hello all,
i am a 16 year old girl who dances (ballroom and some rythum) most of my peers feel that it is dumb to dance becuse u can't dance that way to any of the modern music any advise?

Most contemporary music is trivial and the styles come and go at the whim of the record companies, and according to the changing fads of an infantile audience. You might dance to it today, and be laughed at tomorrow.

REAL music lasts. And the dance styles that have been developed (and there IS development, nothing is unchanging) have endured and will continue to do so, probably all your dancing life, because the steps and figures can yield such pleasure and interest at so many levels.

If a song was good thirty years agpo, it still is now. New versions will be brought out regularly, but the originals will still be danced to. How much of the drivel that your friends have on their IPods won't have been wiped and replaced with some new dross by the middle of next week?

Current music is very diverse. Some is appropriate for ballroom dancing and some is not. A good share of country and latin modern music is very danceable. Almost all music by, Latin artist like Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias is danceable and a lot of the music at ballroom dances is modern, particularily from artist like Ricky Martin and Enrigue Iglesias. Even madonna has numerous good dance songs.

Other than rap, which to many is not music, a lot of modern music is danceable. It just that at many dances, nobody knows real dances and does not do ballroom dances at those dances. When there is music that you could ballroom dance.

I grew up with rock and roll, people did not do really dancing to that much. But most of it was swing, rumba and chacha rythyms. 50 years later I am finally really dancing to the music a grew up with.