Got To Learn How To Dance

From: Jim Browski (jimbrowski@beer.com)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 07:35:46 CET

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    I feel a bit awkward and embarrassed asking this, but it's something I've been wanting
    to do for a long, long time, and I figured there may be some b-boys and jazz dancers
    subscribed to this list (and it's also something I've never seen discussed on this list
    either)..

    I've been collecting funk, soul, jazz, house, hip hop, latin, brazilian, etc for a few
    years now, and I attend as many parties as I can, and although I've got my few standard
    dance steps that I stick to, without looking like a complete idiot, it's just not
    enough.. I need to be able to throw it down with some of the jazz dancers/b-boys I've
    seen battling at various parties, and my macarena and grandma's funky buttered pop corn
    just isn't doing it anymore. I imagine most of these people grow up and form crews with
    their friends and teach each other different steps and such, or maybe they've been in
    dance classes since they were young, or maybe they learnt everything they know just by
    going to parties and battling other dancers, but either way, if you didn't have the
    chance to grow up in this kind of environment, and none of your friends are very good
    at dancing, where do you start? I mean, I'm 23 now, and although I know it's never too
    late to learn something new, I just don't know where to go first. I've tried doing
    some searches on the internet for dance schools, but I really have no clue what I
    should be looking for in a school. What I definitely don't want to sign up for is
    swing lessons.. Anything but that.

    I don't want to take some ridiculously beginner class either for people who have never
    danced in their life and can't hold a rhythm (although I'm far from spectacular, I can
    at least dance in beat - or at least that's what I think I'm doing when I'm doing my
    thang ;)

    Is there anyone out there that can point me in some direction? From what I've seen so
    far, most of the schools are offering Salsa/latin, Ballroom, Tap, Ballet, and Jazz..
    What are most jazz classes like? I'm interested in being able to dance to the kind of
    tunes you'd find on the Hi Hat Jazz Dance sessions/Jazz Bizniz comps.. Nutherin' Like
    Tutherin' and the sort. But also funk as in Keb Darge and the like. Do dance schools
    even teach this kind of thing, or would I be better off speaking to one of the dancers
    at a party and see what they say?

    Thanks,

    Jim Browski

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