Faux Pas or Foxes Pass

[Prian]

Thought this might be fun. I am thinking in particular of dance related embarrassing moments, ****-ups, humourous mistakes and so on. Of course in my case these are numerous, but three in particular stand out.

1. Being asked to demonstrate a drop and dropping her

2. Being asked to dance someone by her boyfriend and dancing with the wrong girl.

3. Being asked for a dance by an extremely attractive lady (who had been advised to dance with me), and telling her I wanted to drink me beer and finish my fag. That was in 1995 and it still haunts me today.

[Andy McGregor]

3. Being asked for a dance by an extremely attractive lady (who had been advised to dance with me), and telling her I wanted to drink me beer and finish my fag. That was in 1995 and it still haunts me today.

It should haunt you. That "lady" was me in drag

[philsmove]

Any Teachers inadvertently left their radio mike on

[CJ]

I accidentally undid someone's bra. during a drop.

Oh, and , erm.... I broke a partner's strap which meant her top almost came off...

And worst... Was doing the ballroom drop step over thingy... and my partner was in the big flary trousers... I accidentally stood on her flares, she came back up after the dip, her trousers did not.... Black trousers, white undies, red faces.....

hmmm..... bit of a pattern forming here...

[Prian]

Thought it would be cool to show off to a beginner. While being taught a pretzel I decided to do a dummy pretzel (during the practise the part to the music bit), tripped over her feet, twisted my knee, and fell flat on my arse taking out two other couples, in front of the class.
Deserved it though I guess.

There's probably a moral in there somewhere

[clevedonboy]

Black trousers, white undies, red faces
.....

I should think so too - fancy wearing white undies with black trousers

[Lory]

I should think so too - fancy wearing white undies with black trousers

At least she had some on!

[SPROGGS]

It should haunt you. That "lady" was me in drag

AGHHHHHHHHH!

[Prian]

This probably counts as a c**k up, not by me, but by the Ceroc Management.

I think it was 1998 or '99 summer and it was supposed to be a busk to introduce the people of Chiswick to their new venue. The occasion was Chiswick Open Day in front of thousands of people. At least 20 Taxis had agreed to busk along with Erick as DJ and thousands of leaflets to be handed out.

For some reason the powers that be failed to take into account the fact it was a bank holiday weekend, the Reading Rock Festival and the Notting Hill Carnival.

As it happened Erick arrived with a girl that worked in the Ceroc Office, with the leaflets but no music. One venue manager and two male Taxis, myself and one other. 5 people, 3 non Cerocers and no music.

Luckily there was a Swing Band playing. So myself and the other Taxi took turns to dance with the lady from the office who had only ever danced Merengue but could at least follow a bit. We handed out a few leaflets, enjoyed some of the money that the office had provided for 20+ peoples food and had a convivial afternoon.

The best bit was that no-one from head office could really complain. and the Chiswick venue managed to get up and running with Viktor teaching

[rubyred]

Dancing with my dance partner when one my of boobs dropped out ...and at Southport tooooooo

To help us remember some moves Blueshoes and I would give them our own made up names so they would be easy to remember. Whilst dancing him with one night I wanted to do a particular move and the next thing I yelled out 'swallow' couldn't do the move after that for laughing!

[Gav]

Dancing with my dance partner when one my of boobs dropped out ...and at Southport tooooooo

[rubyred]

ooppss!!!!!

[Prian]

During a beginners class, the penultimate practise before going into freestyle I found myself with a first timer. Her mate who had brought her along was beside us. Her mates partner was also a beginner. Nevertheless every couple of minutes my partner would stop and complain that I had gone out of step with her mate and that I should do it right. I tried explaining that we were in time, and in fact in time with the teacher. But she was not impressed. After about the 8th stop, the teacher had noticed me and was mouthing why i wasn't dancing, and I was trying to indicate that it wasn't my fault.

the worst part was this was a couple of days before the first ever Taxi auditions (which were done en masse). And the teacher was also choosing the first Taxis........