Secrets of the City

And, with this post, we introduce a new category, and one I should have added a while ago: Dance.

Great!

They don’t call me Twinkle Toes for nothin’

Great post Max. I’ve been thinking about taking ballet again, but didn’t have a clue where to start.

I can give you a few pointers.

mb…you can start with a plié

I totally want to take ballet. But I’m not graceful, thin, or strong, so maybe I’ll work on those first.

Dance is one of the arts I know the least about, so perhaps I should broaden my knowledge by taking in a few shows this summer.

My co-worker who did this benefit last year is doing it again on Friday night at O’Gara’s in Saint Paul. Once again, there will be dance lessons.

The deets are on this site.

No dance lessions this time, I promise.

You would like that wouldn’t you Grote?

Max – thanks, but I’ve already taken a pole dancing class…

When I was single I tried to impress a couple women with my cultured ways by taking them to dance exhibitions. Dropped a couple names: Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham. Tommy Tune, yeah, he’s great. Real tall fella.

Fact was, I didn’t know a damn thing about dance. I suspect that unless a guy’s a dancer himself, most of the males in an audience have to be bored. Another small percentage will try to understand but before long, their mind wanders to the point where they start to wonder what the female dancer look like naked.

Heh, Rat! No, it doesn’t take long for the male mind to wander to that place.

I’ve only seen a couple live dance performances, but they were awesome. But, cjc has made it clear that he is not interested. I should just go alone I suppose.

I watched a friend salsa dance with a girl one night at First Avenue. It was a sad sight, seeing such an honorable, proud man defiling himself in such a way for a woman. Afterward, I gently reminded him that he was the one to coin the immortal phrase “Love makes a man stupid.”

Where do I sign up for the Lambada class?

Where do I sign up for the Lambada class?

No! That dance is FORBIDDEN.

Damnit!

Great post! However this Lightsey chick failed to mention Community Ed.
I heart community ed. I took belly dancing for a couple of years through Community Ed and got pretty good at it. The classes are inexpensive, the instructors are excellent, and everyone in the class is as nervous as you. There is even a recital!

I have heard of ballet of coarse but those other dance are unfamilar. Don’t you have to start as a chid to do ballet or be undr 25? Swing, salsa, and ballroom I have heard of. Lots of places in the cities teach that. If you want the more obscure you can also go to The Tapestry Folkdance center in Minneapolis. You don’t have to be a star to dance! Usually you have to pay for lessons but I know a few places that have them for free.

I’ve been meaning to learn ballet.

I’ve been to a handful of (non-ballet) dance performances and they were okay; not great, but I’m glad to attend an event like that once in a while.

I have heard of ballet of coarse

Is this what they do in strip bars? Coarse Ballet?

Jesse Ventura used to call professional wrestling “violent ballet.”

Sorry I need self editing. Count to 10 and read agian before you hit post. That should be my new moto. The Tapestry Folkdance center has a website if you just google it. Lots of people I know have been there. Whenever I go to that area of S. Minneapolis I get lost, a misdirection curse I suppose, so I havn’t been yet. The free lessons are at Lee’s Liqour Lounge every Wed at 8:00 PM in Minneapolis and at The MN Music Cafe in St. Paul at 8:00 PM every Thursday. Try it and see if you like it then pay another good moto