is that although neither party's family was religious to any great extent, the wedding was officially 'dry' out of respect to the bride's parents, because they were just a bit old-fashioned and didn't hold with that sort of thing.
This set up quite a fun situation whereby some of my mate's cousins, who were staying in a room about halfway up the hotel, had this illicit booze stash which we were constantly sneaking out of the party room in order to top ourselves up from, until it became too obvious what was going on and we had to stop because we were getting the old stink-eye from the father of the bride. But it made trying to get drunk so much more fun than just getting drinks from the bar as usual. Anyway, in the event I didn't get to drink that much, and whatever I had consumed was rapidly burned off on the dancefloor, because the DJ was INCREDIBLE. He was playing all this super high energy Arabic techno, with accompaniment by this incredibly skilled percussionist playing some kind of tall, narrow drum that he was flicking with his fingertips. I couldn't not dance, and I seemed to be genuinely appreciated by the other guests - I was the only white/Western person there, and maybe they'd assumed I'd be all uptight and boring or something, or unable to dance without loads of booze on hand, or something.
At a couple of points I tried to edge away from the dancefloor just so I could sit down to catch my breath for five minutes and drink some water, but this tiny woman in a headscarf, about my mum's age, just grabbed me by the sleeve and dragged me back to the floor.
Another notable thing was that, in contrast to every other wedding I've been to, there was dancing and then food, which is so much more logical, don't you think?
Goth Feet ASMR
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i studied under this guy for a minute, back when i was living in SEA:
The Unravelling of a Dancer
Sharon Stern devoted herself to Butoh. Did her mentor lead her down a dangerous path?
dude always had an unpleasantly heavy vibe, though i never would have imagined him capable of something like this...
0bleak
A Liniment's Evil Work
When was that?
Goth Feet ASMR
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i studied with Katsura Kan in 1998!
