By Jason Kogami, Sunset Beach
Wow, I have been looking over dance blogs, danced web sites, dance clubs, dance advisories, dance schools and I sometime wonder how we can enjoy dancing with each other. There are so many viewpoints and styles and music to choose from. I think a repertoire of six to eight dances would be sufficient for an evening of fun. But there are more than a dozen good dances out there and a couple more waiting in the wings. Most of us just want some of our favorite music and an opportunity to dance with someone. Wow, talk about gimmicks and theories. Hey You, you are suppose hold the arm up at 45 degrees and you had it at 46. Dancing is just loaded down with rules like that, many which do not apply to us the social dancers.
Then there is the usual, small, medium and large to differentiate anything. In the disciplines they have Bronze, Silver and Gold divisions which is fine. In social dancing they have beginners, intermediates and advanced which is also just fine and easily understood. But generally different goals. In the disciplines the goal is the Gold. And many attain it fast with "hard work." That is "Hard Work" The social dancers just cruise along having fun and learning of course. Gradually in their fun dancing they will feel comfortable when they are a little bit better than average. They have arrived - but they never stop learning.
Now that we are developing such good dancers in the West Oahu, it is only proper that some are thinking of getting into competition dancing, just for the sport. Hey, there is nothing wrong with that. Competitive dance is a popular, widespread activity world wide. in which competitors perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles before a common group of judges. And we had a large crowd of these at one time and then they began to fizzle out when they took over the Palladium and got a little too "deluxe." The terms "Ala Wai Dancer" and "Junk Dancer" arose and applied to the "lesser" dancers, and then the decline began. The "Rootzi Tootzis" have never known why.
Wow, I have been looking over dance blogs, danced web sites, dance clubs, dance advisories, dance schools and I sometime wonder how we can enjoy dancing with each other. There are so many viewpoints and styles and music to choose from. I think a repertoire of six to eight dances would be sufficient for an evening of fun. But there are more than a dozen good dances out there and a couple more waiting in the wings. Most of us just want some of our favorite music and an opportunity to dance with someone. Wow, talk about gimmicks and theories. Hey You, you are suppose hold the arm up at 45 degrees and you had it at 46. Dancing is just loaded down with rules like that, many which do not apply to us the social dancers.
"Social dancers believe that poetry may be an echo, asking a shadow to dance, -
and dance may be a poem of which each movement is a word."
Then there is the usual, small, medium and large to differentiate anything. In the disciplines they have Bronze, Silver and Gold divisions which is fine. In social dancing they have beginners, intermediates and advanced which is also just fine and easily understood. But generally different goals. In the disciplines the goal is the Gold. And many attain it fast with "hard work." That is "Hard Work" The social dancers just cruise along having fun and learning of course. Gradually in their fun dancing they will feel comfortable when they are a little bit better than average. They have arrived - but they never stop learning.
"Fly Me To The Moon" by Jimmy Borges
Now that we are developing such good dancers in the West Oahu, it is only proper that some are thinking of getting into competition dancing, just for the sport. Hey, there is nothing wrong with that. Competitive dance is a popular, widespread activity world wide. in which competitors perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles before a common group of judges. And we had a large crowd of these at one time and then they began to fizzle out when they took over the Palladium and got a little too "deluxe." The terms "Ala Wai Dancer" and "Junk Dancer" arose and applied to the "lesser" dancers, and then the decline began. The "Rootzi Tootzis" have never known why.
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