DF is free to have whatever policies it chooses. Anyone using DF is free to leave when those policies become unacceptable to them, as they...
I hang out on BluesPulse mostly (contemporary Blues dancing & music). Sometimes on StrictlyWestie (WCS), and I lurk on Yehoodi (Lindy Hop and...
I will no longer be participating in DF, due to policy differences with the admins (I would say what they are, except that it's not allowed...). See...
No. America was traditionally isolationist and tried to avoid foreign entanglements throughout most of its history, aside from our own backyard...
Contra and square dance both include partnered dances as well as set dances, including those scandalous waltzes - and you spend time holding...
The original assertion was a blanket condemnation of "the church" due to its "Western, puritanical, victorian" views. Well, guess what. There is...
Do you know what you want to get out of dancing? If it's mostly about sharing an entertainment activity with your spouse, then it's more important to...
I will say, though, that one of the most unusual social dance experiences I've ever had was the year I went to BYU dance camp when an LDS singles...
I don't see how providing a specific example of something serves to overcome objections about it being a sweeping generalization :-) It...
As in, the stuff that shipping boxes are made out of.
I think that at San Francisco's weekly outdoor Lindy in the Park event, people bring cardboard sheets and duct tape them to the cement/concrete....
My slippers can eat your slippers! [img]
Shrug. Shoulder slide, skin the cat, arm slide... students ask the instructors, the instructors make up some name on the spot. Maybe Arthur...
Polls can't do arithmetic properly So over in this thread, there's a poll whose responses currently read like: View Poll Results: What makes you...
I couldn't even hit doubles reliably until last year, and I'm slightly over 40 (and not female, and dancing other dances mostly). Losing all...
It is very easy to make assumptions about what your partner is thinking or feeling while dancing, based on how they dance. It is very hard to make...
Bowling shoes cost about $30 at K-Mart and come with a chrome leather pad on the sole, just like "real" dance shoes. The soles are rather thick and...
No. But I bet you could start a long and crackling thread over on Yehoodi by asking there. Especially if you identify yourself as a ballroom...
He did a lot of great Jitterbug music, including these pieces. I imagine they could work for Jive too, though the tempo is a hair slow AIUI (40...
And the country world has the advantage of new waltz music, some of which is quite pretty.
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