Is dance a method of vanity?

nope, it is a way to groove and resonate with the rhythm of the universe.

no, dance is expression, is exposing oneself. Showing who you are is not by itself vanity, feelings of pride and superiority are required to make it vanity.

It's a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

It could be, but desire is not only horizontal, it can be achieved in every azimuth..

Dancing has always seemed to be a pointless and futile waste of time.
So far as I am aware, no good comes from it.
Admittedly, it is as harmless as it is pointless.

Presumably, if u wish to exercise,
running around the block or lifting weights will fare better.

At best, you suggestion creates a behavioral void of pleasure that the brain attempts to satisfy in some other way"and that way is often misguided.

For your mental health's sake, lighten up!

In principle, I fully support hedonism; I always did.

I just don t see the point of moving around in circles
or jumping around, waving your arms and legs,
tho, as I said, it is a harmless waste of time.

If people find pleasure in doing that,
then thay shoud do it.





David

I agree. There is something very primal about moving to music that resonates, on one level or another, with every human being. I think that some of the earlier dances, like the waltz, or the tango, that illustrate more that concept more clearly.

Every era has its favorite dances. I think that you can detect something about a particular society by observing the dances that are in vogue.

Rexorcist (love your screen name). Welcome to A2K. I love to dance and it has nothing to do with "horizonal". Dancing has been around for centuries and is done for many reasons. For example, the American Indian rain dance.

Dance can involve communication and community. Many traditional dances have nothing to do with body/body shape/fitness.

Well sure, if you disregard all other purposes, then it may look like dance has only one purpose. Perhaps the best way to answer your question would be to suggest not disregarding those other purposes.

Well, the Baptists are right--dance and music are tools of Satan to snare you into carnality and apostasy. And they work.

Anthropologically speaking, there are some forty or fifty characteristics that just about every human culture shares. And music and dance are among them. They've found Neanderthal bone flutes around sixty thousand years old that are very close to the modern diatonic scale we use.

Dance feels good, it releases endorphins, it's a means of social and sexual bonding, it looks good, it's intellectually stimulating to create, it builds community and ritual bonding, it's pretty.

David, go look at some expert couples doing West Coast Swing, or Cajun Two Step, or New England contra dancing. Think of the intellectual exercise required to create those complex interactions out of a couple dozen basic moves. Regard it as mathematical exercises in combination and permutation. Or just rent a couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers DVDs (and disregard the story lines, which are, to be sure, usually dumb). Organize a Mensa learn-to-swing-dance SIG. You might learn something (or EXPERIENCE something, without endlessly thinking about it). (and stop worrying about what Obama is gonna do to your guns for awhile).

And who knows, you might even meet a sweet little OmSigDavidette--dancing is very good for that.

And has been, ever since the Neanderthals.

On the subject of Baptists, why don't Baptists have sex standing up?






They might start to dance.

R u RexRed ?

Well, if u wanna communicate, woud it be more effective
to write a letter to the editor of the newspaper, or just call someone on the fone ?





David

Now might be a good time to try: there was Cosmo article, or something like that recently, that said the hottest sex position today is [insert drumroll]... up against a wall.

ba da bump

that is one of Set's favourite routines