Do you dance with your father?

SO my dad can't dance... at all :lol: But my mom on the other hand danced socially all through college. She and I get to have these really great conversations about dancing, and I've almost convinced her to take a Hustle class with me (I've never done it and she hasn't done it since college). Maybe together we can teach my dad to dance :P
 
I dance with my mom! :D

All the time actually. Being 16, she is in the process of teaching me how to dance. So we do it all the time, at home, at ballroom... A little Salsa, Cumbia, Waltz, Cha-Cha, and Hustle we do a lot together.
 
My father wouldn't be caught dead on a dance floor--and has no understanding of what the attraction is to me. :(

My husband dances with our daughter--she is the one who got us all started dancing--hopefully she'll appreciate the memories when she gets older, even though their relationship is a little strained right now. I dance with her a lot, too--or at least did, until she ran off to college last week!

I got to dance with our son at his wedding last month! It was really sweet, not anything structured.
 
Good day everyone,

A very nice and interesting thread. I do beg forgiveness for barging in with my same old types of questions.

I assume most people (myself including) dance with their parents or family members on some occasions.

My question is, how many of you dance or danced tango with your immediate family members? If you did, was it different than dancing with other people? Meaning, do you dance tango to the fullest when dancing with family, with ganchos, leg wraps, etc?

Thanks in advance,

Kakarot.
 
kakarot said:
Good day everyone,

A very nice and interesting thread. I do beg forgiveness for barging in with my same old types of questions.

I assume most people (myself including) dance with their parents or family members on some occasions.

My question is, how many of you dance or danced tango with your immediate family members? If you did, was it different than dancing with other people? Meaning, do you dance tango to the fullest when dancing with family, with ganchos, leg wraps, etc?

Thanks in advance,

Kakarot.
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That presupposes that there are people here on D-F who dance AT, and whose parents/family members dance AT. That's a tall order.

My dad doesn't dance, really, and certainly not AT. If he did...I would probably feel very awkward dancing CE with him. As non-sexual as the dance is to me, there would be something different about it being my father. If, OTOH, I grew up in an environment where it was normal for him to dance AT...I imagine I would feel much different.

Regarding the OP... My mom was always dancing around the kitchen to whatever music she happened to be blaring at eardrum-bleeding volume at the time. She would drag anyone who veered too close into it and propel them around the kitchen as well. Nothing even remotely close to BR, or even anything recognizable as freestyle, but she was happy. Dad knew to stay out of reach. :)

My mom's parents don't dance for religious reasons. I remember seeing my dad's parents dance on a couple of occasions (weddings, 50th anniversary)...just hug'n'sway.

There was no dancing going on at my wedding, so I never got to dance with my Dad then. I did get to dance with him at my brother's wedding. Midway through the first dance they separated and my brother got my mom and his wife got her dad...I had been told in advance to grab my father and dance with him. That.was.HARD. Very special, but very difficult...both of us very aware that this was the father/daughter dance we didn't have from my wedding, him apologizing for not knowing how to dance like I did, me telling him that didn't matter to me, both of us trying to joke to keep from crying.

Hmmmm...crying now...
 
My parents danced (folk dance) when I was growing up. My father was in a performing group but my mother only danced socially. They would occasionally bring us to performances when it wasn't too inconvenient to have a bunch of children (there were five of us). They didn't dance at home, so it wasn't until I was almost in college that I danced with my dad.

My dad took me to a beginning folk dance class in the summer before I left for college to get me started. At that time, the folk commnuity was splitting into different types and after that first summer I mostly learned the dances done by the younger people -- line dances from the Balkans and Israel -- while my parents stuck to the partner dances done by the older people. We went to different classes and parties, and rarely danced together. For a while we danced at the same recreation center on the same night -- the "old" people in one room and the younger ones in another. That was over thirty years ago, and the SAME "old" people are still dancing in the same room and the same "young" people are in the other ... except that the "young" people are now all over fifty. My parents stopped going to the old group well before DH and I started up again with the young group. (We essentially stopped dancing for 15-20 while we raised our children.)

