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Flexible responses to "bad dancers" on the dance floor

Hi there, I'm an author who is unfamiliar with a lot of dance culture, and I have unfortunately written myself into a corner where one character is giving life advice to their sibling and is using community dance as an object lesson. The general tone of it is "better to dance poorly than to be apart from everyone".

Suppose there is a poor dancer on the dance floor, and their movements are requiring the whole floor to adjust to avoid colliding. They aren't trying to be disruptive, they're genuinely just bad and trying to join the fun.
In situations where things are flexible and the group wants everyone to be included, how do you talk about and respond to moments like this without either shaming the bad dancer or shutting down the dance floor?

I'd welcome responses from a broad range of communities and dance-types, I'm also genuinely curious as someone who, themself, is a bad dancer and too scared to get on the floor XD

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u/HappyInMyHead — 6 hours ago
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practical tips for re-establishing dancefloor vibes

thss is good advice and well written

u/sexydiscoballs — 10 hours ago
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Once a year Thought Society and NA Sound come to build this Mecca. To me it's a Holy Space.

20 Danely subs each peaking 5,000 on a 26.5 kilowatt Allmand generator, but it wasn't running full tilt. I'll be posting 34~ hours of artist assets on my archive page shortly once I stitch it all together in post.

u/RollingMeteors — 2 days ago
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On this shared post and it brought up the question of: do we fight for our right to party or can we leave alone our more than human kin on a dying planet?

someone on here posted a petition to keep the psytrance waldfrieden festival alive.

i have been there. yes it was “clean”, yes forest raves are amazing, but it still meant at least a week of continuous noise between setting up, the festival itself and then breaking everything down that are a massive stressor to a sensitive, vulnerable and already aching ecosystem with many inhabitants that are displaced and disoriented during this.

it is difficult to deny how unhealthy this is for the forest. there may not be trash left behind as we understand it, but noise and air and light pollution, changes to habitats and so on.

as us humans increasingly squat and take over nature’s habitats, i am fine with not doing raves deep in the forest anymore. an open field close to industrial agriculture and roads? ok, thats adding some more human activity on already humanifies lands. in the woods is a hard no for me as i grow older.

what are your opinions on this?

u/dustydancers — 1 day ago
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Hai in den Mai is in Serious Danger!!!

The legendary festival Hai in den Mai from Waldfrieden in Germany gets threatend by the State.

I really hope they get a settlement with the state, but they seem the be serious about cancelling this beautiful event.

Waldfrieden is one of the last festivals wich aren‘t feeling that much mainstream and capatalistic, so let us pray that they will survive. :(

u/SokeOne97 — 4 days ago
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Thought I'd cool down for the night. Stay hydrated and have a lovely night and a good day tomorrow.

u/Ghost_Girl219 — 7 days ago