When did you really get fired up for dance?

[Bronzestudent]

I'm sure everyone here that's passionate about dance has some interesting story about the process or event that made them realize "Hey, I'm gonna really get into this." Of course, I think I've got mine pinned down to a couple things. I'll tell it after a few of yours are thrown in here.

[peachexploration]

Hi Bronzestudent! Welcome to the DF! Check out this link for more stores on this topic:
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Welcome again! :D

[DanceMentor]

When did you really get fired up for dance?
Today, yesterday, the day before yesterday, the day before that, the day before the day before that, three days before yesterday, etc.
I love it! :D

[HothouseSalsero]

Just about every time I go out salsa dancing it's like falling in love with it all over again.

Before I was able to do much on the dance floor a lot of the inspiration came from watching other people dancing and wanting to be able to do something similar.

[Spitfire]

In particular for the USABDA dances here.

[salsachinita]

I'm sure everyone here that's passionate about dance has some interesting story about the process or event that made them realize "Hey, I'm gonna really get into this."

Welcome to DF!

I think what you are asking here is slightly different from the stories covered in "What inspires you to dance?"........so here's mine.

As a newbie, I sucked BIG TIME. I was kinda doing my best to keep up while the rest of the girls seemed to get it. Mind you, the boys sucked as well....so one doesn't help the other :roll: .......

I LOVE the music, and had some knowledge about salsa (while most of the others knew zero) before hand, so I guess it showed in some ways.

One night this guy turned up from nowhere & happened to rotate himself to me, near the end of the class.....something (bordom...?) made him grab me, improvise some fancy moves to the music while completely ignoring the class :shock: .

And for some unknown reasons I actually followed him. The teacher pulled us aside afterwards and asked if we'd like to take part in a competition (to promote salsa, as no one knew about it here 15 yrs ago). Rehearsal starting the following week :shock: :shock: :shock: ......

This was how I met Adam. My very first dance partner. He was a budding Ballroom exhibition dancer, training hard for his (Bronze?) medal, with a bright future ahead. Me, an absolute nobody with two left feet & no self-confidence.

But the moment he grabbed me, we connected. I somehow knew what he needed me to do. Something happened to me, as soon as I've become part of this.......(I didn't even have a word for it)....this....... medium where my soul came out and flirted passionately with this music I have loved since a previous life-time.

That was the moment my passion was ignited. Still burning strong today 8) . I have two people to thank for this: Fernando, the first teacher who saw my passion & believed in me. Adam, *kiss* wherever you are today.

[Bronzestudent]

Woah, I just realized I'm in the Salsa forum! Which is fine, I just didn't realize that yesterday. Anyways, I started taking Social Dancing my 2nd senior year in college, and really liked it. Those 2 hours a week were such a break from the heavier classes and responsibilities. Then I got completely out of it, but started taking private lessons after going back to a practice dance, and I've been going strong ever since.

I would always watch with admiration the more advanced dancers doing WCS and Quickstep, even Viennesse Waltz. I knew eventually I'd learn those dances, but Quickstep was so peculiar because I couldn't find anything that resembled a basic step in it. So a while after I started learning WCS, my teacher got me started on Quickstep! Wow, not easy, but loads of fun. It's not on the level I'm working on, but she likes to start people on some dances before they are to that level so they can start having fun dancing it. So, while there are other things involved, like the fact that I really enjoy it, and when I get married, I want my wife and I to be really together, and dancing is a great way to help that out, the period of time when I started learning Quickstep, quite recently actually, is when I said, "I want to put lot's of effort in this and keep learning so it will be as fun as possible." Yeah, and girls really like it when you teach them a dance move or two!

Salsa, by the way, is one dance I want to learn more of, but there's not much of an outlet for it here. Like, if I learn very much more, I'll know more than the folks I dance with, so I won't hardly get to use it!

[HothouseSalsero]

You didn't know you had walked into our rumba? Maybe one of the moderators could relocate your thread to the General Dance section, so you can get a broader range of responses.

Which partner dances are most popular where you live?

[pygmalion]

That's it. I've gotta quit that nasty habit I have of sleeping! I completely missed your posts until now, Bronzestudent. Welcome to the forums! :D

My dance epiphany? Don't know. But if I had to guess, I'd say the day of my first studio exhibition, when I'd been dancing about three months. It was such a high! So the next day, when I was called into the sales office after my critique, I signed up for a pile of lessons (I don't remember if it was fifty or a hundred, but a lot), and I told the studio owner, "what we're doing is great, but I really want to DANCE." That is the first time I was consciously aware of the probability that dance would be a big part of the rest of my life.

[Bronzestudent]

Which partner dances are most popular where you live?

Excellent, I've been relocated here to the General Discussion area!

At the dances I go to, in Southwestern Kentucky, dances like Foxtrot and Waltz are most popular. I'd like to get more Merengue played, but my teacher's husband, who also teaches and DJ's the dances, only plays 1 or 2 a night. Also lots of of East Coast Swing. It's all American Style, so mainly dances that appeal to people that are into Social Dancing a couple times a month. County Western Line and Partner dancing is popular, but not many teachers in the area. We don't do anything more than maybe 2 Texas Two Steps and one Electric Slide a night. Electric Slide is a fun group dance that everybody around here should learn.

[pygmalion]

I love that signature line of yours, btw, Bronzestudent. 8) :D

[Pacion]

I don't remember ever "getting fired up". I remember loving it and "knowing it". One of my early childhood memories - I was about three or four years old and asked my godmother for dancing lessons as my birthday present. :oops: Thinking about it, I don't remember if I knew what "dance lessons" were, I just knew I wanted them :shock:. One of my aunts says that I was dancing before I could walk :oops: so I can only guess that I was always "fired up" :D

[delamusica]

I started dancing with a bunch of my friends during my first year of high school, so it was always a fun, social thing to do. When we were at our first competition I got my first glimpse of the pro latin couples and just said "I want to do that!" - Love at first sight, and I've been dancing ever since!

[Sabor]

i was born with it.. and for that alone i'm truelly thankful :P