Poll: How many X Markers Dance?

[Warlock]

My wife and I went Contra dancing last night. Unfotunately, I couldna wear mi kilt, as mi compny doona allow it. compny regs! Contra is Great fun!! We used to do the Scottish Dancing and English Formal as well. Memphis has alot to offer the Kilties! The last time Dirkskene and I went out, I had a woman put her hand up the backside of mi kilt! My wife wanted to put the woman on her backside! I love the kilt and my wife loves men in kilts!

[Eujeankilt]

My wife and I have always enjoyed freestyle, rock and roll dancing. Although, I do admit that in the beginning, I can be somewhat reserved, but once I get out there, I love cutting the rug.

She has been trying to get me into dancing lessons, but until now I have resisted. This winter we are going to take salsa lessons at the community college where I work. Hmmm. Salsa in a kilt. Should be interesting.......


Dale

[slohairt]

Dia Dhuit!

I don't dance much except under the influence of alcohol! When I was a kid my parents enrolled me in all sorts of Irish dance classes as was mandatory. I hated it at the time but it suprises me how much I remember after a few prompts from Arthur Guinness!

[starbkjrus]

I haven't really danced much in years but in college I danced a LOT. I grew up in the Carolinas and down there the dance of choice was the Shag. It's hard to exactly describe the dance but call it a blend of the swing, jitterbug and lindy hop. It's excellent fun.

Alas, there do not seem to be any beach music clubs in the greater DC area and I never learned any other dances. I hate the large clubs with the obscenely loud music and er...modern dancing. Call me old fashioned. :rolleyes:

[cloves]

if you consider stomping around to rave/techno/industrial type music in a club dancing..then yep I love it too. There's something about good thumpy music that's really primitive.....I can't not dance to it.

[McClef]

I can't find a voting option that suits me.

I love to dance in a kilt but the opportunities are few and far between. Done some freestyle dancing to musicians such as a few weeks ago in the Isle of Wight and tonight at my choir Christmas dinner.

I also try to get to Edinburgh twice a year for some ceilidh highland dancing but there just are not the opportunities to do that here in Wales.

[Caradoc]

I don't recall ever seeing anyone come or go from that building, but I wanted to learn to dance. When I informed my mother of this, she looked at me sideways with a slightly worried look and said, "That's not something boys do."

(snip)

The corps du ballet was comprised of a dozen girls and two guys.

Mother was apparently right.

For several years in grade school, I was sent off to learn ballroom dancing and etiquette in "Junior Assembly."

I did learn to waltz and foxtrot. Anything more risks injury to my partner and/or bystanders.

And when I was doing theater in high school, there were approximately ten girls to every straight boy in the department.

Theater and/or ballet can make for quite good odds for straight men...

[slohairt]

Dia Dhuit!

The Shag?!! How delightfully randy! It was really called that?

[starbkjrus]

Dia Dhuit!

The Shag?!! How delightfully randy! It was really called that?

I knew someone (originaly) from across the pond would chime in here and YES that's exactly what it is called. In the early Eighties period when we were in school and were'nt otherwise avoiding classes we were dressed in starched button down shirts and either embroidered corduroy pants or something made from madras and were in the bars "shagging". It's a bit of an anachronism but we had a helluva good time with it.

[Jerry]

I never really learned to dance. Now, I don't think my arthritic knees would survibe much danving, especially if any twisting motion were involved. I only manage to play golf anymore by taking 800 miligrams of Ibuprophren about an hour before I tee off and still I'm in pain all the next day. I am envious of you guys who can dance. Before anyone suggests I should quit golf, my doctor has told me that if I quit doing stuff like that, in spite of the pain, I'd probably wind up in a wheel chair.