Thanks for the links spinturn. The first is what I thought a contra check was. It might be this was what I saw in the clip from the tango on the results show. It might just be the lady didn't rise quickly enough or perhaps a bad camera angle gave me the impression of a lambada style sway.

Also that's for the other link. Fantastic resource. Give me 4 hours and I will be a ballroom expert.

I'm like that with Quantum Physics

Seriously anyone who comments try dancing damm thing.... To do reverse, into natural turnsand fleckles and poviots get my respect

What did Horace say Winnie?

Any recommendations for London? Central or South. I am thinking of starting myself too.

Perhaps! They teach North East and North West though, I'm in Manchester. I also have pesky-fun-thieving children, but luckily, a husband that doesn't dance so he can stay home and look after them!


Awesome! Good to hear! Bit nervous!



Aw, no! Shame dancing is so good for shifting weight too. Helped me to shift the four stone (!) I accumulated in my last pregnancy, my babies (ha!) are now 13 (and a half!) and 2.


We are respecting all these things, only we are also celebrating all the celebs that have managed good a VW and not just the ones that were partnered with our favoured pro dancers.


Yay! One more for the team!

Haven't heard that for years

I know, if it was just the weight I'd probably go for it and try out a bit of zumba or similar to help shift a bit before going back to doing some actual dance classes. But I can't risk tearing the ligaments again. Did them the first time chasing a dog up a mud bank when I was 15 and had to really fight to get any level of ability back in it to carry on contemporary dance, put paid to any ballet or tap though.
Second time I did it slipping on some black ice when I was in my mid 20s and that was when the hospital said one more time and I'd have to have an operation to replace them

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We witness the same phenomena at Lindy Hop (two words, Len, remember that for the time you are writing it on your blackboard!) but the other way round.

Often, Salsa and Latin experienced folks pick up the moves very quickly, but cross their rock step behind them and straighten their legs, giving them hip motion.

Knowing how hard it is for these dancers to discard habits, I will not be surprised or offended if. I become known amongst AT dancers as 'quite good at following, but looks rubbish'.

In fact, we have a fantastic Lindy lead who dances Salsa more often than swing, he has an amazing ability to pick up and retain new moves and is great fun to dance with, but somehow always looks like a Salsa dancer, even when doing the most Lindy of Lindy moves.

It's quite endearing actually. A bit like speaking English with a heavy accent

That's such a shame

It's stories like this that make me very sympathetic towards Natalie, actually. It must be truly awful to dance for years and then have that taken away by something out of your control.

My Dad used to say it. I have no idea where it comes from but I have got into the habit of thinking of it as a response to the unintelligible.

It's quite endearing actually. A bit like speaking English with a heavy accent

What a delightful way of looking at things. I am pinching that!

I struggled to keep my hips still in tango and even now they have their moments.

Cadiva - You poor thing. I felt the pain reading that.

I have a huge amount of sympathy for her being unable to continue with her dream to become a professional dancer. Me, the curvature in my spine meant I was never ever going to make it as a ballerina (and the lack of brilliance )
One of the reasons I also danced tap, and then later to contemporary dance, was because I didn't have the right kind of a figure to look graceful and elegant performing pirouettes and chasses.
I was also incredibly lucky to be the right age and in the right place when the fabulous Nadine Senior was inspiring kids in Harehills and Chapeltown in Leeds to get involved in dance as a means of PE and keeping fit. I danced at her contemporary classes at Harehills Middle School with some of the guys who went on to form Phoenix Dance Troupe and got to watch the amazing Paul Liburd dance two foot in front of me


Cheers m'dear, it's why I'm such a devoted SCD watcher, even in the years where someone not so technically brilliant wins. If I don't see passion for dance coming through in their routines I don't care how good they are.