Originally Posted by Rhumbatugger:
“I've danced the Rhumba with many different men - I don't see it as the massive issue some seem to - you're mostly not in a close embrace even.
The music and steps help to make that connection and I always felt it was romantic and connected rather than 'too sexy to dance'.
And it's just a bloody dance, I don't get why it's soooo oooooh scary.”
I would take on any level of jive, quickstep, waltz, foxtrot, tango etc that was thrown at me. And I mean, I HAVE. I love them. I found them challenging but ultimately fun and interesting to do. But the moment my instructor starts playing rumba music, I just sag. I hate it. I hate it with a fiery passion. The fiery passion of hatred is the only thing I can feel when I'm dancing the rumba. To me it's a pointless, ugly dance even when danced well, and it's not something that I enjoy doing physically. It's a chore I have to get through to keep it up to a reasonable level compared to the rest of them. It's not about sexiness so much as being so slow, I feel so exposed - to my partner, and to anyone watching. The fun of the other dances is that I can stop thinking and just do, get swept away by it. All I do during a rumba is think and think and think and wish that the next bloody step would hurry up and come.
Rachel and Sophie's rumbas are the only ones I've not hated. And I don't mean the only ones I've liked, I literally mean NOT HATED.