on dancing
Jun. 28th, 2002 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauralhI have a theory on dancing. I mean going to clubs or raves and dancing, not like ballroom or whatever. My theory is that the people who aren't having any fun are the ones that actually look good dancing, and vice versa.
I pretty much tend to fall in the latter category, but once in a while I try really hard to look like I know what I'm doing. I don't know if it works or not, since I don't really care all that much. I'm the kind of person who'll be the first one on the floor before a live act says "Come on, people, get out and dance!" I have no trouble doing this alone, or with one other friend or more.
However, I have serious problems dancing with boys. I suppose it goes back to high school when I'd just dance in a group of girls at school dances, and then at clubs pretty much continued this behavior. I don't really think my female friends are any better at dancing than I am, but for some reason it doesn't really bug me. I sometimes think "Oh god is she doing the Axl Rose?" but that usually only lasts a second. Whereas when even one of the group is a male, invariably he is a terrible dancer and I can't focus on anything else. This has only not been the case once, but then he was so good I still had to watch him dance. (Especially as he was fairly overweight.)
So in order to dance with men, they either have to be reasonable dancers or just doing that bump'n'grind shit. (Do the kids still call it that? I dunno. Before the 90s we called it Dirty Dancing, of course.) Or I just have to be too out of it to notice.
I pretty much tend to fall in the latter category, but once in a while I try really hard to look like I know what I'm doing. I don't know if it works or not, since I don't really care all that much. I'm the kind of person who'll be the first one on the floor before a live act says "Come on, people, get out and dance!" I have no trouble doing this alone, or with one other friend or more.
However, I have serious problems dancing with boys. I suppose it goes back to high school when I'd just dance in a group of girls at school dances, and then at clubs pretty much continued this behavior. I don't really think my female friends are any better at dancing than I am, but for some reason it doesn't really bug me. I sometimes think "Oh god is she doing the Axl Rose?" but that usually only lasts a second. Whereas when even one of the group is a male, invariably he is a terrible dancer and I can't focus on anything else. This has only not been the case once, but then he was so good I still had to watch him dance. (Especially as he was fairly overweight.)
So in order to dance with men, they either have to be reasonable dancers or just doing that bump'n'grind shit. (Do the kids still call it that? I dunno. Before the 90s we called it Dirty Dancing, of course.) Or I just have to be too out of it to notice.
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Date: 2002-06-28 11:00 am (UTC)found you as a friend of a friend of a friend
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Date: 2002-06-28 11:08 am (UTC)