How did the in my feelings dance start
What Is the Shiggy? Drake-Inspired “In My Feelings" Challenge, Explained
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Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding?
Kat Tenbarge
There hasn’t been a good viral dance move since dabbing gave us some of the best Vines (RIP). Trends like dabbing, whipping and nae nae-ing, and even Miley Cyrus’ unique brand of twerking hold a sacred hall in meme history. They’re a combination of viral social media posts, inescapable bops, and a dance move challenge that participants can perform either remarkably well or hilariously wrong.
Drake is no stranger to chart-topping pop and hip-hop singles, no. 1 albums, like his latest, Scorpion, and inspiring hordes of memes with songs like “Hotline Bling” and “The Motto.” (Sidenote: Yes, Drake rightfully claims YOLO.) Now, with the track “In My Feelings,” off his new album, another dance craze has risen. Introducing, #DoTheShiggy.
How Did “In My Feelings” Turn Into a Meme?
It all started with Shiggy, aka TheShiggyShow, an Instagram account with 1. 4 million followers for comedian Shoker. He posted a video of himself performing a short routine he choreographed to the beginning of “In My Feelings.” It’s not an overly complicated routine, although the footwork would be tricky for a novice. It also plays off the chorus, a verse with an infectious rap that keeps the track moving: “Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding? Say you’ll never ever leave from beside me.”
The Shiggy dance, hashtagged #DoTheShiggy, is easy enough to copy that several celebrities have tried it. The first, New York Giants player Odell Beckham Jr., crafted the cinematography that really allowed the routine to take off as a challenge in addition to a meme. He gets out of a car while listening to “In My Feelings,” then performs a pretty good impression of the Shiggy on the side of the road, enunciating the movements that reflect the lyrics.
This Is Us stars and on-screen couple Sterling K. Brown and Susan Kelechi Watson did it next, followed by newlywed singer Ciara and Seattle Seahawks player Russell Wilson on their honeymoon in Cape Town, South Africa.
Will Smith took the challenge to a literal new level, performing the dance on top of a bridge in Budapest with a drone circling to capture the action.
And Drake himself, never one to shy away from his viral impact, performed the Shiggy onstage at the London Wireless Festival this past weekend.
Will the Meme Turn Into a Lasting Dance?
Historically, a meme-turned-dance trend takes a lot more participation from the average folks, and not just celebrity endorsements, to become a cultural mainstay. The most memorable dabs were the ones performed in school hallways, subway stations, and by people’s real-life family members and friends. Memes only truly take root off the internet.
So, while iterations of the “In My Feelings” challenge have gained traction on Twitter, the likelihood that the Shiggy will be performed at middle school dances is low. For starters, it’s not a singular move or short sequence like the dance crazes of years past. It’s a routine that would take time to memorize, and while certain parts imitate Drake’s lyrics, the song itself isn’t instructional.
Routines like “The Hoedown Throwdown” and even white wedding reception favorites like “The Cha Cha Slide” and “The Cupid Shuffle” spell out the moves for you.
But the Shiggy is undeniably fun — at least while it lasts.
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Drake met his hit's viral dance creator
Drake's new song sparks viral dance challenge
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Drake posted a photo with Shiggy
He thanked the viral star for helping the song go no. 1
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It’s safe to say Shiggy was probably in his feelings when he met Drake.
“Met the legend on the night we went number one,” Drake captioned a photo of the two of them together, which was posted on his official Instagram account.
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The viral star has been credited with starting the #InMyFeelings dance challenge based on Drake’s song of the same name.
Shiggy, who is also the creator of the #DoTheShiggy dance, posted the same photo with the caption, “Life Is Amazing It Is What It Should Be.”
In June, the social media star posted a video of himself, on a street with traffic going by, dancing to “In My Feelings” from Drake’s recent chart-topping album “Scorpion.
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The short video racked up more than 5 million views on Instagram. Soon, everyone from actor Will Smith to Rep. Joyce Beatty was posting their versions of the dance.
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This week “In My Feelings” bumped another Drake single, “Nice For What,” for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Drake thanked Shiggy in a video posted Tuesday on DJ Akademiks’s Instagram page.
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“Oh my goodness,” Drake can be heard saying. “Man got me a No. 1 record today. Oh my God!”
Origin of dance
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The origin of dance began in ancient times. In confirmation of this, it can be mentioned that the first images of this action are contained in rock paintings dated to the 6-8th century BC.