My dad and I didn't do a formal father-daughter dance at our wedding ... we just danced. DH and I did a waltz once around the floor, then we pulled everyone else in ... well, we pulled in the dancers. There were a few miscellaneous non-dancing friends and relatives in attendance.

My mom has health problems and hasn't danced in years. My dad is also slowing down, but he still dances. He's been taking classes at a community college, including ballroom and West Coast Swing. He's come to a ballroom social with us a couple of times. He also came with me to our WCS teacher's latest "musicality" workshop.

And ... our daughter dances. She's done a couple of showcases with DH, and loves to dance with him. But she won't go to most socials with us because she doesn't like to dance with men she doesn't know. She would prefer us to go back to the studio where we started and where she still takes lessons. Maybe someday .....

Hmm ... our daughter has danced with my dad only playing around at family gatherings ... we need to get them together someplace with a decent floor ....
 
Not with my dad. But I do dance with Ruby our dog - she eats my socks and yaps :mrgreen: Maybe I should youtube it or wotever you call it these days.
 
Thanks for resurrecting this thread.

I always thought my father was the best dancer *ever* and wanted someday to be able to dance as well as he did. He has great rhythm, terrific style, and, I now know, basically does the Carolina Shag to pretty much everything. As I've progressed from group classes to private lessons, we've occasionally had some first-class fun doing Kitchen Dance, and he's noticed the changes in me as a dancer. But also, as the years have gone by (he's 89 now), his health has changed, and he now has balance issues, so we don't Kitchen Dance as much as we used to.

This summer, when I did my first comp, he was there in a ringside seat, a memory I treasure.
 
j_alexandra said:
This summer, when I did my first comp, he was there in a ringside seat, a memory I treasure.
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I also treasure the memory that my parents were there when DH and I did our first big showcase outside of our studio ... a Viennese Waltz routine in March 2006. They sat through the entire day -- 8 a.m. to early evening -- of alternating competitive rounds and showcases because we were only no. 9 (of how many?) in the entire day! And when the competitive part was over there was only a short break before dinner and general dancing and a floor show. My mom could hardly walk when it was time to go home. I think I got in one general dance with my dad ... it was before he took up ballroom so he was shy about getting out on the floor.

(Hijack: I went back to my records to check the date ... I found the judge's comments for our competitive rounds on the same day ... one was "well rehearsed" for our waltz ... which was great, except that we used routines only for showcase dances, not for competition.)
 
kakarot said:
Good day everyone,

A very nice and interesting thread. I do beg forgiveness for barging in with my same old types of questions.

I assume most people (myself including) dance with their parents or family members on some occasions.

My question is, how many of you dance or danced tango with your immediate family members? If you did, was it different than dancing with other people? Meaning, do you dance tango to the fullest when dancing with family, with ganchos, leg wraps, etc?

Thanks in advance,

Kakarot.
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I think you might find this thread an interesting read: http://danceforums.com/showthread.php?t=26892. :)
 
i think my parents are still trying to figure out the mystery of where in our family tree did i inherit the interest in dancing...i dont ever remember in my lifetime ever seeing my parents try to dance to music
 
Well my first introduction do dancing was social and so my whole family would go and dance. I started taking it more seriously and take lessons and the such but my parents still dance at the socials. Every time we go to a social it is tradition to ask my mom at least once. The problem is that she only ever dances with my dad and he doesn't lead, so whenever he wants to do a move he tells her exactly what he is doing! Obviosly, this makes it very hard to dance with my mom and try to lead! Oh well, it is still fun!
 
Nate F. said:
Well my first introduction do dancing was social and so my whole family would go and dance. I started taking it more seriously and take lessons and the such but my parents still dance at the socials. Every time we go to a social it is tradition to ask my mom at least once. The problem is that she only ever dances with my dad and he doesn't lead, so whenever he wants to do a move he tells her exactly what he is doing! Obviosly, this makes it very hard to dance with my mom and try to lead! Oh well, it is still fun!
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Maybe when you dance with your mom, your dad should stand nearby and call out the moves for the two of you to dance. ;)
 
Not the same thing, I know, but did my daughter's (9 yrs) first father/daughter dance recently. Don't know who was more proud; she or I?
 
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