I need to learn to dance!

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 05:26:53 GMT
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Hi all, I'm a 25 year-old male and I want to learn to dance to hip-hop and rock
mainly in clubs. I never used to dance before because I didn't think I could, but not too
long ago while at a small club the wife of a friend who was sick of me not
dancing finally embarrassed me into getting out on the dance floor. I LOVED
IT!! I never had so much fun, and when we were done a couple of people told
me I was pretty good. Now I MUST learn to dance because I'm addicted! I'm trying to watch people and pick it up that way, but I would like to
save time and learn from someone else if possible. I've tried to look
around for dance instruction but it seems that most schools are either
teaching little girls ballet, or teaching hip-hop dancing a'la MTV music
videos, coreographed group stuff that wouldn't be appropriate for simple
dancing at a nightclub with a girl. I'm interested in hip-hop and rock, but I'd also like to learn salsa
dancing, maybe swing, even breakdancing. Mainly I just want to be able to
go to a club and have a good time. That one time that I did dance I was
mainly trying to do phreaking (I'm sure it looked more like the "White-Boy"
hah!). Anyway, I know once I'm confident at dancing I will be a dance-a-holic,
so I ask all the wise dancing sages in here to guide me toward the light:
1. Where should I go for the type of dancing I want to learn?
2. As for the dancing schools that have ads offering a wide variety of
dances (ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, swing), is their hip-hop the
coreographed group stuff for competitions, or is it something I could use?
Thanks,
So-and-So
P.S. I live in Southern California, about 1 hour from Los Angeles.