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Are We Just Blues Dancing?

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  • Posted Saturday, March 1, 2008
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REFER TO: http://www.yehoodi.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=82610&start=0

I feel the line between blues dancing and something more is getting blurred. You meet someone attractive and interesting, ask them to dance, and have an amazing blues dance with them. Sometimes you think it might be more than a dance, alas, it's not. Besides asking "...What was that?" How else can one tell? There is the vibe, of course, but that can be ambiguous. What do you do to know whether you and that cute person you just danced with just danced rather than something else?

Discuss, discuss.

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  • Joined 10/28/00
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  • Post #1
  • Originally posted Saturday, March 1, 2008 (4 years ago)

Get a room. (just kidding)

If you have to ask-- she's probably not feeling what you are feeling.

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  • Post #2
  • Originally posted Saturday, March 1, 2008 (4 years ago)

Just ask outright:

Did we just [bleep]?

Be prepared for any answer. But at least you will know.

  • Joined 9/1/06
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  • Post #3
  • Originally posted Saturday, March 1, 2008 (4 years ago)

Some gals really throw the sexual vibe out there. A good way is to see them dance with a few other guys, if it looks just as intense as the dances she has with you, there you go. Conversation helps measure where things are.

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  • Post #4
  • Originally posted Sunday, March 2, 2008 (4 years ago)
Quoted from "dontmeanathing"
A good way is to see them dance with a few other guys, if it looks just as intense as the dances she has with you, there you go.

that's a good point! of course, she could just be a slut...

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  • Post #5
  • Originally posted Sunday, March 2, 2008 (4 years ago)

I hate "blues dancing."

  • Joined 12/19/99
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  • Post #6
  • Originally posted Sunday, March 2, 2008 (4 years ago)

actually Celia hates it too but I force her to go and and dance with me like that in public. :-)

  • Joined 8/2/02
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  • Post #7
  • Originally posted Sunday, March 2, 2008 (4 years ago)

Well, I think that's a tricky situation too. The way I read if a guy likes me in "that way" is if he asks me to dance 2 or three in a row, and doesn't seem to want to let me go... It's a fine line between "creepy and acceptable". :P

Same way with me, if I "like" a guy, I might not want to let him go after only one dance. Now this does not apply if the first dance was started in the middle of a song and was really brief.

I can crush on a guy pretty easily if we have a really good blues connection. :oops:

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  • Post #8
  • Originally posted Sunday, March 2, 2008 (4 years ago)
Quoted from "Martini Slayer"
I can crush on a guy pretty easily if we have a really good blues connection. :oops:

and it helps if they're latin. :)

  • Joined 11/19/07
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  • Post #9
  • Originally posted Sunday, March 2, 2008 (4 years ago)

Unless there's post dance follow up, it's nothing personal. Play-acting is part of dancing too-- some leads/follows and songs seem to call for hamming it up, some for playing the hot sexy card.

  • Joined 10/6/99
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  • Post #10
  • Originally posted Sunday, March 2, 2008 (4 years ago)

...[sigh]... and I guess it's a good sign if your jaw is sore the next morning...

[sigh]...

  • Joined 10/5/06
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  • Post #11
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)

I just had some really intense blues dances (with the same guy) at a late night party last night.

Wow! my legs are still wobbly...

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  • Post #12
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)

Yes, you're just blues dancing.

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  • Post #13
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)

Doesn't this stuff just apply to dancing in general? Isn't a good flirt a good flirt just on general principal?

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  • Post #14
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)
Quoted from "Summer Solstice Girl"
I just had some really intense blues dances (with the same guy) at a late night party last night. Wow! my legs are still wobbly...

It was an awesome party, wasn't it? :wink:

you just got to listen to the music, 'cause it's talkin' to you man! -frankie http://www.zazzle.com/anarchyforpresident

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  • Post #15
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)
Quoted from "Dr. Feelgood"
Doesn't this stuff just apply to dancing in general? Isn't a good flirt a good flirt just on general principal?

I would've thought so ... :roll:

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.

  • Joined 1/7/04
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  • Post #16
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)

If you're dancing real blues dances, you have about as much of a chance of wondering if there was something more to it as you would dancing lindy hop. :-P

  • Joined 10/5/06
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  • Post #17
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)
Quoted from "pill_popper"
Quoted from "Summer Solstice Girl"
I just had some really intense blues dances (with the same guy) at a late night party last night. Wow! my legs are still wobbly...
It was an awesome party, wasn't it? :wink:

And how!!!!

