Dancing anyone?

[timewerx]

I love dancing. I'm a pretty good two-stepper.

You're probably even better than me. I tend to step on people's toes, unfortunately, literally.

I might consider dancing lessons but am contemplating it's place in Christianity.

"Christian dancing" is fine with me but I doubt if worldly dancing is good in the eyes of the Lord. When King David danced, it's a different kind of thing and for different reasons.

If tap dancing on the pedals is a dance then it's the only dance I know since I drive a stick in one of the world's most chaotic roads!

For what it's worth, I have danced once in the club but I was drunk and can't remember a thing and would never do it again!

 

[DawnStar]

I love dancing. I'm a pretty good two-stepper.

I love a good two step dancing song. And a good country waltz.

 

[miss-a]

Dancing is great. I don't think the Lord is against fun. Twerking maybe, but not fun.

 

[RayofSun]

I love dancing and music!

But let's be honest, my "dancing" involves a lot of shimmy'ing and things that make my sisters laugh... so I use the term dance quite loosely.
However, my mom used to dance and taught me a few waltz, tango and salsa steps. I'm always saying I want to take a dance class because I'd love to actually be confident in my ability to dance.

 

[Senkaku]

awesome, glad to see I'm not the only one. I'm always trying to get dance parties going but the people in my church are very conservative, so I usually dance alone. trying to be a good boy and stay away from the clubs, you know?

 

[Goodbook]

Dancing for the joy of the Lord is very different from club dancing or performing I find.

Its really whats in your heart.
My church is baptist but I did hear that some groups actually used the hall for dancing so it cant be like those really strict baptists i heard that banned dancing in the Footloose movie.

However, i noticed a sign banning high heel shoes, as it ruins the floor, so maybe they danced in socks.

 

[Senkaku]

@Goodbook hmm...yeah, I feel you on that one. I just like to express myself through dance and have fun with friends, I'm usually trying to teach my friends how to dance (men, at least learn bachata, it's not that hard and you'll thank me later). The more sensual forms I would only do with my significant other or someone who won't take it the wrong way.

 

[Goodbook]

I just make up my own moves although Im quite fond of the funky chicken.

 

[Senkaku]

@Goodbook haha, yeah, I feel you on that one, you should see me when I'm cooking

 

[Cute Tink]

I like dancing, but I'm never going to impress anyone with my "stellar" moves.

 

[Travelers.Soul]

I like dancing, but I'm never going to impress anyone with my "stellar" moves.

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[Cute Tink]

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Rockin' moves NOT deleted!

 

[Goodbook]

Now I would like to know, for what purpose was the high heel shoe invented?

I once asked on a forum before and people didn't know. Someone came up with the theory it was to make ladies legs look better but then people wear them with long skirts and dresses that don't show their legs anyway.

I thought it might have something to do with dancing and spinning around. Also, if the man isn't a good dancer beware, those heels can hurt.

 

[Cute Tink]

Now I would like to know, for what purpose was the high heel shoe invented?

According to Wikipedia:

Elizabeth Semmelhack, curator for the Bata Shoe Museum, traces the high heel to male horse-riding warriors in the Middle East who used high heels for functionality, because they help hold the rider's foot in stirrups. She states that the earliest high heel she has seen is depicted on a 9th-century AD ceramic bowl from Persia

Another source:

But interestingly enough, women weren't the first wore them. High-heeled shoes were first worn by MEN. And these heels weren't as much about mobility as nobility.

One painting in the exhibition show King Louis XIV of France wearing very high, red-heeled shoes. "Height and elevation has always had something to do with indicating class, privilege, power," said Small.

This article discusses a bit of a different angle, but mentions the stirrup issue.

 

[Ada Lovelace]

Wait, it is?

If it wasn't to some, the 80s classic (and its inferior 2011 remake) Footloose likely never would have been made.

 

[SarahsKnight]

I did ballet as a kid.. which I remember being fun.

Other than that, my hips just move to the beat.

You did, Brianna? That is admirable. I personally consider ballet to be an extremely beautiful and graceful art.

 

[SarahsKnight]

Wait, it is?

Well, you know how it is, Cearbhall. Some Christians just believe that they are doing their duty to the Lord by calling out virtually everything in the world as evil and demonic. If I recall, my first high school principle actually banned dancing from the prom once because, according to him, "dancing leads to wild and crazy fornication".

 

[Goodbook]

Was at church yesterday and saw a newly installed barre. Well I dont know if its brand new but Id never noticed it before. Also the hall smelled suspiciously of feet. Like a gym.

Im suspecting some guerilla ballerinas have been invading the church en pointe.

 

[Cearbhall]

If it wasn't to some, the 80s classic (and its inferior 2011 remake) Footloose likely never would have been made.

Well yeah, but that was a small town in the 80s, and I'm pretty sure it was inspired by something that happened years before that.

Well, you know how it is, Cearbhall. Some Christians just believe that they are doing their duty to the Lord by calling out virtually everything in the world as evil and demonic. If I recall, my first high school principle actually banned dancing from the prom once because, according to him, "dancing leads to wild and crazy fornication".

Oy vey. I mean, I remember our dancing being monitored, but this was at a Catholic school, and no one ever would have said that dancing was problematic altogether.

 

[Ada Lovelace]

Well yeah, but that was a small town in the 80s, and I'm pretty sure it was inspired by something that happened years before that.

My post was lighthearted and intended to be taken merrily, not seriously. But okay. My mom graduated from high school the same year the original was released, and the tradition of prom centered around dancing wasn't controversial in the slightest then, nor was it at my grandparents' proms, or even at the weekly square-dancing gatherings in the 1930s where my great-grandparents met. It was, and still is, however, controversial in certain mindsets, particularly those who are more fundamentalist.

Anyways. Did you ever take dance growing up?