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As a terribly uncoordinated dancer, I found this very inspiring:

youtube /watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY (click on HD)

here is an improved link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY

Well ok, I'm not a terrible dancer but I'm not good either. I'm very uncoordinated and off balance. However I can kind of dance if I know the dance, otherwise I will improvise and become random.

An old favorite of mine:

http://www.urban75.com/dance/rave01.html

I'm a bad dancer but at clubs everyone is a bad dancer so it kind of works out.

i can not dance at all.

i cant dance in front of people ive always been embaressed even at dances i never danced.
and i get yelled at cuz i dont dance cuz im embaressing them or i get ditched.
but i get my bad dancing skillz from my father

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFfq6J-rKns[/youtube]

I was a competitive Irish step dancer for DECADES, and also swing dance. It's probably the most un-Aspie thing about me....well, besides my tendency toward playing sports.

I am a terrible dancer, but here in Europe this seems to be usual so i don't mind. When i am in my country everyone expects you to dance very well, i've had very embarrassing situations for this reason.

PS: i'm not saying that europeans are bad dancers, i am talking specifically about Salsa and Merengue, you know, tropical music.

This. I never danced competitively, but I perform on stage, and, if I do say so myself, I'm not half bad. Just like you, it's probably the most un-Aspie thing about me.

Is this a topic that gets much discussion?

It is my observations that Aspie symptoms are extreme one way or the other. You may have the complete opposite of others, but it is STRONG. To dance for DECADES means you really really LOVE to dance.

Does this get discussed much? I can't find these "strong but reverse" symptom discussions in the adult books I've read so far.

I am not a great dancer when left to my own devices (terribly uncoordinated, and no notion of how my body is moving, and very limited in my ability to comprehend and copy what I see others do).

I tried to learn ballet when younger, and the teacher prevented me from attempting the lowest level dance exams. She told my mother I was not ready and when my mother said I should try anyway (and that would give me a better chance of passing next time around) the teacher insisted that she would not arrange for me to do the exams as it would be embarrassing to her as my teacher.

In my twenties, I took up Middle Eastern dancing. As it was taught to me, this dance genre is very beneficial to people with my coordination and copying issues.

Everything, from how to stand correctly, through to complex layered movements, were taught to me in discrete steps with a number of "checks" (ways to determine if the step is being done correctly).

I could not even stand correctly until I began to lean this dance genre, but now have a means by which I can go through sequential steps to achieve good posture. It was really awesome to actually feel a level of control over how my body moved. I would strongly recommend this dance genre to those who have difficulty moving their body in a coordinated manner. The learning curve was difficult, but the benefits were very real.

I like this idea, very charming video and some of "my" places where even to see, cool.
Here is not the dancing skills that matters but the concept

and yeah, I have performed dancing SOLO in front of some hundreds in audience, I will NEVER do that again. Really embarrasing!

I tried to dance with other kids in the 9th grade and other kids made fun of me. I'm uncoordinated and can't follow a beat. Not a big deal. I'm not into bar culture anyway. In fact, it does not bother me at all.

I was also a competitive step dancer (for a little while), and can do reels and that sort of thing. It's mechanical and process-oriented. but when it comes to just freeform dancing like people do in clubs or raves or whatever, I've never actually done this without someone telling me to stop, which i take to mean that I'm not good at it or it doesn't look right somehow.