Dancing in rock paintings
It should be noted that initially the dance was far from entertaining and cultural.
It was a way of communication, self-expression, enlightenment, and even a way of mass suggestion. In ancient times, people expressed all the most important events (love, war, hunting, etc.) in ritual dances, which often copied the habits of various animals. The plots of such choreographic compositions were mainly of a domestic nature - with their help, people turned to the gods, expressed their feelings and raised their morale before any battle or hunt. Such ritual dances contributed to the overall organization and maximum cohesion, which was very important in those days.
Very often dances were used as a rather powerful tool for mass suggestion and strong manipulation of people. Among the most striking examples of such dances are the ritual pas of shamans and African dances. The combination of the rhythm of musical instruments (mainly percussion) and the tempo of dance movements, which gradually became more complex and accelerated, had a very strong effect on the participants in this ritual.
Similar choreographic compositions have been used to put people into trance states to achieve enlightenment and mass relaxation.
African dances
With the development of mankind, dance also developed, because it was an integral part of life. With the maturation of the concepts of society and culture, the set of movements took on a “form”, a concept, filled with meaning and harmony.
The development of dance in different cultures
Each culture had its own concept of dance, its purpose and content. For example, the choreographic compositions of the Japanese and Chinese peoples were distinguished by grace and a special rhythm. Each movement had its own semantic meaning, and the dance in general can be compared with the art of writing hieroglyphs. In Europe, dances had a compositional character and embodied a harmonious holistic combination of the movements of the soloist and the ensemble.
Unlike Indonesian choreography, which is based on fixed strict steps, Indian dance art is full of smooth movements that express mood and various feelings. It is worth noting that Indian dances are considered the most ancient. According to the legend of Hindu belief, the deity Shiva, performing a beautiful dance, turned the general chaos into the Universe.
Oriental dances
From primitive movements to modern choreography
The history of modern dance began with the advent of rock and roll in the 50s. This type of dance created a real revolution in society. With his appearance, the style of clothing, demeanor and even the moral principles of youth have changed. Rock and roll is a combination of music, in which European and African motifs are intertwined, and dance movements, where some kind of aggressiveness, complex support and careless attitude towards a partner can be traced.
Modern rock and roll
Many people considered this kind of choreography to be vicious and unacceptable for decent people.
But, despite this, rock and roll gave a good impetus to the emergence and development of a huge number of new types of dances, which are still very popular.
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Dance is a way to unfreeze feelings, learn the culture of love and go through an erotic school
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda"Culture of everyday life
Irina PROKHOROVA
December 12, 2012 21:00
The history of dance from minuet through waltz to tango in Irina Prokhorova's author's program "Culture of everyday life" , to feel and love each otherPhoto: Evgeniya GUSEVA
Live radio KP Irina Prokhorova deals with experts why men are embarrassed to dance and how dance can renew your life.
Prokhorova:
- Good evening. Today we are talking about the culture of everyday life, that this culture is not everyday life, but it is a very important component and foundation of a high culture.
Today, as we approach the New Year, we will talk about dance. And not so much stage, but what is dance in a person's life as such. Today I will talk on this topic with Irina Sirotkina, Ph.D. in Psychology, author of the book Free Movement and Plastic Dance in Russia.
Sirotkina:
- Hello. I want to start by congratulating you, Irina Dmitrievna, on receiving a high award - the highest award of the French Republic - the Order of the Legion of Honor.
Prokhorova:
- Thank you.
Sirotkina:
- I read that 150 Russian people, glorious names, have been awarded this award. Maya Plisetskaya received the award in January 2012.
Prokhorov:
- Some kind of symbolic moment - we are talking about dancing, we mentioned the greatest ballerina. Thank you for your congratulations. Let's talk about dancing. I immediately remember the episode from Jane Austen's cult book Pride and Prejudice, where Mr.
Darcy, who is bored at the ball, is approached by Sir Lucas and asks him: "Isn't it true that dancing is a great pastime for any civilized person?" To which Mr. Darcy grimly replies that "any savage can dance too." So all the same, what is dance in a person's life?
Sirotkina:
- Dance is both this and that, and the third. This is a wonderful pastime, this is social life, life in society, this is high art. And we mentioned Maya Plisetskaya not in vain. We all know dance across the stage. For us, dance is primarily associated with stage dance, with ballet, with the Bolshoi Theater and other wonderful stages of the world.
