Silly Commuting Dancing

ChrisLS

...as a live long exponent of the dad dance myself and Mrs LS decided to start dancing lessons, Ceroc to be exact. I'm having a great time...well out of my comfort zone, but starting to get the hang of it... 8)

...so who else can dance?

...I am allowed to ask this question here, because as everyone knows, Commuting is the new Cakestop...

lost_in_thought

Dancing is one of the things I am utterly hopeless at.

I am musical, so have a good sense of rhythm, but no idea what to do with myself in accompaniment to said rhythm.

linsen

Not me
I went to a proper Viennese ball on my 21st Birthday (a couple of years ago) and was whizzed around the dance floor by some pupils at the time, but that is the limit of my experience.
It's a bit like tenpin bowling - I think I can do it in theory, but actually I am rubbish

don_don

lost_in_thought wrote:

Dancing is one of the things I am utterly hopeless at.

I am musical, so have a good sense of rhythm, but no idea what to do with myself in accompaniment to said rhythm.

Ditto

You see, we were made for eahc other

Jay dubbleU

Can't dance to save my life - the upside is that it provides a constant source of amusement at family gatherings for various nieces and nephews and embarrasses the hell out of my daughter :twisted:

AyrshireBacon

ChrisLS wrote:

...as a live long exponent of the dad dance myself and Mrs LS decided to start dancing lessons, Ceroc to be exact. I'm having a great time...well out of my comfort zone, but starting to get the hang of it... 8)

...so who else can dance?

...I am allowed to ask this question here, because as everyone knows, Commuting is the new Cakestop...

My partner & I met at a CEROC class back in 1993. Then we were both going 4 times a week. Great fun.

Don't go as much now (babysitting issues). But we can still have a little boogie anytime there is suitable music playing.

How long have you been going? Are you on to the intermediate classes yet? Oh, and whereabouts do you go?

woodyonthebeach

Listen to some heavy no need to dance just mosh and head bang all you need is a little sense of rhythm.

Or if your into some rave just remember the following moves

Big fish
Small fish
Cardboard Box

ChrisLS

...no still a beginner, but in four weeks I can dance more than I have ever done in my whole life...

...Bishop's Stortford...but there are classes and dances all over the area...

DonDaddyD

Apparantly according to genetics I have an entire chromosone dedicated to this type of thing. Much like my six pack chromosone and fast twitch muscle chromosone (for sprinting and other sports). Mine however, must be defective or simply skipped a generation - missing me out - and will hopefully bless my children...

I do have some rhythm in the grandscheme of things just not as much as others of my ilk...

Greg T

woodyonthebeach wrote:

Big fish
Small fish
Cardboard Box

Stack the shelves

blackworx

I'm completely rubbish but what I lack in ability I make up for with enthusiasm. It's great going to a gig/club where there's room to dance instead of the usual jam packed shoulder-to-shoulder shuffling about clutching drinks nonsense. I've also been known to indulge in many variations on the goth two-step - zero skill required!

Reach for the lasers.

greg66_tri_v2.0

DonDaddyD wrote:

Apparantly according to genetics I have an entire chromosone dedicated to this type of thing. Much like my six pack chromosone and fast twitch muscle chromosone (for sprinting and other sports). Mine however, must be defective or simply skipped a generation - missing me out - and will hopefully bless my children...

I do have some rhythm in the grandscheme of things just not as much as others of my ilk...

AyrshireBacon

ChrisLS wrote:

...no still a beginner, but in four weeks I can dance more than I have ever done in my whole life...

Stick with it if you are enjoying it.

Once you have done a couple more lessons you should be ok for intermediates. If you and Mrs LS are getting some practice in at home then you could move up a bit sooner.

The other option is to dance an intermediate class, but stay at one side and don't swap partners. I know this isn't the way it normally works, and it may be the blind leading the blind, but you can only have fun and won't get in anyone's way. If it all goes wrong, you can sit down again without screwing up the numbers.

There is a CerocScotland forum - very popular and used by all the areas.

A Ceroc Shop (if you have those in your franchise) is sometimes a good idea. Brings you on a lot quicker than a few lessons with smaller classes and longer dance time.

londonlivvy

I'm partial to a dance or six - scottish ceilidh's are great fun and don't require much in the way of freestyle style. as it were...

hisoka

Dancing, that is along the lines of my singing.
Has anyone else been banned on Karoke? Or is it just me? hehe
Well maybe not that bad, but I am awful at both. I love to sing and appreaciate good music, it is just others who appreciate good music tend to not want me to sing.

AyrshireBacon

londonlivvy wrote:

I'm partial to a dance or six - scottish ceilidh's are great fun and don't require much in the way of freestyle style. as it were...

