Our dancing structures itself

For over thirty years my curiosity of dancing on this Island has kept me very interested. I find that with about one million inhabitants on these Islands, we have had a very low percentage of dancers compared to other places in the world. The normal percentage of our kind of dancers should be at least two percent of the total. In some places throughout the world they have 3 and even 4% of the total.

"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once." ~Robert Browning

At two percent, it should give us somewhere around 20000 dancers on these Islands and though I am not that sure of the neighbor islands, we are no where near it. I believe that percentage of social dancing on Oahu started climbing in the sixties, then in the 1990s it began to deteriorate.

The over control and the cliques began to have a telling effect. Then we had a kind of "Goat" social structuue which didn't help. And of course none of the "know it alls" realized that this was happening.

 "Painted Ladies" by Ian Thomas

The results evolved into an overabundance of women, we have a much higher women/men ratio than just about anywhere.  In the nineties the process of differentiation also began.  This, of course, is still in the process of changing for the good with a good influence of the Night Club groups.

Of the dancers we now have, most men and women are “fun” dancers for want of a better word. We will also use other terminology such as Social, Fusion, Cultural, Free Style, Recreational and even Universal.

With time we will eventually get the right word, designated to exclude the Internationals and Night Clubbers. They have both made it very clear that we are not in their class. So be it, no hu hu. We must facilitate the provision of more dance venues to accommodate the increase in dancers that we are going to have and we will naturally get many men in the newer clubs that will not resemble the “goat” social structure.

This is a story about four dancers named: Everybody, Somebody Anybody and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. - Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. - Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. - And Everybody thought Anybody could do it. - But Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. - It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did it what Anybody could have done.

Everybody got that?