Dance

[marcmagus]

The intricate dance begins. It feels like I'm getting my steps right so far; my partner and I seem to be working together. If I can just make it through the next few tricky steps without stumbling, things could start heading in a very exciting direction.

Comments

[jhadania.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume that this is a metaphor. I am further going to assume that this metaphor is something I've already heard about. In which case, right on, I'm glad for you! If I'm wrong, then IM me and be less cryptic. ;)
*hugs*

[marcmagus]

You would be wrong. I'll be happy to explain if you catch me on IM. In the meantime, take what mnemex observed as a hint. *grin*

[soulchanger.livejournal.com]

Metaphors are for loser poets with no direction in life, like me!!! I demnad exact details!!! Don't Kudisch this issue with your inappropriate caesuras and your Haiku that aren't about nature!

Also, Dancing is teh suXX0r! Only Rave Dancing p0wns! Remember it!!ONE

[fadedpaladin.livejournal.com]

*coughgagsnort*
don't do that to me so damn early in the morning.

[marcmagus]

Real dancing has footwork. That "rave dancing" thing you do is as much dancing as a haiku that isn't about nature (and only approximates the correct syllable counts) is a haiku.

[soulchanger.livejournal.com]

Heh. Loath as I am to follow a ridiculous comment with a serious one, when I am at a club dancing the dance of the rave persuasion, I *do* use footwork, much to the amazement of those around me. Kind of like how I write proper Haiku, and do other artistic stuff with integrity and respect for the form.

So there.

[marcmagus]

Heh. I wasn't claiming to write poetry, although I'd like to think there was some artistry to my metaphor and that it was fairly finely crafted.

[pigfish.livejournal.com]

That sure is an awfully Western characterization of dancing, there are cultures in which dancing is about self-expression or spirituality, and the steps don't matter.

[marcmagus]

That's the most Vassar thing I've heard in weeks.

Perhaps it's just a more narrow definition, and I use "dance" to refer to "body movement in response to music characterized by an association between foot movement and rhythm" and some other term to refer more generically to "body movement in response to music". It could even be incredibly insulting to the cultures which use what you call "dancing [which] is about . . . spirituality" to suggest that what they're doing is the same thing as, say, modern waltz. They might ask how you dare suggest that such a form, with its explicit rules about pairing and implicit suggestion that it's part of some greater mating ritual, is in any way similar to their pure spiritual expression, just because it bears the one physical similarity that both involve bodies moving while there is some sort of rhythmic sound being produced.

Or perhaps soulchanger and I were being blatantly ridiculous and inflammatory to be silly, and you just didn't get it.

[mneme]

You know, "noncon" as a tag risks ending up taking the meaning I don't usually associate it with when you mix it with that kind of metaphor.

Good luck!

[marcmagus]

*laugh* Dancing doesn't really work if both partners are invested in making it work, so it's tough to see how that meaning of noncon applies. Besides which, it's not that kind of metaphor.