Line Dancing for beginners is what is needed in many parts of Oahu. It no longer requires a high population density and many had been inclined to favor Honolulu for too long. Honolulu may be humbug with the Rail Calamity that is going to get worse. On Oahu, dancers have been having an awful lot of fun in their own kuleanas and many socials have a couple line dances at break time. Women take to it easily for the fact that they need no partner and can enjoy moving to music all by themselves, somewhat like it has been done for centuries.
For men, who have been accustomed to leading, it is easy to learn the basic fundamentals. However, without leading a lady. there seems to be something missing. Results are we have much less men in line dancing. However men like to dance too. Gradually they are picking up. Both men and women learn the basic movements, and the basic rhythms that are played in ordinary cultural partner dancing. Much of the music becomes familiar and they develop their favorites. What more can you ask for? Well for one thing, let's not get too fancy. Some Line dances I have seen are in exhibition and competition levels. Keep it at the Bronze level for social dancing and get more men into it.
Our aging dance groups have never gone to three which is nice. Small, Medium and Large just never evolved. We have only two, the young and the more experienced dancers. Some will stay in the young group until their thirties. Others will go into the elder group in their forties. There have never been any social divisions set up by anyone. The disciplines will continue to dance more or less the same dances on Oahu in both categories. But we are social dancers and most of these things apply to all of us.
"Social Dancers believe that Art is like Morality, you have to draw a line somewhere."
For men, who have been accustomed to leading, it is easy to learn the basic fundamentals. However, without leading a lady. there seems to be something missing. Results are we have much less men in line dancing. However men like to dance too. Gradually they are picking up. Both men and women learn the basic movements, and the basic rhythms that are played in ordinary cultural partner dancing. Much of the music becomes familiar and they develop their favorites. What more can you ask for? Well for one thing, let's not get too fancy. Some Line dances I have seen are in exhibition and competition levels. Keep it at the Bronze level for social dancing and get more men into it.
"Fly Me To The Moon" by Jimmy Borges
Our aging dance groups have never gone to three which is nice. Small, Medium and Large just never evolved. We have only two, the young and the more experienced dancers. Some will stay in the young group until their thirties. Others will go into the elder group in their forties. There have never been any social divisions set up by anyone. The disciplines will continue to dance more or less the same dances on Oahu in both categories. But we are social dancers and most of these things apply to all of us.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
~William Shakespeare
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