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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    I know I am a popular social dancer and I know this is because I am a 'safe' dancer - It's nice and smooth if monotonously even paced but I do not really challenge the followers (nor hurt them). This is a good thing IMO for social dancing but not so good for competition as it means I am less likely to come to the judges attention.
    Quote Originally Posted by CJ View Post
    I have been told I, too, am a popular social dancer, yet I am not "safe" in dance terms. I dance musically with passion, soul, invented moves, changes in speed and direction, spontaneity and with an unpredictable streak wider than the Bering Strait. Yet, I haven't ripped anyone's arms off, yet... Go figure

    Perhaps, it's not what we do but how we do it that makes the difference.
    Quote Originally Posted by CheesyRobMan View Post
    What is this meant to bring to the discussion other than "By the way I'm fantastic"?
    If you read my reply, CRM, you will notice no words in my post allude to greatness or any degree of "fantasticism": they are merely the opposite qualities that RobD has as a dancer. Each of those traits can be seen as a positive or a negative, dependent on one's own view. One man's meat, etc, etc...

    That said, Stokie says he shares some of my dance traits and I have to say, "By the way, he's fantastic." (better than I)

    So, to answer your question, I was pointing out the exact opposite to Rob, in order to open up the discussion and give the contrasting view...

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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    Quote Originally Posted by marcusj View Post

    In the interests of my development I will hand you a short questionnaire next time we meet to find out my good and bad. I think I can safely put a tick in the 'smile' box though !

    Maybe see you Sunday at Berko.

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    Don't need it Marcus...always enjoy our dances , will certainly have a 'few' at Berko and looking forward to it

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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Jay View Post
    Totally agree but some dancers cannot lose the 'look how good am I attitude' on the regular dance floor so does that make them a better dancer or just a show dancer?

    IMHO I think the best dancers are the 'social' dancers that have a good ear for music, a great feel of musicality and just the pure love and enjoyment of dancing...........and a smile!
    and eye contact

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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    I read this in a fictional book.

    The author is describing Ballroom Dancing.


    "Some men dance as thought they are stepping out the Croquet lawn at the beggining of the season.

    Some men bob on the spot as though their feet are bare and the floor is red-hot.

    Others clasp you to them with a demonic grip. Their body temperature shoots to 110 degrees and they rub you over their fronts as though you are a bar of soap, and they are trying to work up a lather.

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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    Quote Originally Posted by Astro View Post
    I read this in a fictional book.

    The author is describing Ballroom Dancing.


    "Some men dance as thought they are stepping out the Croquet lawn at the beggining of the season.

    Some men bob on the spot as though their feet are bare and the floor is red-hot.

    Others clasp you to them with a demonic grip. Their body temperature shoots to 110 degrees and they rub you over their fronts as though you are a bar of soap, and they are trying to work up a lather.
    And yet other men...

    It feels like there should be a 'happy ending', with a description of the perfect dancer, or is that just me?

    Dan

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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    Quote Originally Posted by gebandemuishond View Post
    And yet other men...

    It feels like there should be a 'happy ending', with a description of the perfect dancer, or is that just me?
    Maybe all men fall into one of the three .

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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    Quote Originally Posted by gebandemuishond View Post
    And yet other men...

    It feels like there should be a 'happy ending', with a description of the perfect dancer, or is that just me?

    Dan
    Quote Originally Posted by killingtime View Post
    Maybe all men fall into one of the three .
    Oh no, she described the perfect partner.

    I will post the description later.

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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    Quote Originally Posted by Astro View Post
    Oh no, she described the perfect partner.
    Was the perfect partner a woman?

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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    Quote Originally Posted by killingtime View Post
    Was the perfect partner a woman?
    Actually it was an Italian man,(a taxi dancer), but he was gay.

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    Re: Who makes the better dancer?

    Quote Originally Posted by gebandemuishond View Post
    And yet other men...

    It feels like there should be a 'happy ending', with a description of the perfect dancer, or is that just me?

    Dan
    'Antonio was sad because he felt that his job* was a disgrace to Tersicore who, he explained was the muse of dancing,

    "It is one of the great arts, to make beautiful movements with the body {Snip}
    As for the women...Oh! it is horrible to have their heavy bodies in my arms, like steering a cow."{Snip}


    Antiono bowed before me, his hand turned gracefully on his chest. He took me in his arms, and we began to Waltz. {Snip}

    We seemed to be moving in a different element from ordinary air.

    We were gliding, floating, flying.

    I felt weightless, cradled within the framework of his arms, poised, perfectly controlled though he held me away from him, one hand just lightly touching my waist, the other supporing my small hot one at the level of my ear.

    The minute I stopped thinking about it , my feet knew at once where they ought to go.


    * paid by a posh hotel in Monte Carlo to dance with rich old widows and spinsters.

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