Ballet or Ballroom Dancing?

[Izulde]

So I'm leafing through yet more things to occupy my time with as if I didn't have a busy enough schedule.

I run across a dance studio a short walk away that offers several styles of dance, including ballet and ballroom dancing. I'd like to get into (or back into in the case of ballet) one of those dance disciplines.

Ballet I student taught 12 years ago, but have forgotten everything I've learned since then. It'd give me a fantastic workout and help get me back into shape and I have to say I miss it. The combination of elegance and power I used to have back then was awesome.

Ballroom dancing, on the other hand, I've always wanted to do and it'd be a lot more fun I'd imagine, plus there's the benefit of competitions, which I live for. But I don't get nearly as good a workout and I don't get nearly as much in shape.

Poll forthcoming.

[korme]

Dude

[dervack]

Ok, it wasn't all the Victoria Secret's threads, or the dream threads, or the really bad poetry threads. But this thread, makes me believe that Jestor/Izulde has been the biggest put-on yet. Now I firmly believe that this guy is the product of someone else's (really bad)joke on all of us. Congrats, whomever you really are.

[wade moore]

I think you'd be surprised how much of a workout you can get from Ballroom Dancing, especially if you're going to do it competitively.

I voted Ballroom Dancing because of the fact that it also has huge social opportunities. Ballet has practice and performance. Ballroom has just social dancing where you get to go out, have a good time, and dance for fun.

I am into (you'll find an old thread on it) Country Dancing which has much the same atmosphere as Ballroom (although more laid back of course ). And from my experience with it I think you would enjoy it. It's also somethign that you can really just go do socially into old age, where I don't see that Ballet is something you could really do beyond for yourself, by yourself at this stage of life.

[wade moore]

Originally Posted by dervack

Ok, it wasn't all the Victoria Secret's threads, or the dream threads, or the really bad poetry threads. But this thread, makes me believe that Jestor/Izulde has been the biggest put-on yet. Now I firmly believe that this guy is the product of someone else's (really bad)joke on all of us. Congrats, whomever you really are.

I think that with another poster or two, but for whatever reason I don't think it is the case with Izulde. I think that it is the real deal.

[Celeval]

Ballroom, absolutely. I'd go with (and am going to at some point, with my wife) one of the Swing-types, or the foxtrot - a lot of fun, something that can be done socially, and you'll tear up the floor at every wedding you ever go to.

[sabotai]

Chicks go for guys who can ballroom dance. Ballet, not so much.

[Izulde]

So I go to the studio today, right? And I find out... well, let's just do it this way.

Izulde opens the door to the studio. A mid-50s woman with red hair is sweeping. She looks up.

Woman: Hi, can I help you?
Izulde: Yes, I came to check out the ballroom dancing class.
Woman: ...Do you have a partner?
Izulde: Um, no. I wasn't certain as to the particulars required for the class, so I came to find out.
Woman: Wellll, you need to bring a partner with you.
Izulde: Oh okay. Do you think I could observe a class?
Woman: ....I don't think so, no. It's just the type of clients we have... Would you mind stepping outside? I need to sweep the front walk.
Izulde: Sure, no problem.

Izulde and the woman step outside and the woman begins sweeping the front walk.

Woman: My husband and I demonstrate, you see, and he's always the lead. I'm not a good lead.
Izulde: Okay.
Woman: If you can come to tomorrow night's class, the woman who teaches it... She's excellent at being both the men and the women.
Izulde: ....Okay.
Woman: I mean, she's a really strong lead. I'm not.
Izulde: Okay, but I can't make it Sunday nights at all because of other obligations. So.. I need a partner. What about costs? And do you guys participate in competitions at all?
Woman: It's $50 per couple for 3 weeks, or $10 per person if you just show up once. As for competitions... we don't do that sort of thing here.
Izulde: Okay, thanks.
Woman: Sure. You have a good day now.

Izulde walks off. Suddenly there's dramatic music, the world stops and a honeydip girl sashays glamorously in slo-mo down the sidewalk, tossing her hair to the wind.

Okay so the last bit didn't happen.

But yeah, guess I need to find myself a partner. Sucks that there isn't competitive like I thought and that I have to supply my own partner from outside the class, but oh well.