"I'm more curious to hear about what other dance forms you've thought about and your opinion on them."
I don't know much about Flamenco, I had assumed it was almost like latin ballroom dancing (like the pasa doble or something). At some point I'd like to get back to ballroom dance - I had a lot of fun with the latin dances and the swing and disco (and those definitely get you moving).
I've always wanted to do Irish Step dancing - its similar footwork wise to tap but the upper body is totally different (as in, you're arms don't really do anything). I've done some Irish dancing with Tiggerette and had fun with it.
I guess lastly the type I haven't done that I'd like to try out is modern. When I was in college and started up a dance club our Faculty Advisor set up a class with his wife, who used to dance with the Alvin Ailey troop. This was a jazz class (which I took), and she came up to me after and said she thought I'd be great at modern since I was "very expressive" or something like that.
But my true love really is tap and jazz - the other types of dance are just things I'm doing until I'm not in grad school anymore and can have the free time to find a studio again and take 2 or 3 classes a week (a ballet class to round things out would be good . . . ballet is really the base for many other types of dance and its wonderful in terms of stretching and flexibility). I've found they've given me the most opportunity to perform (most dance auditions I've seen have been for musicals) and its probably my favorite kind of music to move to. Cheezy I know, but since that's what the teacher that I had forever was good in that's what we did most of the time (so that's how I developed as a dancer). I've been doing this since I was 2, so its really weird to *not* be doing it right now :)
Dance types
I don't know much about Flamenco, I had assumed it was almost like latin ballroom dancing (like the pasa doble or something). At some point I'd like to get back to ballroom dance - I had a lot of fun with the latin dances and the swing and disco (and those definitely get you moving).
I've always wanted to do Irish Step dancing - its similar footwork wise to tap but the upper body is totally different (as in, you're arms don't really do anything). I've done some Irish dancing with Tiggerette and had fun with it.
I guess lastly the type I haven't done that I'd like to try out is modern. When I was in college and started up a dance club our Faculty Advisor set up a class with his wife, who used to dance with the Alvin Ailey troop. This was a jazz class (which I took), and she came up to me after and said she thought I'd be great at modern since I was "very expressive" or something like that.
But my true love really is tap and jazz - the other types of dance are just things I'm doing until I'm not in grad school anymore and can have the free time to find a studio again and take 2 or 3 classes a week (a ballet class to round things out would be good . . . ballet is really the base for many other types of dance and its wonderful in terms of stretching and flexibility). I've found they've given me the most opportunity to perform (most dance auditions I've seen have been for musicals) and its probably my favorite kind of music to move to. Cheezy I know, but since that's what the teacher that I had forever was good in that's what we did most of the time (so that's how I developed as a dancer). I've been doing this since I was 2, so its really weird to *not* be doing it right now :)