I have rather enjoyed a few different "styles" of dance, some of which meet your definition of "proper" and some of which meet your definition of "improper". There was a group of us years ago from the contra dance community in Albany, NY who, after contra dancing for three hours, then going to a diner for snacks and socializing, would then head somewhere with a dance floor and a DJ playing rock-n-roll (that's what we *used* to call it, anyway ;-) and dance for another couple of hours or so before calling it a night around when the club closed. Them was fun times, I tells ya!
It was during the same time period a trained dancer friend of mine got a bunch of untrained dancers together to do modern improvisational dance, and I have a VHS videotape of the performance we did (including some of my own choreography!).
Line dancing is not my thing, and despite (or perhaps because of) growing up in the 70's, Disco *never* did anything for me. I probably would have had fun break dancing, back during *that* fad, but never did get around to trying it. That whole Macarena fad was never of interest to me either.
I do like to Waltz, and have done some swing/jitterbug dancing, too. And slam dancing was fun, other than that time there were a couple of guys head-butting unreceptive people.
So, um, yeah... count me among those who like a number of different sorts of dance styles and forms, including both what you call "proper" and "improper."
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on 2008-11-19 07:52 pm (UTC)I have rather enjoyed a few different "styles" of dance, some of which meet your definition of "proper" and some of which meet your definition of "improper". There was a group of us years ago from the contra dance community in Albany, NY who, after contra dancing for three hours, then going to a diner for snacks and socializing, would then head somewhere with a dance floor and a DJ playing rock-n-roll (that's what we *used* to call it, anyway ;-) and dance for another couple of hours or so before calling it a night around when the club closed. Them was fun times, I tells ya!
It was during the same time period a trained dancer friend of mine got a bunch of untrained dancers together to do modern improvisational dance, and I have a VHS videotape of the performance we did (including some of my own choreography!).
Line dancing is not my thing, and despite (or perhaps because of) growing up in the 70's, Disco *never* did anything for me. I probably would have had fun break dancing, back during *that* fad, but never did get around to trying it. That whole Macarena fad was never of interest to me either.
I do like to Waltz, and have done some swing/jitterbug dancing, too. And slam dancing was fun, other than that time there were a couple of guys head-butting unreceptive people.
So, um, yeah... count me among those who like a number of different sorts of dance styles and forms, including both what you call "proper" and "improper."