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Hi im ben I do all sorts of dancing Tap, Modern, Ballett, street i wondered if anyone else dances?? And if you do what do you do with your hair?? I normally keep mine down but it is at the stage where it goes in my eyes !!
Thanks !!
i love dancing and i just let my hair loose, i guess when it got in my eyes i just tolerated it
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Yes. I do competitive and exhibition Latin and Ballroom dancing. I just do a pony tail as you can see in the photo.
So that explains your old nickname !
And I do C&W, Swing, and Salsa dancing. I put my hair up in sort-of a "bun" (gotten too long to just leave it in a ponytail), or sometimes tuck it under my cowboy hat! BTW, great lookin' ponytail, William!
Not me. I cannot dance at all. I have a cousin in Germany who is a world class dancer though. She and her partner won many, many awards and were the best team in all of Europe.
She seems to have all of the dance genes in the family though. The rest of us all have two left feet!
Funny how many people think that about themselves. Dancing is essentially walking forward, backward, and sideways to the rhythm of music. The few times I've taught classes all I have required of my students is that they can walk, that they can count to 8, and that they have an attitude for learning.
Most men do not know how to dance because they have never really been told what they are supposed to do! As with any sport, dancing requires you to learn how to manipulate the "tool" through space. Men have no difficulty in understanding that to be a good golfer, or good baseball player, they have to learn how to move the club or bat in a precision manner to acheive an optimum result. Dance, much like track and field, requires you to learn how to move your body to acheive an optimum result.
But as we grow up, we are not encouraged to engage in such movements. Somehow we get the message that dance is not athletic in nature, but track and field is. So we reach adulthood with no clue about the mechanics of dance and say things like "I have 2 left feet"
-William (AKA "gah 2 dantz"
The controlling words for me are "to the rhythm of music". I have never been able to maintain cadence with anything. I can't even clap hands or stomp feet along with a crowd. I can't march in step with others, which drives those in charge of such up a wall. I gave up drumming with friends because I never could sense the rhythm that they had. To them, I was drumming off the beat, but it all seemed the same to me. Some people are tone deaf; I am rhythm deaf.
Oh, I dance! I love it! When my friends drum, I dance. They are a lot happier if I don't drum, but dance. However, I don't dance so close to another person that I have to be in step with them.
Most music rhythms have 2 distict beats that people hear. There is a downbeat and an upbeat. I refer to them collectly as "boom-tick" The majority of caucasians hear the down beat and usually clap along with the "boom". Other folks hear the upbeat and clap along to the "tick". The downbeat folks are accentuating the 1, 3, 5, and 7 counts, and conversely the upbeat people are accentuating the even counts. As long as you know which count you are supposed to move on, you can learn how to the do the movement regardless of which beat you hear naturally.
You know, I may just give dancing a real try. You certainly have a way with words.
However, Like Bill, it may be safer in the near-term for a dance partner to maintain a lot of distance.
I used to tap dance, haven't done it in forever.
I do contact juggling though, which is dance-like at times.
Here's a couple of links. . .
http://www.harrysbuildingmaterials.com/KsTemp/Moves.WMV
http://www.harrysbuildingmaterials.com/KsTemp/backroll.WMV