Had many a good night at a ceilidh. If you go to a @proper@ ceilidh then they dont announce the steps/moves that you are meant to be doing. They just announce the dance (Dashing White Sergeant is my fave) and you either...
* know how to do it
* make a complete a**e of yourself
* both of the above

DavidTQ

Music was always such a huge part of my life, I heard music and it became one with my soul. I felt the lyrics and music more than listened to it. My dancing skills are legendary second only to my singing talents. Its one of natures cruel ironies that I happen to be tone deaf, or rather tone death AND rythmically challenged. I remember a person who claimed everyone can sing they just need to be taught, I took up the challenge they later told me to just mime and stand next to someone who can sing Still What I lacked in talent I made up for with enthusiasm and volume, much to other peoples amusement at times

When it comes to dancing Im THAT guy that was still on Y when the rest have moved on to C in the YMCA. Whigfield? forget saturday night I was still on Thursday morning. I think I went through a metamorphosis when I left school. I made my final break from fashion and trendyness - ours was never a happy relationship it was better for both of us to go our seperate ways. In doing so I found my "mojo" and suddenly stopped being rejected by women. Discovering personal hygene and going through a growth spurt probably also helped, not that Im tall now, but at least girls in short skirts dont get uncomfortable when I stand next to them anymore, and people dont ask me where Bashful, Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy are...

I actually think once I got over the "making a spectacle of myself" by not trying to be at one with the crowd that I became more comfortable. Once I ditched trying to pretend to be normal I never looked back (which is unfortunate for anyone who got too close...) Two left feet? Ive got four of the bu99ers, now give me some space on the floor

Ive now got 4 kids, opportunities to dance are few and far between, I dont think music resonates the same way for me anymore Im no longer chasing women or living at the limits or rebelling against the world. Where's the music for the happily married dad? Even if I did still feel like I used to I wouldnt want to pass on my dissabilities to my children. I do however have a feeling that my oldest son might just be following in my (largelly dissarrayed) footsteps.

Formal \ slow dancing? I seem to vaguelly remember taking dancing lessons both formal and "popular" at various times in my youth I think at about the age of 10 I went twice to a dance class ran by an uncles girlfriend, and in my early teens I learn basic formal dancing lessons. I couldnt tell a waltz from a tango, however I did master the art of not trampling on a partners toes (too often)

snooks

I dance like a three legged donkey at it's works Christmas Party......

Not a pretty sight, then again neither am I

Rich158

DavidTQ wrote:

Music was always such a huge part of my life, I heard music and it became one with my soul. I felt the lyrics and music more than listened to it. My dancing skills are legendary second only to my singing talents. Its one of natures cruel ironies that I happen to be tone deaf, or rather tone death AND rythmically challenged. I remember a person who claimed everyone can sing they just need to be taught, I took up the challenge they later told me to just mime and stand next to someone who can sing Still What I lacked in talent I made up for with enthusiasm and volume, much to other peoples amusement at times

When it comes to dancing Im THAT guy that was still on Y when the rest have moved on to C in the YMCA. Whigfield? forget saturday night I was still on Thursday morning. I think I went through a metamorphosis when I left school. I made my final break from fashion and trendyness - ours was never a happy relationship it was better for both of us to go our seperate ways. In doing so I found my "mojo" and suddenly stopped being rejected by women. Discovering personal hygene and going through a growth spurt probably also helped, not that Im tall now, but at least girls in short skirts dont get uncomfortable when I stand next to them anymore, and people dont ask me where Bashful, Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy are...

I actually think once I got over the "making a spectacle of myself" by not trying to be at one with the crowd that I became more comfortable. Once I ditched trying to pretend to be normal I never looked back (which is unfortunate for anyone who got too close...) Two left feet? Ive got four of the bu99ers, now give me some space on the floor

Ive now got 4 kids, opportunities to dance are few and far between, I dont think music resonates the same way for me anymore Im no longer chasing women or living at the limits or rebelling against the world. Where's the music for the happily married dad? Even if I did still feel like I used to I wouldnt want to pass on my dissabilities to my children. I do however have a feeling that my oldest son might just be following in my (largelly dissarrayed) footsteps.

Formal \ slow dancing? I seem to vaguelly remember taking dancing lessons both formal and "popular" at various times in my youth I think at about the age of 10 I went twice to a dance class ran by an uncles girlfriend, and in my early teens I learn basic formal dancing lessons. I couldnt tell a waltz from a tango, however I did master the art of not trampling on a partners toes (too often)

Are we related? You need to get that love of music back, I've got two teenage boys and embarassing them is one of lifes great pleasures. Singing and dancing at family parties gives them a huge opportunity to poke fun at the old man, and I'm just glad I can provide that service for them . I've no concern over the scorn or derision they poor on me, a well placed 'dude' or 'bud' when I'm talking to them in front of their mates more than makes up for it as they visibly cringe at my attempts to look cool.

My mantra is, and always will be - I aim to live long enough to be an embaressment to my kids - I ilke to think it's the one area in which I excell

ChrisLS

...oh, I relish every second of the embarassment I can inflict on my two teenagers...one of lifes major pleasures...looking back I think I learnt it from my Dad, who was a master of embarassment...I cringe even now...

bikesdontfloat

My wife informs me that I dance like "a sack-load of frogs".

That is a good thing isn't it?

Rich158

I make a sack load of frogs look co-ordinated. My wife would rather I stay at the bar and get razzled, she says watching me slide down the bar is less embarassing than my attempts to dance :shock:

ChrisLS

...I am practicing really hard at my dancing now, as my plan is to twirl the boss' wife round the dance floor-"just follow me, I'll lead you through it"-at the Christmas do next Friday while I tell her what I think about the way her husband runs the company...

...does that sound like a plan?