Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!gregbo From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Dancing Message-ID: <1228@houxm.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-May-85 11:40:31 EDT Article-I.D.: houxm.1228 Posted: Sun May 5 11:40:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 6-May-85 02:02:15 EDT References: <141@unc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 43 > From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) > Off and on for several years I took ballroom dancing lessons, > anticipating that "real dancing" would come back into fashion. > So far I've been wrong. > I've never been able to get interested in rock-style dancing. > I find it boring, lonely and undignified. No rules -- no point to it. > And the music is SO ugly. It's like dancing to the beat of a jackhammer, > except for a few slow songs. But try to find a woman to dance to one of those! > They won't unless they're either drunk or in love (mild exageration). This is kind of a sad comment on the music of today, as far as dancing goes, that it has become more of a solitary activity instead of an activity men and women can share. However, outside of the dance/disco/rock scene, couple dancing still lives. From what I can see, folk dancing is mostly couple dancing. In fact, I've been told it's a great place to meet MOTAS. I used to watch the people folk dancing when I was in college, and it seemed like everyone was having a really good time, everyone could get a partner, no one was up tight about being held by someone else (although I could have been mistaken and the men and women could have been married or SO's). Nevertheless, folk dancing seems to be a better atmosphere for meeting MOTAS than dance/disco/rock dancing. I was at a formal affair a little over a week ago, and I actually slow danced with a friend of mine. Even though the music was r&b, I guess because everyone was all dressed up and fancy, people wanted to be more festive. I've never tried ballroom dancing, in fact the only time I ever had to waltz was at a prom I once went to, but I imagine people are more willing to partner dance there. Now I'm starting to understand why my parents used to make fun of me when I told them how sometimes when I dance I don't talk to the person I dance with (you can't talk from three feet away, they say!). They tell me how much I'm missing out on. They're right ... -- She's on fire, 'cause dancin' takes her higher than anything else she knows! Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo gregbo%houxm.uucp@harvard.arpa