{"id":832,"date":"2009-05-06T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:12:49","slug":"dancing_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/05\/06\/dancing_again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Dance_shoes.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAbout six weeks ago I attended a cocktail party. The first for a long time, actually: I haven&#8217;t been moving in circles where people organize cocktail parties.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAdult conversation, dressing up, live music, dancing, and all that&#8230; very nice. And the best part was the dancing. I have really missed dancing. I used to dance quite a lot during my university years, performance dance as well as social dancing &ndash; Swedish jitterbug (<i>bugg<\/i>), quickstep (which is generally called foxtrot in Sweden), tango, lindyhop. But I never got around to finding a dance club after moving to London so I lost my dancing habit. Now this cocktail party gave me the push I needed, and I decided to finally take up dancing again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMost social dancing in Sweden is quickstep and <i>bugg<\/i> &ndash; if you know those two, you&rsquo;ll get by in almost all situations, unless you specifically go to a tango or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gammaldans\"><i>gammeldans<\/i><\/a> event or a salsa venue, which I don&rsquo;t plan to do. In quickstep most guys, even the really good dancers, stick to the basic moves, and I can follow those without much work. But I haven&rsquo;t danced <i>bugg<\/i> for almost 10 years now, before I can go out and dance, I felt I needed to refresh my memory. So yesterday I started on a seven-week <i>bugg<\/i> course. Once that&rsquo;s done, I&rsquo;m going out dancing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About six weeks ago I attended a cocktail party. The first for a long time, actually: I haven&#8217;t been moving in circles where people organize cocktail parties. Adult conversation, dressing up, live music, dancing, and all that&#8230; very nice. And the best part was the dancing. I have really missed dancing. I used to dance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,796],"tags":[177,176],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-dance","tag-bugg","tag-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18388,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}