From talking to dancer friends, modern jive (and more often than not blues) dancers seems to be split between two main types of person. Those who just like to dance, who want to have fun, get a bit of exercise and just love to be out on the dancefloor throwing some moves and having a…
With the Rio Olympics drawing to a close, yet again there have been the discussions about what sports should be included and which aren’t really sports. Every Olympics means there are a handful of new sports introduced while others get dropped. I’m still asking why squash still hasn’t been included but that’s an argument for…
This blog might be focused largely on modern jive because that’s the dance style I mostly do myself. But I love most styles of dance and I’m keen to bring in other styles to What about Dance. Because that’s what modern jive is – a mash up of lots of different styles with every dancer…
After a conversation with my five year old where he asked me who I danced with, I realised that I’m really quite rubbish at finding out names of dancers. It’s strange though, because outside my dancing bubble, I’m not usually bad with names Embarrassingly a lot of our local dancers from the old days know…
When I first learnt to dance ceroc 8 years ago, the big aim always seemed to be learning dips and drops. I think we all saw people doing them and thought, wow they’re great dancers, I’d love to learn those. And men did throw them in quite frequently on the freestyle dance floor. Of course,…
I have a theory about doing dance classes . The theory is that learning a specific dance has made me even less likely to enjoy or be able to throw some shapes on the dancefloor at parties, clubs and weddings. Yes, I believe learning to dance modern jive (and salsa) have ruined me for disco…
When someone mentions dancing what images does it conjure up? Dad dancing at a wedding? The glamour of the 1940s Hollywood films with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire? Cool and funky street dance / pop videos Immaculate and elegant ballerinas? The showy and glitzy props of Strictly Come Dancing? Outwardly dance is seen as a…
