NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/soc/bi/18898

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From: [e-mail] (Daniel J Mitchell)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Why I won't "dance" (was Re: Why I read a.s.a.r.)
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Date: 22 Jan 93 14:52:48 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Angus H Rodgers) writes:
> A person's physical grace (or lack of it)
>probably expresses their sexuality (or lack of it) pretty directly. And
>it's an embarrassing and off-putting gracelessness, rather than "looking
>like a complete idiot", which is to be feared.

 There seems, IMHO, to be some sort of general consensus as to
just what gracefulness is -- or, at the least, a definite connection between
it and dancing. Now, as far as I can tell, this is going to depend to a great
extent on just what sort of dancing is going on, anyway (say, ballroom as
opposed to whatever the current thing that happens at raves is called) --
but even so, I tend to think of myself as remarkably graceless; but that
just doesn't really come into it when dancing. Sense of rhythm, perhaps (and
I've got /that/ from juggling; an interesting side-effect that I didn't think
would appear.. <grin> ) and possibly just plain energeticness; grace, though,
is only something that comes into it on occasions.

 After all, dance frantically enough, and you look as if you know what you're
doing, even if you don't have a clue. That's what I tend to try -- and,
though I may well not wind up looking as if I know what I'm doing, I'm
normally to exhausted to care.. <grin>


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Daniel Mitchell = [e-mail] = skinny bi lycra-clad furry juggler