> Sounds like you do English Country, contra, and some amount of partner-dancing (tango). What else?
That's about it as dance forms go. My mother's attempts to get me adept in Irish step dancing when I was a wee lad were largely wasted, though I can still do a bit of it. I did the free form 'interpretive' dance that was ubiquitous for High School dances in the early 70's. One free Arthur Murray dance lesson. That pretty well covers it.
My interest in the longways set dances began with a Regency Ball at DarkoverCon. I liked the dances, and after several years of saying I ought to go to the Monday night English Country Dance practices here in Baltimore, Rivka finally convinced me to go with her back in April. I went to precisely one Contra dance since then, last July, in a church hall that was not air conditioned. It was an ... experience.
> What's Vintage?
Dances from US culture of the 1890's through 1930's. It includes all the animal dances that were variations of the one-step, like fox-trot and pony-trot and turkey-trot. It's very similar to ballroom, but with more lighthearted practitioners. The group I dance with is a subset of the Baltimore Folk Music Society, and while we have some real dance gods and goddesses in the group, the emphasis is more on having fun than anything else. Let's see... other than the one-step variations we have tangos and waltzes and some latin (rumba, cha-cha, samba) stuff. Some swing dances get tossed in there too, even though that's pushing the late edge of 'vintage.'
In fact, I didn't go to that vintage dance last night, because I had a balky spacecraft keeping me busy. I hope to have better luck with the English Country Dance tonight.
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That's about it as dance forms go. My mother's attempts to get me adept in Irish step dancing when I was a wee lad were largely wasted, though I can still do a bit of it. I did the free form 'interpretive' dance that was ubiquitous for High School dances in the early 70's. One free Arthur Murray dance lesson. That pretty well covers it.
My interest in the longways set dances began with a Regency Ball at DarkoverCon. I liked the dances, and after several years of saying I ought to go to the Monday night English Country Dance practices here in Baltimore, Rivka finally convinced me to go with her back in April. I went to precisely one Contra dance since then, last July, in a church hall that was not air conditioned. It was an ... experience.
> What's Vintage?
Dances from US culture of the 1890's through 1930's. It includes all the animal dances that were variations of the one-step, like fox-trot and pony-trot and turkey-trot. It's very similar to ballroom, but with more lighthearted practitioners. The group I dance with is a subset of the Baltimore Folk Music Society, and while we have some real dance gods and goddesses in the group, the emphasis is more on having fun than anything else. Let's see... other than the one-step variations we have tangos and waltzes and some latin (rumba, cha-cha, samba) stuff. Some swing dances get tossed in there too, even though that's pushing the late edge of 'vintage.'
In fact, I didn't go to that vintage dance last night, because I had a balky spacecraft keeping me busy. I hope to have better luck with the English Country Dance tonight.