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Old 12-10-2015, 18:22
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Oh you just gave me a SITC flashback. If you watched it, it was the one when Carrie realises how much money she spent on shoes over the years and can't afford a deposit to buy her flat.
To be honest, I wasn't a fan but I heard about it.

Believe me, in comparison to all my tanguera friends my shoe collection is abysmal. Plus I only have one pair of Comme Il Faut shoes and no Balanceo pairs at all.
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Old 12-10-2015, 18:28
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Oh I wish I had ringah status - how proud I would be! In my mind I'm a cross between Natalie Lowe and Ginger Rogers, in reality I'm more Judy Murrey and the last dance I did was the Gay Gordons at school. So ladies wear your ringah badge with pride!
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Old 12-10-2015, 18:28
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The only thing that I could manage without lots of lessons, would be a barefoot ''contemporary/ lyrical'' rumba with no actual rumba steps. I would spend half of it on the floor and the other half doing turns
That sounds suspiciously like Bacofoil... Lisa?
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Old 12-10-2015, 18:33
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I have no dance experience and I got moaned at for not really trying in Dance

I feel like I wouldn't even qualify for the "Duffer" class (although I dance around the house quite a lot )
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Old 12-10-2015, 18:39
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Oh I wish I had ringah status - how proud I would be! In my mind I'm a cross between Natalie Lowe and Ginger Rogers, in reality I'm more Judy Murrey and the last dance I did was the Gay Gordons at school. So ladies wear your ringah badge with pride!
I forgot us men are never ringers.
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Old 12-10-2015, 18:41
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12 years of ballet as a child / teenager and an inability to stay off any dancefloor after a glass of wine.
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Old 12-10-2015, 18:46
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I forgot us men are never ringers.
Ooops
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Old 12-10-2015, 18:49
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Really surprised to see that most of us had in some shape or form dance experience.
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Old 12-10-2015, 19:02
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I did ballet, tap and contemporary dance until I was 15 and then contemporary dance on a very adhoc basis into my early 20s. I have danced on stage (while a child) and used to dance with three of the guys who went on to found Phoenix Dance (when I was doing my contemporary dancing lessons with Nadine Senior, who went on to found the Northern School of Contemporary Dance) and I have also danced with Paul Liburd, who was European Dancer of the Year in the early 90s.

Plus I had a couple of ballroom classes during my years as a journalist when writing a feature about a tea dance which had been meeting for 40 odd years So I'd probably be considered a ringah!

However, that was all 20 odd years ago and since then I've torn ligaments in my left ankle twice, I've put on loads of weight, I just spent 9 months in hospital including 5 in an induced coma and was left paralaysed from the neck down for a while because of spinal damage due to CPM and Critical Illness Polyneuropathy so the fact I need a wheelchair to go more than 50 metres would probably be a slight disadvantage and I need to use crutches to walk anywhere might also be a hindrance

Past experience needs to be weighted very much against the present situation imho.
I am in awe of how upbeat you come across having been through all that. You deserve a glitterball of your own.
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Old 12-10-2015, 19:05
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Really surprised to see that most of us had in some shape or form dance experience.
I guess it stands to reason that people who enjoy/used to enjoy dancing also enjoy watching and talking about it.
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Old 12-10-2015, 19:08
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I guess it stands to reason that people who enjoy/used to enjoy dancing also enjoy watching and talking about it.
And, in my case at least, vice versa; if Strictly didn't exist I'd never have even been able to name the dances, let alone dance them.
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Old 12-10-2015, 19:26
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I would be a big dirty ringer,twenty years a professional,I could join the pros of course.
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Old 12-10-2015, 19:39
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Oh bless you how horrid. All that to contend with and not being able to dance it away. Some great memories though I bet.
Oh absolutely yes. It was before Nadine Senior started the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. I went along as an 11-year-old because one of my teachers had done her teacher training with Nadine who was then a PE teacher at Harehills Middle School.

She was a follower of Laban and had trained under his methods if I remember rightly and she started doing dance as part of her PE with the kids from the "deprived areas" in Leeds as a means to give them something to do and of course it just took off like a rocket.

Original Phoenix founders David Hamilton (Artistic Director), Donald Edwards and Vilmore James were all older than me, but we were all in the one class run by Nadine, as was Paul Liburd. They put on a performance of St George and the Dragon which was awesome

Forty odd of her pupils, mostly blokes, became professional dancers, including those I mentioned who went to Intake High School and later formed the Phoenix Dance Theatre.

http://mcnultymedia.co.uk/blog/2013/...middle-school/

Oh my goodness you've had quite a time of it. I don't know about anything else but I think you definitely deserve a spot in a 'People's Strictly' if they ever have it again
Aww bless you Dilly, I'm getting there slowly. Swine flu and double pneumona was the root cause of it all - if anyone ever gets a cough that won't go away, don't leave it too long like I did

I have some fantastic physios though at Chapel Allerton and a great team of carers coming in to help me get back to normal and I intend to make a full recovery!

Dammit. You've really been through it. However, you will know your dance so I glad you are here and I've liked reading your views on things.
Thanks Sofakat, that means a lot coming from yourself.

I am in awe of how upbeat you come across having been through all that. You deserve a glitterball of your own.
You're all making me blush now. Thank you, I don't see the point in complaining, I can't do anything to change it so I just have to get on with hopefully making a full recovery.

I only really mentioned it as a sort of reasoning behind why someone's past experiences don't necessarily mean they'd be any good in the present time!
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Old 12-10-2015, 19:53
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More power to you, Cadiva.
I'm sure you will with that attitude.
Sounds totally awful.

Another for the duffer group.
Did go to 'dancing lessons' as kid, but seemed to mainly be The Lancers for some reason, topped up with Country Dancing in sport when it rained (mainly an hour and a half of trying to avoid holding hands with the boys until about 14 when things seemed to switch round a bit).

After much begging/pleading/whining did go to some taster lessons with Mr A a couple of years ago. Things were fine on the straight, but we never could master the cornering.
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Old 12-10-2015, 19:59
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More power to you, Cadiva.
I'm sure you will with that attitude.
Sounds totally awful.
Thanks Aggs

Just to compound the horrendousness of last year, I went in to hospital with my annoying cough a week after my mum had died of liver cancer having been diagnosed only three weeks earlier aged 66. So I missed her funeral having been put into an induced coma cos I wasn't responding to oxygen and my poor dad then spent the next nine months traveling first to St James' and then to Chapel Allerton til they finally discharged me in January this year.
I should say it was five weeks in a coma not five months like I made it sound like! Still I don't remember anything about that bit so hey ho.

2014 will not be on my "best year ever" list
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Old 12-10-2015, 20:00
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Mum sent me and my sister off to ballroom dancing lessons as kids, and I have bronze, silver and gold medals in Ballroom and Latin and bronze and silver medals for Jive.

But I received all that training as a juvenile and gave up before I was 12, so how much of it I remember now at the age of 36, I have no idea.
I like to think I would do okay though and certainly remember enough to notice when steps are not going quite the way they should.

So yes, I would be a ringah, but probably not the best ringah in the world
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Old 12-10-2015, 20:03
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Thanks Aggs

Just to compound the horrendousness of last year, I went in to hospital with my annoying cough a week after my mum had died of liver cancer having been diagnosed only three weeks earlier aged 66. So I missed her funeral having been put into an induced coma cos I wasn't responding to oxygen and my poor dad then spent the next nine months traveling first to St James' and then to Chapel Allerton til they finally discharged me in January this year.
I should say it was five weeks in a coma not five months like I made it sound like! Still I don't remember anything about that bit so hey ho.

2014 will not be on my "best year ever" list
Heck, you've had a rough time. I hope here on is much better. x
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Old 12-10-2015, 20:13
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Heck, you've had a rough time. I hope here on is much better. x
Ta hon, thankfully so far this year has been a slow but steady slog towards recovery. And I'm getting a new self-propelled wheelchair in a couple of weeks, so that's going to be a big step (wheel?!) forward.

Now I need to stop hijacking the thread!

A couple of years ago I'd have been a totally dirty ringah though
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Old 12-10-2015, 20:24
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I did ballet, tap and contemporary dance until I was 15 and then contemporary dance on a very adhoc basis into my early 20s. I have danced on stage (while a child) and used to dance with three of the guys who went on to found Phoenix Dance (when I was doing my contemporary dancing lessons with Nadine Senior, who went on to found the Northern School of Contemporary Dance) and I have also danced with Paul Liburd, who was European Dancer of the Year in the early 90s.

