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Title: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: RyGuy on July 29, 2011, 12:26:32 AM
I'm looking for anybody who is/was a dancer while living and presenting as male. (Sorry guys- if you danced while presenting or being viewed as female you're not exactly who I need to talk to right now.)
Title: Re: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: Natkat on July 29, 2011, 01:01:48 PM
I'm not a dancer but I have chatted with a person called Beck who is a Dancer.
Beck I Bevægelse (Beck In Movement) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uu_WyE1GVg&feature=channel_video_title#)
hes been a dancing before and during transition I think he still dance.

Title: Re: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: Lee on August 01, 2011, 12:47:01 AM
I'd be interested in talking with guys who pass about this too.  It's one of the things I'm dreading most about transitioning.  :-\
Title: Re: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: RyGuy on August 01, 2011, 11:41:08 AM
Quote from: Lee on August 01, 2011, 12:47:01 AM
I'd be interested in talking with guys who pass about this too.  It's one of the things I'm dreading most about transitioning.  :-\

lee im scared as well. im going to be in my college's dance company and im stealth there, but i grew up dancing for 15 years as a female.
Title: Re: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: Lee on August 01, 2011, 12:44:43 PM
What style of dance do you guys do?  I'm thinking of starting up hip hop to give me something non-partnered to do until I become more passable.
Title: Re: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: RyGuy on August 01, 2011, 01:23:04 PM
ballet, tap (broadway style, not stomp), jazz (same thing, traditional).

i don't like hip-hop but i guess i'm biased from having such a traditional dance background
Title: Re: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: LilKittyCatZoey on August 01, 2011, 02:20:39 PM
I have never learnt to dance!!! haha so i think i have it worse i couldnt learn simple guys moves to look "cool" heaven only knows i will never learn to dance as a girl either but!! BREAKING  your feminine habits in dance isnt hard just copy other guys and forget every dance you did as a girl  :D :D ask your guy friends to help  :) ;)
Title: Re: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: Lee on August 01, 2011, 03:09:52 PM
I started out with jazz when I was younger, but my reintroduction to dance in college was belly dancing and then salsa.  Now I have a tendency to use very feminine looking hip and arm movements (which gets me in trouble when I'm doing tango and other stiffer dances), so I'm hoping that hip hop might help me get used to different types of movements.  I've noticed that a lot of dance exchanges have men's/women's styling classes, but I tend to get strange looks when I show up in the men's one.  :-\
Title: Re: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: N.Chaos on August 01, 2011, 08:43:02 PM
Agh, salsa...we did a (brief) unit of salsa in my aerobic dance class, back in college. Scary ->-bleeped-<-. I couldn't do it at all, I can't get the whole fluid movement down...I'm all clunky and awkward, lol.
Title: Re: is anyone out there a dancer?
Post by: Jeh on August 01, 2011, 09:10:22 PM
I did ballet, jazz and tap as a female at theatre school, and I'd like to take jazz now as a male, so I'm interested in this thread.