Poll: How many X Markers Dance?

[cloves]

if you consider stomping around to rave/techno/industrial type music in a club dancing..then yep I love it too. There's something about good thumpy music that's really primitive.....I can't not dance to it.

[McClef]

I can't find a voting option that suits me.

I love to dance in a kilt but the opportunities are few and far between. Done some freestyle dancing to musicians such as a few weeks ago in the Isle of Wight and tonight at my choir Christmas dinner.

I also try to get to Edinburgh twice a year for some ceilidh highland dancing but there just are not the opportunities to do that here in Wales.

[timber]

I don't dance much, the only dances I know are the Generic Slow Dance and the Drunken white man shuffle.

[Hamish]

I took to Scottish Country Dance aged about 14. It really grabbed me and remained my main interest and hobby, along with Highland Dancing, through most of my life - until a few years ago! I am a Life Member of the RSCDS and was, for a few years back in the 1960s/70s, a member of its London Branch Demonstration Team giving shows and cabarets for members of our Royal Family and the Lord Mayor of London, and many public displays. I have not danced in the past two or three years because there is simply not a group or club I can conveniently reach where I live.

As for ballroom dancing: I have never been able to cope with this (apart from some Olde Tyme dances). As a teenager there was a need for me to partake in social dancing and so I paid for private lessons with the then UK Ballroom Dancing Champion - Brenda Winslade - but I got absolutely nowhere with it. I think the problem was having someone so close to me!!

For a while, in my early days of living in London, I studied Spanish Flamenco dance, which I loved but had to give up as there was no time for both it and my Scottish dance interest.

As for getting on the dance floor and bobbing about on my own to loud, raucous 'music' - forget it!

Sad really!