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[Pink Ranger]

So I'm going to a gay bar for the first time in a couple weeks, but the problem is I don't know how to dance. Actually I can't dance. Despite all my efforts and wishing I have no rhythm or style. Especially compared to other gay boys.

I'm also going with my boyfriend so I don't know what kind of dancing is gay-bar-with-boyfriend dancing. I just don't know the etiquette haha. I've been so bored lately that I just want to go crazy and dance!

Practice at home first.

Dancing to club music is easy. Everything is on a 4/4 beat, meaning the entire song is divided up into just four-beat increments. And the beats are easy to hear, because the music is always "thump thump thump thump" all the time.

Practice with Gagnam Style by Psy first, on youtube. It's not a great song, but is a simple and basic dance song that is an easy one to learn on. At first, just practice counting (1, 2, 3, 4) when either the beat begins, or when Psy begins rapping. After that, you will easily be able to discern, even in places where there are no vocals, when the 4-counts begin and end.

Once you are able to count properly, then learn to move parts of your body in time with that 4-count. Start with your head first, just learn to bob your head along with the four counts. Then try shrugging your shoulders, then try a few fist bumps.

Don't worry about your feet right now. At a dance club, especially a crowded one, you can fake a lot of dancing without even moving your feet. Try your upper body stuff first and report back with your progress! Keep practicing until your are sick and tired of Gagnam Style!

 

[spideyboy_1111]

So I'm going to a gay bar for the first time in a couple weeks, but the problem is I don't know how to dance. Actually I can't dance. Despite all my efforts and wishing I have no rhythm or style. Especially compared to other gay boys.

I'm also going with my boyfriend so I don't know what kind of dancing is gay-bar-with-boyfriend dancing. I just don't know the etiquette haha. I've been so bored lately that I just want to go crazy and dance!

Step 1: have drinks in you

Step 2: have more drinks in you

Step 3: feel the music

Step 4: hold your bf close

Step5: wiggle

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Also remember.... Not a soul will care about the way you are dancing but yourself. Just relax and have fun

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Also remember... you should never feel obligated to dance.

I for one don't like it, not good at it and just flat out refuse to do it.

Otherwise, just let go and enjoy it.

 

[Endeavor]

...finally came out to my younger brother earlier today. It went very well!

happy for you

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Also remember... you should never feel obligated to dance.

I for one don't like it, not good at it and just flat out refuse to do it.

Otherwise, just let go and enjoy it.

see i think people think to much. have you ever seen a dance floor at a gay bar? usually its over packed... and BARELY anyone can dance anyway... its just about shaking, grinding, and laughing for the most part...

i need some liquid courage to dance usually.. but i can say first hand, it sucks worse when all your friends are dancing and your not. I have fun once i do it. And i'm sure we all look like fools. but who cares?

 

[Marx]

So I'm going to a gay bar for the first time in a couple weeks, but the problem is I don't know how to dance. Actually I can't dance. Despite all my efforts and wishing I have no rhythm or style. Especially compared to other gay boys.

I'm also going with my boyfriend so I don't know what kind of dancing is gay-bar-with-boyfriend dancing. I just don't know the etiquette haha. I've been so bored lately that I just want to go crazy and dance!

Step 1: have drinks in you

Step 2: have more drinks in you

Step 3: feel the music

Step 4: hold your bf close

Step5: wiggle

Pretty much.

Also remember.... Not a soul will care about the way you are dancing but yourself. Just relax and have fun

...that's easier said than done.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Its much easier with drinks

 

[Marx]

happy for you

Thank you!

 

[Mad Ones]

Haha some good advice here. Thanks guys. Another problem, though, is that me and my boyfriend have no dancing chemistry together. Well I'm mostly to blame. I think we're great together, but I screw up even high school-style slow dancing which is a shame because he's a fantastic dancer. I can't follow or lead properly.

But maybe I'll just get drunk and grindy. He's only ever tried to teach me how to waltz lol.

 

[Marx]

High school-style slow dancing? How in the world do you mess that up?

Perhaps your "dancing" chemistry suffers because you're too nervous to just let go and have fun?

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Im thinking the bfs dancing skills intimidate him. I don't think hes with you for your dancing skill MOs. Im sure he just wants you to have fun

 

[Mad Ones]

I am intimidated actually! He's a very proper dancer. He has ballroom training and a bunch of stuff, and I literally know next to nothing.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I am intimidated actually! He's a very proper dancer. He has ballroom training and a bunch of stuff, and I literally know next to nothing.

well, luckily none of that happens on the dance floor at a gay club/bar

 

[Schlosser85]

well, luckily none of that happens on the dance floor at a gay club/bar

Pssh, sounds like you frequent those "lower-class" gay clubs

 

[Schlosser85]

I'm just gonna drop this in here because of reasons:

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Pssh, sounds like you frequent those "lower-class" gay clubs

lol wouldn't it be hilarious if there was a gay club that was nothing but regal ballroom dancing and etiquette?

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I'm just gonna drop this in here because of reasons:

i do not know who they are... but me likes the left one

 

[Schlosser85]

lol wouldn't it be hilarious if there was a gay club that was nothing but regal ballroom dancing and etiquette?

I wouldn't be surprised if there was, somewhere...

There are gay ballroom dancing groups. I Googled it

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I wouldn't be surprised if there was, somewhere...

There are gay ballroom dancing groups. I Googled it

Majority of ballroom male dancers are lol. I set a convention last year it was um.... Interesting

 

[Pink Ranger]

Ballroom dancing is a hobby of mine. But I only have female partners: I'm a traditionalist, what can I say?

 

[Marx]

I would love to ballroom.

...and I also have no idea who those two guys are in the picture above.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I would love to ballroom.

...and I also have no idea who those two guys are in the picture above.

It's not hard to find a female dance partner. Her boyfriend/husband will thank you, trust me.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

the ballroom competition we set every year is always a zoo... gay men everywhere with women who shoulda stopped dancing a long time ago... lots of wrinkles, leathery skin, and skinned muppets everywhere...

 

[Pink Ranger]

the ballroom competition we set every year is always a zoo... gay men everywhere with women who shoulda stopped dancing a long time ago... lots of wrinkles, leathery skin, and skinned muppets everywhere...

See, that's the difference between me and you ... I find myself in that environment, and I love it! It's the highest form of camp; gay men of all ages, their vampish cougarly fruit flies, 60-year old Russian women in skin-tight animal-print mini dresses and their mafia husbands, and the one young heterosexual hipster couple. I can't get enough. t: