BS: Who wants to tango

Subject: BS: Who Wants to Tango
From: GUEST,VaTam waiting for the weekend to start
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 11:02 AM

As the Tangle thread has become a seething testosterone fuelled pain in my ass, I thought I would start and alternate thread for the ladies.

Why doen't we keep our faces averted, eyes smouldering, bodies at arms length from the collection of hillbillies, chimps, Canadians and librarians in the other thread, hmmm?

So ladies, let's talk about dance.

What do you find most fun, beautiful, inspiring to spectate?

What would you like to be really good at?

Most and least liked fims about dance.

I'll start.

I don't much enjoy ballroom or dancing on ice. Though I did like the films Dirty Dancing and Strictly Ballroom.

I hated to do tap, ballet and point but love to watch in loads of films. Adored Turning Point and Billy Elliot.

Modern Dance - Save the Last Dance

Folk Dance - Highland dances and the Flamenco do it for me.

What I most want to dance now but unfortunately cannot is Morris. I enjoyed the film Morris: A Life With Bells On, but didn't think it really worthy of massive distribution. Looking forward to seeing the documentary about Morris dance.

Ok, your turn. I've toed the line. Now step up.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 11:07 AM

As a person who played for contra dances for six years and only in recent years became award of the existence of Morris dancing, I would say that the Hambo reminds me of Morris.

I've never been much of a dancer but in my early 20s I did a lot of Bop and Twist.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Morticia
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 01:31 PM

The tango is fun but you have to keep those knees flexed and those turns sharp. I like the spin turn in the waltz and the cha cha cha as you ( I) am never sure if I'm gonna puke or not. I like the jive but syncopated jive makes me need to sit down for a while and wheeze, I can't seem to master the foxtrot but I keep trying.
I think rumba is my favourite on the whole, it is hard to feel graceless doing the rumba.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: olddude
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 02:17 PM

I will dance with you my friend ... as long as you sing for me ... such a beautiful voice

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 02:47 PM

VaTam, like you I absolutely adore Morris, in fact I'm seriously addicted! I'd like to be able to do Molly dancing, I've been watching some on Youtube, (Mass Molly in Ely, Birds-a-building, to the tune of Rolling Home). I've watched it so often I think I could join in, and their costumes are great, all colours from charity shops, black faces, funny hats. I'd also love to be able to do Irish dancing (as in Riverdance) I sometimes have dreams that I'm doing these dances, and wake up so disappointed that it wasn't real! What a great idea of yours, this thread for LADIES!

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Becca72
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 02:53 PM

I hate to dance! Doesn't matter what or how... I just hope that doesn't mean I have to go back over to the "boys" thread! Please may I stay here with the other gals?

PS I did LOVE Dirty Dancing, but that was mostly because Patrick Swasey is so easy on the eyes. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 01 Apr 11 - 05:08 PM

Love International Folk Dancing. Also swing, waltz and anything a good partner can lead me through. But the variety of Int., the constant learning of new dances and the sense of connectedness to those who have done those dances for generations make it special for me - good for body, mind and spirit.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: J-boy
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 01:02 AM

"Strictly Ballroom" is worth a look for them that hasn't seen it. Funny in a "Best of Show" kind of way.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 08:53 AM

I take it that a discussion of lap dancing wouldn't be welcome on this thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 11:17 AM

999 - CELLAR!

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 02:45 PM

What exactly do lapdancers DO? And Pole Dancers? You see them on TV but they just gyrate in front of a man and he puts money in their garter, is that it? I wonder if I could earn a bob or two, it doesn't look too difficult!

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 02:48 PM

I' st ck in he cel    but if som ne le s me ou I'll tr to an er tha que ion.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 02:55 PM

A fairly new nightclub has opened in Norwich. I walked past the other day and it has sinister blackened windows and is called American Table Dancing Club, MEMBERS ONLY. What is American table dancing please? Do you need to have an American table?

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 03:05 PM

I give up (unlocks the cell and lets 999 out). Go on then answer her questions. All of them. I defy you not to blush though.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: ranger1
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 03:10 PM

I love the movie Strictly Ballroom. I made J-boy watch it, and he ended up liking it, too. I also like the movie Dirty Dancing for the exact reason Becca stated.

I am terrible at dancing (read: can't dance to save my life), but I would love to be able to contra dance and two-step.

My grandparents met at a square dance. One of my favorite songs, Vasiliky, is by George Papavgeris, it's about how his grandparents met at a dance.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 03:14 PM

It's not the step-dancing-with-hands thing, is it? I'd love to learn that! Imagine a flash mob showing up in a food court and dancing something in unison!

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 04:02 PM

I have NO idea what lap dancing is. I just wanted to be let out of the cellar.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 04:22 PM

The music of the Tango is passionate and widely varied. Some tango music is a single instrument and some is a large orchestral group.

On the album dueling Celljos
a cello and banjo perform a wonderful tango "Passion of the Heist"

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 05:40 PM

VT has started a serious thread and cads have hijacked it. SHAME on you!

"Passion of the Heist"--is there a petard in there, Don? Inquiring minds and all that.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: gnu
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 07:03 PM

Jeri... hand dancing... that vid is hilarious! Great stuff!

999... "I have NO idea what lap dancing is." Yeah, surrrre, you never took a stroll up Rue Sainte-Catherine. I believe ya. Super size that for ya?

