BS: Are You Scared To Dance?

Subject: RE: BS: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: MK
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 12:12 PM

I've always felt I look ridiculous on the dance floor (for up tempo dancing). It feels awkward and does not come naturally...so I avoid it like the plague.

On the other hand, slow dancing is no problemo...but afterall I'm built for comfort not for speed.     8-)

Subject: RE: BS: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: Alice
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 11:29 AM

allow me to tango in on the subject...

-alice

Subject: RE: BS: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 10:59 AM

I am scared and can't dance to save my life but put a few pints of Guinnes inside me at a barn dance or ceilidh and sometimes there is no stopping me even though I make a mess of things. Unfortunately there don't seem to have been any round here for a few years.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: Willie-O
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 10:56 AM

Weyellll...I've tended to be a pretty reluctant dancer. I think there's two approaches to it. At least. But there's people who want to go dancing, try to find music they can dance to, and if its not very danceable they dance anyway because they're going dancing.

Then there's those of us who are mostly wallflowers, but will dance if the music moves in that kind of groove. Especially with some help from alcohol. If I don't get an actual get-up-and-dance feeling from the music, I won't do it, because _that's_ when I feel self-conscious about flopping around (and of course I don't drink anymore).

I've been actively avoiding dance parties, in fact.

Willie-O
Poopy Old Fart

Subject: RE: BS: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 10:53 AM

I love to dance: Charleston, foxtrot, chacha, boogaloo, jitterbug, "reallll--slow" and even waltzes when my cooridnation is in tiptop form, which happens less often than once.

I also love to sit up and holler, gallop on horseback, run wing-and-wing before a strong breeze, hit Oreos, and play Mule Skinner Blues and sing the falsetto parts as loud as I can, and do Greek handkercheif dances on the salt beaches as the sun goes down on the shores of Lemnos...but I also dance.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: Mbo
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 10:41 AM

Scared to dance? That's me alright. I don't know how do dance AT ALL! And I think I might look pretty goofy doing so if I did. I don't know. It's not like I've ever been to a place where you dance. But if anyone wants to show me....

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 08:59 AM

LOVE IT!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 08:33 AM

Actually, I would like to open this question up a bit. Not just people who are scared, but in general, how do people feel about getting up on the dance floor?

LN

Subject: RE: BS: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: TerriM
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 08:25 AM

isn't it the perennial problem of worrying what others think of us? Personally I love to dance and don't really care much what people think, which may be a definition of a folkie :)!

Subject: Are You Scared To Dance?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 20 Feb 00 - 08:21 AM

Just wondering how other Mudcatters feel about getting up onto the dance floor. Personally, l feel very comfortable dancing but I know many people who don't.
I would like to understand better what is going through the mind of someone who is really scared to groove to the music.

Little Neo