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Does anyone here dance?
Are any of you big on dancing, or happen to like dancing? I've never been much of a party goer myself but I've always been fascinated by dance. Based on my taste in music my favorite dance styles are latin. Salsa, cumbia, and quebradita to name a few. I watch videos all the time but never have anyone to practice with. Here's some links:
Salsa/Cumbia/Guaracha (mexico city style)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KkWh6O2dl0
Quebradita (it took me a while to find an example that wasn't professionally terrible!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU2TYXdoxFc
I like the first one somewhat better because musical events like that seem to be more respectful towards non-hetero people, which traditional culture is really hostile to. I also like that the dancing is more equal, where as quebradita is known for the man basically throwing the woman around. Which is why at dances you'll hear people saying 'quebrala' ('break her') to the man. Also the genres that dance quebradita (banda, norteño & ranchera) are very cultural and therefore homophobic. However, here in the US and bigger cities in Mexico it's not uncommon to see same sex couples dancing together as well as people dancing with trans people and what not. So yeah, those are my two that I one day hope to be good at.
"Maybe some day... I'll find a way... without you.."
Got a few years of dance when I was on the theaterschool, half year clasical, half year modern, 1 year improv modern, 1 year break/street dance.
Did also a special week of tango.
I wouldn't say I actually can dance those forms but I can fake a bunch pretty convincingly.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
I can dance the waltz, mostly Viennese, but also some English. Sort of. Because apparently Pilantra was right and I am a 90-year-old Austro-Hungarian official type.
I can embarrass myself pretty easily.
"We have seen: a social revolution possesses a total point of view because – even if it is confined to only one factory district – it represents a protest by man against a dehumanized life" - Marx
"But to push ahead to the victory of socialism we need a strong, activist, educated proletariat, and masses whose power lies in intellectual culture as well as numbers." - Luxemburg
fka the greatest Czech player of all time, aka Pavel Nedved
I've done that. Although not as hard and drunk as other people at the parties I go to.
"Maybe some day... I'll find a way... without you.."
I've always been fond of capoeira and ballet, but I have no actual dance skill myself other than going out to dance parties where they blast hot jams and i am hopping about energetically and grinding on hotties.
I suffer from a condition known as 'Chronic White Person Syndrome', but I do try to dance sometimes.
I love capoeira, though. It's a dance, it's a genre of music, AND it's a martial art. How cool is that?
"I've never read Marx's Capital, but I've got the marks of capital all over my body." -Big Bill Haywood
"...Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor."- Thomas Jefferson
-=UTOPIA IS THE MORAL RIGHT OF HUMANITY=-
Dance and Revolution
Some forms of dance are by definition revolution i.e. Flamenco and some forms of dance are conservative (not my area of k) but classical ballet comes to mind.
I can twerk.
Just kidding, I can't do anything. I also have trouble dancing in public without alcohol.
I wish death on everyone who works for the Department for Work and Pensions.
