Do you dance with your father?

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KevinL

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Or your mother, for that matter?

Lots of women getting married do father/daughter dances, and men getting married sometimes do mother/son dances as well. How often have you danced with a parent?

Do you have memories of learning to dance by standing on your parents feet? Did your parents teach you to dance?

Just curious, 8^)

Kevin
 
My parents did not tecah me to dance. My dad is an excellent dancer but somehow he didn't want to or couldn't tecah me. My mother is a total dutz. She is one of those who gets really flustered and can't keep to the beat, and doesn't know where to move her feet...

Next time I go and visit my parents I'm going to do so at christmas time. Then I'm going to get my mother dancing. Hopefully there will be an event that she has to attend and then I'll have my way with her. :twisted: But that is still a ways off.
 
My Dad is the first guy I recall dancing with. He would often dance around the house :lol:. On a Sunday evening, a certain radio station would play classical music including Strauss for about 3 hours or so? He would grab whoever was nearest and start dancing with us :lol:

One of the last occassions I remember dancing with him took place a few years ago. I went to visit, and we were washing the car in the driveway. Some song - Frank Sinatra or Shirley Bassey or something like that - was playing and he took me and we were slipping and sliding in the soap suds on the ground. As the song came to an end, we suddenly heard clapping :shock: our next door neighbour's son and some young friends of his were watching us over the fence :lol: I went bright red but my Dad just laughed :oops:
 
:cry: I love my Daddy. :cry:

He was the first dancer in my life. Not a very good dancer, but he loves dancing, and danced a lot of swing around the house when I was little. He's almost 81, so he's a real 30's/40's era swing kid. He didn't dance so well to the freestyle stuff my older siblings loved in the sixties and seventies, but he still danced.

And he loves classical music, but Viennese waltzes most of all. Gotta call tonight. 8)
 
The only time I ever danced with my father before he died was a function I went to in my mid teens (14 maybe). Everyone got up for a progressive barn dance. The waltz part at the end of the barn dance is more of a side together side skipping type of movement, rather than an actual waltz. I was moving around the circle and came upon my dad. When it came time to do the waltz part, he actually did proper waltz! I was shocked because I didn't know he could dance at all.

Unfortunately he died a couple of years later, and I never got the chance to dance with him again. I often wonder what he would think if he danced with me now.
 
OK, since this is getting so sad and depressing...

My Dad (who is 47) is not a trained dancer at all. However, growing up we always had fun doing this strange little polka looking thing (where I mostly resemble a rag doll being tossed about).

I just LOVE embarassing my boyfriend when we go bowling. Anytime Daddy or I get a strike...we hope up, go into closed position, and do our little polka thing in a circle.

SO funny...

I'm a Daddy's Girl, can you tell?
 
Believe me, when your Dad is 81 like mine, being able to call and talk with him will NOT be depressing. Not at all. 8) :D

That said, if the title of this thread was,"do you dance with A father," my response would have been totally different. My SO is a father, and he's a fun dancer. But, truth be told, he's a fun and really good freestyle dancer. He's just not my Dad. A Dad, just not mine. :D
 
I am a Daddy's girl too, but he has too many left feet :shock: :lol: ........

There IS a story though. My best friend Monica's dad had always been a REALLY serious kinda dad, until he had his first stroke. After that he was so much more fun to be with.......even took the time to dance at salsa events with us.

One night in '96 (I think?) a bunch of us went salsa dancing, M's dad did a fabulous merengue with me, then he announced that he was going home coz he'd had his fun & now tired. He died that night in his sleep.

I had my best friend's dad's last dance :cry: :notworth: :cry: ........
 
My grandmother (my Father's Mother) was Venezuelan, and had a brother who was a professional dancer until he was diagnosed with polio at 19. My Father grew up in a household that was full of music and dance, but never actually got "into" dancing, and though he is a very passionate person, dancing was never one of his passions. But, to this day, he does dance a bit, though never on a dancefloor, and never with anyone but me or his wife. I remember when Sally Potter's "Tango Lesson" came to vhs. We rented it, watched it together, and he would tango walk me around the house, doing his best medio corte and tango rocks. :lol:
 
I remember dancing with my father, I can't remember many specific situations, but bits and pieces of memories...dancing at weddings...dancing to my old Beach Boys record in the backyard...dancing at family parties...dancing at my Brownies' Father-Daughter dances...etc. He always does the same steps, a variation of ECS, simple but fun.

I've tried to get my mother to come dancing with me; she and my dad are divorced, and I think it would really be great for her to come out dancing! But she always declines, saying she's not coordinated enough. Maybe I can get her to just come and watch sometime, at least. :D
 
Thanks for the replies ladies!

I'm hoping my daughter has some nice memories when she gets older.

Does anyone else have a good story about dancing with thier dad? Or for the guys, dancing with your mom?

Kevin
 
My parents took a few dance lessons from my last partner, and they loved it. They would bring the boombox out into the empty garage in the evenings to practice. I dance with my dad every chance I get, at weddings and parties. The lessons they took were a couple years ago, but my dad remembers everything, from samba, swing, and rumba, to waltz, foxtrot, and tango. He dances with my mom when I'm not pulling him onto the floor. He's great!
 
I am the father and I get my daughter to dance with me every time she comes from NZ to see me. Proud daddy, happy daddy.
Once she gets over the embarassment she likes it (or at least that's what I keep telling myself).
D-spot
(softy)
 
Hmm, maybe the title of this thread should be "do you dance with your family members?" :)

My parents were never into dancing, although I know that they danced at their wedding...and I think my dad may have taken some Ballroom when he was a kid, I'll have to ask him. My mother passed away several years before I started dancing, so unfortunately we never got to dance. However, I know that she's watching me out there while I'm dancing...:D ;)

I did learn recently that my father's parents were avid social dancers when they were younger...I believe someone in the family said "they used to really cut a rug"...so I need to make a point to ask them more about it. As my grandpa is from NY I really want to find out if he ever did Mambo or any Latin dances...maybe this is why I'm so drawn to Salsa. :P

Best,

SG
 
The last (and only) time I really remember dancing with my dad was at my wedding. Certainly nothing with form...My mom wants me to teach him now, so he might dance with her a little more.. She is losing her balance due to illness, so I"m not sure they will ever be out there like my mom visualizes...

And in the hopes that my daughter WILL be able to dance with her father...I am getting ready to start teaching my husband.
 
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