Favorite Dance?

[ShyDancer]

I apologise if this has been asked before!

I was asked this question last night.......

What is your one favorite dance and why? Not the dance you find most fun..but the one that moves your heart as well as your feet.


Mine is the Rumba. I think if you can find the right partner it can be explosive...no other dance brings me the pure joy the Rumba has on certain occasions. There is almost electricity flowing when I get a good partner. I have only been dancing it 6 months and I cant wait to get better at it!

[dancin_feet]

I would have to say any of the "latin" dances, ie Swing, Cha Cha, Rumba, Mambo, Samba. Don't really have a favourite, though since I am working on a rumba routine at the moment, that is the one I am getting into the most.

[Larinda McRaven]

anything smooth, but actually if I had to pick one dance for the rest of my life it would be west cost swing.

[SDsalsaguy]

anything smooth, but actually if I had to pick one dance for the rest of my life it would be west cost swing.
:shock:

Really Larinda? I'm surprised. Why WCS? Why not a smooth dance? And, for that matter, why are you competing in smooth rather than (or at least not in addition to) in WCS? You have me *very* curious now!

[virginiadancegirl]

So hard for me to choose...Larinda - I'm all about the WCS! I love it, and it isn't really popular where I live...but my partner and I plan to correct that! Also, I love cha cha....

[StacyDavis]

Although it is not my best dance, waltz is my favorite. The reason is that it is what I had in mind when I thought of ballroom dance before I started actually doing it. It did and still does strike me as stately and dignified.

[SDsalsaguy]

Welcome to the forums Stacy! :D

Actually, that raises a great question... aside from the issue of favorite dances, what dance best captures your idea of what dancing is?

[Sagitta]

Welcome to DF Stacey. I join you in saying that waltzing is the image in my mind before I did ballroom, and even though I had an idea of the other dances.

And SD for the dance that best captures what dancing is I would go with bachata. Even though it's not ballroom, this is it for me because of the connection between the music, my partner and myself. I've experience this oneness in salsa, merengue, waltz, american tango also, but bachata is it for me.

[NeoDevin]

I always had the image of Tango in my mind before beginning, but my favorite would definately have to be Samba.

[dancing_moogle]

Good question. I wish I had ONE favorite, but I don't.

For Standard, Waltz, V. Waltz and Tango are the dances I favor, but esp. Tango because I like the contra-check move (well, maybe that's in Smooth, but who cares?). ^_~ And although Latin is currently not my focus, I like Rumba and Samba because moving with the music is fun *woohoo!!* :D

[Larinda McRaven]

why are you competing in smooth rather than (or at least not in addition to) in WCS?

hhmmnn, ballroom is where I started and what I have made my career from. So this is where I put my energy and money. Some day when I retire from competitive ballroom and have more time, I may explore wcs more. But then I actually went to watch the World CW chapionships this past Januay and I must say that looked like fun too... :wink:
I probably could surprise everyone here if you truely knew me.
http://www.connecticutballroom.com/897Lsmall2.gif
I may look like this to everyone at the competitions, but this is really just a costume and a role I play. Thats not the real or whole me.

[Spitfire]

ECS was my favorite single dance for a long time, but cha-cha has caught up with it and right now I'm learning to do WCS which I'm taking a liking to after initially dismissing it as not my kind of dance.

NC2S is a dance that I'm really coming to enjoy even if I don't know it that well.

[Sagitta]

I probably could surprise everyone here if you truely knew me.
http://www.connecticutballroom.com/897Lsmall2.gif
I may look like this to everyone at the competitions, but this is really just a costume and a role I play. Thats not the real or whole me.

I know. You showed us photos of yourself on vacation in Hawaii!! :)

[Vince A]

To me . . . there is no other dance than the WCS . . . it captures who I am in dance . . . I love it . . . I practice it everyday . . . it is part of me . . . I don't have to count it . . . it is easily done to Swinmg music, as well as hip hop . . . it compels you to flirt while engaged in it . . . it lets me express me! No other dance does this for me . . . "Cogito, Ergo Swing."

Down the line . . .
Cha Cha
Hustle
Two Step
Waltz
A bunch of other dances on a small level . . .
Salsa
And coming on strong . . . Lindy Hop.

But I don't know enough about the last two to draw a conclusion yet.

Stay tuned . . .