I LOVE dancing. I'm not sure what my style is or how to describe it... I can say that it's an unholy amalgam of attempts at styles and moves I like and have subconsciously tried to copy, but modified by the substances I've taken and the music I'm dancing to. It goes without saying that none of these things are supposed to be together and the music may well be completely inappropriate so overall - I have to face facts here - it's obviously a big fucking mess
BUT
Who cares? It's all so obviously right! Music and dancing are so inextricably linked and the two together so perfect that when it all clicks with the right sound and crowd there is almost nothing I can think of that I'd rather do.
As well as dancing myself, I love watching people dancing... I love seeing good dancers, I love watching enthusiastic dancers (good, bad or indifferent), I am almost beside myself with happiness to see people getting into it with huge smiles splitting their faces in half.
One recent thing that reminded me of how important watching dancing is was on New Years Day when we went to this mad party in this huge house 30k out of Lisbon. Beautiful place in the countryside with a massive living room (around 100 or 150 capacity I suppose) with a huge soundsystem and on one wall there was this huge glass sliding door which meant when the shutters were open you could see out over these hills sloping away from you, beautiful woodland etc etc there was limitless booze included in the ticket price, the music was great, the crowd was super friendly, we travelled down there with some cool people... it was a lot of fun, and yet, at a certain point a big part of me started getting bored and I analysed my feelings and I realised that it was cos it was a closed system and there were only so many people there, and after twelve hours I'd seen everyone who was there and - more important than that - I'd seen every single thing they did on the dancefloor and nothing about that was exciting or new any more.
I'd never thought it before explicitly but I think subconsciously I've always kinda understood that most people dance by having a main - maybe two or three second - loop that they repeat a lot and possibly two or three minor loops that they edit in and out plus a couple of flourishes to punch in at moments of excitement. The numbers might vary (some have more loops, some have fewer, maybe they are longer or shorter loops etc) but I reckon that's a reasonable description of how most people dance... and as well as saying that literally to myself for the first time I realised how important stimulation from other dancers (just from their actual dancing) is to me in a club. I dunno if that's me being weird or if that's true of everyone, I've never heard it said out loud, but then again I've never said it to myself in those actual terms before.
Years ago one of my friends said to me that he likes there to be lots of girls dancing and at first I put that down to his wanting to chase girls but he denied that quite strongly and over the years I have come to understood that he did mean something different to being on the pull... in fact maybe he meant something similar to what I was thinking, but I could be wrong.