Prokhorova:
- With stage folklore dances, which in some way, perhaps, represent folk dance, but already in a purified form, already as an object of culture.
Sirotkina:
- But dance is also a part of our life. And part of everyday life, if we use this word, which is in the topic of the program.
The dance is actually closer to a holiday than to everyday life, closer to something that elevates us above everyday life, that takes us out of the usual course of existence, brings us some kind of joyful emotions. Something that takes us out of our box and gives us joy and interest in life. We will probably talk about this dance today.
Prokhorova:
- Indeed, dance is a breakthrough into the wonderful space of rhythm. As soon as the music starts playing in the street, people start dancing spontaneously. Then they probably become human. Everyone's faces light up, everyone starts smiling. Probably, dancing in general is rarely solitary. A person can dance with himself in front of a mirror, but this is a very sad phenomenon. It seems to me that, perhaps, there can be a dance, as it always seemed to me, even without reading books, this is such a way of entering society. Random people who will never speak, but then an orchestra began to play somewhere in the street, everyone crowded, began to dance.
This is where the idea of community comes in.
Sirotkina:
- The idea of a special relationship arises. Because in society we have very different relations. And in the dance they become different, different. They become more equal, maybe more democratic, more open, more emotional. Dance, especially round dance, is a symbol of democratic relations. A symbol that everyone can take part, everyone can play, improvise. In this kind of dance, improvisation is very important. Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman, who is famous for his "Conversations about Russian Culture", he has a "Conversation about Balls" in the 19th century. He contrasts order and freedom in the dance. The ball is a very organized event. The roles are painted there - who invites whom, which dance comes first, which dance comes second.
Prokhorova:
- In a sense, is this teaching young people to social life?
Sirotkina:
- Yes.
Prokhorova:
- To the status, to the hierarchy. Through dance, in fact, young people learn the laws of social life.
Sirotkina:
- When one of the critics reproached Catherine II that she spends a lot of time at balls, she answered him that "being at the balls is not to mess around, it is to engage in social life."
Prokhorova:
- Ready to subscribe to every word of Catherine the Great.
Sirotkina:
- The dance is still interesting, because it has both. It has order, and discipline, and regulations. But at the same time, it has freedom. We can compare different dances according to their specific gravity, according to the proportion of order and freedom. For example, dancing is for us even a symbol of freedom. Dancing gypsies, dancing tightrope walker over the fairgrounds. They say "nerves dance" when we cannot control ourselves. And dance, especially ballroom dancing, is rather an introduction to a social ritual, an aristocratic ritual.
Prokhorova:
- Even, it would seem, in the wildest dance, which outwardly seems completely free, there are still some internal laws. First, certain movements. You can afford a lot in dancing, but all the same, people willy-nilly line up in some kind of community. They look to see who the partner is next to, so as not to step on the foot, not to hurt. And in a strange way, dance is such a language of society in a sense. We believe that society is organized only through laws, decrees, discipline, which is partly true. But in some sense, probably, dance, maybe a great invention, where through a joyful event people find a way to interact even with neighborly relations. How they hate a bad dancer who goes in the wrong direction, wrong somewhere. Even if people dance separately in modern dances.
Sirotkina:
- Spoils the dance.
Prokhorova:
- And in this sense, learning through play is interesting.
Sirotkina:
- This is training, but at the same time it is also an opportunity to express yourself emotionally. And emotionally understand the partner. Dance in the traditional version, folk dance is a way to get to know each other. Way of courtship, flirting.
Prokhorova:
- This is not only folk dances. Dancing in this sense, it is not for nothing that young ladies have always adored and love dancing. Especially couples.
Sirotkina:
- And still. Club dances exist for people to get to know each other. Modern clubs brag to each other about how many marriages they have between people who met on their dance floor.
Prokhorova:
- You spoke about Lotman and balls, which he brilliantly describes. We know that in a traditional society, a hierarchical society, where there was no real freedom of communication between people, we are lucky, living in the 21st century and in the 20th century, when freedom is great, a girl and a boy can go here and there, they have freedom.
At the same time, they met mainly in living rooms, if we are talking about high society. And the ball - it was almost the only place, not without reason they called the "fair of brides", where young men and women could meet and had the opportunity to talk. They were allowed. This is about freedom.
