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    Working the room?

    Bar myself (well I'm getting back to it now), Jive Crazy, Fletch & Mr Young, who else works the room.

    Or am I missing all the fun staying in a corner?


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    Re: Working the room?

    It depends what mood I'm in. I do find that if I make the effort and seek out dancers rather than wait to be asked, I have a better night and in turn get asked for more dances as a result, but it can get tedious doing all the chasing to begin with.

    I shouldn't go out dancing with Gav really, as I tend to use him as my comfort blanket, so to speak, as it's easier to grab him for a dance than ask around.

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    Re: Working the room?

    Quote Originally Posted by Steven666 View Post
    Bar myself (well I'm getting back to it now), Jive Crazy, Fletch & Mr Young, who else works the room.

    Or am I missing all the fun staying in a corner?

    I always do most of the asking when I am out dancing and I am happy to ask new dancers that I have never met

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    I'm always surprised at people who do not work the room.

    We do a social dance and what could be more sociable than dancing with as many people as possible. If I wanted to spend a night in the arms of that special someone I wouldn't do it in a room full of people I have no interest in getting to know.

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    Re: Working the room?

    As a teacher, I work the room all the time.

    As a dancer in MJ, I tend not too, mainly through laziness. I have my favourite place to sit at Berko; people know where I am if they want to dance with me.

    As a dancer in Tango, it varies depending on the room layout and the venue atmosphere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy McGregor View Post
    ......and what could be more sociable than dancing with as many people as possible.......... a room full of people I have no interest in getting to know.
    Does not compute!

    Sometimes I like to just sit there and let the room work me, but that strategy can backfire very, very badly. Fabulous when it works, though.

    Other times I like to autocratically select the partners who I feel will give me the most dancing enjoyment and ruthlessly hunt them down. I think I need to do more of that in AT and s*d the codigos.

    Mostly I do a bit of both, and ask random strangers because it's convenient and I'm there to dance.

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    Re: Working the room?

    I think we need a list of the qualities that permit a dancer to claim moral superiority over their fellow dancers.

    So far we have
    1. 'Working' the room
    2. Smiling when dancing
    3. Preferring 'challenging' music

    Any more?

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    Re: Working the room?

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    I think we need a list of the qualities that permit a dancer to claim moral superiority over their fellow dancers.

    So far we have
    1. 'Working' the room
    2. Smiling when dancing
    3. Preferring 'challenging' music

    Any more?
    4. Dancing with beginners
    5. Never refusing a dance

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    Re: Working the room?

    Quote Originally Posted by Andy McGregor View Post
    I'm always surprised at people who do not work the room.

    We do a social dance and what could be more sociable than dancing with as many people as possible. If I wanted to spend a night in the arms of that special someone I wouldn't do it in a room full of people I have no interest in getting to know.
    IMHO........... Mr McGregor is THE BEST teacher/dancer for working the floor Drives me mad as I rarely get a dance with him these days and it would only be one ............. and poor Mrs McG - no chance !


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    Re: Working the room?

    Quote Originally Posted by Steven666 View Post
    Bar myself (well I'm getting back to it now), Jive Crazy, Fletch & Mr Young, who else works the room.
    Who me? No I'm basically lazy most of the time.
    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    I think we need a list of the qualities that permit a dancer to claim moral superiority over their fellow dancers.

    So far we have
    1. 'Working' the room
    2. Smiling when dancing
    3. Preferring 'challenging' music

    Any more?
    I'm claiming moral inferiority on this one.

    And the smiling, come to that - too often I don't smile when dancing.
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    Re: Working the room?

    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey
    As a teacher, I work the room all the time.

    As a dancer in MJ, I tend not too, mainly through laziness. I have my favourite place to sit at Berko; people know where I am if they want to dance with me.

    As a dancer in Tango, it varies depending on the room layout and the venue atmosphere.
    I'm much the same.