Plus I had a couple of ballroom classes during my years as a journalist when writing a feature about a tea dance which had been meeting for 40 odd years So I'd probably be considered a ringah!

However, that was all 20 odd years ago and since then I've torn ligaments in my left ankle twice, I've put on loads of weight, I just spent 9 months in hospital including 5 in an induced coma and was left paralaysed from the neck down for a while because of spinal damage due to CPM and Critical Illness Polyneuropathy so the fact I need a wheelchair to go more than 50 metres would probably be a slight disadvantage and I need to use crutches to walk anywhere might also be a hindrance

Past experience needs to be weighted very much against the present situation imho.

That sounds horrible, hugs x Hope next year is better.
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Old 12-10-2015, 20:34
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I'd be a certified 'ringah' for sure. I attended the same ballet school as Darcey for most of my formative years. That said I'm not sure exactly how much professional ballet training would help with ballroom and Latin. I'm dying to give it a go though.
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Old 12-10-2015, 20:36
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Ta hon, thankfully so far this year has been a slow but steady slog towards recovery. And I'm getting a new self-propelled wheelchair in a couple of weeks, so that's going to be a big step (wheel?!) forward.

Now I need to stop hijacking the thread!

A couple of years ago I'd have been a totally dirty ringah though
We could set up a wheelchair dance comp too and you be a ringah in that....
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Old 12-10-2015, 20:37
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I probably started this type of thread last year as well. But in view of all the criticism directed towards Jay and Helen and Peter etc.

How many of us in this forum would be considered to be 'ringahs' if we were to become famous and compete in Strictly?.
I'm in the curious position of having ringah experience (15 years of learning dance routines for a couple of musical shows a year) and duffer talent (15 years of being rubbish at dance routines for a couple of musical shows a year!)
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Old 12-10-2015, 20:40
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We could set up a wheelchair dance comp too and you be a ringah in that....
Ooh not sure I'd be a ringah there, I can just about manage to wheel in a straight line atm! Had an attendant propelled chair since I got out of hospital so only had my first go at my wheelchair "fitting" appointment last week.

I could do this though (have lots of tissues available) possibly one of the most beautiful dances ever imho.
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Old 12-10-2015, 20:52
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I have done dancing since four (i think it was) up to my late teens. Ballet (including point work), modern dancing, tap dancing, international dancing and in my early 20s delved into other dance forms (that are closely aligned with certain musci forms) in workshops and classes. I've performed in school and local theatre productions growing up so I was very much a performing bunny through my secondary school years especially, though think I could easily say I balanced that with sport too (which I was actually quite good at). I think I would be deemed a ringah if I was on strictly, as I took dance exams and did auditions too, so it wasn't just for fun but to have something to show for on my overall life cv. I would be a ringha that could still improve and learn though, as you can never stop learning (which people seem to forget with those that have done if for many years). Even though I got to a point where I didn't want dance as a career (perhaps could have gone in that direction instead of academic), overall I loved it, hated it at times too (when it was tough and you were being told off by mad teachers), but found it to be highly expressive (esp as speaking when I was younger could be hard), disciplined and time consuming (which I prob benifited from). My parents wanted me to socialise, so started me off at ballet school, but i think over all the years i did it (as well as the other disciplines), it helped to form me as a person, and I always walk with a straight back till this day (which I've never lost from my ballet days).

Majority of my female friends all did ballet to at least primary school as well, at minimum. Then it was so typical for kids, esp girls, to do ballet, but now I think lots of young girls growing up in this social media world now want to be singers or actors like on tv, as much as dancers. My friend's daughter, just three, loves the x factor and watches it on you tube.
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Old 12-10-2015, 21:04
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Ooh not sure I'd be a ringah there, I can just about manage to wheel in a straight line atm! Had an attendant propelled chair since I got out of hospital so only had my first go at my wheelchair "fitting" appointment last week.

I could do this though (have lots of tissues available) possibly one of the most beautiful dances ever imho.


That's lovely!

You do have my admiration at how you've battled back after such a bad year!

I notice there's some Paul Liburd related dance videos online.
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