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Dance with me, pretty boy, tonight?
I regularly blather on here about dancing with swords. What I mention a bit less frequently is that I also go to modern jive classes with some regularity.
On Sunday, at the 80s night in Whitby,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrph and I were briefly discussing general jive and swing dancing (which I thought he'd taken up a while ago, but it seems not - or he was keeping very quiet). And it made me think: hey, the world would be a much better place if more people could break out in jiving occasionally.
Assuming everyone conforms to traditional gender roles, this is why you should try it:
Girls - you can have a great time and look fabulous even if you know nowt just by dancing with a competent guy. Also, once you've learned to follow (and in jive, that's pretty easy) then you're streets ahead for picking up any other form of partner dancing.
Guys - you will always be in demand, because classes are always a bit short on guys. Also, once you're willing to actually take on the odd bit of dancing here and there, (at least a certain subset of) women will think you're brilliant at parties.
( A caveat and some waffling )
Are there any other practitioners of jive/Ceroc/swing/lindy/that sort of thing around these parts? If so, please confess in the comments... I wanna dance with you!
On Sunday, at the 80s night in Whitby,
mrph and I were briefly discussing general jive and swing dancing (which I thought he'd taken up a while ago, but it seems not - or he was keeping very quiet). And it made me think: hey, the world would be a much better place if more people could break out in jiving occasionally.Assuming everyone conforms to traditional gender roles, this is why you should try it:
Girls - you can have a great time and look fabulous even if you know nowt just by dancing with a competent guy. Also, once you've learned to follow (and in jive, that's pretty easy) then you're streets ahead for picking up any other form of partner dancing.
Guys - you will always be in demand, because classes are always a bit short on guys. Also, once you're willing to actually take on the odd bit of dancing here and there, (at least a certain subset of) women will think you're brilliant at parties.
( A caveat and some waffling )
Are there any other practitioners of jive/Ceroc/swing/lindy/that sort of thing around these parts? If so, please confess in the comments... I wanna dance with you!