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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by kps View Post
    Apparently I dance from my finger.

    the fame of the finger is spreading ....

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by kps View Post
    Apparently I dance from my finger.
    Which one?

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat View Post
    Which one?
    I think the finger joke has run its course now, and I really didn't want to invade a decent thread with it.... but its the index finger.

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Heart - but - it varies.

    If the music is not inspiring me its very hard for me to 'feel' the dance so the 'heart' is not as engaged.

    If dancing with a beginner its normally the head as I'm thinking about how to make the dance a good experience for them - following them even if not quite in time to the music, managing my and their floorcraft if crowded, etc.

    If dancing with someone doing lots of complicated twisty moves then definitely head as I spend all my time trying to stay balanced, uninjured and possibly trying to calculate how much longer the song will last...

    Most notably at the moment - if limited physically - a lot of thinking to make sure I protect myself from injury. I just can't 'let go' at the moment.

    BUT - if a partner I know (or even one I don't but can quickly have that connection with) and music I love then its heart - and those are the best dances!

    (NB - the dance I find it easiest to dance from the heart is probably AT.)
    Last edited by Lynn; 19th-March-2009 at 08:39 PM.

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Dance for me is all about feeling, feeling the music, feeling the mood, so for me definitely from the heart (although I do think as well, sometimes too much)

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Used to think way too much when dancing.. recently I have started to dance and feel the music .. apparently my dancing has come on leaps and bounds since then so I go for the heart every time!


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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    I dance from my heart.

    With the exceptions of when I'm dancing with someone with poor floorcraft/technique, and I have to use my head in order to protect myself. Results in a much less satisfying dance for us both.

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    If I think too much, I stand still.

    If I try and soar with the music I fall over.

    I try to stay somewhere between the two: soaring with the music, but with enough thought not to hit the ground with anything but my feet.

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    I thought I would do a wee (too much listening to Princess Fi ) poll
    Now if only we could get it to sound less "Mancurian"

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by Maxine View Post
    (although I do think as well, sometimes too much)
    and you still dance with me????

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by martingold View Post
    and you still dance with me????
    Yeah, but you don't know what I'm thinking

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Depends on the context of when I'm dancing...social dancing is from the heart, but competition dancing is definitely from the head. At least, it is for me.

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    The other trick is, even when you think it's from the heart, it still has to be from the head since it's all just 'chemicals in the brain' anyway

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by TA Guy View Post
    The other trick is, even when you think it's from the heart, it still has to be from the head since it's all just 'chemicals in the brain' anyway
    'chemicals in the brain' is otherwise known as instinct and emotion. Mankind is more a rationalising species, not a rational one. The brain finds "reasons" for us to do what our instincts tell us to do. "Head" is always ruled by "Heart", no matter how logical we try to make it appear. Partner dance is a sexual activity. The real control centre is elsewhere.

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by bigdjiver View Post
    ...Partner dance is a sexual activity.
    Not inherently, no - it certainly is not. I'm sure that for some (many?) people this is the case, but for myself and many others, the sexual side is usually only a very minor aspect of the dance.

    Yes, of course it crops up from time to time, but even if you removed that aspect completely from partner dancing, I'd still be just as much of a partner dance addict as I am now.

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    Heart - but - it varies.

    If the music is not inspiring me its very hard for me to 'feel' the dance so the 'heart' is not as engaged.

    If dancing with a beginner its normally the head as I'm thinking about how to make the dance a good experience for them - following them even if not quite in time to the music, managing my and their floorcraft if crowded, etc.

    If dancing with someone doing lots of complicated twisty moves then definitely head as I spend all my time trying to stay balanced, uninjured and possibly trying to calculate how much longer the song will last...

    Most notably at the moment - if limited physically - a lot of thinking to make sure I protect myself from injury. I just can't 'let go' at the moment.

    BUT - if a partner I know (or even one I don't but can quickly have that connection with) and music I love then its heart - and those are the best dances!
    I agree with every word of your post Lynn. (It won't let me Thank or rep you).
    ...except the NB below.
    (NB - the dance I find it easiest to dance from the heart is probably AT.)
    If I don't concentrate I lose it and have to start again. Even someone smiling at me as they pass can put me off.
    Quote Originally Posted by bigdjiver View Post
    'chemicals in the brain' is otherwise known as instinct and emotion. Mankind is more a rationalising species, not a rational one. The brain finds "reasons" for us to do what our instincts tell us to do. "Head" is always ruled by "Heart", no matter how logical we try to make it appear. Partner dance is a sexual activity. The real control centre is elsewhere.
    Where is the real control centre Bigdjiver?
    Quote Originally Posted by straycat View Post
    Not inherently, no - it certainly is not. I'm sure that for some (many?) people this is the case, but for myself and many others, the sexual side is usually only a very minor aspect of the dance.

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    My honest answer is...

    it all depends on 'who' I'm dancing with.... and the music of course.

    Some leads demand a more technical approach, with no emotion involved. I can do that and enjoy it

    but the magic only happens when I feel uninhibited and able to dance with real feeling!
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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    Heart - but - it varies [snip]
    So true!

    When I look back at the dances that I've enjoyed the most, it's all heart stuff - the music, the atmosphere, and (most improtantly) the lead, "click" to the point where my head doesn't have anything to do with it - it becomes more instinctual. But it's probably different for leads who actually do have to think (I presume) for everything other that micro blues

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post

    Some leads demand a more technical approach, with no emotion involved. I can do that and enjoy it

    but the magic only happens when I feel uninhibited and able to dance with real feeling!
    Sme leads go too far the other way though, IMO, there's too much messing around and not enough structure.

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    Re: Do you dance more from your head or from your heart

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat View Post
    Not inherently, no - it certainly is not. I'm sure that for some (many?) people this is the case, but for myself and many others, the sexual side is usually only a very minor aspect of the dance.

    Yes, of course it crops up from time to time, but even if you removed that aspect completely from partner dancing, I'd still be just as much of a partner dance addict as I am now.
    That's what I say, too, but ...

    Quote Originally Posted by bigdjiver View Post
    ...'chemicals in the brain' is otherwise known as instinct and emotion. Mankind is more a rationalising species, not a rational one. The brain finds "reasons" for us to do what our instincts tell us to do.
    I can find lots of "reasons" for surrounding myself with cavorting females. Dancing makes me feel good, some chemicals in my body is telling me that I am doing something right.

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