Social Dancers are getting there

I have been meeting some people that tell me that a group in the upper bronze level of American Style of Dance can learn from videos. It can be a less expensive way to learn new movements. And  if you have a group, you will all find yourselves helping each other. Going to the same club dances or night clubs you can have a lot of fun changing partners and enjoying the music with your new movements. Terrific, if it is working for you. However, on Oahu, you can have a more extended sociability being a member of established dance clubs or studios.

"Social dancers know that you don’t need other people to validate you

or your dancing, you’re already valuable."

None of the videos that I have seen have the "even" step. If the music is a two count, you jump up and down, left, right, left, right, one, two, one, two. If it is on the three count, it is left, right, left, one, two, three. And if it is on the four count, it is left, right, left, right, one, two, three, four. And it has been danced for so far back we just don't know how far back. It was some time after Agriculture and the "settling down" of humans. We can see the dance in this century on TV, Africans just jumping up and down to the beat and they can enjoy moving to the music that way.

We do have a problem, The Variations also known as LAGS. Watch it. It stands for the Latest And Greatest Syndrome. It becomes a nice collusion between the student and the teacher. Both, we agree, terrific people. The student likes that movement because if he learns it he thinks he will look like a pro. The teacher impresses the student with his vast knowledge of terrifically advanced movements. Nothing terribly wrong except that now you going into "work." And that word is much in use in very high class dancers. Don't talk "down" to me about American or International Dance Styles. I am talking about dancing.

"Social dancers believe that life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

 Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”