"You don't dance to metal you idiot"

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I gathered a lot of courage and went to a metal bar/club the other day and there was a Symphonic Metal song playing and I went straight for a hot chick and asked her "Do you want to dance?" she told me I was a moron and that one does not dance to metal... But I want to! I feel like an idiot not though...

Surely all music is made for dancing?

How would you dance to this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNGzltK_tlc[/youtube]

She is just naive and ignorant. Of course you dance to metal. Headbangers (inter alia) dance to metal. If you go to Gandalf's and Gotham (night clubs in Cape Town) or Die Mystic Boer (night club in Stellenbosch) you will find people dancing to metal. I dance to metal -- and I am not a metalhead or a Goth. I just find it easier to dance to metal and rock than to so-called 'dance music;'. http://twitter.com/choreotania

Can you show me how? Or explain?

PS: I don't know what it's like in your country, but where I live, people don't necessarily ask each other whether they would like to dance. They just dance. And sometimes someone dances up to someone else, and then they dance together. Straight women also dance with each other in groups sometimes.

I prefer to dance alone, it's less socially complicated. I am the first person to dance. I lkie having space on the dancefloor.

head banging tutorial

http://youtu.be/yqcHfy38l-U

You mean show you how to dance to metal or show you in what manner she is naive?

Not sure if that would work for a song like that:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3SmhX5LQWw[/youtube]

How to dance to metal?

Well, this is me dancing: http://www.alphabetania.com/campaigns/s ... s/joqatana - not to metal and not my best performance (I wasn't warmed up, I didn't 'let go;), but I would include some of the same moves when dancing to metal. Dancing to metal is more intense, not quite so 'feminine'. I use some martial arts movements when I dance to metal.

Maybe I will make a decent video of it someday before my knees and arms pack up completely. I need to dance for at least an hour (in a night club, not my bathroom!) before I can get into it properly and do a decent job. I need lots of space.

You dance really well! But if I danced like that people would question my sexuality!

I have a coordination problem also.

Thank-you. Hahaha!

This is Gotham: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2 ... tos&so=540 - not so easy to get an idea of the dancing, though. The dancefloor is small and has a high ceiling. The walls are black. As I mentioned, I am not a Goth, so this 'dark side' business is all kind of blah-blah-yeah-yeah-whatever to me. Metal is for dancing; I am not into the sombre philosophy.

As for the co-ordination problem: I recommend martial arts lessons. It is really a good way of getting to know your body's capability. It develops balance, co-ordination, strength -- your vestibular and proprioceptive senses. I would recommend martial arts as a starting point for dancing. Aspies can easily make fools of themselves by dancing, and the problem is that people wouldn't tell them either,they'd just snigger or lie and tell you you look great when you don't. Martial arts gives you much more control over your movements.

Oh, that headbanging thing on YouTube -- hehe, so funny! I didn't watch the whole thing (low bandwidth) but what I saw was entertaining. It is one kind of danceform that doesn't require quite so much co-ordination, of course, but then you can't really be the only one who is doing it while everyone else is doing the tango or something.

For more than a year I have been thinking of designing a Goth-like t-shirt with a headbanger on it, and the words 'Autism rocks'. Headbanging is kind of the natural thing to do in a meltdown! (But then you need something to bang it against. Like metal. I mean REAL metal.)

If you want to dance to metal, do it. If anyone calls you a moron for that, just rag on them for being a boring conformist.

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Yeah but how?

You don't know how to verbally tease people?

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When I try they think I'm insulting them.

And I suppose only girls can do that right?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLNpQ5Fq54Y[/youtube]

I don't want people to question my sexuality.