Dancing Queens

I recently met fellow blogger, Feline Nursery's, best girl. She's so great. The previous night she had been to a Scissor Sister's concert and was inspired by the disco dancing. It inspired her so much that she searched the internet for how she could learn all those great moves. Personally, I don't think she really needed an instructional video at all given that her impression was spot-on. She looked to each side of her, mouth open and twirled her arms around. She looked exactly like the sister himself in this picture. In fact, I only saw this picture a few days ago and without realizing who it was I thought to myself why that looks like Julie's impression of the dancing she saw at the Scissor Sisters concert. Wouldn't you know it- it was a picture of that very band.

For some strange reason I thought about disco dancing a lot over the past few weeks. What is so appealing about it and why was Julie's impression so correct? Is the secret of dancing looking away while doing things with your arms? She definitely caught onto something of the essence of dancing. Who are good disco dancers, I thought? They do some crappy moves on that 70's Show before commercials, but nothing inspiring. Who's a disco inspiration? John Travolta came to mind.



Then, I found a couple posts about Scissor Sister on various blogs. Turns out they or he is refreshingly, openly gay. So are his side glances a disco technique or a statement? Is there something that makes gay men better dancers? Is being flamingly gay in a Will and Grace kind of way help you the dance good disco? So, I thought back to who are good dancers and what do they do? According to this t-shirt that was photographed and then placed on the internet, some people think John Travolta is gay. He's a good dancer.


He seems to have a style of dancing that says he means it. Look at that intense look somewhere else, the leg in the air, the high ass, the sucked in cheeks. This is some serious dancing. I wonder if it helps that he's gay (according to facts on the internet) Why do I like this so much?

I don't know if the answer to effective disco dancing can be found in a DVD, Julie. I am not sure it's something that can be learned.