"Whoever started that should be horsewhipped!"

[jofjonesboro]

I was wondering what dance-floor trends other posters find annoying or objectionable. What do you see folks doing during a social dance that just irritates you?

My current peeve is samba line dancing. I don't know where or when this little fad started but it's becoming irksome to those of us who prefer our samba with a partner. At some social events, these folks are taking up two-thirds of the floor, limiting couples to a small area. If you like your samba to travel then you're just out of luck.

I've cast this question as a social-dancing issue but behavioral trends in competition could be just as annoying.

What makes you wonder "What #%$@&! came up with that idea?"

jj

 

[fascination]

I have been to places where that is the only samba folks know...particularly at studios that focus primarily on american styles...for me, I do enough drills that it is neither here nor there to me...but there are so few men around here that can samba that I almost prefer the line dance...now, if there was a man who can samba avilable, that would be another matter entirely

 

[jump'n'jive]

people that dance like they are at a competition on a social floor and doing drops and lifts. big arm styling and having no floorcraft.

 

[fascination]

people who dance gold steps with pre-bronze technique

 

[Lorelei]

Walking your partner onto the competition floor with your arms stuck out horizontal, straight and stiff.

Ugh, I hate that one too..

 

[DL]

I don't object to American-style dancing on the social dance floor. However, couples who stop suddenly, without checking their surroundings, in of all places a corner, and separate with arms and legs outstretched to claim a 4-meter-squared space for 4+ measures sometimes cause me some frustration.

 

[sambanada]

Ugh, I hate that one too..

agree!

 

[fascination]

Walking your partner onto the competition floor with your arms stuck out horizontal, straight and stiff.

zomg...yes...HATE...and ever notice that that person is practically never a good dancer?

 

[Purr]

Lots of stuff...dancing against the normal traffic pattern on the dance floor...holding up other dancers with a stationary movement when you should move to the center of floor...bad and/or otherwise no floorcraft...excessive arm styling, especially that might hurt someone...showing off in general...

 

[Casayoto]

Walking your partner onto the competition floor with your arms stuck out horizontal, straight and stiff.

Ugh, yes.

 

[Purr]

Walking your partner onto the competition floor with your arms stuck out horizontal, straight and stiff.

My first comp video show all kinds of odd stuff...walking out with pro with arm stuck straight out...looking like a very bad attempt at a courtesy to finish a dance...arm stuck straight out again...deer in the headlights look...but the worst was the "chicken wing" arm styling that crept into a lot of rhythm dances...oh well, live and learn...that was a long time ago...things got better

 

[Yanou]

When I judge amateur and collegiate comps I see this all the time coming from certain schools, as if they have a coach that is telling them it should be done this way, and they practice it and perfect it.

When I was a complete newbie, my old instructor told me to do it that way. I never felt comfortable doing it. Thank goodness my current instructor knows better.

 

[Griffico]

Walking your partner onto the competition floor with your arms stuck out horizontal, straight, and stiff.

YES!! And yet so many people do it...

 

[hereKittyKitty]

What's that move in swing where you go endlessly around in circles tapping each other on the back?....I hate that..

 

[Mengu]

Whats that move in swing where you go endlessly around in circles tapping each other on the back....I hate that..

Are you Don Quixote?