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Oh my, that title might have gotten your hopes up...
As a lovely, prowling woman of reasonable dancing ability, I'm curious if this is the kind of event where I'll get to dance with someone even if I don't club my own date over the head and drag him there. :-)
Most of the boys I know don't dance. I'm looking to solve that.
I've been swing dancing for years in Santa Cruz, under a class format with forced rotations during the learning portion of the evening, and dancer's choice partnering for the "dance jam" part of the evening. I like this, because it gives me a feel for everyone's skill and outgoingness level before the dance floor opens for the night and all the shy kids start holding up the walls.
Is Swing Goth a similar format, or will I have to rustle up my own companion for the evening if I want to do any dancing?
What's the gender balance like?
Curious, scheming, and longing,
- Alice
As a lovely, prowling woman of reasonable dancing ability, I'm curious if this is the kind of event where I'll get to dance with someone even if I don't club my own date over the head and drag him there. :-)
Most of the boys I know don't dance. I'm looking to solve that.
I've been swing dancing for years in Santa Cruz, under a class format with forced rotations during the learning portion of the evening, and dancer's choice partnering for the "dance jam" part of the evening. I like this, because it gives me a feel for everyone's skill and outgoingness level before the dance floor opens for the night and all the shy kids start holding up the walls.
Is Swing Goth a similar format, or will I have to rustle up my own companion for the evening if I want to do any dancing?
What's the gender balance like?
Curious, scheming, and longing,
- Alice
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Sat, March 21, 2009 - 6:59 PMHey Alice,
We generally get a good mix of people. Chaos theory likes us. Sure, every once and a while, we have a few extra leads or follows, but for the most part we are both gender and lead/follow balanced. Of course, quantum mechanics applies too. By observing the system you change the system. Which is to say that we're a small enough group that arriving with a 5 people all of whom want to follow is going to throw us out of whack.... I'll figure out a way to make it work.
As for singledom, most of us are. And we're all very social. It's not a large group, but it's tons of fun. You'll recognize some people from BaGG.
Oh... and in case you have trouble finding the rabbit hole, go to the end of the bar, enter the patio, turn right, walk a few steps and then turn right again. We're in a room that's kind of a mirror image of the bar.
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Mon, March 23, 2009 - 11:51 AMIt's pretty balanced, and even during open dance, if people are sitting around and chatting, we're happy to dance if you grab one of us and say "let's go!"
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Fri, April 17, 2009 - 1:43 AMMade it all the way there, didn't get to do much dancing.
Saw some of the same people at a subsequent concert.
You folks are cute!
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Fri, April 17, 2009 - 12:25 PMNot much dancing?! That's a shame. I suspect what you made it to was one of the concerts. Lots of people come to those for the band rather than to dance. If the regulars don't know who you are they might not have asked you to dance because rejection sucks. Especially in a venue designed for people who want to dance together.
Even I, admittedly, don't ask new people to dance at the shows sometimes. I'm assuming the show you saw some of the same people at was Voltaire. If so, that's because we all love him. Unfortunately it was on a Tuesday opposite us, so I tried to send everyone over there to watch him.... But when they stayed, I had to too. Stupid people. I was able to catch the end of the show though, as the night was sparsely attended (because all of the regulars were at Voltaire...
I talked to him after the show though, and we agreed. Hopefully the next time he comes through we'll host him instead of being opposite him... ;-) -
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Fri, April 17, 2009 - 10:56 PMI spotted many swing goth folks over at the "Shadow Society" in Oakland, actually. Was surprised by the show and had a great time.
I got to the class just in time for the end of it. Got in on one rotation of lessons, then everyone just seemed to bail instead of going to the concert next door. Maybe I mistook the snack and cigarette rush for going home... but I got to dance with 3 guys in rotation, then the tumbleweeds rolled in. -
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Sat, April 18, 2009 - 6:57 PMYeah, I'm thinking there was some confusion. The concert wasn't next door. It was in the same room as the lessons. All of our shows have had 30-40 people at them if not more. (except the very first night when people weren't used to the new space etc) So... something went wrong. Hmph.
Ah, Shadow Society in Oakland. Yes, we were there too. You should have asked me to dance... or I should learn to recognize you better in real life. ;-) At some point I'd love to team up with Shadow Society, and Patrick has expressed interest in it to me too. We'll see what comes of it. -
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Mon, April 20, 2009 - 11:55 AMThere was a ROCKING swing-genre concert going on next door... but the only people dancing were in the back yard. It was kinda creepy, but I guess all the other dancers were in class?
The class was winding down when I arrived late. I got to shake it for a few rotations... but when people cleared out (the second band hadn't started yet), my date wanted to just give up.
So... we had crepes instead and I left wondering if anyone would be back for the "actual" dance portion of the evening.
I'll be satisfying my need for swing this Wednesday night in Santa Cruz, at least. I love this genre of dancing and haven't been able to get enough of it since I was a kid! -
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Tue, April 21, 2009 - 3:44 AMCome back to BaGG someday. Lots of leads there these days it seems. -
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Tue, April 21, 2009 - 10:31 AM@laughs@ yeah, 'cause I taught 'em all.
No one dissapeared for good, and more people came. You were just in the wrong room, that had a swing-ish band booled by happenstance. There's not enough room to dance in the main room, which is why we're in the side room, and probably also why the people were dancing on the patio. Whether or not they were our people on the patio, I don't know, but I suspect that they were. -
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Re: Singles and Swingers?
Wed, April 22, 2009 - 11:44 PMThey certainly moved like they knew what they were doing. You might or might not be able to take credit for that. :-D
Anyway... bad timing was some of it. Having a guy on my arm that turned out surprisingly shy didn't help either.
I've been doing swing dance for a loooooong time and I miss it.
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