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I have developed an interest in dancing. No particular kind, though.

That is so cool. I would love to be able to dance like that.

Well, I guess I'm double posting, sorry. I love to dance and go to this one dance club about every 2 months. Would go more but I'm not a very going out kind of person. I didn't think I would ever be able to bring myself to going to such a place but always wanted to because I like dancing, just not in front of anyone. So, some former co-workers of mine took me to this dance club about 3 years ago for my birthday. I wouldn't have dared went by myself and at first it was very overwhelming and I didn't think I could handle it.

Watching the people dance was comical and I wondered how anyone could get out there and "act" like that, it reminded me of a Sim game when they're dancing. But once I got a few beers in me and loosened up the girls co-erced me into going out on the dance floor. At first I thought I was going to die and all I could see was these faces of men staring at me looking at me like "Well come on, show us what you got". I didn't know what else to do so I started moving and mimicking others dancing, actually I was in my own mind mocking them and making fun of them. After a while though I got into it a little more and for once in my life I felt like I was in sync with everyone else. It kind of felt like I was in another world. Not this world, or my own world, just another world, and in another body. It felt really good being me for a change. That was before my AS DX too so I didn't know what it all meant.

My co-workers didn't want to go back because they were younger and it was an older persons dance club but I ended up meeting someone else who went there. So I meet with her when I go, she goes all the time and she's really cool so I got lucky meeting someone I can go with and trust.

I simply go to escape and dance. I do wish I knew more actual dance moves and I have learned some but usually I just end up doing "the seizure". I don't do it to meet anyone and if anyone tries to dance with me I kind of move away. One guy once kind of forced me to dance with him and I thought I was going to die. AWKWARD! He got all up on me and stared at my face. I turned away with a frozen smile on my face and started dancing like some baby. My AS kicked in big time! I didn't know what to do, say or how to act. After about 2 minutes I said in a very monotone voice "I'm shy. I got to go". So I left. I didn't go back for about 5 months but now though I think most people there know my face well enough to know I'm just there to dance. Not to show off, showcase myself, pick up, be picked up or any of that, I'm just there to dance, by myself, and to escape.

Anyway, this was a long story, longer than I meant for it to be but I got into it. Dancing is kind of an obsessive interest of mine and if I watch it, I get almost in a trance. For anyone who reads all of this, congratulations, you made it to the end.

Do we get a special prize for reaching the end of the post droopy?

And good to see you stuck with it.

Why Izaak, you get to dance with me of course, no awkwardness, no shyness, just dancing. And you can teach me that Lindy Hop dancing you do while we're at it and I promise, I won't be droopy about it either, lol. Thanks for the reply.

It's a Shame some of you didn't live in the Age of Jazz!!

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I want to learn how to dance.

Why? I mean, seriously... what's so fun about moving your limbs in key with a song? Especially when the chances of messing up and being humiliated are so high. I do not understand why anyone finds this "fun."

How can it not be fun?

What if no one is around to see you would you dance then?

I guess for me, it all comes from being a music lover of sorts.

Last edited by MissConstrue on 16 May 2008, 1:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Right on.

I just don't find much entertainment value in moving my limbs in completely nonsensical ways. But maybe I would if I was an NT... they're able to find entertainment in all kinds of mindless stuff.


No.


I like music too... even some of the kinds of music which other people regard as "danceable"... but that does not mean that I want to dance to it.

I've found dancing fun only once in my life, over ten years ago. I've never danced when no one is watching because I've never wanted to. It just doesn't do anything for me, even when I'm in my I-couldn't-care-less-what-anybody-else-thinks mode. The first time I went clubbing I was 24 - I danced when I got too bored of sitting, and sat when I got too bored of dancing. I've never had anyone make fun of me for how I danced or anything like that. Freestyle dancing is OK - not much fun but not actually bad; the other type I hate (I've taken a few lessons in it), because it requires me to concentrate a lot on the actual steps, and concentrating on something you don't actually enjoy and with no practical purpose isn't my idea of fun. I never persisted with dancing lessons because they bored me to tears, and I wasn't actually learning; I can try and follow the beat or I can concentrate on the steps, but not both (and anyway it's hard to concentrate on something you're not really interested in).
I don't have anything against dancing, it just doesn't do anything for me. It doesn't annoy me that other people enjoy it, what does annoy me is that it's like a sin if you don't enjoy it, like it's some horrible crime against... what? It's probably a bit similar to people that don't like drinking (I do drink, but if others don't enjoy it, it doesn't bother me, each to his own), that they get pressured a lot to drink.
I have known women that don't like dancing and many men don't. My dad has always disliked dancing.
I'm not a music lover - I have recently taken to listening to music more, but for the first 3 years I lived away from my parent's house I didn't have get any audio equipment at all. I'm just not crazy about music, and I think you're right that the two are linked. Plus, the music I like isn't really the type you can dance to. Music can move me, but I don't find it addictive.

Oh c'mon, let's not spoil it for those that like it. I actually want to learn myself.

I must be of the minority who luvs to dance.

I don't mean the trendy hiphop waltz way either.

^ Exactly, the kind of dancing I want to learn is classical dancing like the Tango, not the crap people today call dancing.

I guess what I want to learn would be called Ballroom dancing.

*asks social_fantom to dance*

I can do some ballroom, waltz, swing and some merengue (sp?), plus free form. I've also taken official lessons in ballet, tap, and Irish step.

I love dancing!

I can also do the "free-form" stuff... ummm... yeah...