If you were to define your life in terms of dance, what would it be?
By bounce58
@bounce58 (17387)
Canada
March 20, 2010 1:51am CST
I recently raised a discussion here where I explicitly expressed that I couldn't dance! Even to save my life.
Anyway, I recently saw krumping. And I was amazed at how it looks like what I feel in life. Like too much anger, too much energy just wanting to burst out. And it is even adaptable to one's personality!
Although I may think that my life is just like what somebody here called a 'bar dance', there are certainly days which I feel like krumping. How about you? Would you compare your life to a tango? A jazz dance? Dirty dancing perhaps?
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
20 Mar 10
My life is like a slow , romantic dance , just for two. The type of dance where Everythingand everyone just disappears.It is sweet and warm and it is timeless. Before I wouldn't define my life this way. I would have said it was elevator music, dull and invisible. No one wants or will dance to it.
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@sabrinafox89 (47)
• Philippines
27 Mar 10
It will be Foxtrot because of it's elegance. At times, it feels like Dirty Dancing or Swing. Boy, I miss ballroom dancing!
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@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
20 Mar 10
Hello, Bounce. What a great topic. I think my life would be a flamenco - traditional, but with fun,fire and passion. The flamenco is a very expressive dance, as all the hand movements and the way the dancer uses the shawl have specific meanings. As a writer, I'm told I'm very good at expressing myself, so yes, I'd say my life is a flamenco.
@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
21 Mar 10
Hello again. I know what you mean about not being able to look away. When we go to a live flamenco show, I'm always mesmerised by the performances. I'd love to learn flamenco, but I think maybe it's a bit late in the day now. Still, never say never. 
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
21 Mar 10
Oooh! I've seen this, I've seen this! I think it was one of those features on TV about Andalusia. It was exotic and yes indeed very expressive. I remember not being able to take my eyes off the TV while it was showing.
Thanks Sandra, nice to know that I know somebody here with a flamenco personality.
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@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
20 Mar 10
hello bounce58,
great!!! and what a subject. never heard of it in any discussion here but that doesn't mean we can't talk about it. i've not heard about krumping. and i'm not a dancer either. but if it could save my life i certainly would. if there is one dance i could compare my life with, that would be a traditional dance, not tango, not jazz, but what i used to see while growing up, not in the city, but in some rural areas. i often got teased watching it. friends would say it wasn't the dance but the dancers that captivated me. i wished i could have proven them wrong.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
20 Mar 10
A lap dance?
Seriously more like I'm standing back watching other people dance!
@freetalkpp (21)
• China
20 Mar 10
I can't image any dance for my life, I just think my life looks like walking, just step by step to walk,to improve, sometime I feel very boring in my life. I don't like walking, jump is better.
