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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