Sheekle said:

I was gonna make a thread about dancing earlier today, and then I forgot to do it.

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TheMovement said:

Dancing is by far my favorite recreational activity.  High as a kite or a Sober Sally, i just love to get jiggy with it!

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morrowasted said:

i found that i actually dance pretty well. i dont think i ever would have discovered this without alcohol and dubstep

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Alcohol will loosen me up for surely and I've gigged while buzzed, but I feel very disconnected from my body and uncoordinated. Speaking of which, I don't understand how some folks can gig while on K, a teeny tiny bit is cool, but there's a fine line where I lose coordination in my movements.

Back a few years, around 2008, dubstep was what got me into even considering letting my body move around ...but it was only in the past year or two that I've really loosened up and found more music that I mesh with.

knightron said:

I need the right type of music to actually get into it.
I dance when i'm the only one around usually, this is because either i'm too cramped to express my self, or i end up getting to enthusiastic and hit people accidentally.
I look ridiculous too, my friends don't like it, and most people laugh at me.

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birdland said:

There's nothing that can compare to a good old stomp.

Dancing is something that I've only recently (last few years) began to enjoy too but it's really brought a whole new dimension to my life. I'm a big fan of dancing without shoes, be it dirt, mud or grass.

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It has for me as well. I have a friend that also prefers to dance with out shoes. I gave it a shot while at a festival last year, I started shedding some clothes while in my tent to cool off for a moment, and decided to leave my shoes and go back to the dance area with naked feet. As soon as I got up to the stage I couldn't hang and had to go back and put them on , it was pretty damn cold out, but the ground/dirt felt considerably warmer around the dance area. I dig walking around barefoot, but at the time it just wasn't happening.

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Dance is something that almost everyone could do with more of. Traditionally there was no separation between it and music and now we listen to music where we sit down, still, in concert halls for hours on end.

Of course some music encourages dancing far more than other music, and there are completely different approaches for different styles too.

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claraclairvoyant said:

i really like dancing but i mostly only do it alone in my apartment. i'll dance at parties or whatever but i can feel myself holding back. someone did compliment my moves at a party once though. also i find it harder to dance to music that i don't like, which is about the only thing clubs play.

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Get out of the clubs and find yourself some underground shin digs or outdoor festivals, or where ever your preferred flavor of music is played.

I won't do any more than a head bob to the beat, if that, if I'm not feeling the music.



I definitely don't hold back at all while in my room. I'm usually a bit up tight for a while when first stepping into the dance area at festivals and what not, but once I'm loosened up physically and mentally, and feeling the music, once one particular song grabs me, from there on everything just flows. I've recently found my self being able to let it all go much more easily while around a bunch of others at a festival. MDMA helps a lot , and is what really got things going for me in that department, but it is not required at this point for me to let go . I do love dancing on it though.




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openmind said:

I pretty much never go to shows or places where it's going to be cramped to the point I can't move around as I would like to, just not worth it to me, and this is why I like outdoor events because there's tons of room....I see pictures from some shows & things and the places look really crammed and packed, I don't see how people could actually dance around.

And aye, who cares how ridiculous you look...there's absolutely no proper way to dance, haters gonna hate.





-OM

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I hate when I have no room to dance, it completely kills my vibes.  I go out to shows for the purpose of dancing!  It's so frustrating when a venue overbooks their capacity and its just a huge shitshow.  I went to a dark star orchestra concert earlier last year and ended up leaving early because I had no room to move.  Was such a dissapointment.

I find myself dancing to so many different types of music, i just cant help but let the music flow through me.  Once you stop Giving a Fuck about what the people around you think and just let loose, thats when you have the time of your life.  And once you do let go, you'll find that you were judging yourself more harsh than the people around you do.

I love the quote about the music being the puppetmaster and you the marrionette, I think I may put it in my sig.

morrowasted said:

mdma honestly doesnt give me the dancing vibe as much as a good alcohol buzz

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For the longest time, and it still does to a certain extent, mdma would just puddle me down and make me want to chill and listen to the music rather than dance, I mean I'd want to dance but would be entirely too content with where I was to move anywhere . Not so much any more, I still dig just relaxing and laying about while on mdma, but there's much more of an urge to move & groove around, like I can't help it.

claraclairvoyant said:

dunno why i said 'clubs', i don't go to clubs lol. i guess i used it as an umbrella term for places i've been where people are dancing and the music sucks. i love dancing to the bee gees

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TheMovement said:

This sums up my feelings pretty welll:

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...Yus!


I've actually never seen the music video for that tune.

TheMovement said:

I hate when I have no room to dance, it completely kills my vibes.  I go out to shows for the purpose of dancing!  It's so frustrating when a venue overbooks their capacity and its just a huge shitshow.

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I find myself dancing to so many different types of music, i just cant help but let the music flow through me.  Once you stop Giving a Fuck about what the people around you think and just let loose, thats when you have the time of your life.  And once you do let go, you'll find that you were judging yourself more harsh than the people around you do.

I love the quote about the music being the puppetmaster and you the marrionette, I think I may put it in my sig.

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Well said ...and so very true, where once one can let go they'll find out they were the ones judging themselves the most all along....I didn't learn how to dance, I just stopped giving a shit, and all of a sudden there was nothing there holding back what wanted to come out in the first place.








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