When Was The Last Time You Danced?

Dancing, as in Latin & Ballroom, have been a lifelong passion of ours, to that you can add a few non disciplined dances, one in particular was the gymnastic jive. I used to lift, twirl and throw her all around the dance floor. Our dancing, she misses so much since her heart surgery, Previously I posted some fellow's reaction to an older couple still going strong on the dance floor, we were in our early sixties back then, amongst a crowd of mostly twenty/thirty somethings. You can read the fellow's comments here if you missed it previously.
 
I sing and dance often but especially when I’m doing housework. It makes it more enjoyable. Luckily nobody hears or sees me except my husband but he’s used to it. I’ve been told in the past that I’m a good dancer. When I was younger I took tap and ballet lessons.
Same here!
I do love to dance but my husband does not enjoy it so I dance alone.
We do have a lot of different dance classes here at the Social Hall but so far I have not been inclined to attend. We also have night parties with music and dance. People feel free to dance alone, or with a partner, or they just enjoy listening to the music.
 
The hard truth is any child that wishes to learn to walk must go through those apely bipedal motions so their executive motor control brain of body awareness and body musculoskeletal control, makes neural plasticity connections via use with the more one repeats, the more a skill become usable and potentially greater.

Likewise, the path to being able to dance at any level of interest more naturally is via performing the motions and not by reading some book, listening to someone's choreography descriptions, or watching YouTube video. Those can point one towards a movement goal, but one still will need to go through the motions of performing whatever as any body motor skill is ever recorded by mere thought.

So yeah, you gals that sometimes dance around your home while otherwise occupied, are actually helping your body over time to increasingly cross connect from your hearing and proprioceptive brain sense areas from listening to music and bilateral rhythms to your motor cortex. The more one tries to be aware of their inner feelings that control their movements, the more they potentially can improve by mere self awareness of what feels correct. Over time the movements become automatic. Like driving home from work down a freeway while mulling over what you will be making for dinner and later wondering how you managed to reach home after not seemingly being aware how parts of your brain did so rather automatically.

To simply become more aware of much of one's inner body skin and proprioceptive visceral awareness senses, one can simply daily, maybe at times with eyes closed. sway back and forth like the gal in the video but without actually moving one's feet that makes this mentally easier to perform, while purposely trying to be aware of how your body feel's in all in areas as a 3-dimensional bilateral mass.

With pendulum dance movements, is much like walking, as one may eventually become aware of efficient movement bilateral resonances without bothering to think how that occurs. Just like young kids standing on their beds then jumping up and down on their beds until they feel how synchronizing the rhythm allows the trampoline like effect.
 
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I've always been too shy and self concious to dance. So the only time I ever danced was when they made us square dance in High School P.E class on rainy days, and at the 1989 office Christmas Party where I worked. I was going through a nasty divorce at the time and they had free beer (included in the price of your ticket) during 6 pm to 7 pm happy hour and I think I downed about 10 brewskis during that time. Then they had a dinner and after that dancing with a DJ until maybe 1am.

And it was BYOB. I brought a fifth of Jose Cuervo and I went throgh almost all of that during the night and I lost all my inhibitions and danced with all the women that I found to be attractive when I was sober and some that I didn't. I'm sure I was a regular dancin fool that night. I didn't know any dance steps but it didn't matter you just go out there and act kinda crazy right?

I haven't danced since.
 
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