Dancing Strata

We have covered the similiarities of our social dance strata to the pyramid and most people understand and agree. It is just a guide and most blogging addresses the "bottom" part of the pyramid which is about four times bigger than the top half. There are a hellavah lot more of us than the rootzi tootzis.

"A lie has speed, but Truth has endurance"

But there is stilll another sample that we can use and it is used widely in social studies, the Normal Curve, which can be easily plotted on a graph. In dancing we can apply it very easily at least to give anyone the idea. The "bottom" five percent can be the ones that are only marginally interested in dancing. The Top five percent can be the expert, dancers that know most of the tricks and turns in our type of dancing. It would also include most of the professionals.

So you can already see the big bump or curve in the middle comprising of over 90 percent of the possible dancers out there, wherevah. However social studies must make further distinctions. The next portion or ten per of the bottoms will be true beginners and ten percent of the top will be true god gifted dancers. and you still have a big bump in the middle of 70 percent of the dancers.

"Vaya Con Dios" by Les Paul and Mary Ford.

Most of our blogs and many of the Dance Web sites address the lower portion of the Normal Curve. We will favor and do what we can for the "common" dancer and we will minimize the rootzi tootzis who do not need us. But there will be some in the social media that will address the more advanced dancers out there and if they establish a lot of rules and regulations that will be their prerogative.

Ah, but the good part is that you will eventually be able to see our huge group of fun people evolving and that will having fun moving to music in our way. Of course the definition of "our way" has not been publicly defined yet and can be considered in process. We had been losing fans in all of the "ballroom" groups until the Internationals seize the name "ballroom" for themselves. We find ourselves in the process of finding new terminology for what we dance.

"Green Eyes" by Jimmy Dorsey

It had been accepted as "Social" dance but the Night Clubbers have liken their dancing to Social dance. They have the right to do so. And we should understand when groups like these would like to differentiate and it should be their privilege.

New blog on the block just waiting for the right bloggers to come along.

So we must find a new terminology of our type of dance where we dance to DJ music in malls, gas stations, school cafeterias, district parks, community centers and even in the street if we have to, just for the fun of it. The basics are not that much different from their dancing but they can think the way they want to. no hu hu.  We may find the night clubs that will accept our screwy way of dancing. They will be recommended in these blogs. There will be more social dance clubs and we will dance our dance to our music.