learn to dance and not be embarrassed to dance

i’ve been told it’s all in the shoulders. i don’t believe it!

i dance all the time and have recently turned 20 and am taking ballroom dancing lessons in the GTA you should just find a person to go with and learn its really fun and if you know the basics you can just make stuff up and dance however you want

i’ve gone to a club like once and i’ve danced when i’ve gone to dances but i’ve always been nervous and self concious…. this weekend i’m going to a big club and i’m gonna try to dance like no one else is there (supposedly 2000 ppl go every wkd)

I find myself absentmindedly doing pop-and-lock moves when I’m in the bathroom, and the songs I listen to the most are the ones that have accompanying dances (e.g. I My Me Mine)...recently I also added a bunch of So You Think You Can Dance videos to my YouTube favorites. Oh lawdy.

I’m not really giving this up, but it’s just not a very important ‘thing’. I added this one back on my first day of 43T, before I knew that I would actually use this clever little site as a real (yet fun) ‘tool’ in my life. So, sure, I’d still like to do this, but I don’t care enough for it to make my top 43 Things :+)

Well, Gloria Estafan et al. were mistaken – the rhythm DIDN’T get me! My brain and my body just do not communicate when it comes to dance (actually, that’s true for so many activities!). I DID have some success with bellydancing, although I only took an eight-week class so I really only got started. Honestly, I have no idea if I looked spastic doing it, but I FELT good doing it. Middle Eastern dance is the right pace for me, and I felt (occasionally) sexy and fluid. But most of all, I learned that I love to jingle!! I ask ya, who doesn’t love to get all dolled up in sparkley, flowing clothes and swoop around making a racket??? hehe Anyway, I asked for a bellydancing instructional DVD and some of the jingly clothes for Christmas, and I got them all, so I guess I have no excuse. Maybe this weekend!

I think I’ve gotten past the “not be embarrassed” part…but now I have to learn a lot more! I tried to do a little swing dancing last night…but that didn’t turn out too well. It was fun, though! Here’s to trying!

I went to a contra dance for the first time. It was more terrifying than embarrrassing, but I did manage to learn a little.

See, I dance around all the time at home (to GOOD music, that is, not the stuff they play at dances here) but as soon as I’m out with my friends, I’m like uhhh….they’re just gonna laugh at me.