I was born and raised in America, and for some reason I have this classic notion in my head that people should be dancing at weddings.
However, now that many of my friends from earlier in life and college are getting married, when I go to those weddings, the dance, if they even have one, is on a tiny dance floor, maybe even just a small part of their reception hall that they scooted the chairs and tables out away from.
And it turns out, many people simply don’t know how to dance. Sure, not everyone is a competitive ballroom dancer, but even my non-dancer friends in college would still go to swing dancing night and mess around on the dance floor.
Now, however, people just stand on the dance floor and sway or shuffle. I am loth to even call it dancing. It just seems like people are uncomfortable and not really having fun.
What happened? Did people stop dancing?
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Edit: “am loathe” -> “am loth”. STT is a b.
My hot take: Weddings are solely a patriarchal event to make it public whose inheritors are whose.
I would be good at dancing, I think. My older relatives are professional ballroom dancers. I just don’t like to do it…the whole contact thing. I prefer US country line dancing since it’s single but i loathe the music it’s done to. With COVID now i literally can’t even begin to care to seek out events where dancing would happen.
It is a good observation tho that VERY few people even know how to dance nowadays. But swing style takes atheticism and training that not everyone has access to.