I danced with a man who...[1]
May. 11th, 2006 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI went to the round, and danced with many nice people. The dance in the middle I joined in with the girl's part, and it's been ages since I've danced a non-symmetric dance the wrong way round, but apparently at some point in my patchy dancing career my body learnt to follow.
This did have "being led round in promenade" and "doing that elegent thing where you take both hands and go round someone under their arms spinning in such a way that neither of you break your wrists" and all the guys led them well, and I've got practiced enough at taking physical cues in country dancing that it all just worked.
Leading and following is much less demarked in round than in ballroom, because there's no choice about where to go next, just sometimes about which sort of step to use, and because women at least often dance as either, but people definitely led me more than they do when I'm a man :)
There also was a round-waltz in one of the dances, which I've muddled up before due to clash of round/ballroom signals, but went perfectly smoothly when I worked out to trust my feet to go lefrightleft rightleftright to the music, my brain to steer, and my partner to indicate which way we were supposed to rotate and how far :) (Thanks!)
[1] "I danced with a man who danced with a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales," is a line from an old song, apparently 1920s, so I've no idea why it's a meme in my head except that my parents say it. I think I danced with a girl who *did* this, kinda.
This did have "being led round in promenade" and "doing that elegent thing where you take both hands and go round someone under their arms spinning in such a way that neither of you break your wrists" and all the guys led them well, and I've got practiced enough at taking physical cues in country dancing that it all just worked.
Leading and following is much less demarked in round than in ballroom, because there's no choice about where to go next, just sometimes about which sort of step to use, and because women at least often dance as either, but people definitely led me more than they do when I'm a man :)
There also was a round-waltz in one of the dances, which I've muddled up before due to clash of round/ballroom signals, but went perfectly smoothly when I worked out to trust my feet to go lefrightleft rightleftright to the music, my brain to steer, and my partner to indicate which way we were supposed to rotate and how far :) (Thanks!)
[1] "I danced with a man who danced with a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales," is a line from an old song, apparently 1920s, so I've no idea why it's a meme in my head except that my parents say it. I think I danced with a girl who *did* this, kinda.
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Date: 2006-05-11 11:27 pm (UTC)Suggest you go round everyone next time you go and say "hello, I'm Jack" until someone looks at you less strangely and goes "aaaah..." sagely.
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Date: 2006-05-11 11:30 pm (UTC)I probably DO know her, then, I'm just a bit vague on names when I meet 30 people in ten minutes :) Picture? Description?
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Date: 2006-05-11 11:38 pm (UTC)Lots of people go round saying "hello, I'm Jack"?
Date: 2006-05-11 11:50 pm (UTC)*thinks* I don't remember meeting her. I'll look out next time and say hi.
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Date: 2006-05-12 08:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-12 11:23 am (UTC)