This is so San Francisco.
Dance in a Year
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#12I started doing Salsa over a year ago, and more recently Bachata. Probably the single best scary decision I've ever made.
It's my view that when you're dancing, I mean really dancing, everything else just fades away. It's just you, the music, and if it's a partner dance, your partner. It's practically a form of meditation. Probably one of the ultimate cures for depression.
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#14Looking backwards the motivation to capture the process makes sense. I wonder what was the motivation in the early days?
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#15I started doing Salsa over a year ago, and more recently Bachata. Probably the single best scary decision I've ever made. It's my view that when you're dancing, I mean really dancing, everything else just fades away. It's just you, the music, and if it's a partner dance, your partner. It's practically a form of meditation. Probably one of the ultimate cures for depression.
I started dancing Boogie Woogie two years ago. A month ago us 5 dance-couples danced a choreographed routine in front of ~600 people having paid to watch us and other dancers. It was the scariest thing I've ever done walking in, and walking off the stage was maybe my proudest moment ever. Weirdly enough.
So I second your recommendation of starting to dance. And I recommend Boogie Woogie. It's a fun dance with a lot of moving and playing. Look up Torbjørn and Susanne on YouTube, the World Champions.
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#16Nice story, you dance well, but you should definitely choose better dance for your final dance in the video. What you showed looked like you really wanted to use bathroom but tehre wasn't any... Sorry about that, but otherwise, very nice.
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#17Or you could just, y'know, dance. However you want. Like children do, before we tell them they should be ashamed. "Dance like no-one's watching" is really easy to do when you're on your own.
But this seems good too.
EDIT: upon reading this again I realise it's a pretty worthless and stupid thing to say, but I can't really delete it now because someone's replied. Sorry people.
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#18Looking backwards the motivation to capture the process makes sense. I wonder what was the motivation in the early days?
To analyze and review her dancing session on the way to work the next day, I'd guess.
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#19Or you could just, y'know, dance. However you want. Like children do, before we tell them they should be ashamed. "Dance like no-one's watching" is really easy to do when you're on your own. But this seems good too. EDIT: upon reading this again I realise it's a pretty worthless and stupid thing to say, but I can't really delete it now because someone's replied. Sorry people.
I actually feel more awkward dancing by myself at home when attempting to learn a move, than I feel in a lesson or in a club.
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#20"When they score the winning point or sell their company for millions — you're seeing them in their moment of glory. What you don't see is the thousands of hours of preparation. You don't see the self doubt, the lost sleep, the lonely nights spent working. You don't see the moment they started. The moment they were just like you, wondering how they could ever be good." This. Too often we hyperbolize the achievement a…
This reminds me of what Einstein had to say about discovering Relativity.. "In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."