Sirotkina:
- And not only to talk, but it was a place where sensuality manifested itself. Generally speaking, there are few opportunities for a person to manifest his sensual life, but it is very important in everyday life too. Remember that passage from War and Peace, when Prince Andrei meets Natasha Rostov, they waltz, and he gets dizzy. "The wine of her charms rushed to his head."
Prokhorova:
- I felt young.
Sirotkina:
- He felt like a man, and young, and sensual, a being with feelings that are usually frozen then and now in many respects. We go outside - try not to breathe. We ignore smells, colors, movement.
Because sometimes it's just too much. But there is a place where sensuality can manifest itself. This place is a dance.
Prokhorova:
- Julia Idlis, journalist, editor of the culture department of the Russian Reporter magazine, has joined us. We touched on the sensual side of the dance. This is actually training in the high art of erotica. When a man and a woman dance. And gradually this is an opportunity to meet and fall in love with each other. And in general, a certain culture of love is formed in the rhythm. This aspect of the dance is extremely important. It has always generated a lot of unrest in society. How to dance, what to dance, what is decent, what is indecent.
Sirotkina:
- This aspect was revealed, perhaps, to the dancers at the beginning of the 20th century, when such a movement began, began to expand - for the emancipation of the body.
Prokhorova:
- We know that dances are slow, until the 20th century, when it became an important aspect, after all, the change of the dances themselves was connected, it seems to me, with the steps of democratization.
We take the minuet, where a man and a woman stood far apart and literally touched with their hands. And in many respects this was due to the fact that ladies' dresses were such that you could not come close physically. But in many ways it was also connected with etiquette, what is allowed, what kind of space between a man and a woman is decent in dancing.
Idlis:
- It seems to me that this could also be related to the development of perfumery. At what distance was it comfortable for the partners to approach each other, so that it would be good to dance for a long amount of time together. I heard that the revolution in choreography is considered from the moment when dancing people first joined hands. It happened after the minuet. Further, when people first held hands tightly - this is a waltz. When the waltz became a secular dance.
Prokhorova:
- Waltz caused so many scandals. It was considered an indecent dance. Because the man hugged the woman.
Idlis:
- He didn't quite hug her. There is no tight hug in the choreography of the waltz. It's still an open hug. But tango, for example, was the next step in the choreography, when a man can hug a woman tightly. And tango was the next scandalous step in how partners can dance together.
Prokhorova:
- We have a call from a listener.
Kirill, Moscow:
- It seems to me that in modern society, dance is very much dependent on women. And, probably, from the morality of society. If society is depraved enough, as it seems to me now, then the dance of a woman becomes the same. The man dances, but usually, if you take it in clubs, the man dances a little. I would like to know your opinion about modern dances. Such dances are like in certain areas where there is a subculture. Which also determines the morality of this society. I think that dance is still an indicator of the morality of society, its approach to the family, to a woman, to children, to life.
Modern dance, it seems to me, is very depraved.
Prokhorova:
- We will try to answer.
Sirotkina:
- About women and subculture. Interestingly, two questions were raised together about modern dance, which is really a product of subcultures, but purely masculine. Hip-hop, apparently, means a dance that is danced in nightclubs, he was born in New York, in the poor areas of the Bronx. It was a dance of young guys who wanted to dance with each other. It is quite aggressive, it is a bit like a fight, a fighting dance. Then it spread, many styles appeared. But I want to say that although this is a product of a subculture, it has become wider, it has become some kind of dance style. Now there are a lot of different versions of hip-hop - both break dance and various branches. He is now rising, perhaps, almost to a high culture. At least until the culture that is reflected in the films takes the stage. If you have seen the movie "Street Dancing", it came out about three years ago and became very popular.
This is a movie about hip hoppers and ballet dancers. A kind of competition that ends in friendship. Now the sequel to this film - "Street Dances-2" has already been released, the film has been released in 3D. This shows that dance in general is an interesting phenomenon that is difficult to characterize.
Prokhorova:
- As for morality. In general, blaming everything on depraved women is a pleasant male position. Dancing takes two to dance the tango. There is such a wonderful expression. In any era, new dances are always associated with debauchery. These unusual often are plastic movements. This is some new body dance choreography. There is no need to be under the illusion that in previous eras society was much more moral. There were restrictions on speech. If you read the literature of the 19th century, it seems that only angels fluttered there. In fact, morals were so coarse and depravity was so strong in different strata of society. You would be very surprised if you were seriously engaged in the study of eras.
