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…
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…
We would all love to be the type of dancer that everyone wants to dance with. To have our dancing admired. And to be seen to enjoy our dancing whoever we’re dancing with. It doesn’t always happen like that, and when you look around a dance floor there’ll be certain characters you spot. Here’s my…
I remember having a conversation years ago with a salsa friend who was surprised I’d not been invited to join the performance group she was in. ‘Your dance technique is so much better than mine. I might be better on the performance side but my technique is sloppy compared to yours’. We both had a…
