Do you dance?
Maybe you are like Scott Hamilton on hardwood and can melt the opposite sex with the mere flick of your feet.
Maybe you suck at dancing so much that the mere sight of your fee ton the dance floor causes toes to curl back in one’s shoes.
Luckily, this post has nothing to do with dancing and everything to do with the nonlinear vs the pragmatic.
In line dancing, you follow a specific set of moves that are perfectly executed and then repeated after a definite period of time. You are always striving to be in perfect harmony with the music, but never deriving from the preconcieved notions of the dance.
Its systematic, routine, and has a specific set goal that you strive for.
What about flamenco dancing?
Flamenco dancing has a baseline for how the dance is performed, but that is where the coordinations end. The minute a pair of dancers enter the floor, all preconceived notions about the dance are thrown out the window as the pair enter a frenzy of dance moves that move succinctly with the beat of the music.
What type of dancing is more interesting to watch?
Unless you are a computer programmer with a ram stick the size of a baseball bat stuck up your ass, flamenco dancing is the clear winner.
Is it the crazy sequenced outfits? The music reminiscent of a mexican folk singer on a bad acid trip?
That stuff is great, but its the unscripted and non linear nature of the dance that gives it spades over its line dancing counterpart.
Watch people do the same thing over and over, or get knee deep in a unilaterial combination of unscripted dance moves that will make your head spin?
The question is, how do you dance?
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