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Invisible wrote:
> For those who don't want to wade through my 25-page blog post, here are
> the highlights:
>
> On Saturday night it was my dance school's annual Summer Dance.
> Basically, put a bunch of people in a room and dance the night away!
> Steve said two things at the start of the evening: "It's going to be a
> lot of fun, and it's going to be VERY hot!" He was right on both counts.
>
> in a room with no ventilation and make then dance for 4 hours straight,
> you can imagine how warm and humid it gets!)
>
> Most of the dancing is Ballroom & Latin. (So, dances such as the Waltz,
> Quickstep, Mambo, Rumba, and so forth.) There are a few other dances
> dotted around though - including my dear favourit, Rock & Roll. :-D
>
> In particular, my dance school has a special solo dance which is always
> danced to the tune of "Tiger Feet", by Mud. Go Google that; I'm sure
> *somebody* will have illegally put it online somewhere. The main point
> is that it's fast, frenetic party music. If this doesn't jump-start your
> party, your guests are dead!
>
> I don't know who concocted the dance that goes with it. It's not a
> complicated dance. In fact, it's very simple. Note, however, that simple
> /= easy. In this case, the difficulty is just *surviving* until the end
> of the track. It's almost 4 minutes straight, with no pauses, and I
> estimate approximately 200 BPM or so.
>
> So Tiger Feet is a punishing dance track. But the music is so uplifting,
> if you actually survive it, you can't help but feel exhilerated by the
> end. I have a great enthusiasm for this thing, and I know for a fact
> that I'm not alone.
>
> Anyway, near the end of the night, I asked for Tiger Feet to be played.
> Debbie looked at me like I was crazy, but agreed to play it anyway. So,
> at twenty to midnight, the strains of Mud were heard over the PA system.
>
> I rushed out onto the dance floor, and in a fit of over-excited
> exuberance, I executed this huge knee-slide across the dance floor.
> Debbie loved it so much that she actually stopped the music and made me
> do it again so everybody could watch. (The first time nobody was really
> paying attention.)
>
> I like to believe that the cheer that went up when I did it was
> admiration. ;-)
>
> And then, of course, I (plus a few other brave / stupid souls) just had
> to remain upright for 4 minutes. It was the last dance I danced that
> night, and damn, I gave it everything! My sides hurt by the time I
> finished, but hell, what a dance...
>
> When you consider that I'm usually afraid of my own shaddow, and I run a
> mile if somebody in the street so much as looks at me the wrong way,
> doing crazy knee slides on an empty floor in front of 80 people, or
> dancing right at the very front of the floor where everybody can see me
> is pretty out of character. But hey, you gotta live a little, right? :-D
nice story congrats!
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