Hey, at least vote on your own poll
Similar to Cruella's. Feel free to elaborate on dancing experience in posts
Hey, at least vote on your own poll
Have been dancing on and off for many years, and dipped into a few dance styles.
Ballet when I was 5 or 6 (aawwwww), then ballroom when I was about 10-12, then a bit of swing when I was 18 or 19 (dances swing for about 3 years).. Then ceroc/MJ for about 5 years (on and off), with a teensy bit of WCS over the past year, and a teensy-weensy bit of AT....
I wish I'd stuck to ballroom when I was a kid, but my partner didn't want to dance any more, and then we moved to a different place where they didn't have any ballroom classes.
So..... In total I've danced for about 9 or 10 years, I guess..... But spread out over the last 26 years!
Pedantic, I know - but I'm assuming you don't include "muggle dancing" (love that term!) in your poll?
Good point: does "solo" dancing count? or only partner dancing?
(I could add on about 5 years of "muggle" dancing.)
I think I've almost always done dancing of some sort...
I started ballet at the age of 2 or 3 (basically as soon as I was allowed to start classes!), which I did until I was about 15. In the meantime I also did country dancing every year at Brownies & Guides (aged 7-16) for a local festival competition and went to classes at primary school for a year or two.
At uni I tried Highland dancing and finally got the chance to learn tap dancing, which I'd always wanted to do and really enjoyed, but unfortunately after about 6-8 classes the venue was closed and the classes stopped . For two years I went to weekly dance rehearsals to learn routines for stage musicals I was in (not sure what type of dancing you'd call it as the styles varied according to the songs).
Since moving back home I've had a taster of salsa from salsa exercise classes (a lot of fun, but sure it's completely different from the "real thing"!), done some more country dancing, and discovered something called Ceroc. That was about a year ago and I haven't looked back since!
Total years, or if you added up all your dancing?
Coz I've been dancing since I was 5! but had years off in between!
Feels like I've been dancing all night.
I'm tired...
Ok years ago I was playing the Game of Life and the question was
"If you do any sport regularly you get a prize" or something like that. There then ensued a brief discussion as to whether my dancing was a sport or an art. My friend wisely said, "If you can live with calling it a sport, then it counts as a sport." I couldn't, so I didn't get the prize.
I leave it to your discretion as to what you feel is an answer that is honest for you
Dance in beauty,
Christopher
Ummm. Strangely enough, to the minute, exactly the same length of time as I've been doing modern jive!
Ballet when I was about 6 years old. Gave up after about a year, because we had a horrible teacher!
Had a couple of Salsa lessons about 6 years ago and then nothing until Le Roc 4 years ago. I danced AT consistantly for about 6 months, but had to stop to practice for competitions, although I still pop into our local class now and then. We stopped competing after Blackpool this year and are now having a bash at latin and ballroom and we hope to take our silver medals later this year. Still yearn to dance AT and Le Roc has gone onto the back burner for the meantime.
Elaine
So what is this poll going to tell us?
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
This is what comes of not dating English women......
What I'm more curious about is not whether people have done dancing before they started Ceroc (there's a poll somewhere about the different dance styles people have done), but how much dancing people have done. Eg Does the Forum tends to attract mainly experienced dancers?
Hence my cunning poll.
But yes, cross referencing it with Cruella's does let you work out how much "other dancing" someone's done if you wish to know.
Christopher
Thing is, besides the year and a half of Ceroc, I have been taught Ceilidh dancing at school for 5-ish years, a month or so at a time, then during my adult life I have "danced" at clubs, plus gone to the occasional ceilidh.
So, I've been dancing since I was 11-ish (at school). (Well over 10 years ago.)
I've only been formally taught dancing at school, plus the last year and a half... (Totals about 2 years.)
In the time in between I could take a guesstimate at how much dancing I've done and turn how many weeks I've gone dancing into a number of years' worth of dancing... Maybe 3? (Totals 5 years...)
But none of the dancing I did before Ceroc amounted to much, so maybe I've only been dancing a year and a half...
That's 4 different answers to the question... I don't know which one to use. Others will have chosen their own meaning of the question and answered it their own way.
In real terms, I'm a beginner to dancing, but if I answered your question the way most people appear to have (i.e. "how long ago did I do any dancing?") it looks like I'm an experienced dancer.
So, due to this ambiguity in your question, I don't think much useful information can be gathered from this poll.
(Still in a cynical mood this afternoon. )
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
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