One of the places you'll most likely find dancing on a regular basis, outside of a dance studio, club, or theater, is a hotel.
If a hotel has a ballroom or conference rooms, it hosts events. Many of those events are going to be weddings or socials or proms. But even work-related to-dos sometimes feature a dance option on the last night.
Fair Finley can dance. Probably not in a highly polished way, but she knows the basic steps to five or six traditional dances. She's seen many a ball in her own home and can hum any waltz or big band tune, top to bottom.
And does Fair dance alone in her room? Often. Every day. I only hope her curtains are closed.
Sutton Von Hunt is very at ease with herself and would try any step, whether she'd learned it or not. Her senior prom is just ahead and I'm hoping she'll ask Prior Yates. He'd totally go because that would be Nice Town to say yes.
Prior Yates knows the tango, swing, Lindy Hop, and a dozen other styles he's had to perform on film. He's pretty good, too. As is Clementine Hwang, and not simply because she has an affinity for the beat. The Foley artist likes to experiment with genres and move in a way that isn't expected.
I suspect Billie and Jeri Overbove, the mothers of Monty and Gomery, made the boys take a six-week summer course on grace and courtesy back when they were tweens. Not that they weren't mostly gregarious with motel guests by that age, because they were. But they lived at their workplace and their mothers likely craved a bit more polish, when it came to dealing with the public, for both young gentlemen. And dance lessons were surely part of that plan.
Thurs Mathers likely owns the copyright to a dance but doesn't necessarily follow up with legal action if he sees it performed. He juuuust might have a soft center. Plus? He's way too busy to be concerned with coming down on people who are enjoying themselves.
I will dance in any place at any time if music is playing. Or not. If I start snapping my fingers then I am DONE. Meaning I'll be in a full strut in under a minute. It doesn't bother me if people see me because I know, deep down, they want to dance, too.
Do not think this is Magic-Pixie-Dream-Girl-ish of me, please. I'm just a lady who loves to shake it when the opportunity for shaking it presents itself.
My favorite dance classes are all of them. I especially fancy Bollywood, ballet, and modern. I cannot two-step or line dance but I want to learn. Am I good? I'm all in, if that matters, though definitely rough-edged on several levels.
What's your favorite dance? Did you celebrate National Dance Day on July 27? Here in LA there was a giant, come-one-come-all choreographed routine in Grand Park, and the fountain of Grand Park. I would have gone, if I'd been free, because the chance to dance with thousands of other people outside appeals.
You may remember another lively dance number that was filmed in that very spot, in "(500) Days of Summer."
Dancing in the Wilfair World
