Can you Dance?

I'm only here on earth because my parents loved to dance.

My dad's LST put into Norfolk and he and a buddy went ashore to a wiener roast sponsored by my mother's church young adult group. He laid eyes on my mom and introduced himself. The first thing she said to him was the question, "Do you like to dance, sailor?"

He answered with a strong affirmative (my dad was a dynamite dancer) and the rest was history. Had he said, "No, I've never been much for dancing", that would have been the end of the encounter and I would have been someone altogether different...…..

You'd think with those genes, I would have been a good dancer.....but no......
 
Yes, I was a silver and gold ballroom dance instructer at both Arthur Murray and Fred Astaire dance studios.
Men who dance have never interested me. I think of dance as being effeminate.
 
Yes we dance Ballroom however ours is only classed as social not competition
we enjoy it it’s great exercise/ fun / social life .
Sadly all our venues we attended twice a week closed in March and all being well expect to reopen
in the first week of September .
All the halls we attend are council owned and the biggest issues with restating the dancing is senior singles who are all widowed are not allowed to attend dance unless you live with the person you intend dancing with ...it dose not make any sense to many of us because councils are allowing up to 20.000 complete strangers to attend a football match.
We get on average 60-70 in a big hall 25% would be widowed
 
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I love to dance....I was always in some kind of dance on the stage in school....My Mom didn't have the money for dancing lessons...
I wish I could dance more often....We were supposed to go to my grandson's and his fiancé's wedding in August....It's being postponed
till next August....I hope I can dance next August...I'm getting rusty in my old age....I did swim in the pool today...Just to get some exercise...
 
Kayelle and I were married on the island of Santorini while in the middle of a cruise. That night we were in the main showroom, and the emcee, announced that they had a newlywed couple on board and invited us down to have our First Dance. Kayelle said,"You do not understand this will be the first dance we have ever done together". The emce then invited all couples who wanted to dance to come down.
Fuzzy, I love your girlfriend's comment because it describes me also
 
Absolutely. My mother was a chorus girl and fortunately, my dad was a terrific ballroom dancer. All four of us kids learned to dance very early on.
 
Reading this really brought back memories to me. I was in High School when I met my husband. He didn't like to do the fast dances so he said I could do the fast dances with one of his friends, but I could only do the slow dances with him. That was before the Pony came out. After he saw me do the Pony with his Buddy he said that he would do the fast dances with me from then because he said his friend got too close to me.
 
bowmore said:
Kayelle and I were married on the island of Santorini while in the middle of a cruise. That night we were in the main showroom, and the emcee, announced that they had a newlywed couple on board and invited us down to have our First Dance. Kayelle said,"You do not understand this will be the first dance we have ever done together". The emce then invited all couples who wanted to dance to come down.
Fuzzy, I love your girlfriend's comment because it describes me also
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Did you know there is a dance called Santorini waltz @bowmore (We dance it here in South Australia)
@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7e-J-DNGs. Oops looks like that didn’t work I’ll have to look up how to post YouTube
 
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Kadee46 said:
Did you know there is a dance called Santorini waltz @bowmore (We dance it here in South Australia)
@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz7e-J-DNGs. Oops looks like that didn’t work I’ll have to look up how to post YouTube
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We did find a couple of you tube videos on the dance . It was lovely, thank you. How I wish we could do that
 
bowmore said:
We did find a couple of you tube videos on the dance . It was lovely, thank you. How I wish we could do that
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It’s not as hard as it looks , the carousel is the hard it till you get used to it as it’s different to normal carousels , we dowloaded it then put onto a disc, played on slow speed on DVD player that way you can see the steps better




better @bowmore
 
Oh the horror, the horror...In the early 1960's, my parents made me take ballroom dancing classes, convinced that it was a social grace I would need in adult life. My desperate protests went in vain, and I'll always remember awkwardly sweating in a jacket and tie that spring in a stifling, un-air conditioned social hall, instructed by an elderly woman who may have been hot in the 1920's. To this day, I have waited to demonstrate my competency in the Waltz, the Cha Cha, and the Fox Trot (which came naturally to me, anyways). Music and dancing would change radically in the later 1960's, and ballroom dancing has served me as much as the algebra I was also forced to learn... 😺
 

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