| I just wanted to know why you guys started dancing and why you chose ballroom opposed to modern, jazz, tap or ballet and if you had any other dance training other than ballroom.
I chose ballroom because my studio, Arthur Murray, is closer to my house than any other kind of studio. The people there are really nice, amazing dancers.
The first kind of dance I ever did was ballet, I started when I was 3 and stopped at like age 7. A few years later I started Hip Hop and stopped that at like 13. I hadnt been on any kind of dance floor for a while so I thought it was time to get back into dance, I thought ballroom would be a nice choise, so I asked for lessons for my birthday.
Luv, Kisses and Cookies,
~*Bri*~ |
| I had one of the same reasons, SalsaSweetie55. Since I had no previous training in any type of dance, I thought that ballroom was a good place to start. Originally, I wanted to go pro (as a performer; not an instructor). However, being an instructor really opened my eyes to the world of dance. I then decided to keep it as a hobby. I'm purchasing a 3-bedroom condo and will transform one of the bedrooms into a studio. I've always wanted to learn tap. All I need is an instructor!  |
| My friends thought it would be cool to have me in their groupclass. The season had already begun and they were a couple lessons ahead of me. I thought: "Nah..." It took them two weeks to get me onto the floor. I had never danced before in my entire life! Well, okay, I did some really silly "funky chicken" stuff on birthdays when I was drunk (:D), but that was about it. Then I thought, after those two weeks of CONSTANT NAGGING: "Well... Why not, I could always give it a try, it would only be for one season anyway..." I'm in my third season now  |
| When I was 7 years old I stardet with jazz dance and so I loved dancing a lot. One day I wanted to do something new with dancing and I started with ballroom and I like it much more than jazz. And I had so much luck, because I found the one I love in my dancing school  |
| I went to university intending to graduate with the three abilities required of a gentleman: to play bridge, to fence, and to dance a waltz. I did bridge in the first year, and would have done fencing in the second year had I not been in a car crash which injured my neck. So I went for ballroom instead; in the third year, I decided to scrap the idea of fencing, went into a technique stream for modern and Latin, working towards the IDTA bronze medal, and took up "alternative Latin" (IDTA club dance). Graduated in June, and still in the same city, so I'm keeping it up, although dancing in a couple of social streams now. |
| I started ballroom to meet new people. I had just transferred to a large public university and wanted to make new fiends. I started taking non-credit ballroom classes there and from then on, became completely hooked on ballroom. I had done ballet before in my childhood but had never experienced the social interaction that ballroom provided.
tango |
| My brother made me do it. One day he said, "You're going dancing with me tonight." Having nothing better to do that night, I did...and now I'm better than he is! |
| why did I start? Well, I had just gotten back to washington from Indiana (long story there) and when I got back, I had no job... no money.... no nothing and I was in a morass on what I wanted to do. My entire life was pretty much in upheaval. Anywayz, a few days after I got back I was looking in the paper for jobs and I saw a listing for a studio that was hiring instructors no exp. nessacary which I thought sounded a bit fishy but I figured that since I had nothing else going on, I might as well try it. I showed up and went through the interview and then after that, I was asked to go through the audition process. I aced the audition and graduated top of my class. My original reason for starting to dance was because I needed the money, my reason for continuing to dance is because I'm a performer and I would die without it.
The question everyone should ask themselves before starting each day: Quo Vatamus |
| To meet women, of course. No, just kidding, though admittedly that is a nice benefit of taking up ballroom. I actually started because in my mind, ballroom, standard in particular, is what I've always thought of as real dancing -- a couple floating around the floor together dancing all sorts of neat figures and combinations. I know there are plenty of real, legitimate styles, but to me they're just not the same thing as ballroom. And I never did like the freestyle stuff at school dances as a kid (well, slow dances were OK, but I hated the fast stuff). I always used to watch Championship Ballroom Dancing on TV and enjoyed it. So when there were some mini-classes in ballroom dancing given at my undergrad school, I took them. I didn't really start until I went to grad school though and joined the ballroom club here. That's when I really started taking classes and going social dancing all the time. I've been doing it for years now and always enjoy it. I started in ballroom because it was the only kind of dancing I really wanted to learn. -- James Marshall marshall@astro.umd.edu http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall |
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