We don't have many public places (Night Clubs) in the West, where we can get our kind of music and dance our style of dance. And there will not be much in the vicinity of the Bad News Rail. There will be more people coming back into popular dancing in Waipahu, or in the Central Valley area. The Waianae Coast and the North Shore are wide open. It seems like our night clubs are a different species altogether, they are more "public" and from what I read, they may differ quite drastically in what we consider dancing. Rome was not built in a day.
Then there has been the long standing tradition of paying the expenses with the bar tab. Some have cover charges but are still not satisfied and popular social dancing has the reputation of having non-drunks. Whereas in many places on the mainland they have found a wealth of income in the Juice Bar and the Snack Bar. Then some of our dancing has to be toned down. Arm waving has to be reduced to an absolute minimum. Up is not so bad but sideways, never. So we lives and we learns.
Steps must be reduced in size and let the body do most of moving to the music. There are some good places in Salt Lake, but as Yogi Berra would say, "No body goes there, - too crowded." Mostly for the young and they just wiggle to the music. It is looking pretty good that this blog is evolving into a certain area on Oahu. From Kalihi to the North Shore and the territory to the Waianae Coast. West Oahu.? Why not? But this group is still in process of defining itself and the reader/dancers will make the decisions.
"Social dancers want courage and audacity in their dance. In their dreams,
they are not crippled. In their dreams, they dance."
Then there has been the long standing tradition of paying the expenses with the bar tab. Some have cover charges but are still not satisfied and popular social dancing has the reputation of having non-drunks. Whereas in many places on the mainland they have found a wealth of income in the Juice Bar and the Snack Bar. Then some of our dancing has to be toned down. Arm waving has to be reduced to an absolute minimum. Up is not so bad but sideways, never. So we lives and we learns.
Steps must be reduced in size and let the body do most of moving to the music. There are some good places in Salt Lake, but as Yogi Berra would say, "No body goes there, - too crowded." Mostly for the young and they just wiggle to the music. It is looking pretty good that this blog is evolving into a certain area on Oahu. From Kalihi to the North Shore and the territory to the Waianae Coast. West Oahu.? Why not? But this group is still in process of defining itself and the reader/dancers will make the decisions.
"Social dancers believe that between the great things we cannot do and the
small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing."
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