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Here is a short entry about dance. Later there will be a long entry about dance. Dance is a thing I think about a lot.

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Square dancing is awesome. Have I mentioned square dancing is awesome? It is. But I am hugely, possibly justifiably, dubious of going to any squares group that isn't Tech Squares or Boston Uncommons, simply because I like being able to dance both archy and non as the mood suits me, and I like that not being a big deal, and I *love* dancing hexes, and hell, I hear that Ted is a lot more interesting with the calls then most callers, and willing to get us into and out of formations that are simply nothing resembling normal, and would make the usual stoic sorts who dance in couples and wear matching skirts and shirts absolutely lose their shit.

Also, when he's teaching, he'll call "un-step to a wave" which makes me giggle.

Really, it all ties back into the idea that I simply need to find more queer or extremely queer-friendly, or heck, even just genderdisassociative dance groups. Not having people be "helpful" by offering to split me and a female partner is a wonderful thing, as is not having people sweetly point out that my male partner and I are standing in the wrong positions. No, I think we are standing in exactly the correct positions, you just assume that girls are always follows.

In other news, of the sort that about six of you will go "awesome" at, and the rest of you will have to consult a glossary before you can even understand what I just said, at the most recent dance, I got to dance the hex tip, by myself --not gemini with Bertha as I have been!

It was, officially, _so awesome_. I did not completely break down the hex (or at least, it wasn't *solely* my fault, and while there are still a handful of calls I don't know, and certainly several hex things I'm a little fuzzy on, it mostly went fairly well, and everyone was in the place they needed to be, and I danced a fracking HEX TIP by myself, before I've even graduated mainstream! Fuck yeah, and stuff.

Glossary: Hex = square with six couples instead of four, there is occasional partner-swapping necessitated by the calls (ie, a four ladies chain done twice gets you 2/3 around the set, rather than back to your partner). They're really pretty, and I've been dancing them as the thirteenth person (ie, gemini) the past couple weeks. Gemini = when two people stand side by side, with near arms around the other, and act as a single person. Tip = square dance term for pair of dances, one normal, one "singing", typically at Squares, there are about six tips (two club-only, two teaching, one or two review). Mainstream = the firstmost level of square dancing.

SOYES! This particular experiment, namely, will I enjoy going to Tech Squares, has been met with resounding success, and I'm not even counting all the kissable people I've been meeting. Dancing really is the *most* fun, all the time.

~Sor
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