I have to admit I was ready for something else... But! the guy ended up making out with some other girl :shrug:

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  • Post #18
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)

As Dawn Hampton said to me one day while we were being all chummy and like TOT best friends... s

Swing dancing is the safest sex around!

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  • Post #19
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)
Quoted from "Beckto"
...[sigh]... and I guess it's a good sign if your jaw is sore the next morning... [sigh]...

Especially if it's from getting punched.

Also, watch out for "chapstick"...

Martinis do not contain vodka. —Rachel Maddow

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  • Post #20
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)

Does anyone else get just a little bit creeped out if your partner keeps making sound effects. A "yeah baby" here and there is awesome, but I've felt straight-up violated and wanted to call the automated blues molestor hotline when someone starts with the moans.

"Hello and thank you for calling the blues molestor hotline. If you know the name of your molestor push 1. To choose from a list of molestors push 2. If you are the molestor push 3..."

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  • Post #21
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)

"Yeah Baby?" Nice...you must be fun to dance with!

I can't imagine someone giving sound effects/commentary during the dance no matter if it's lindy or blues. I've heard grunts and heavy breathing during both, but it's still kind of odd.

Doesn't matter - blues, tango, salsa, lindy...it's either really funny (it would be funny if I knew the person well), or really strange. Still that's a bit much...

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  • Post #22
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)
Quoted from "goofball"
Does anyone else get just a little bit creeped out if your partner keeps making sound effects. A "yeah baby" here and there is awesome, but I've felt straight-up violated and wanted to call the automated blues molestor hotline when someone starts with the moans. "Hello and thank you for calling the blues molestor hotline. If you know the name of your molestor push 1. To choose from a list of molestors push 2. If you are the molestor push 3..."

You are a weird, weird lady. And that's saying a lot coming from me!

HIYO!

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  • Post #23
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)
Quoted from "Beckto"
Quoted from "goofball"
Does anyone else get just a little bit creeped out if your partner keeps making sound effects. A "yeah baby" here and there is awesome, but I've felt straight-up violated and wanted to call the automated blues molestor hotline when someone starts with the moans. "Hello and thank you for calling the blues molestor hotline. If you know the name of your molestor push 1. To choose from a list of molestors push 2. If you are the molestor push 3..."
You are a weird, weird lady. And that's saying a lot coming from me! HIYO!

We should run away together...

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  • Post #24
  • Originally posted Monday, March 3, 2008 (4 years ago)

Yes... yes, maybe we should.

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  • Post #25
  • Originally posted Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (4 years ago)

I've had several blues dances, especially when I first started, with guys who would turn on the "emotional connection" at the beginning of the dance and switch it off at the end. It bugged me a lot, since it seemed manipulative and faked. When we had a couple of classes on developing emotional connection during the dance, I figured that's where it was coming from. If I barely know someone's name, I don't want him Vulcan mind-melding at me. :pukeymae: If anyone seems like he's trying for that type of "connection" (even without doing anything physically out of line), I back off, and that usually is enough to discourage him. Since I'm in a relationship now, even if it were genuine instead of the instant-oatmeal chemistry, I still don't want to go there.

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  • Post #26
  • Originally posted Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (4 years ago)

That "emotional connection" didn't even make sense, I don't even think anyone is talking that up any longer. Ridiculous.

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  • Post #27
  • Originally posted Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (4 years ago)

I don't know if they're still doing those kinds of classes, this started 2 years ago, and was still happening last year. I haven't been going dancing as much since I got into my current relationship - he doesn't have any objections, but I just don't have as much time. Anyway, even if they don't call it "emotional connection" that feeling of them turning on the sexual/emotional vibes or "you're my soulmate for the next 3 1/2 minutes" is disconcerting, and I assumed that was what the OP was referring to.

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  • Post #28
  • Originally posted Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (4 years ago)

I agree, Whisper. That's crap and I hate it. :-P

I'll take plain old dance chemistry, thanks. :) There are sometimes dancers your personality just clicks with. They're the ones that, lindy, tango, blues, salsa, polka, whatever, you always end up having the most fun with because your personalities and styles of dancing are compatible. There's nothing creepy about that.

But the only person I really want to have a deep, fraught emotional connection with PERIOD is my husband, but especially on the dance floor. I'd rather see more people connect with the music (and by that I mean actually listen to it and dance appropriately to it) than with each other. :-P

Anyway, this is a parody thread and I'm sure our very serious comments will be ridden out of town on a rail.

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  • Post #29
  • Originally posted Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (4 years ago)

Oh. My. God.

I REALLY hate "blues dancing" now. What a bunch of crap.

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  • Post #30
  • Originally posted Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (4 years ago)

That's okay, Beckto. "Blues dancing" hates you, too.

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