Aoki-san

[tsb]

For those of you who never saw the original japanese (and superior) version of shall we dance, aoki was the character whose everyday movements reflected his fixation on latin dance.

i've gotten used to occasionally noting that i'm doing a grapevine when moving sideways in an enclosed space, but last night, i was putting the aluminum foil away in the pantry using my right hand, and i discovered that i'd raised my left arm in symmetrical arm styling, hand shaping and all. i'm still kinda freaked out by it and curious to find out if other folks here have discovered themselves doing anything similar.

[tanya_the_dancer]

My husband commented a few times that when he wants to hug me, I automatically line myself up offset to the left, where I should be in proper closed hold, and never directly in front.

[fascination]

yep :)

[jjs914]

A friend noted, several weeks ago, that you can tell someone's a dancer by how he/she responds to having someone in his/her physical space. Someone who's not a dancer sort of pulls away. Someone who is a dancer stretches to fill the space!

;)

He was partially kidding, but it's true I think. A different way of subconsciously moving, a different way of subconsciously interpretting the space around us.

[wooh]

My husband commented a few times that when he wants to hug me, I automatically line myself up offset to the left, where I should be in proper closed hold, and never directly in front.

Hehe! I don't think my husband and I have hugged with our heads going right in years. :)

[TinyDancer109]

funny you should start this thread... i went on the annual vacation to lake george this year with my family about a week ago... and, as we do every year, we took the boat out to an island with some nice cliffs to go cliff jumping...

Because you dont want to hit the rocky cliff wall on your fall into the water, you need to have a running start to jump off of the cliffs...

Well, that's what i did. I ran, but scraped my toe on my run off the cliffs (took a whole chunk off)... BUT it was on the top part of my toe... on the knuckle right below my nail. My bf and family were baffled how i could have managed that... but my jazz and ballroom teachers know that dancers are trained to drag their feet! even while running (jazz runs)!

ETA: This prompted my bf to point out that dancing puts my life in danger and that i should probably find a less expensive hobby.. ::rollseyes::

[tanya_the_dancer]

I'd say jumping off the cliffs puts your life in danger whether you dance or not.

[Amanda Coyle]

There is a picture of me getting thrown into a pool. And I am instinctively pointing my toes. :)

[TinyDancer109]

I'd say jumping off the cliffs puts your life in danger whether you dance or not.

not as much as tripping off the cliffs ;)

[tsb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=262n5YHSvz8&feature=related

start at the seven minute mark