    At a WCS event I work the room. That said, I'm either a teacher there or I've travelled a very long way to be at one and dance with people I know, but very rarely get to see. Therefore my motivations for doing so are somewhat selfish.

    At Ceroc events I mostly stick with the large group of friends I'm there with. I very rarely ask other people to dance if I don't know them already, and I'm unapologetic for that. I'm there to have a good time, and I have a good time with my friends. It's nice to give encouragement to beginners from time-to-time, but I've no desire to ignore the people I care about for three hours so I can "manage" my way through dances with two-dozen woman who don't know what they're doing. That is my idea of a terrible night out dancing. I know some people consider me to be a snob because I don't ask them to dance, but I've not turned them down when they've asked, and if I were completely rubbish they'd feel grateful I'd never asked rather than aggrieved anyway.

    So in short I can't claim any sort of moral superiority, except perhaps in the sense that I'm honest about my attitude rather than dressing it up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    I think we need a list of the qualities that permit a dancer to claim moral superiority over their fellow dancers.

    So far we have
    1. 'Working' the room
    2. Smiling when dancing
    3. Preferring 'challenging' music
    4. Dancing with beginners
    5. Never refusing a dance

    Any more?
    6. Dancing till 6am in the Blues room at a weekender
    7. Travelling 200 miles to a dance venue
    8. Having more dancer Facebook friends than anyone else
    9. Talking about trashy 'Boing Boing' music in derogatory tones
    10. Learning WCS

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    Quote Originally Posted by JiveLad View Post
    6. Dancing till 6am in the Blues room at a weekender
    7. Travelling 200 miles to a dance venue
    8. Having more dancer Facebook friends than anyone else
    9. Talking about trashy 'Boing Boing' music in derogatory tones
    10. Learning WCS
    All very infuriating but these are more about dance snobbery and one-up-manship than the maddeningly smug moral sanctimoniousness of this brigade:

    So far we have
    1. 'Working' the room
    2. Smiling when dancing
    3. Preferring 'challenging' music
    4. Dancing with beginners
    5. Never refusing a dance
    Although, I'd put #5 with the top set.

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    Re: Working the room?

    Quote Originally Posted by jivecat View Post
    All very infuriating but these are more about dance snobbery and one-up-manship than the maddeningly smug moral sanctimoniousness of this brigade:



    Although, I'd put #5 with the top set.
    Well based on the top 10 'Smug moral - dance snobbery' scale - I score 4.5. Anyone beat that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JiveLad View Post
    Well based on the top 10 'Smug moral - dance snobbery' scale - I score 4.5. Anyone beat that?
    Depends how you look at it. Is 2 better or worse?

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    Re: Working the room?

    It depends what you mean. If I go from one side of the room to the other to find someone for a dance, am I 'working the room'? Am I not working it if I grab the person next to me? I tend to wander around anyway, only going back to my seat to find my drink or check my phone (Mrs CRM repeatedly reminds me that I am bad at doing this), before wandering off again in search of a new victim - I mean dance partner or to spy on the playlist and see which songs are coming up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JiveLad View Post
    6. Dancing till 6am in the Blues room at a weekender
    Only 6 am Lightweight

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    Re: Working the room?

    Depends on the evening if there are lots of guys there that I know and dance with all the time then I tend to be a bit lazy. If I have gone to a venue where there are not many guy that I know or if there are loads of ladies over then I’ll work the room.

    When we went to Breeze Sunnybunny set me the challenge of asking 10 new men a night to dance – I cant resist a challenge so I really worked the room that weekend

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    Quote Originally Posted by jivecat View Post
    All very infuriating but these are more about dance snobbery and one-up-manship than the maddeningly smug moral sanctimoniousness of this brigade:
    If you want smug moral sanctimoniousness you could always have:

    Not learning WCS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gav View Post
    Depends how you look at it. Is 2 better or worse?
    Neither.......it just 'is'.....

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