The Meaning of the Dance

[Anonymous]

Alright, here is something I need to come to terms with.

I cannot dance.

My ladyfriend is like, "Let's dance!" all the time, and, unless she is leading and teaching me, I cannot dance.

This is why I do not go to clubs, even though I like clubbing music: techno, trance, etc.

Why can I not dance?

Pyschologically speaking, I think the nature of dance is sexual.

You express sexual feelings and desires through movement that you cannot express through words.

Men and women use dance to attract each other, to make themselves seem sexually appealing, to "seduce" or "lure" each other so to speak.

I cannot dance; I cannot express myself sexually since I am a very unsexual person.

What do you think the nature and meaning of dance is?

[Iskandar]

uh yeah. someone else put it pretty well - a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

[Symmetry]

Dance has the meaning whoever's dancing feels it does, just like everything else artistic out there. It doesn't have to be sexual, but frequently is. At the same time, I've seen a lot more people dancing and having fun than people dancing to seduce each other.

I really wish I had learning to dance when I was younger - the formal sort, mind you. Swing dancing and such.

[Miller]

Dancing is the first or second step in getting laid.

[SaveSuperJoe]

I know how to tap dance. Tap, I'm sad to say, has not helped me in my quest to seduce women as of yet. I just can't understand why...

[Walan]

I can't dance.

Of course, that doesn't stop me from doing it anyway. :)

[Azar]

Dancing is a fun form of excersise, I sure wish I had DDR, I first saw it in May at an arcade, my friend was ridicuoulsy good at it. I can break dance, but it hurts like hell. :(

[Tenseiga]

I think the meaning of the dance depends on who you dance with. You won't be giving erotic signals in your dancing to a family member but you could to some attractive person you have an eye for. There's also dancing with yourself, you can't be having a sexual dance solo...unless that's what you're into. You can also dance with your pets, just hold their front legs and swing around. Humane societies will be at your door though. Ever dance with inanimate objects? Eh, it all depends on the situation and location and initiation. Tap dancing doesn't have much sexual innuendo, at least I hope not.

[Enigmatic Magus]

The Waltz. I want to learn how to do that, and Ballroom Dancing. And maybe the Tango. Those are the only three dances I can really say I'm interested in actually learning... everything else just looks like seizures in one or more extremity... or the whole body.

[Ybrik Metaknight]

I'd like to learn all the dances Magus just listed, plus swing dancing, if I can manage it.

[Greg Kennedy]

As they say in that DDR slogan: "I can't dance without arrows."

[KWarp]

I missed out on DDR. I'd like to try it when I come across a home-model. :D

I learned to swing and square dance in elementry school and I'm pretty decent on my own. Problem is that I told people that and now they expect me to actually perform. <(>_<)>

[hillarygayle]

I missed out on DDR. I'd like to try it when I come across a home-model. :D

I learned to swing and SQUAREDANCE in elementry school and I'm pretty decent on my own. Problem is that I told people that and now they expect me to actually perform. <(>_<)>

Behold my DDR station.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/hillarygayle/DDRstation.jpg

That said, I am not that great at dancing. I can swing dance very well, but just dancing like you dance at a club or something, bleh.

Incidentally, I went to a college that believed, much like you, Baro, that dancing is innately sexual. In fact, students at Harding are (I'm trying to quote the handbook from memory here) "Not allowed to enter a place of public dancing". Or you could seriously be removed from school. My Western civilzation professor came in FUMING one day and said "It's a STUPID place you work for when you can't even go dancing with your OWN HUSBAND." One of the guys in the class actually TOLD THE ADMINISTRATION about that, and she had to defend herself (as did her husband, a Bible professor) in order to keep her job.

[Gendo Ikari]

Hmm.

"The Psychology of Dance"

What an interesting topic for a PSY paper!

Even if we do not intend for it to be sexual, does dancing actually satisfy sexual desires?

Is it any different when you're sitting down with a controller in your hands?!

Damn, I'm getting hot talking about it.

Let me get back to you on this.

[hillarygayle]

Even if we do not intend for it to be sexual, does dancing actually satisfy sexual desires?

Is it any different when you're sitting down with a controller in your hands?!


Gendo, my friend, if sitting down with a controller in your hands satisfies sexual desires for you, then you are OFFICIALLY a Bigger Fan than Me. O_O!

[animefreak]

rez? ps2?

[KWarp]

I missed out on DDR. I'd like to try it when I come across a home-model. :D

I learned to swing and SQUAREDANCE in elementry school and I'm pretty decent on my own. Problem is that I told people that and now they expect me to actually perform. <(>_<)>

Allright. Who's the wise guy who put square dance in all caps? :|

[Ybrik Metaknight]

I missed out on DDR. I'd like to try it when I come across a home-model. :D

I learned to swing and SQUAREDANCE in elementry school and I'm pretty decent on my own. Problem is that I told people that and now they expect me to actually perform. <(>_<)>

Allright. Who's the wise guy who put SQUAREDANCE in all caps? :|

That would be Mustin. Any time anyone types any form of SquareDance (ok, not any form, but most forms), it does that.