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Thread #125318 Message #2774399
Posted By: VirginiaTam
26-Nov-09 - 04:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Dance for the Disabled
Subject: BS: Dance for the Disabled
Even though I was terrible at dance after 7 years of enforced ballet, tap and point (I grew up next door to a dollar a lesson dance studio) I love dance. Love to watch most forms of movement to music.
I start tapping my feet, swinging my hips, drumming fingers as soon as I see someone else dancing. It is motion contagion.
My Mom ballroom danced into her mid 70's. She was still doin jump jive in her 60's. She still has the poodle skirt and black and white saddle oxfords.
Well as I said never was very good, but now that age and rheumatoid arthritis are fusing my ankles, knees and hips into solid unbending lumps, I really am grieving the loss. I discovered Morris Dance too late to participate and that really blows.
Now wondering what movement to music is out there for the physically (and somewhat rhythmically) impaired.