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 07:46 PM

No. Serious gnu, I have been in one strip bar in my life, and that was back in the early '70s. I don't go to them because I think they demean women.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 07:51 PM

Petard is a new word to me. I know Cunard and Picard but not petard.
But Yes it is probably a petard because of today's date.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Apr 11 - 08:49 PM

Frome the www. I first met the word in "Hamlet".

Meaning

Injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others.

Origin

The phrase 'hoist with one's own petar[d]' is often cited as 'hoist by one's own petar[d]'. The two forms mean the same, although the former is strictly a more accurate version of the original source. A petard is, or rather was, as they have long since fallen out of use, a small engine of war used to blow breaches in gates or walls. They were originally metallic and bell-shaped but later cubical wooden boxes. Whatever the shape, the significant feature was that they were full of gunpowder - basically what we would now call a bomb.

The device was used by the military forces of all the major European fighting nations by the 16th century. In French and English - petar or petard, and in Spanish and Italian - petardo.

The dictionary maker John Florio defined them like this in 1598:

"Petardo - a squib or petard of gun powder vsed to burst vp gates or doores with."

The French have the word 'péter' - to fart, which it's hard to imagine is unrelated.

Petar was part of the everyday language around that time, as in this rather colourful line from Zackary Coke in his work Logick, 1654:

"The prayers of the Saints ascending with you, will Petarr your entrances through heavens Portcullis".

Once the word is known, 'hoist by your own petard' is easy to fathom. It's nice also to have a definitive source - no less than Shakespeare, who gives the line to Hamlet, 1602:

"For tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his owne petar".

Note: engineers were originally constructors of military engines.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 06:44 AM

Following along in the hijack, petard, petar, etc. isn't saltpetre/saltpeter used to make gunpowder?

Now back to the spice of dance... Love the hand dance too, Jeri.

Don't know if this can be classified as dance or what but it is certainly kewl.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 09:00 AM

Isn't lap dancing done by those who live in Lapland?

Have to do something to keep warm in all that snow and cold......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 10:26 AM

JennieG I think you must be right, and that would also cover Pole Dancers. (Two kinds, North and South) But American Table? How does one dance on an American table? Serious Health and Safety risk of falling off. There is also Fan Dancing, and Dance of the Seven Veils. (Why seven?)

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 12:12 PM

Bruce, you got the cellar, that is bad enough but one time Jacqui threw me and Spaw in the dog house with Seamus. Ya haven't got there yet my brother LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 11 - 02:02 PM

999... I dislike strip clubs as well. I would like to see them outlawed but that ain't gonna happen. It's that freedom of stupidity law we have.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 07:39 AM

All kinds of dance, Irish, Flamenco, Salsa, Jazz Dance, Street Dance, Barn Dances and I've even done a little Line Dancing. It's hard for me to choose any particular kind. When I was little I would waltz, quick step and foxtrot with my dad so I have an affection for that kind of dance too. I went to ballet and tap classes when I was young so I have always admired dancers like Vera Ellen and Leslie Caron Ginger Rogers & Gene Kelly.

The dance sequences that stick out in my mind most is in West Side Story 'I like to be in America' the acrobatic dance sequences in Seven Brides for Seven brothers and recently River Dance.

The only thing I could not master was rock and roll, it wasn't quite my era so never got around to even try.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Zen
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 08:15 AM

I'm enjoying learning Argentine Tango.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Apr 11 - 07:27 PM

My ALL time favourite Tango HAS to be Mister Lehrer's Masochism Tango

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 05:47 AM

"I'm enjoying learning Argentine Tango"

What is interesting about the Argentine way of doing Tango is that it doesn't seem to be in time with the music. We are staying 5 minutes walk from Calle Florida in BA next week, where slappers both young and old perform amazing Tango.

Don't forget that Tango is by no means the only dance to come from Argentina - they have the Chacarera and the Chamame in Folklore circles which are widely danced in the north. If in BA on a Sunday, a must is La Feria de Mataderos where the locals dance Folklore in the street to live music, there is a superb art and craft market and some of the best beef in Argentina!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 07:18 AM

It is such a shame that pole dancing gets such a bad press as being associated with sleazy clubs, a really good dancer can be very acrobatic not much different to a scantily clad trapeze artiste. Perhaps they should encourage more males to do it too.

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 07:27 AM

There you are, I KNEW I could do it, I just need to get a bit fitter and I could Pole Dance for a bit extra cash. Thank you Patsy!

Er... if men did it, may it not cause a few problems, sliding up and down a pole? They'd have to wear those padded things that male ballet dancers appear to have under their tights.

And can no-one tell me what American Table Dancing involves?

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Apr 11 - 07:55 AM

"And can no-one tell me what American Table Dancing involves?"

No but you can bet your life that you will be shown to your table by a "server" - in the UK we have waiters and waitresses!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 07:13 AM

Eliza, I think it would need a bit more than to be fitter hanging upside down like that, it could be potentially dangerous! I did see a girl perform a pole dance routine once I think it might have been on one of the early Britain's got Talent shows and she just couldn't get up the pole high enough, tried to hang upside down and landed with an ungainly crunch right on the back of her neck.

Men pole dancers, yes I see what you mean having to be well protected and there would have to be a few decency guideline rules in place too!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who wants to tango
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 06 Apr 11 - 08:10 AM

Sadly I fear you're right Patsy. I'm very well-padded, but NOT fit at all! I live in a bungalow now as I can't manage stairs too well. Perhaps Geriatric Pole Dancing would be a novelty, but, as you say, dangerous. Now, Geriatric American Table Dancing...