I suppose there have been celebs' who could have done with "left" and "right" tatooed on the relevant limbs.

Off Topic I know But I often wonder what David Beckham will look like when he is 90, wrinkled and shriveled. I can take or leave tats ordinarily, but his seem excessive and when he is in a smart suit you can see them peeping out from the top of his shirt.

I've got tattoos, lots of them, including tattoos on my hands and face. When I get old I'll look old. I expect at least 75% of the other wrinkly old ladies in the home will also be tattooed No big deal.

I contest that tattoos are so distracting that one is unable to concentrate on the dance (Tristan has a full sleeve and I've seen no one declare that it ruins his arm lines!) but I support any private organisation's right to decide and enforce their own dress code.
Give it a few more years and the rules will relax, the sheer numbers of young tattooed folk will make discrimination impossible. They'll simply have no potential tattoo-free competitors left.


For what it's worth, I'm 38, have a Master's Degree and two children and will be competiting at ESDC next year in the Group Jazz Roots category. We're currently talking costuming - but only in regards to blending in with my troupe, Lindy Hop and associated vintage Jazz dance is very light on rules

I don't have a criminal record or eat babies or sell my body, yada yada!

I have 'L' and 'R' tattooed on my thumbs. It's very useful when teaching dance!

Hellooooo!!
Lovely to see you back here posting -- or have I just missed you before?
But Yaaaay!

Hello!

I posted a couple of times but I just moved house and haven't had much time for the forum

Only one box left to unpack now, so things are looking up - what have I missed, Pet? I'm
Hoping to get a good look at Jennifer F's serious thread today...

LOL the way that sentence presented on my screen was with the word troupe on the line below. I was fully expecting it to say

"We're currently talking costumes - but only in regards to blending in with my tattoos ". I thought the whole company were going to be costumed to compliment your body art!

Mind you I am having to recalibrate the imaginary DiamondBetty image in my head.

Lovely to see you back. The Charlestons and Jives are going unpicked over.

Unlikely in the ballroom dance sport world! They are nothing if not sticklers for sticking to rules made 50-odd years ago! LOL

TBH I can't see the rules changing in the ballet world either.

While tattoos are very fashionable at the moment, like most other fashions I'm sure the fad will fade in time.

Actually, you might be right - not because I think the current popularity of tattoos will be faddy (they've been around 5000 years at least and the social stigma holding back more recent generations is falling away all the time, in part due to high profile professionals like Beckham) but because dance is different to other professions in one significant way - the training starts way earlier.

So while I truly do expect to see tattooed doctors and solicitors in the near future (these days most folk get tattooed as students, blame the big chunk of cash that is the student loan!) the fact that ballerinas (starting at what, age 3-5?) and ballroom dancers (5-7? ) are career focused so much earlier may well mean they aren't tattooed.

Amateur adult starters may need a different set of rules though

An ongoing joke is that we need to buy 39 pairs of patterned tights for our troupe of 40!

Simon's choreography was great. I've been counting the recognisable steps out loud to my desperately-pretending-to-be-interested-boyfriend. Bless him!

Any recommended threads? I need a whistle stop catch up!

Unlike the tats.

LOL for Argentine Tango substitute 100 years. I got into a disagreement with Henry on the Dance Talk thread last night (a friendly one - no blood was spilt ). I am a stirrer and a subversive at times.

Love it.

Thanks to Jennifer F, we have a dance talk thread again this year Diamond, which I am sure would benefit from your expert comment in all things from the Charleston through to Modern Jive family of dances.

If I'm watching a dance on SCD and I notice a drawing on a woman's,say,back my attention will fix on it for a period of time and I may even lose the emotional immersion in the performance.


I should hope so,if it's a private organization.


Might be only a small market for it,anyway.

The worst was Sophies tattoo on her arm last year. Looked like her toddler son had drawn it on in crayon.

Agree about how long tats have been around, but not as popular as the appear to be at the moment.

But you are right about dancers. By the time a young dancer is legally allowed to get a tattoo they know a tattoo on show will be a death kiss to their potential competitive dance career. So they can make a choice - competitive dance or tattoo. Nothing to stop them getting one when they stop competing. No one stops dance teachers/coaches having a tattoo.

Adult starters who have tattoos have the same set of rules, no tats on show. If they already have them, they design costumes that cover them up, or invest in top quality specialist make up.

I loathe tattoos so glad to see they are either covered or the ladies don't have any. They look awful once your skin starts to sag.