Do you like a partner who can dance?

In a way yes but in another way no. I have two left feet so he'd only show me up, unless he's planning to do it solo. The man I'm sorta seeing can do brazilian dancing (capoeira) and one of my exes could breakdance which was sexy and made him very muscly, but if someone expected me to waltz and polka with them I fear I'd be a huge disappointment. Still I can wiggle in a club with the best of em.

 

I've noticed that a lot of English people are fixed on having an r sound in every word. Like my MSN English friends, they always say 'yer' instead of yeah or yes. And they say tar in place of thank you. Weird.

 

I love a woman who can swing her hips and move her butt. There isnt anything better than a woman who can throw down sexy moves for you. Im not the b-boy type of dancer, im more towards the salsa, merengue man. And its funny because i've met quite a few ladies i dated at salsa clubs or things like that. I believe dancing is a good way to spice up your sex life. Sometimes, when myself and Eva are feeling kinda you know, we just put on the Tito Puente and/or Celia Cruz and then, you know the rest.... 8)

I dont necessarily believe that men with dance rhythms can dance, but for women that is absolutely true. I've slept with women who were good dancers and they were nothing short of lionesses in bed. Well, neither figuratively nor literally but you get my point :wink:

 

i enjoy her moving to a Bossa Nova or Calypso

 

capoiera is more a martial art than a dancing style or form. it was an African martial art that Brazilian slaves practice and at times used. The slave masters killed those they knew practicing it so the martial aspects were disguised by the instruments, rituals and acrobatics.

Dance is a cultural thing. Not completely but just enough so. Those booty shaking and grinding you see in HIP HOP and dance hall music were the same moves performed by Africans for centuries.
They have been distorted in the sense that the respect that once, is supposed to be in the play between man and woman has dissolved into a vacuous film of pointless gyration and gratification as a weapon.

Those who lean towards the more formalized structured dance patterns seek that formalization in there life. There is an order to things and if i follow those same one two steps than i am fine. The beauty in formal dance is in the structure and movement that buttress or adds to the organized flow of formality.

American Black dance history has relied on the past emotional gyrations of the past and interpreting that for the generations outside of Africa. For me i am versed or familiar with varying forms of movement. Movement is life, its freedom. A woman i am with has to have that touch of freedom in them.

And don't mean simply shaking your hips in some pale imitation of a sister. I mean movement, feeling. It really irks me to see white woman who believe they are good dancers because they can shake theirs backsides like they have seen in some video.

 

I actually don't believe that being able to dance makes a man 'better in bed' myself (that's why I made a joke about it), and I wouldn't mind being with a woman who can dance, just as long as she doesn't expect me to dance with her! :lol:

 

GOD BLESS YOU.

 

Thanks for clearing that up, you saved me the trouble of crystallizing its origins. In addition to your post though, the Portuguese slave masters of Brazil kept groups of slaves in seperate confinements called baracoos(which is rumored to be the source of the word coon)to prevent revolts and to exterminate capoeira. But alas, it lives.

 

I tried to post this yesterday but there was some problem - I did know that about capoeira, I've seen it being performed multiple times! But yet it is movement to music, and it has the rituals of a dance, and he calls it dance himself, so I'm going to go with what he says...and also isn't it one of the origins of breakdancing?

 

no, breakdancing was created all its own in brooklyn new york urban dance and rap music.

capoira, is brazilean and created by slaves there as a culture martial art. they were not allowed to fight or to carry weapons and the african slaves, who came from warrior tribes like the Mandinkas, did these kinds of martial arts to remember their trainings and as act of defiance from Portuguese slave masters---which was rather brutal of the new world slave colonies.

 

Ok, I think I read this article a while ago:

http://www.uwm.edu/People/dosemag2/similaritiesofbreakdanceandcapoeira.htm

And got muddled, in that the types of movement have some physical similarities but different origins - I know all that about how the martial arts movements were created so that the 'dancers' might pretend that they were using dance movements not fight movements, and so the fighting practice would slip past the noses of the slave masters.

 

Ditto!!!!!