| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/15/2009 4:12:06 PM |
You mean like this guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEli2rrrJwI
FANTASTIC! Everybody, drop whatever you are doing, and look at this.
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/15/2009 5:01:07 PM | Oh but here's a guy who knows how to have some fun. They're dancin' "The Shag" and it's my favorite dance of all...it's so FUN !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKzrQ1RedxY | |
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/16/2009 8:17:00 AM | I love to dance, especially with someone that knows how. Now, if you just going to ask me to dance, out of the blue and then want to throw me around the floor, so i can look foolish, I'm not up for it. Now, if we are dating, possible, we could practice a little, so I don't look stupid or fall down (I've been known). I think that would be polite, to take it easy on a first dance. Then we could wait for the slow dance and cuddle a little and breath in each others ears
Oh, ok, whatever you do when you slow dance, I've forgotten.
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/24/2009 8:24:22 PM | I am a seroius dancer. Used to be President of our local USA Dance Chapter, was taught by my Teacher mother to dance at 12, again in High School, avoided PE requirement in university by taking Social Dance, started back after 21 years of a danceless marriage. Then I discovered Argentine Tango, harder than all the 17 other dances I could do put together , had to totaly reorient myself, after six years of it, seven Tango festivals, endless lessons, I have finally acheived mediocrity, which for a guy is pretty good. I love the intimacy, unpredictabily, and musicality about it, no twirling here, (no room on the floor with 600 other people, although the Milonga style really scoots) just an unbelievable connection with your partner. If one likes the dance to be always the same it's not the dance for them. I still Ballroom dance, but, it's not my passion anymore, although Tango has greatly improved my Ballroom. If you have not danced, I suggest you start with Tango, once you get the basics down the other dances seem rediculously easy and that way you will not have to relearn. The other way around is a nightmare, I know I did it, took me at least two years to ditch the Ballroom stance and movements, going to ballroom is easy, one just redjust their presentation and go. Today I can go back and forth without a hitch, although I'd rather Tango. In Tango, each song is a three minute flirtation, the four song Tandas (a set of tunes that you stay with the same partner, unless things go really bad) is a 12 minute love affair.
Don't let the idea that a guy likes to dance misslead you into thinking they are wusses. I spent 30 years commercial fishing in Washington State and Bristol Bay Alaska. Bristol Bay is like going to war for month at a time, no sleep, unreasonable people, endless physical disasters, and other general violence mixed with undependale mechanical marvels. I also used to drive dirt track Midget Race Cars, in the venacular, I ain't no wuss, neither are my male dancing friends. it takes a lot of guts to put yourself out there, but, the rewards are wonderful.
I used to think being a dancer would be a plus to meet a nice lady, I was wrong. Despite the old axe that women like to dance, I have found it untrue, so have most of my male dancing friends. Seems like most women's idea of dancing is popping down a few brews and bouncing up and down to a good time Rock and Roll band in a club. They all say they want to dance, but when it comes down to it, will not take the time and effort to learn, I suppose they might if it came via magic wand. When one meantions you are a dancer, most of the ladies flee. After putting in the time I have, I am not likely to sttle for bouncing up and down.
The sad fact is that I would like to have a significant other who dances, especially Tango. I have found that wanting a dancer for a partner disqualifies about 95% of the available age appropriate population of the opposite sex. Then one gets into all the other non dancing issues that colour any relationship. My area has a nice, but small dancing community, have many great lady friends, just not that one who clicks. I often meet wonderful women when I travel to the larger cities or festivals, but, then we go home and never see than again. It's a condundrum. Jim | |
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/24/2009 9:32:57 PM |
The sad fact is that I would like to have a significant other who dances, especially Tango. I have found that wanting a dancer for a partner disqualifies about 95% of the available age appropriate population of the opposite sex. Then one gets into all the other non dancing issues that colour any relationship. My area has a nice, but small dancing community, have many great lady friends, just not that one who clicks. I often meet wonderful women when I travel to the larger cities or festivals, but, then we go home and never see than again. It's a condundrum.
Here where I live, our tango group has 4 women to every man and those men are married but their wives share on the dance floor.......would love to have my own A-T dance partner or for any other type of dance. | |
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/25/2009 12:07:59 AM | OP, yes, although I love dancing, this has happened to me many, many times. Think they're living in a "Saturday Night Fever" world and have yet to reawaken. Now, when they ask, I just say a polite "Maybe later." Seems they are seeking attention b/c they are always totally aware of the effect they have on the dance floor - all eyes on them. OMG, get a real life. Dancing well does not impress me; if you want to really leave an impression, do volunteer work or find a cure for some illness.
