Weirdest character you've ever danced with?

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pygmalion

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Who is the strangest person you've ever danced with?

Mine was a gentleman who was recovering from a life-threatening brain injury. He was up and dancing, which is great. He just didn't GET it. So I, and almost everybody else he danced with, spent a lot of time explaining things to him in group classes.


Don't get me wrong. I was aware of the blessing that his life was. My brother also had a brain injury, and I wish he could dance. But this guy was WEIRD, in capital letters. He could barely speak clearly. He was a rough lead. It took five or six or more explanations for him to get really basic paterns, and so on. But I gladly danced with him, just to celebrate life, if that makes any sense.

So who's the strangest, weirdest, most Addams Family, person you've ever danced with?
 
A guy at our studio is extremely nervous. When you dance with him he looks straight at you and licks his lips a lot. Gives a lot of women the creeps. In between dances he strolls back and forth along the edge of the dancefloor just staring at people.

I know it is probably because he is a nervous person, and I try to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it is really weird and creeps a lot of people out (myself included). :evil:
 
A Japanese guy I know. He knows all the steps, but has no sense of style whatsoever. He likes to do all those arm-over-head complicated moves, which he doesn't execute smoothly, knotting my hair in his arms and hands and swinging me wildly around the floor(is this SALSA?!)!!! Aside from that, the guy sweats BIG TIME, which is OK at the beginning of the evening but he apparently doesn't wear deodorant!!! :shock: (Note: Most Japanese do not have an odor when they perspire, but the ones that do REALLY STINK!!!)
 
Oh just remembered another one!

Swing and Triple swing are usually the dances I have no problem following, regardless of the lead. But I danced with a guy one night who was quite good, but so highly stylised I couldn't follow him! As if he was dancing for him, and had no interest in connecting and leading me at all!

That was weird! :shock:
 
back when i used to contra dance there was a guy who would occasionally wear makeup, a bonnet, & bright red high heels and dance as a follow. it was not pretty.
 
tsb said:
back when i used to contra dance there was a guy who would occasionally wear makeup, a bonnet, & bright red high heels and dance as a follow. it was not pretty.
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OMG! What a laugh. I can imagine it wasn't funny to you at the time, though?
 
Can I nominate myself :oops: in a nice way of course :wink: :lol: I will dance around poles or sometimes just be inspired by the guy I am dancing with who then has a heart attack because he was not expecting me to do what ever it is I did - such as remove the hat he is wearing and play with it as if it were a prop especially for me :twisted: :lol:[/i]
 
tsb said:
back when i used to contra dance there was a guy who would occasionally wear makeup, a bonnet, & bright red high heels and dance as a follow. it was not pretty.
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Yowzuh, was this gay awareness week, or was the guy just a transvestitie? :lol:
 
tsb said:
back when i used to contra dance there was a guy who would occasionally wear makeup, a bonnet, & bright red high heels and dance as a follow. it was not pretty.
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Lol! Sounds familiar:

Back in Seattle, there is a very large transsexual (a friend said that s/he has already had the operation) who asked me to dance.

As one who doesn't care for the snobbishness in the scene, I made it my policy to not turn anyone down who asks me. Regardless of who it is.

So I danced with her. I'm sure it was a hilarious sight - I'm all of 5'4" and she is about 6'2". :shock:
 
The strangest person I've ever danced with was while helping a friend teach an ECS class at our local university. This little white kid was really skinny, had the mega-afro, and when dancing had no sense of frame whatsoever. It was like dancing with Gumby. His feet were robotically doing the step, step, rock-step portion....but his arms...I can't really describe it. He had me by the hands, but he was flapping his arms like a chicken although there was no tension at all. I could have smacked him in the face with his own hand if I had a mind to (I hate ending sentences with a preposition).

By the end...I was frustrated and swore to never dance with Gumby again.
 
TemptressToo said:
I could have smacked him in the face with his own hand if I had a mind to (I hate ending sentences with a preposition).
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You're not ending it with a preposition, so you're cool. The "rule" you're thinking of applies to splitting up prepositional phrases. Here, "to" is part of an infinitive that was dropped, so it's part of a verbal phrase.
 
Actually, it isn't completely improper, I just don't like to do it. It is the very nit-picky Business English class (ruled by the all might Gregg Reference Manual) that is coming out in me. I just don't like the looks of it and typically try to re-word my sentences to fix it.
 
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