I don't understand dancing

Dancing is stupid wrote:

You move your body in random ways because you hear noise? WTF?

You must be the life of the party.

You do it because girls like it.

You can't just make out and have sex all night. Well you could...

Take a step back and look at dancing objectively. You're randomly flailing your body because you hear sounds. Tell me it doesn't look stupid. It serves NO purpose and looks ridiculous.

Dancing is stupid wrote:

You move your body in random ways because you hear noise? WTF?

Personally I don’t like dancing (mainly because of anxiety) but I can see why other people do it for fun.

Are you an anxious, tense or serious person?

While it's funny and makes sense to think of it like that, you can oversimplify a lot of things like that. Baseball is hitting a leather ball with a wood stick. Track is moving aimlessly around a softish surface trying to make the number on the screen as low as possible. Playing an instrument is just flailing your fingers to make sound waves of different pitches.

You could make a similar statement about rattle snakes.

Dancing is stupid wrote:

You move your body in random ways because you hear noise? WTF?

The greatest danced to his own noise:

Bad dancing is indeed something difficult to understand, but good dancing is a marvel.

Avocado's Number wrote:

The greatest danced to his own noise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emNOxALQlpo

Thanks for that video. Astair was a monster talent, and a supreme showman. No one will ever come close.

The fact that you dance with random movements might contribute to why you look ridiculous and think that it's stupid.

malmo wrote:

Avocado's Number wrote:

The greatest danced to his own noise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emNOxALQlpo

Thanks for that video. Astair was a monster talent, and a supreme showman. No one will ever come close.

Sure he was good, but Ginger Rogers did everything he did backwards in high heels.

Also there's Gene Kelly tap dancing in roller skates.

Watch toddlers listen to music and you'll realize that dancing is a primordial expression that brings you joy. Forget your ego and just move to the music

Dancing is stupid wrote:

You move your body in random ways because you hear noise? WTF?

Try some drugs and see if you get the hang of it.

Rhythms are somehow ingrained in us as humans. If you hear the start of “we will, we will, rock you”, do you get the vibe of that beat, or is it lost on you? Clapping can a form of participating bodily, in a rhythm, just like dance is.

Running is also about setting a rhythm with your body, and then stepping to the rhythm. It’s very natural to enjoy those rhythms, and i can see why trail running (technical trails) might lack the pleasant rhythmic nature of running a smoother path.

We live with the good, soothing, comforting rhythms, as early as being in the womb and experiencing a mother’s heart beat.

Surely you respond to rhythms like any good human, yes? Dance is related to music, which is related to rhythm, which most humans can grasp as being somehow hardwired into our humanness.

I believe you might be trolling, but it is an interesting question about how we are wired. In the right situation with the right music, I feel compelled to and enjoy dancing.

It probably evolved as a courting and bonding ritual.

As a natural follow-up question to your first, why do people want to get into odd positions to put their genitalia together, wtf?

Maybe you're sexually repressed?

Dancing (in a social situation as you describe) is a means preparation for coitus.