That’s a very interesting link, but I’m left with at least one question—why did a lot of modern cultures mostly stop teaching young men how to dance? I’m not talking about formal instruction—most people through history wouldn’t afford that.
Why, because the music changed! I am 36. My parents danced to rock and roll and beat rumba, which is something to learn. They tried to teach me, but when I first went to the clubs to try to find my first girlfriend around 17, around 1995, they weren’t playing music like that, they were either playing techno-house-trance or this R&B—funky—pop—disco kind of stuff, I remember this and this being very popular for the girls. Boys just went for the girls. Around 3-4AM, when people began to get tired and go home, the DJ took pity on the boys who could not score and played music they would like then everybody went home. At any rate, there is nothing really to learn about these musics dance-wise, at least not on the club level, on the competition, acrobatic level of course yes.But techno is just slicing the air and this kind of funky is just swaying with some hand moves, people find their own moves and style after a while.
I think if I really wanted I could remember some rock and roll moves, but for what? It is not like I will ever use them, they are not trendy anymore. Not a lot of people are buying Paul Anka records anymore. And not a lot of places play them.
There seem to be a lot of men who don’t dance, and this seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon.
I’m going to modify my comment above to make it less extreme.
Second thought—is neglecting to teach a lot of young men how to dance an unconscious way of lowering their chances of courting/seducing women? If so why would that have happened?
That’s a very interesting link, but I’m left with at least one question—why did a lot of modern cultures mostly stop teaching young men how to dance? I’m not talking about formal instruction—most people through history wouldn’t afford that.
Why, because the music changed! I am 36. My parents danced to rock and roll and beat rumba, which is something to learn. They tried to teach me, but when I first went to the clubs to try to find my first girlfriend around 17, around 1995, they weren’t playing music like that, they were either playing techno-house-trance or this R&B—funky—pop—disco kind of stuff, I remember this and this being very popular for the girls. Boys just went for the girls. Around 3-4AM, when people began to get tired and go home, the DJ took pity on the boys who could not score and played music they would like then everybody went home. At any rate, there is nothing really to learn about these musics dance-wise, at least not on the club level, on the competition, acrobatic level of course yes.But techno is just slicing the air and this kind of funky is just swaying with some hand moves, people find their own moves and style after a while.
I think if I really wanted I could remember some rock and roll moves, but for what? It is not like I will ever use them, they are not trendy anymore. Not a lot of people are buying Paul Anka records anymore. And not a lot of places play them.
Did they stop? I learned to dance, and I’ve seen a bunch of impromptu dance lessons at weddings.
There seem to be a lot of men who don’t dance, and this seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon.
I’m going to modify my comment above to make it less extreme.
Second thought—is neglecting to teach a lot of young men how to dance an unconscious way of lowering their chances of courting/seducing women? If so why would that have happened?