By John Chan, Enchanted Lake.
Dancing is one of those inescapable facts of life. For most of us on Oahu, it comes up over and over again in social situations. We might as well learn to become passable at it. It's not as hard to pick up the basics as we may think, it's smoother sailing once we know a little of how to do it, and it tends to score us points in lots of situations. And we don't have to reach a particularly high standard.
We just need to be good enough that we can get on the dance floor, blend in with everyone else, not look like an idiot, and not feel too uncomfortable while we are there. A lot of us are at least somewhat awkward about dancing, that's why we have to down a few drinks and wait for the dance floor to get busy before we step out on it. But we also know that it can be a lot more fun.
You don't have to look like someone out of a music video, or from one of the deluxe dance clubs of Oahu. We just got to be decent enough to get by and that is by looking for the "basic" movements. Being better than the average never hurts of course, but just knowing the basics will put you way ahead of all the non-dancers out there.
There are three divisions in almost anything and in dancing it is already been very nicely stated. Bronze, Silver and Gold divisions. Very, very nice, only thing is that everyone has a different opinion of what is what. I can write my opinion who is where, but that would not be necessarily right. The more we know, the better we will be able to classify and feel comfortable of where we are.
Dancing is one of those inescapable facts of life. For most of us on Oahu, it comes up over and over again in social situations. We might as well learn to become passable at it. It's not as hard to pick up the basics as we may think, it's smoother sailing once we know a little of how to do it, and it tends to score us points in lots of situations. And we don't have to reach a particularly high standard.
'"One of the most profoundly human things we can do,
is talk to our fellow dancers instead of them."
We just need to be good enough that we can get on the dance floor, blend in with everyone else, not look like an idiot, and not feel too uncomfortable while we are there. A lot of us are at least somewhat awkward about dancing, that's why we have to down a few drinks and wait for the dance floor to get busy before we step out on it. But we also know that it can be a lot more fun.
"I Will Dance For You" by Willie K.
You don't have to look like someone out of a music video, or from one of the deluxe dance clubs of Oahu. We just got to be decent enough to get by and that is by looking for the "basic" movements. Being better than the average never hurts of course, but just knowing the basics will put you way ahead of all the non-dancers out there.
"Pohai Kealoha" by Amy Hanaialii"
There are three divisions in almost anything and in dancing it is already been very nicely stated. Bronze, Silver and Gold divisions. Very, very nice, only thing is that everyone has a different opinion of what is what. I can write my opinion who is where, but that would not be necessarily right. The more we know, the better we will be able to classify and feel comfortable of where we are.
"Another good thing about our dancing, everytime we dance,
we turn into a better version of ourselves."
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