fun verses good dancing

[gsh]

I was at Glen Echo last night, fumbling my way through some tango steps, when I decided to dance with vvalkyri, whom I can usually dance better than average with. I did some crosses, then some oucho's (probably not spelling those correctly), then started some grapevines. I'd dome grapevines before in the context of folk dancing when I was in college (grumble, that's been 20 years now), so I could do the grapevines pretty easily. Vval and I started going in circles faster, and I suddenly realized that I had no idea of where we were in relation to the beat of the dance going on. So no matter that I was having fun doing what I was doing, what I was doing was BAD DANCING.

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[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Hm. It wasn't that I wasn't having fun. It was that at the speed we were going I wasn't actually doing quadras (or whatever the name is -- a grapevine in a square around the other person) but instead probably more of a pivot type move. Which was enjoyable, but not accomplishing the objective of practicing the move just taught.

I got to stare in gsh's eyes whilst spinning around him. That definitely counts for something.

Oh, also it's "Ochos" - 8 in Spanish is Ocho. :)

[gsh]

Thanks for the compliment.