This does not mean that we should not think about family and values, but I assure you, when modern dances began, such as the neck, twist and so on, I do not think that we were more depraved than our parents. It's just that the dancing has changed.
Idlis:
- In general, everything connected with body culture always starts as a marginal grassroots movement, then goes into some more cultural layers and becomes a mass phenomenon. So it was with every dance, if we take the mazurka. She was born as a marginal grassroots dance, then came to secular salons. Tango has gone exactly the same way. And it is no coincidence that the person who called was interested in the state of dancing in some areas. This is, in fact, the definition of tango. Tango was born as the dances of ordinary residents of the districts in Buenos Aires.
Call:
- Good evening. This is what I thought, listening to you with great surprise. But don't you absolutize the role of dance in general? Because for me it has generally zero value.
I know many people who are not at all interested, unimportant and unnecessary.
Prokhorova:
- I can't say that we are absolutizing. In this case, dancing is not a forced thing. But we are just trying to show that what we consider as part of everyday life, that in fact it has a much deeper cultural significance. Life, of course, consists not only of dancing, and mostly not of dancing, unfortunately. But just behind some factors that are familiar to us, sometimes completely unfamiliar things are hidden. And suddenly behind this there is a big tradition, which we do not even suspect. Therefore, we are talking about this phenomenon of dancing.
Idlis:
- On the contrary, all we do is dance when we live. If you take the way dancers describe dance moves, they are the same moves that we do in life. They specifically say that you don't do anything in dance that you don't do in life. You walk the same way, a step should be a step.
A normal healthy human step is a dance step. And so on. It's just that a person does not realize this to himself, does not concentrate on this when he lives. But in fact, when we move, we express some emotions in the same way, sometimes even thoughts, desires, as well as when we dance. Therefore, even if we do not understand that we are dancing, we still do it.
Sirotkina:
- I would advise the person who asked the question to dance and see how difficult it is, how much he needs to get in touch with his body, wait until his body shows its wisdom, not just his head. But when his soul and body unite, everything will dance together. It's an amazing feeling.
Prokhorova:
- After all, we are trying to show that in a person's life, body language and dance, as part of the body, play a colossal role. We don't even understand it. We immediately read when a person enters the room, according to his body, how he hunches, something else.
And we make some portrait. And dancing is a part of that body language that is very important. And there are a lot of interesting things going on here. People in dance recognize each other in a completely different way than in conversation. So this is the fullness of being in a sense. If you are not interested in dancing at all in life, try it, maybe you will like it.
Call :
- Dancing destroys culture. Culture - from the word "cult".
Prokhorova:
- Are you talking about religion?
- I'm talking about culture. Look, agricultural culture, cultural farming - what do we mean? Wild, virgin soil must be plowed, sown, weeds must be fought.
Prokhorova:
- Do you think that dancing destroys culture?
- Yes.
Prokhorova:
- What are they destroying in this culture?
- Look here. We present ourselves as a country with a Christian culture.
Prokhorova:
- Dancing exists in all cultures.
- There is such a saint - John the Baptist. He was truncated, his head was cut off because one girl danced in front of the guests, and the guests were so delighted with her dance that King Herod said: “Whatever you want, I will do for you ...”
Prokhorova:
- Do you think that dancing corrupts people? Formulate a question, we will try to answer you after advertising.
- Just dancing is a disguised lust. Here it is even heard in your program.
Prokhorova:
- Oh, you know, please note that only men ask questions about dancing, not a single woman called.
Idlis:
- Yes, women talk, but only men are interested in it.
Prokhorova:
- You know, lust can manifest itself without any dancing. By the way, dances just diminish lust, they, on the contrary, reduce it.
Because dance is harmony and rhythm, and lust exists perfectly for itself, without any dances, without culture. And just the less culture, the more naked naked and I would say uncultivated lust. I think you are wrong. Of course, referring to the Bible is an important thing, but there are many other things in the Bible that can be refuted. We are trying to show you that in fact dancing is a very serious achievement of culture and it ennobles society rather than destroys it. It depends, of course, what kind of dances. Drunken dances on the table have nothing to do with dance and culture. You can also just yell in a bad voice and say that our songs are destroying culture.
Call:
- Irina, you know, I am extremely outraged by my previous friend - firstly, he is an uncultured person himself. He confused God's gift with scrambled eggs. Your criticism of him is perfectly valid. And one more thing I want to add. You know, on Sunday I visited the Palace of Culture on Avtozavodskaya and there is a dance group in retro style.
