waltzguy
Active Member
So perhaps the solution is to ask these few student types and dance with them, and guide them towards better floorcrafting. Takes care of two issues at once. :bouncy:
Social Dancing - People Who Ignore You at the Start
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So perhaps the solution is to ask these few student types and dance with them, and guide them towards better floorcrafting. Takes care of two issues at once. :bouncy:
samina
Well-Known Member
not sure what advanced dancers in attendance have to do with my comment, versus intermediate dancers, for example. and it's not a standard i wish to impose on anyone. but it is certainly an attitude that is beneficial for anyone to generally adopt...
samina
Well-Known Member
hah... good one.
hey, what goes around comes around. there will never be a substitute for graciousness and generosity.
Chris Stratton
New Member
Your comment is an example of the kind of implied obligation attitude which helps keep advanced dancers away.
You don't wish to impose it, but you are certain... certain based on what? What factors did you weigh in your certain analysis?
Thanks.Seriously, this ought to be posted up on plaques in every ballroom.
As to the other main line of discussion on this thread, a social dance is a place for social dancing. Not for instruction. For a lot of us, it's why we take the lessons, so we can have more fun dancing socially. And if a beginner isn't dancing socially, I don't know how they are ever going to learn lead or follow.
Chris Stratton
New Member
... because a social is of course the only setting in which a leader might be in the habit of varying or improvising on a whim or to play off someone else's unexpected movement...
Chris Stratton
New Member
No argument here, but try explaining that to folks for whom the routine is synonymous with dancing.
wooh
Well-Known Member
Watch it sam, there's only one person here that gets to be certain about every single thing that's typed on their keyboard, and sounds like you might be stepping on their toes...
danceronice
Forum Master
lol.
I'm trying to understand some of the statements I'm reading from those of the opinion that "advanced" dancers should feel no guilt about avoiding newbie cooties.
1) Do beginners have a place at social dances?
2) Would an obligation to dance one dance in ten with a beginner be enough to keep you from going to a particular social dance?
These are of course purely hypothetical questions. If someone is willing to answer yes to the second, I'm prepared to just let it go, because I can't bridge that gap.
1) Do beginners have a place at social dances?
2) Would an obligation to dance one dance in ten with a beginner be enough to keep you from going to a particular social dance?
These are of course purely hypothetical questions. If someone is willing to answer yes to the second, I'm prepared to just let it go, because I can't bridge that gap.
1. Yes, definitely.
2. Personally -- I like dancing with beginners, and I like that people danced with me when I was a beginner. And, I think that folks should spend some time dancing with people less experienced than themselves (how could things work, otherwise?). But if there were an actual obligatory number set down somewhere, I'd probably balk.
I'm actually curious what criteria people think cause the term "advanced" to be pertinent.
ireniecat
New Member
I don't think it's like that at all. I think the point was that given an option of dancing with a newbie versus dancing with someone at a similar level, the "advanced" dancers would choose to dance with those of a similar level because it's more fun. And that in such a case, it's simply a matter of personal enjoyment and not deliberate snobbery or avoidance of newbies.