Clubbing

Night Clubs on Oahu furnish the people for "street dancing." They usually use the most basic, simple moves that will let them enjoy the music. Little is for show, though the good ones can get a nice look about them dancing. We don't have much actual street dancing anymore. Perhaps we could call it Night Club Dancing. Some amalgamation is occurring in Mainland Night Clubs. For Bachata Tango you basically incorporate the bachata footwork to the Tango music. We don't know yet what will develop with this. It may just be another flash in the pan. Samba-Tango fusion we covered last year, but haven't heard a thing since then. It probably is still there, just not taking the world by storm.

“Social dancers know that Dance resides within us all. Some express it through celebration

of movements; and then there are those ... whose existence is dance.”

On Oahu, the night clubs are pretty much the same, there seems to be an accepted format of what a night club should have. And they make their adjustments according the amount of space available. For the last fifty years, the "ballroom" dancers have developed a bad reputation for not being drunks. But there plenty of reasons for drinking responsibly. And in many places on the Mainland, the actual bar may be smaller. And there are soda pop and even snack machines to pick up on the action. And of course, the cover charge helps.

There maybe more singles at a night club but all clubs will have a few in two or three couple groups. They can tell you the most romantic dance of all?  Most of us know that in dancing, whether that's Rumba, Waltz, Salsa, or Country Western - pairing off in each others arms and or to confidently asking "may I have this dance?" puts you on a level all its own in the romance department. So we are looking forward to having more night clubs in West Oahu. The Rail Disaster has convinced a lot of people all the way up to Makaha.

“Social dancers know that when the music starts, the mission that every

moment seeks to accomplish is to dance.”