The Non-Poll Poll: Dancing

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:21 pm

I could spend a whole lot of time coming up with 19 choices of dancing and 1 other. You folks would just pick other every time. So...if you had to dance, which dance would you dance?

If I have on good shoes, I'd like a waltz. If not, plain old hippie dancing is fine with me.

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:35 am

I would dance the honeybee waggle dance, because it doesn't require any shoes. I get down on my hands and knees and crawl around in figure-eights on the floor while wiggling my butt. After a while, the people watching me run off to the snack tables and bring back cheese and crackers and tiny hot dogs. Everyone seems to enjoy it.

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:53 am

I shudder to think what MTGuru's butt would look like after all those snacks, especially when waggling.

Hotblack · Post by **Hotblack** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:15 am

I think I'm a confirmed 'dad dancer'.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:16 am

I'm an expert practitioner of the Tight Assed, Stiff Shouldered White Guy Dance.

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:43 am

We had to take ball room dancing in school and Irish dance at church. Ya know, taps can break your butt. The wife loves ball room dancing but I'm going to be out of commission for about six to eight weeks, miss the big Valentine's Day Dance I reckon, darn!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:33 am

Virginia Reel. That's about it. Other than spontaneous riffs while walking the dog and being a dancing animal. Ok, if you MADE me dance in the dance party sense of dancing, I'd probably have to select the form of either one Peanuts character or one Scooby Doo character (url=I can't find that) and stick with that. I don't got moves.

Dwest's response (above, re: Ballroom) reminded me that I might enjoy the forms of dancing featured in the films Pride and Prejudice(2005) or Sound of Music. Just don't make me be spontaneous, because like I said...

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:06 am

If I went out to learn one it would either be tango* to spend time with my wife or capoeira for the exercise.

*It seems best to have a partner.

chas · Post by **chas** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:39 am

brewerpaul wrote:I'm an expert practitioner of the Tight Assed, Stiff Shouldered White Guy Dance.

Pretty much describes me, which is why I respond, None.

Hotblack · Post by **Hotblack** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:58 am

brewerpaul wrote:I'm an expert practitioner of the Tight Assed, Stiff Shouldered White Guy Dance.

AKA 'Dad Dancing' over here

dwest · Post by **dwest** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:24 am

Being a athletic tall guy I of course have a substantial amount of natural grace on the dance floor. Imagine if you would a slight taller Conan O'Brien with a petite 5 foot tall woman.
Like me solo, only better

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:50 am

Lately I like Dubstep dancing. It would be most cool to (be able to) do that.

Seonachan · Post by **Seonachan** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:31 pm

I could tell by the way she high-stepped
That she'd learned to dance uptown
Where I come from we just kind of like to get drunk
And slam bodies all around

- Bill Morrissey, "Grizzly Bear"

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:55 pm

dwest wrote:Being a athletic tall guy I of course have a substantial amount of natural grace on the dance floor. Imagine if you would a slight taller Conan O'Brien with a petite 5 foot tall woman.
Like me solo, only better

I would never dance like Conan there but my wife and I have the same problem. I'm a bit over 6 foot, she's a bit under 5 foot. We could never waltz together but we could hippie dance together. I don't know what Conan is doing, maybe some variation of MTGuru's dance.

The Ballroom Dancing Competitions are one of the few sports that I watch on TV. Now those are some outfits.

MikeS · Post by **MikeS** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:42 pm

Seonachan wrote:I could tell by the way she high-stepped
That she'd learned to dance uptown
Where I come from we just kind of like to get drunk
And slam bodies all around

- Bill Morrissey, "Grizzly Bear"

I hadn't heard the Bill Morrissey song, but I checked it out. Thanks for that. It made me think of the Youngblood's song from the late '60's of the same name. In this video,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRvXhyFmZY

Jesse Colin Young explains that the dance comes from the 1890's. He says it's a dance where, "People hug each other and jump around." I think I can handle that.

Here is an article that describes the dance as:

Deliberately rough and clumsy, the dance imitated the motions of a trained bear. Imagine taking a very heavy step to the side, like a grizzly might, while executing a decided bending of the upper part of the body from one side to the other, hilariously ungraceful and undignified.

Now I'm thinking this really might be the dance for me.

http://maewest.blogspot.com/2010/05/mae ... -bear.html

In my dreams (and only there) I will continue to dance the tango with Sally Potter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120275/

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