At one time it was the norm to go dancing on Friday nights. In some places people still go dancing but typically it means that you head to a night club for a few drinks and some "modern" dancing.
On Friday, Eduardo and I went dancing, actual real dancing! The dancing was held at the Murray Arts Center, a building with a small town feel. The price of our admission included dance lessons so we headed into a small dance area with several other couples and learned the Samba.
Please note that we learned the basic steps to the Samba, not the fancy footwork seen in the above clip.
Our instructor was once a professional ballroom dancer and did a marvelous job at teaching us. I didn't have a chance to do any Samba during the actual dance part of the night, so I am very curious if I remember what I learned. I will have to get Eduardo to practice with me.
Most of the couples at the dance were fantastic and I assume that they learned these dances back in the 40's and 50's. There were some younger couples who were equally good, but I enjoyed watching the older generation doing something as natural to them as what the Internet, ipods, and text messages are to us. There was even a woman in her 80's!
At the end of the evening they had a drawing and surprise to me, I won $20! This is a fun way to break a sweat! If I can find a way to fit it into my already packed schedule, we plan on taking ballroom dance lessons.
Here is some info on dances in the area as well as lessons
Dance-Scene: Ballroom, swing and latin dance classes.
Murray Arts Center: Weekly dancing and lessons
Wow, those guys are good! I'd love to be able to dance, it's really sad it's kind of become a specialist sport rather than everyone dancing proper steps when they went out on a saturday night. My granny was an awesome dancer! x M
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun! Joseph and I went to the Murray Arts Center when we first married and was pregnant. We took the lessons and danced afterwards.It was nice because then we lived very close in the Lost Creek Apartments right on Vine aross the street preety much!
ReplyDeleteI love dancing!
Fun!!! That is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI used to go to the MAC a lot in my early college years. I miss all my dancing days! Haven't been since we were married!
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I took private dance lessons before our wedding. We ended up enjoying it so much that we continued for almost a year. We still love to push all the furniture back and dance at our house. When we get a chance to dance in public, like at weddings or parties, people always asked how we learned and it's fun to tell them about our experience.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get to keep going dancing. We love it as a great way to do something fun as a couple.