It has been in existence for a long time - there are people of completely different ages, even over 70. You can't imagine the plasticity of the so-called people who come there elderly. They aspire to this dance. I don't dance myself, but I once choreographed figure skating myself, and I want to note this previous speaker. He confuses agriculture with the so-called cell - our body, which absorbs both music and plasticity. This is called the cultivation of the human cell. Each vibration of music contributes to the development of the organs. And moreover, it develops the brain, liver, kidneys - everything, everything. You need to read a lot about this, you need to know about it, and not about what you sowed there, harvested, etc.
Prokhorova:
- Thank you for your support. But people can express their opinion. And this suggests that the transmission turned out to be very important and necessary, and we are trying to clarify. By the way, we have not touched on one aspect, that in fact dances are used for medical purposes - that's what the lady has touched on now.
This is the treatment of so many diseases that help people recover. Julia, please.
Idlis:
- My massage therapist and yoga teacher says dancing is yoga for women. And he says it quite seriously. Yes, indeed, because this is an activity in the course of which you get to know your own body and, naturally, you learn to treat it more attentively.
Prokhorova:
- What about the men? This just confirms the idea that ladies are depraved - they love to dance, you see ... Instead of cultivating a garden.
Idlis:
- Men also like to dance. It’s just that they are put in a position by the same culture when it’s not cool to dance. Because look, except for dancing, which is also a martial art, like capoeira in Brazil, like hip-hop for street gangs in America. Dance is associated with sublime beauty, and sublime beauty is more of a feminine thing than a masculine thing in our culture.
Prokhorova:
- In European culture?
Idlis:
- Yes.
If we draw parallels with ballet, for example, then once the ballerina was considered the standard of female beauty. And when a man does ballet, then most likely he is a homosexual.
Prokhorova:
- Well, firstly, this is not always the case. This is completely unfair to male dancers.
Idlis:
- Of course, but this is a stereotype in society.
Prokhorova:
- But we are talking about classical ballet - a rather specific and very special piece of culture. And, by the way, no one criticized, pay attention, stage dances - no one said that ballet corrupts. And in a strange way, rather, it was addressed to ordinary dances.
Sirotkina:
- This is probably inspired by the theme of our program and the program in general... Indeed, it is very important to discuss the place of dancing in everyday life. Because a lot has been said and written about ballet, this is a well-known topic.
But, let's say, where can a modern person, an ordinary city dweller, dance in a civilized way? After all, this is a very simple thing ...
Prokhorova:
- In a restaurant, for example, with a group of guests or there with his wife together ...
Sirotkina:
- Yes, after a heavy dinner and more drinking, yes. But our listener was lucky - she ended up in the ZIL recreation center in a dance group, which has been going on there for a long time. But there are very few such places.
Idlis:
- It depends on what kind of dancing you do. Because, let's say, for people who do salsa, for people who do tango, rock and roll, etc., there are places where they dance - so to speak, specialized discos. There are salsa parties, there are melongas, there are retro parties that people come to who want, for example, to dance rock and roll as a couple. Basically it exists for pair dances, of course. Because single dances, rather, people are engaged in clubs and there already, since every man is for himself, we observe a wide range of folk art.
Prokhorova:
- I'm still haunted by the question of the last two men... If you still discard excessive realism, I think that here is the problem of dance culture in general. We are not taught this. Because it is disgusting when people who do not know how and are not prepared, make faces and do something there - this can give many an impression, if not perversion, then an unaesthetic moment. No one calls that we should be perfect everywhere, but it seems to me that when we liked to talk about aesthetic education at school, they least of all thought about the grace of the body, about the development of such things. Because it is also, in a sense, art. A good dancer or dancer is a great delight to watch. And there are no bad thoughts at all. Evil thoughts arise when they make faces, stick out instead of dancing ...
Sirotkina:
- When people forget that dance is part of tradition, maybe part of folk culture. Unfortunately, with the introduction of stage dance, there has been such a decoupling of dance from its roots.
Because when a dance is just such an object of spectator attention, an object of consumption, you already forget that behind it there is a very rich culture and folk culture. After all, dance was part of many cults, rites, rituals, and perhaps to a lesser extent in Christianity, but in religions and beliefs that preceded and that exist alongside Christianity, this is true. And it is no coincidence that dance at the beginning of the 20th century became a revival of almost religious ideas. Here Isadora Duncan is a good example - she turned to antiquity, she turned to the ancient Greeks in order to renew faith in people. She wanted to return them to that golden age, to the age of humanity's youth, where they danced on green lawns. And she thus became the founder of a new dance, which is now called modern dance.