Really? Seriously? Do you think twirling and twinkling about on a small wooden area is going to leave a mark in this world? Karma is calling....calling...calling..... | |
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/25/2009 12:15:40 AM | LMAO sounds like a Bill Murray movie. Next time you have one of these dates, invite me, I'd like to watch. I'd say - don't GO ballroom dancing on a first date if that's not your thing .. ok rule #1 the first date should be about YOU... what YOU want
it's possibly the last time you'll get to choose except maybe your birthday.
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/25/2009 12:30:03 AM | Our town is wierd, we usually have more guys at the Tango lessons than women. Once in a while, when I don't go, I hear there were more women there, when I go back there are always less, because the women saw there weren't enough men, the time they were there and don't return.
Then there are the dances where there are a few more women, then the women leave in mass about 9:30 leaving all the guys standing around wondering, "where did they all" go? No one ever seems to be on the same wavelengths at the same time.
The beginners, especially women, when asked why they don't come anymore, all say "because no one will dance with me". The fact is everyone wants to dance with somrone that has as good or higher skill level than them, including beginners. Thry have to learn to put in their time, just like all things in life, one has to earn the privilege, you can't always depend on someone dancing with you for the good of the community, even though most of us remember and do. Also good looks only go so far at dances, I could not begin to count the number of beautiful women I have seen not getting asked to dance at Tango Festivals because they were not as good dancers as others not so pretty who never sat down. The moral, ladies, stay late, then you will get asked to dance, as the dancers tire, the fancy stuff goes away and the dance reverts to simple moves everybody knows.
Maybe I'm delusional, I am still holding out for that one. | |
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/25/2009 1:12:55 AM | "'The moral, ladies, stay late, then you will get asked to dance, as the dancers tire, the fancy stuff goes away and the dance reverts to simple moves everybody knows."
Ahhhhhh... shucks. Now he tells me. I am one of those who gave up and left when not asked to dance. I don't do wallflower. I'll take lessons, but not go to dances under those condition.
For a long time I switched to Scottish Country. Nice culture ... everybody dances with everybody. Cultural requirement. You might seek to share a set with good dancers, but you partner in the set is different each dance.
I married a non-dancer first time. Event came up we had to dance at so he agreed to basic lesson set. We left tango to last. He walked and blundered through all until we got to tango. He took to it like a duck takes to water. very different dance. My fave too.
Last long term he initially agreed and did Scottish Country with me (ballroom was too tough) ... but after a couple of years he stopped doing it. I've thought about dancing again. Haven't found a good place. Tried a few, but not like the classes I used to like. | |
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/25/2009 1:36:25 AM | | I appreciate a good dancer as I am one. I dance with good and bad, if a guy doesn't know how to dance very well I try to help him along. I have danced for many years and dance all kinds of dancing from country, ballroom, swing, salsa, and marengae. I enjoy it when a guy knows how to dance. If you don't want to dance with this kind of guy just politely refuse, he will find someone else. | |
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| Silver haired dancing machines your thoughts.
Posted: 10/25/2009 2:26:46 AM | OMG, I have encountered this type sooooooooooooo many times. One literally was so strong and would not let me go, that I could not get away no matter what I did or how much I told him I was done. If he hadn't been so much older than me I would have kicked him HARD. He nearly put me in the hospital...or so I was feeling at the time. I finally just wouldn't stop grilling him about what drugs he was taking to get all that energy. He finally escorted me back to my table and as soon as I was starting to breathe normally again he snuck up behind me and grabbed me and drug me back to the dance floor, like an honest to goodness cave man. He had been dancing non-stop with someone else in my brief rest period. I had to get mean and nasty with him and he finally let me go again. I told him that I was going straight to the bouncer if he didn't. The guy was relentless and still came back over and asked me to dance 2 more times that night. At least he asked those times, but he was hard to get rid of.
What do those guys take????
He said he was a widower. I said, you danced her to her grave, didn't you?
SS
EDIT: Talk about karma...I think this guy was pay back for a time in my 20's when another girl and I took this 82 year old man out on the town. He said he wanted to do that with us. We drank champagne in the car out of the bottle and tropical drinks in the clubs and laughed so hard all night. We went to about 7 dance clubs and danced only with him all night. We deposited him home about 2:30am. He did not come out of his house for over a month, then his son moved him out of state to be near him. I always felt it had everything to do with us nearly killing him that night. He said he wanted to do it and we had no clue what it really meant to be that old and how it was going to hurt him the next day and weeks after. I have always felt bad about that since I have gotten older and really understood how we wore the poor man out, but he never let us know that night. He looked really nice in his Armani suit and even wore a hat. He had on some awesome cologne and looked better than any guy out that night, He was the ultimate gentleman and he looked at least 30 years younger than he was. We were just too young to know what a toll all that dancing and drinking was doing to his 82 year old health. | |
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