I've seen groups divided by "beginning" and "continuing".
It depends on where you are in America Chris. Where I live most of the jobs are high tech and heavily weighted towards men, so we often have too few...
One of the dances I do frequently (Transylvanian Hungarian) involves the man and woman connected by a scarf and the woman turns under his arm. This...
What about the misery of other line dancers? There's noting worse than being in a line dance with a hand, belt, or shoulder hold next to someone...
Love your attitude Chris! I personally dislike choreographed dances but find them very useful as "bait". People unfamiliar with leading and following...
Great points dncergrl. I'm currently in Budapest dancing my brains out (folk dancing). There are lots of non-verbal ways to ask someone to dance,...
Black shirts don't show sweat!
I just try not to take this stuff too seriously. Recently a partner slipped on a turn a gave me a full frontal body slam. I just smiled and said...
I don't do competitions so I don't care what judges think. What I do know is that if my partner does not appear to be enjoying herself, typically by...
Because jogging is boring ;)
For me, comming from a folkdance background, it's the music. I see a lot of choreographed dances where someone has pasted together a bunch of...
Not defensive, disappointed. This is the General Dance Discussion thread, which should cover anything related to dance including freestyle disco if...
I'm a folkdancer, read this board frequently, and have posted from time to time over the last couple of years. I'm sorry to hear that this is...
I don't see any problem with this as long as they call it what it is. Problems begin when one person sees a "fusion" variation, assumes it's just a...
What if you're looking for a name tag? Actually, I was at an event where everyone had name tags and I got a partner who was not wearing hers. As I...
I totally disagree with the idea that really learning to lead and follow is harder in a group class. To me the opposite is true -- learning to lead...
As I read these posts it seems that a lot of people are trying to steer BL into their favorite forms of dancing. In particular there have been...
I'll try to take the other side without sounding too much like an ogre. Everybody loves being inclusive, but if you make it too easy then people with...
My junior high was 90% Jewish so they managed to slip in some Israeli folkdances. On a related note, I'm currently in Budapest (I teach Hungarian...
To be able to do high-energy gypsy dances without approaching cardiac arrest.
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