I love dancing, here’s some footage of me dancing and performing the Octatrack/Analog Heat at the same time 
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Dancing starts with a finger or a feet. Then, it’s up to you to continue with the rest of your body. I love dancing. I was a break dancer in high school (great memories are popping right now). Under the influence, I can be a great dancer too. Now, it’s a question of flexibility. 
Nice thread @shigginpit!
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I’m considered a bad dancer in latinamerica but a good one in USA/Europe.
Like Einstein said, everything is relative.
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I loved dancing, soon as I could get into gigs and clubs i thought I had arrived. Not in a show off look at me being an awesome dancer but in a lose yourself and dance all night. From teens, into my 20s and my 30s though slowing down a bit in the 30s. In my late 40s I still enjoy a gig and a dance but it’s rare, still dance around the house with my son listening to his favourite songs.
I do dance a bit when I’m djing but it’s more bopping about enjoying myself than some kind of full dance performance. I play for 5hrs and enjoy watching others dance to the songs I play and react with smiles as I build my set and the place I play you are more or less on the dance floor so close enough to dancing at a gig for 5 hours.
Also I think the dancefloor was were I met most of my girlfriends in those early days so another reason I loved dancing about.
So yeah, love to dance. Just wish it was every week and I could dance for hours without walking with a limp for the next week or two
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I love this song and the lyrics.
Kalabrese_Independent Dancer
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When younger
Now
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press play on tchu’s video in time with the saturday night fever gif, it’s almost tempo synced. effin hilarious
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Disco is eternal my friend.
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Dancing to pumping electronic music is one of my favourite things in life. I don’t know what I look like while doing it, but I don’t care about that. Raving is meditation.
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I don’t know if I am a good dancer or not but when I let loose for a whole night, my soul is nourished.
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…if there is a groove that moves me, i’m dancing, shaking, vibing with it full on…and even given the fact that i always dare to be/look silly, i got told every once in a while that it looks damned hot 'n sexy whenever i do so…end of the day, the hardest currency on any dancefloor is, how real are U…
so just let go, let the vibe flow trough u, forget anybody around u and everything will be fine…as long u just don’t give a shit and embrace the moment for real…
DARE TO BE SILLY…
one of my old hooklines…always worx.
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This is an excellent thread, bringing back so many memories.
From being 17 at the local student disco with ton of mates in a circle dancing together and doing random breakdance moves thinking your the best dancer ever. Going to metal and punk gigs trying to survive the mosh pit. Baked at techno nights dancing in unison with 500 other people and sweat dripping from the roof. Dancing with random girls at r&b nights drinking from a bottle of champagne thinking you are some kind of playa. Friends weddings, kitchen parties, street raves, dancing with your nan at Christmas or dancing in the shower.
It’s all beautiful.
Thanks for this post 
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I am a really good dancer. I think that’s all I have to say about this.
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I have some actual, serious advice regarding dancing. There’s a concept I happened to read about tangentially when I was doing a one-off jazz paper at university, that turned me overnight from awkward flailer to ‘good dancer’ (all culturally conditioned, of course, but ‘good’ in the sense that I get compliments, women want to touch me, etc.)
-Old-timey European dancing keeps the torso and hips straight while the arms, legs and head move. Think Riverdance. Sure, fine in its context, but it will not make you look or feel cool when dancing to modern music (going absolutely mong at a rave is an exception obviously)
-The Afro-American tradition of dancing, going back to jazz and even earlier, starts with movement of the hips. In a sense it’s the inverted Riverdance - the hips must move, and they keep time, everything else is gravy.
This can feel awkwardly sexual if you’re not used to it, but moving the hips is crucial. You don’t have to hump the air, side-to-side is fine. Try moving just your hips, like a damn metronome, and if you’re in time, that’s job done. They don’t have to be big movements either. Add whatever element you want on top with your shoulders or feet or whatever, just keep those hips swaying in time, and people will see you and think ‘good dancer’ without knowing why, and without you doing anything particularly athletic or unusual.
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Why do I feel like there’s more advice or a second lesson behind a paywall?
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Hopefully because the Internet has conditioned you to expect nothing worthwhile without a marketing funnel attached, and not because my post reads like SEO vomit…
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my wallet was out before I knew it.
When we all used to go out to clubs and raves we’d dance for hours on end. Loved it. It was great exercise without realising it too. I still bust a few moves when the music is right but it tends to be a anniversaries and birthdays these days. Not as cool!
We used to got to Bowlers quite a bit. You didn’t really go to a Bowlers night and not dance!
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Not a bad dancer at all, but I know I’m rusty.
Give me enough alcohol and I’ve got stripper moves for days. Good thing I don’t really drink, because I’m pretty sure dad bods are not in.
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I used to be really self-conscious about dancing but then decided to stop caring and make it fun for myself. Never had a problem dancing when the mood strikes ever since. One of my favourite nightclub games was to look for someone else dancing in a funny/interesting way and try to mimic them (not in a pisstake way). Great stuff.
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