Prokhorova:
- Yes, I think that you correctly wrote about this in your book, that it, in fact, was the prototype for many further directions in stage dance, well, including, I think, dance so everyday.
She tried to combine it.
Sirotkina:
- She wrote the manifesto "Dance of the Future", where she dreamed of a dancing humanity. That all people will dance - that is, dance will be part of existence, like the air we breathe. This, of course, is a utopia, but it is a beautiful utopia.
Idlis:
- This is the same utopia as Facebook, I think. Because there is a concept of social dancing - these are dances that you need to master before you go to the dance floor and practice them. But when you master them, you find yourself, as it were, in a dance network of dancers who practice these dances. And you come to a dance party, let's say, and your ability to dance, your ability to move within the framework of this system, well, for example, tango - your ability to move in this way is your entrance to a very wide world of people. And then you can do anything in this world, you can find friends, travel, find love and get married .
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Prokhorova:
- Yes, any social connections work that way. It can go through the chess circle, or maybe through the dance floor.
Idlis:
- Through the chess club, maybe to a lesser extent, because social dances are most often pair dances and they are just designed for the interaction of people, they are built on human contact. Just like social networks on the Internet.
Sirotkina:
- Yes, dance is another language of communication. And there is such a proverb - how many languages you know, so many lives you have lived. And so, it seems to me that learning to dance, mastering some kind of dance style and generally going and starting dancing is a chance to live another life. Let dance renew your life.
Idlis:
- Well, yes. By the way, another interesting thing is that we were talking about men and women and their different roles regarding dance in our life today, and so, in tango very often partners are incredibly beautiful girls - slender with big eyes, etc.
– and partners can be any. But very good partners, professional tango dancers are most often ugly as men, but very beautiful on the dance floor and therefore there is always a mass of female beauty around them.
Prokhorova:
- Is this such a hint that you should practice tango?
Idlis:
- Yes, of course.
Prokhorova :
- But I want to note that most of the pair dances are led by a woman, yes. Which just says that here the social role of a man - he determines the pattern of the dance.
Idlis:
- Actually, it's a little more complicated there. Because formally it’s true - pair dances are male leading and female following, but again, if this is a very good couple and there is very good contact inside it, then a good dance comes from the fact that they both listen to each other and the woman can also offer what - something - well, some interpretation of the sounding music and a man must hear and accept it.
Prokhorova:
- But this only confirms our common conversation that dancing just cultivates people ... Adults, dancing, learn, in fact, courtesy. I just called it an old word - but this gallantry of men and women in relation to each other. Because in a dance, you can't grab your partner's hand roughly and say, "Let's dance." In the dance you must create a duet, it must be really a conversation between two people. When a couple dances well, it means that they got used to each other, they feel each other, respect and this, by the way, is also teaching people such a social hostel.
Sirotkina:
- And teaching freedom. You are absolutely right about gallantry, about attitude, but it is also teaching freedom. Even the ability to relax, at the right moment to throw off some kind of severity, this mask that we used to wear every day and bring ourselves into some other, festive existence - all this can be achieved through dance.
I'll give you an example. An American friend of mine teaches dance therapy classes in a Texas state prison and she says that teaching dance there is a very rewarding job. Because it teaches women to relax without taking alcohol or drugs - without poisoning themselves. Dance gives you the opportunity to find freedom that you don’t have in your life, that you drive away or that you forget by harming yourself.
Prokhorova:
- That is, in fact, the development of dance culture in many ways switches energy to something creative. People are dancing, not drinking, not spreading. That is, sharp sensations, vivid sensations are given in a civilized way. And in this sense, it seems to me that this is some important therapeutic effect of dance as such.
Sirotkina:
- Yes, it’s no coincidence that dance therapy is now well-known – because if young people can go dancing, then older people simply have nowhere to do it, and dance therapy now occupies such a niche where they can come people who are not very young or not very healthy to join this too.
Prokhorova:
- In fact, this is gymnastics. Moreover, I know that, for example, many cases of partial paralysis due to illness are also treated by dancing and people acquire such working capacity - that is, they prolong their life and health. In general, dance - do not be afraid, it does not destroy either culture or morality, but, on the contrary, strengthens it.
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