Ooh, my mum sent me to ballet lessons as well, when I was about 7. (She was concerned about my pigeon-toes). I hated them. I never got the hang of the toe-pointing thing and I seem to remember the teacher had tendancies to shout at me. I pretended to be ill every time I had to go for a lesson, so after about half a term (during which I learned nothing) my mum decided to stop sending me to them as she wasn't going to waste her money on lessons I wasn't going to attend. And that was the end of any dancing pretensions I might once have had.

Hurrah, another Cerocer! *waves*

That weekend sounds fabulous.

I've been dancing off and on since I was 3. I've done ballroom, latin, tap and flirted with jazz and contemporary. I'm currently going to Swing Dance classes and am planning to take up tap again.

I desperately want to learn how to ballroom dance.
I have a friend who will come to classes with me, we're just waiting for a new term to start.

Problem is, how many teenage boys will want to learn to ballroom dance?

Partners are quite handy, so I'm told...

Well i have danced and do dancing but not really latin or ballroom but i really want to start up classes! I used to go to a dnace schoolo and that was good but i would prefer to do more latin and ballroom classes.
xxx

I teach 500 University students each week and pretty much an equal male/female ratio. In fact in the Improvers class we have more males than females!

So you are not alone!

I love Ceroc and got into it purely as a result of SCD (I followed a link on the Beeb's SCD webpages). At the moment I'm not allowed to do anything more strenuous than a gentle walk but can't wait until I'm fit enough to start dancing again.

I had a couple of ballroom lessons as a teenager, but can't remember any of it now and would love to be able to do some of the beautiful dances we see on a Saturday night

im looking for salasa lessons but they are all on weds but i do belly dancing then its not fair, i only live in a small town and its rubbish trying to find dance classes

I've just been reminded by a post on another thread that I did a Lindy Hop workshop many, many years ago which was great fun!

Hi there Elanor! The weekend was indeed fantastic, but I'm certainly paying the price for it - my legs and feet are refusing to do what I ask of them now . Hey ho, perhaps they'll get going when I go dancing again tonight!

Can I dance ? I have just spent the last week at Scarborough dance festival, dancing morning afternoon and evening. I guess you could say I'm addicted!!!

University? Not for me for a while yet.
And I live in a place where all males my age prefer standing on street corners swearing and hitting each other.

It's a tough life.

An even bigger reason to find a Ballroom class.... oh... and trust me.. the girls will love you!

It's a good enough reason for me .

Now... where can I find out about weekends like that? I want to go!

I used to dance in Modern Ballroom & Latin American competitions. My teachers were Robin Short & Rita Last (Ballroom) & Richard Rose (Latin). My las dance adventure was doing Vienese Waltz round a ruddy great tree cemented into the ground in an Oxford University garden. John Hurt and Chris Christopherson were the "stars" in a film called Heavens Gate. Shortly after that marriage and all the associated expense put an end to my comp dancing.

I used to dance ;- tap and contempory,( for fun appeared in a few shows and once as a tep dancing cow in panto!) but had to give up when injured my ankles ( not dancing and not drink) have not been able to wear heels for 2 years until recently. So now my ankles are better might be able to start again ( if it dosent embaress daughter too much- she is so much better than me now )

I can only ever be a spectator, one left leg and a gammy one, means I could never hope to trip the light fantastic.

Doesn't mean I can't appreciate what is going on each week.

I to would love to take ballroom and latin classes, have only ever done disco freestyle (about 2 years now) but as that's nearly all on your own don't have the guts to compete.

The problem is def finding a partner, so if anyone interested in starting lessons let me know.