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[freyakitten]

What shall I do for New Year's this year? I don't particularly feel like staying home, and most of the people I know who are at all likely to host a party that night are going to be partway through a pregnancy, or living with someone who is, and unlikely to want to attempt it.

I have the urge to go dancing, and yet, since I know few people here who go dancing regularly, and almost never do so myself, where should I go, and who with? Since I know my reactions to dancing can lead me into situations I would not, when not dancing or otherwise drugged, get into, I'm not going by myself.

Never mind, I need to get fitter anyway, and regaining the stamina to dance for hours at a stretch will provide me with an excuse good enough to motivate me a little.

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[penguin2.livejournal.com]

You could always come over to Melbourne and attend my SO's birthday party (he was born on New Year's Eve, poor lamb). There may be jelly wrestling :P

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm... Jelly....

[placeboid.livejournal.com]

I'd get out of Adelaide and stay away from all major cities....

Still havn't made up my mind what I am doing yet...considering the falls festival but may end up in Northern Victoria for one of the cooler low key folk festivals held on a nice strip of water known as Nariel Creek.

Who knows may end up having a massive house party as our lease ends in January and they are knocking the house down after we move out. You and your SO are of course welcome to come down and stay as there is plenty of room.

How come you are planning for a NYE on your own. Is your fella going away or something?

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know a club where things like the tarentella [1] can be danced in Adelaide? Possibly some of the latin clubs, although they tend to stress the tango, rumba, and salsa (and existing partners seem to be de rigeur). [2] Either that, or a dance hall type club where the dance is the thing (sort of like the place in Moloko's Familiar Feeling video), rather than the typical meat market you normally see around the place. PS: have you ever considered suggesting to your SO that performing martial arts katas on the dance floor can make one look like a skilled and talented dancer. Provided you don't hit someone.

[1] A fun 15C italian peasant dance that was quite popular in the nightclubs of Sourthen Europe a few years back. [2] One is far too much of a coward to ask someone he doesn't know to dance with him. And one really does need someone (anyone) to dance with and feed off of or it's just not as much fun. [3] [3] And whilst freyaw is a most talented, highly skilled, exceedingly perceptive, totally sexy, and incredibly fun person to dance with [And I hope I am not damning her with too much faint praise <grin>], I find she is a bit too short for me to comfortably try some of the really interesting tango variations with. <sigh>

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

My SO isn't going away - he's just not a real party animal, doesn't particularly enjoy dancing, and shall be working both NYE, NYD, and Christmas. And Boxing Day. And while he copes quite well on 4 hours sleep, I'd rather not do that to him, so any party we both go to, I'll end up leaving long before I want to because he's driving.

Last year we went way up into the hills, and it's an hours drive home from there on a good night.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

My SO finds it quite hard not to hit people on the dance floor. Ingrained habits, and the fact that he is rather large. He also has to concentrate to not step on people's feet because that is a legitimate martial arts technique.

I find it hard to dance with him, as he is more than a foot taller than I, and tends to use a more formalised style than I do. He doesn't feel comfortable free-forming.

And most of the katas he does involve 'block, hit in some way, watch them fall down'. If you don't hit them good, they might be able to hit you back...

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

And so we see the superiority of the "soft" martial arts. Practicing complex blocks and arm holds works rather well on the dance floor. <grin> Although I have yet to actually try any of them on prospective dance partners, only invisible opponents. Ah! Cunning ninja. They could be anywhere...<evil grin> Although I agree with him on the stepping on people thing. On a crowded dance floor I tend not to move my feet overmuch so as to avoid crushing small cities beneath my overlarge feet (and we won't even mention the effect my radioactive breath has on others). [1] And even moving an elbow requires a clear foot of space at my height. Although there was that great TMBG gig at the Synagogue where everyone was jumping up or down, regardless of whether they wanted to, because we were all packed in like sardines in a can. Perhaps we can satisfy your ability to dance with both of us by stretching you ever so slightly. <bwah hah hah ha ha ha ha> Igor! Fetch my taffy-pulling machine! About another foot and a half should do! [1] Reminds me of a great line from L Sprague de Camp's Krishna series. "There is a bridge between the tailed and tailless species, which no amount of sentience will ever cross." Spoken whilst the aforementioned sentient tailed species (Osirian?) was attempting to cross a dance floor... <grin>

[placeboid.livejournal.com]

I know how your SO feels in some way(not the tall way!)...I never learned how to dance with other people.

The best kata for dancing would have to be either flippy or sticky hands.

If only I could convince the DJ to play kung fu fighter back to back all night...

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

We try the hands thing, but because I'm not used to dancing like that, I have difficulty doing so for very long before wanting to hit him... And he keeps auto-moving to hit pressure points in my hands, arms, shoulders, chest, underarm...