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its so funny to me that european whites love to dance so much?
but american whites dont???
was there some type of religious resistance to dancing?
I reckon it would have come from the puritanical era. Anything remotely sexy is BANNED. Drawing attention to ur body? BANNED. If there was any gyrating the devil would get em all
that has got to be it
I guess that explains why when american whites do want to dance (outside of embarassing wedding dances), dance styles popularized by people of color usually get used? Because we basically gutted our own culture and are now scrambling to fill that void in regret
And put a American wedding white up against a euro white from the discotheque and let’s see them get down
Like how funny would it be??? I guess the American white has to square dance ??
Nah, fam.
That’s “a move” but that is not dancing.
I’m talking about line dancing
Before my back and legs got all fucked up I used to do contra dancing. It’s super fun and there is actually a resurgence in it. It’s the kind of dancing that white folx of my derivation (the Scottish Appalachian side, specifically) have been doing for a couple hundred years.
It fell out of fashion in the 1930s and 40s and was preserved in little pockets in the northeast. We actually learnt it in school (and not square dancing as a bunch of other white kids my age did) in the 90s.
I wish contra dancing would become more popular again, it’s fun as fuck, and you don’t have to attend with a partner.
Basically if you see people ‘folk dancing’ in a movie in the US, and they’re not explicitly doing some sort of weird modern-esque line dance or square dance, they’re probably doing some variation of contra dance.
/special interest info dump
now thats what im talking about.
that should defintely make a comeback! i defintely have too large of a processing time between hearing a command and needing to execute it , it seems like a callout dance like that would be really hard!
It is so much fun and I wish I could still do it.
The thing with contra dancing is that some of it is defined patterns so once you know the pattern you can do it. I have that sometimes too, but it’s not all called moves, if you’re doing X dance, it’s this set of moves.
Meanwhile, across the pond….
Admit it, how many of you guys though Pterry made this shit up?
vaspider:
pinkcheesegreenghost:
vaspider:
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uglywettiewrites:
pinkcheesegreenghost:
corbinite:
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soggy-bunny:
pinkcheesegreenghost:
its so funny to me that european whites love to dance so much?
but american whites dont???
was there some type of religious resistance to dancing?
I reckon it would have come from the puritanical era. Anything remotely sexy is BANNED. Drawing attention to ur body? BANNED. If there was any gyrating the devil would get em all
that has got to be it
I guess that explains why when american whites do want to dance (outside of embarassing wedding dances), dance styles popularized by people of color usually get used? Because we basically gutted our own culture and are now scrambling to fill that void in regret
And put a American wedding white up against a euro white from the discotheque and let’s see them get down
Like how funny would it be??? I guess the American white has to square dance ??
Nah, fam.
That’s “a move” but that is not dancing.
I’m talking about line dancing
Before my back and legs got all fucked up I used to do contra dancing. It’s super fun and there is actually a resurgence in it. It’s the kind of dancing that white folx of my derivation (the Scottish Appalachian side, specifically) have been doing for a couple hundred years.
It fell out of fashion in the 1930s and 40s and was preserved in little pockets in the northeast. We actually learnt it in school (and not square dancing as a bunch of other white kids my age did) in the 90s.
I wish contra dancing would become more popular again, it’s fun as fuck, and you don’t have to attend with a partner.
Basically if you see people ‘folk dancing’ in a movie in the US, and they’re not explicitly doing some sort of weird modern-esque line dance or square dance, they’re probably doing some variation of contra dance.
/special interest info dump
now thats what im talking about.
that should defintely make a comeback! i defintely have too large of a processing time between hearing a command and needing to execute it , it seems like a callout dance like that would be really hard!
It is so much fun and I wish I could still do it.
The thing with contra dancing is that some of it is defined patterns so once you know the pattern you can do it. I have that sometimes too, but it’s not all called moves, if you’re doing X dance, it’s this set of moves.
Meanwhile, across the pond….
Admit it, how many of you guys though Pterry made this shit up?