Dancing, or not
Feb. 23rd, 2016 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI don't dance; not as a matter of policy, but because it doesn't come naturally. I enjoy music and would probably like expressing that through dancing if I could, but appreciative experience of music doesn't for me seem at all wired to kinetic improvisation, even when I am alone. I might be spurred into a springy step or suchlike but then it never leads on to anything further.
I wondered if casual dancing is just a matter of practice but my impression from a friend who has tried lessons for a few years is that it's just how we are. Indeed, if I am somehow expected or required to move in response to music, that's enough of a distraction that it stops me from simply being able to enjoy it.
On the contrary, I have known people, especially American women, who will spontaneously burst out into little dances when they are happy about something. I wonder at that difference.
I wondered if casual dancing is just a matter of practice but my impression from a friend who has tried lessons for a few years is that it's just how we are. Indeed, if I am somehow expected or required to move in response to music, that's enough of a distraction that it stops me from simply being able to enjoy it.
On the contrary, I have known people, especially American women, who will spontaneously burst out into little dances when they are happy about something. I wonder at that difference.
