Bad dancing
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I was a competitive Irish step dancer for DECADES, and also swing dance. It's probably the most un-Aspie thing about me....well, besides my tendency toward playing sports.
I was also a competitive step dancer (for a little while), and can do reels and that sort of thing. It's mechanical and process-oriented. but when it comes to just freeform dancing like people do in clubs or raves or whatever, I've never actually done this without someone telling me to stop, which i take to mean that I'm not good at it or it doesn't look right somehow.
pandd wrote:
Everything, from how to stand correctly, through to complex layered movements, were taught to me in discrete steps with a number of "checks" (ways to determine if the step is being done correctly).
It's exactly my way to learn new dancing movements: my intuitive "copying" is too weak for complex movement. Now I'm learning hustle, and often can see, that another people in the group are copying new movements faster than me. Hustle is partner dance, so there is some issues connected with interaction in pair, which are rather difficult for me (I'm not always feeling the partner). E.g. girls in the group said that my "leading" in dance is sometimes strange: e.g. "don't push me", "don't throw me as the bag of potatoes", "I'm not a log", "I don't understand you", "listen to the rhythm". Now situation is improving.
Learning2Survive wrote:
I tried to dance with other kids in the 9th grade and other kids made fun of me.
I had and still have simular situation: any "free dance" looks unnatural in my case.