#social dancing

[clove-pinks]

La Valse and La Galope by Paul Gavarni, lithographs c. 1830s (Yale University Art Gallery collection).

[gggggravel]

eurodisco

no more green it was peeving me

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Flappers dancing while musicians perform during a Charleston dance contest at the Parody Club, 1926.

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Guardian

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

[asmrgaret]

so tonight at swing dance i danced with this pretty transfem once or twice, she was brushing her hair behind her face etc and acting a bit cute and asked me to dance again. we start chatting, she asks if i want to exchange contact information, we chat some more, she mentions her partner. lots of people have multipartners and open relationships and i didn't pry but damn yeah i sure think i misread that situation

[is-the-19thcentury-man-okay]

I aspire to become a 19th century man. How can I achieve this aim?

I'm trying to clear out my inbox of enquiries, and this is a question I believe I have answered previously in how to share (the best of) 19th century culture with a young boy.

Besides overhauling your wardrobe to have more outfits suited to a range of activities (day dress, evening dress, sporting dress, etc.), learning social dancing really can't be stressed enough. Polka, waltz, quadrilles; any dancing is better than none.

Don't let this happen to you!

[dancebook]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Liza Minelli and Christopher Walken 1963

Walken is not an actor who dabbles in dance but rather a dancer who fell into acting. He studied tap as a kid, toured in a musical, and even strutted his stuff alongside the teenage Liza Minnelli pictured here. “I think that if he had been around in the heyday of MGM, he would have been a big star of musicals on film,” said NBC’s “Peter Pan Live! executive producer Craig Zadan.

[American Lindy Hop Championships]

[Dancers Over 40, Inc.]