I want to learn how to dance.

I want to learn how to dance. I am the worst dancer you can imagine, but I like to do it anyway. I have fun and it would be more fun if I were any good. Where can I find a place to learn how to dance? I will grateful for your information.
Thanks!

What is up with all these Learn how to dance threads lately



ah Frantik look in the yellow pages under Dance Instructors... this was not a sarcastic reply just an honest one

Us DJs most often choose to provide the dance music cause Frankly some of us cant dance LOL Not speaking for myself here however. Barrys Mom taught me.

did she teach you what she taught me.....:sqwink:

ITs our Family secret Barry.

Frantik22 : Good for you! Learn to dance and you just might find your craft improving dramatically.

Having been blessed with a sense of rhythm and being able to pick up dance and dance stylings fairly easily, you cannot possibly imagine the confidence and power it provides you over a crowd, and it will most assuredly impact your song selection choices.

While everyone has their methods and design thoughts in mobile DJing, it has always astounded me that not one client in 29 years has ever thought to ask, "Do you know how to dance?"

If the person in charge of motivating a crowd to dance doesn't know how themselves, then what is their song selection criteria? A list? A thought? Something posted on a DJ forum? Something that works most of the time? Does that selection process include 5 songs in a row (the awful "disco set" or "Motown set" that have the same dance step attached?) Boring. Boring Boring. This does help just a little in closing contracts too, when presented to the clients properly. If nothing else, it is a separator as evidenced by a few thread responses to similar posts.

Learn to dance, my friend, then branch out. Learn the tarantella, the polka, the hora, the hasapika, the cumbia, the bachata, the tex-mex two step, the jig, the pony, the jerk, the hustle, the stroll, the jitterbug, swing, waltz, cha cha, salsa, rumba, foxtrot, and then you become a master at music choices.

What is up with all these Learn how to dance threads lately?
Methinks we're getting tag-teamed by spammers.

I've had to edit one thread of this nature already... new members posting links to things for sale. That's a no-no around here.

If you'll notice, all the "wanna learn to dance" posters are new and have only one post each.

I have just one thing to say...


we can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Cause your friends dont dance
And if they dont dance
Well they're no friends of mine
Say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Because you're one far behind

We can dance

We can go where we want to
The night is young and so am i
And we can dress real neat
From out hats to our feet
Then surprise them with a big trick ride
Say, we can act if we want to
If we dont, nobody will
And you can act real rude
And totally removed
And i can act like an imbusil

Say, we can dance
We can dance
Everything's outta control

We can dance
We can dance
We're doing it more and more
We can dance
We can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance
We can dance
Everybody's taking the cha-nce
It's safe to dance
Oh well, it's safe to dance
Yes, it's safe to dance

We can dance if we want to
We've got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it
Never gonna lose it
Everything will work out right
I say, we can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Because your friends dont dance
And if they dont dance
Well they're no friends of mine

I say, we can dance
We can dance
Everything's outta control
We can dance
We can dance
We're doing it more and more
We can dance
We can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance
We can dance
Everybody's taking the cha-ance
Well, it's safe to dance
Yes, it's safe to dance
Well, it's safe to dance
Oh well, it's safe to dance
Ah yes, it's safe to dance
Well, it's safe to dance
It's safe to dance
It's safe to dance

Hey, there are a lot of studios, dance clubs almost everywhere you can find and even too many effective programs available in the market that can help you but I would suggest you for a very good book (ad link removed) It helps to create magic in dancing and many other activities that are very essential for amazing dancing. Hope this will help you. Best of luck!

here we go again

Can't we just delete these spammers threads :sqconfused: No info no email this is just silly

Can't we just delete these spammers threads :sqconfused: No info no email this is just silly

I'm on it, Barry. I removed yet another advertising link. :mad:

Simon (both of his logins here) are on read only. I've been leaving the threads open because they contain useful information from our members' responses. :)

Too bad this came from a spammer...interesting topic.

I have danced most of my life, and thats actually how I met my wife of 43 years. We have just recently joined a local dance group here in the Sacramento area.

We used to be able to dance, on a pretty regular basis, but as an earlier comment......"Another Dancing Thread". we have seen a dramatic cut in thye number of Dinner/Dances at our Country Club where we would have anywhere from 5-7 a year. This month we just canceled our "Valentines" day Dinner/Dance, for ack of interest. At this point we have no Dinner/Dance parties scheduled for 2008. New Years Eve is in Jeopardy also....???

We had our lowest New Years Eve turn-out in 10 years, last year? From what I've been able to determine as to the reasons why...?? it's not the cost, its for the most part Men in our membership are just not interested! Our demographics have taken a major shift in the last 4-5 years. Our average member is in their early 50's....versus 5 years ago, being in their late 50's, early 60's.

The real sad part is we were the only Private Country Club in the area (4 other clubs), that had more than one dance a year on their calendar...?

What is encouraging is the generation behind this current "Country Club", demographic, does enjoy dancing a bit more than the current mean age of early the 50's. It's real Interesting the age breakdown in our Dance Group. You have Oldies like myself (early 60's) and older, comprising about 60% of the group and the late 30's early 40's comprise a majority of the balance.

This younger generation wanting to learn, The Waltz, East Coast Swing/Jitterbug, Cha -Cha, and a semblance of some the most interesting Latin dances.

I give shows like "Dancing with the Stars", and "So You Think You Can Dance", credit for some of the reversal in current trends. The age group that falls into the current Nielsen Target age group.....

Too bad this came from a spammer...interesting topic.

I have danced most of my life, and thats actually how I met my wife of 43 years. We have just recently joined a local dance group here in the Sacramento area.

We used to be able to dance, on a pretty regular basis, but as an earlier comment.....oh is this ."Another Dancing Thread".......we have seen a dramatic cut in the number of Dinner/Dances at our Country Club. We would have anywhere from 5-7 dinner dances a year.

This month we just canceled our "Valentines" day Dinner/Dance, for lack of interest. At this point we have no Dinner/Dance parties scheduled for 2008. New Years Eve is in Jeopardy also....???

We had our lowest New Years Eve turn-out in 10 years, last year?

From what I've been able to determine as to the reasons why...?? it's not the cost, its for the most part Men in our membership are just not interested in dancing! Our demographics of our membership, have taken a major shift in the last 4-5 years. Our average member is in their early 50's, today....versus 5 years ago, our average member being in their late 50's, early 60's.

The real sad part is we were the only Private Country Club in the area (4 other clubs), that had more than one dance a year on their calendars...?

What is encouraging is the generation behind this current "Country Club", demographic, this individual does enjoy dancing a bit more than the current mean age of early the 50's.

It's also real Interesting the age breakdown in our Dance Group. You have Oldies like myself (early 60's) and older, comprising about 60% of the group and the late 30's early 40's comprising a majority of the balance. This seems to bear out what we've seen at the Club.

This younger generation wanting to learn, The Waltz, East Coast Swing/Jitterbug, Cha -Cha, and a semblance of some the most interesting Latin dances, great turnaround.

I give shows like "Dancing with the Stars", and "So You Think You Can Dance", credit for some of the reversal in current trends. The age group that falls into the current Nielsen Target group.....

There may be hope yet...........

Thoughts????