A long life in dancing?

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LovingIt28

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Hi Team,

How do people stick around the dance scene. Any similarities. I note there is a lot of drama/politics/ups and downs etc when dancing a long time.

Any similarities that you notice between people who last a long time and who do not?
 
I think you have to distance yourself from the politics, stay friends with eveyone, don't be judgmental, helps. It is a love of dancing that keeps people in the scene. :-) I think.
 
A need to dance. I mean a real, physical need - just like a writer has to write or a musician must play thier instrument. Its a mental defect thing :)

And when you can't dance anymore you dance through those that can..
 
We could start by cataloging the reasons people don't stick around. A few things that come to mind:

* Some people take up dancing primarily to try to meet someone. Eventually, either they do meet someone, or they give up trying.
* Some dancers eventually become no longer able to dance due to health problems. I've known a few that will still stick around, but in most cases, it seems that dancers who are unable to dance can't bear to be around dancing; it's too painful to watch others and not be able to do it. Or, maybe they can still dance somewhat, but not up to the standards that they hold themselves to, so they don't do it.
* I can think of two couples who no longer dance because circumstances of their lives have changed and they no longer have the money or time.
* Some dancers leave because the social aspect of the dance scene where they are is not to their liking. Usually, this is an age group thing.
* Sometimes people have to relocate, for job or family reasons, to an area where there is no dancing.
 
I think Cornutt said it all.

Ah, one more:

They DO meet somebody dancing but it goes sour and they quit to

* avoid them
* or because there is no place else to go than where the ex-SO is
* or they're emotionally too distraught to deal with the thought of dancing (too many memories, etc).
 
LovingIt28 said:
Hi Team,

How do people stick around the dance scene. Any similarities. I note there is a lot of drama/politics/ups and downs etc when dancing a long time.

Any similarities that you notice between people who last a long time and who do not?
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my experience - 12 years dancing with one partner. never been romantically involved.

we start do dance when I was 10 and he was 12 years old. we had fights (especially during the teenage time) and great times. we spent more time together than with our families. we stop competing because he opened a dance studio and we teach so much that we didn't have time to practice for competitions.

but I wanted to compete again and I started to look for another partner. ;)
 
I have a friend who started dancing the same time I did. In fact, we went to group classes for the first six months together, until she and I ended up taking from different teachers. She stopped dancing about a year ago. She said it was because of the money (she went thru hard financial times), but judging from the way her other "hobbies" have fared in the past, it seems to be more because she tends to take up a new "hobby", enjoy it for a while, then gets bored and moves on to another. To her, it was like bowling, or karaoke or going out county line dancing (meaning just another hobby). Luckily with me it ended up being something much more than a hobby that I will hopefully do the rest of my life. Funny how things turn out...
 
people who last a long time have inner fortitude and a deep abiding love for dance beyond how it may be connected to anything or anyone along the way...personally, I plan to go out listening to a cha cha and tapping my toe on the nursing home bedrail
 
I'm dying on the dance floor (or being carried off in a fiery chariot like that guy in the Old Testament). Dancerina at my studio told me to throw a party in her honor if she croaks on the hardwood.
 
I plan to die, at some far, far (far), future date at the age of about 110 in one of three ways (or more than one if I can manage it):
1. Shot in bed by my girlfriend's jealous husband.
2. Hammering my bicycle up one steep hill too many.
3. Burning up the dance floor with a partner young enough to be my granddaughter's granddaughter.
 
PretzelsAndBeer said:
I plan to die, at some far, far (far), future date at the age of about 110 in one of three ways (or more than one if I can manage it):
1. Shot in bed by my girlfriend's jealous husband.
2. Hammering my bicycle up one steep hill too many.
3. Burning up the dance floor with a partner young enough to be my granddaughter's granddaughter.
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I wouldn't have taken you for one who would date a married woman
 
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