The Oahu Dance Setting Rerun #84

The study of dancing on Oahu is getting more interesting as the young clearly demonstrate their different preferences. They have all type of gyrations and mostly solo. They learn plenty of tricks and they seem to enjoy the latest music in that fashion. We should not take it a away from them. Let them enjoy it. Most of them will eventually evolve into our type of partner social dancer.

"The truth is like the sun,  you can shut it out for a time,

but it ain't goin' away."

In our neck of the field on Oahu are the top, "the rootzi tootzis." The exhibition, competition, acrobatic, cabaret and all the "to be seen'" dancing. Nothing wrong with that, most everyone appreciates the theater. However, they know they are different from us and glow in the fact. Though I have not heard the term "junk dancer" in a few years. We should agree with them, they are not the same as us.

"Hawaiian Magic" by Carol Kai

For the vast majority we have the usual, small, medium and large. The Beginner just learning to move to the music with a partner and just learning to lead.most of the basic moves in all dances. These same moves can be done in this dance, but it can also be done in that dance, or that other one.They soon find out that most women are very good at following. You just have to learn to be a better leader and have fun.

"Sweet Someone" by Don Ho

The most important to the field are the intermediates with some experience and they are able to fully experience the movement to their favorite music in sheer joy over and over again. Any new moves are made with well accepted patterns and most partners will follow easily. Many of you out there may have a slightly different viewpoint and your viewpoint is very welcome in these blogs.

"Beware My Foolish Heart" by Jimmy Borges

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.