Entries Tagged as ‘Lessons from the Dance Floor’
January 10, 2008
Single-focus
Last night I was a man. Well, at least for about 30-40 minutes. See, I showed up at the weekly contra dance at Lovely Lane Church, and there were a ton of women there, especially younger women. Plus, the Baltimore Open Band (a drop-in band) was playing, so a lot of the regular guy dancers [...]
September 17, 2007
I know why they wave
Lesson #4: The secret behind why they wave
Before going to a DJ Tiesto concert, I’d watch his videos on YouTube and see sights of thousands of people with their hands up in the air, waving around and in beat to the music. How odd, I thought to myself. Who dances with their hands straight up [...]
August 9, 2007
Dancing Blind … and Backwards
Lesson 2: Closing my eyes opens up new worlds
I like to do social dancing (where the man is leading the dance, that is) with my eyes closed.
Today I went to a new-favorite dance of mine: the fais do-do (I think that’s what they call it), a 4-hour zydeco and cajun dance jam that closes out [...]
August 5, 2007
Start with the basics, boys
Lesson 1: Rhythm is preferable to flash.
A friend invited me to a house party out in Olney. (Scary, those house parties can be sometimes.) Anyway, he mentioned some Zydeco folk would be there. I was game. I needed to get my Zydeco groove on. And lo and behold, the party was rockin.
Later in the evening [...]
