How to dance, and not be teased?

Question:my son wants to dance, but i'm worryed that he might be teased. please help me. and suggest dance schools. we live in market harborough

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: my son wants to dance, but i'm worryed that he might be teased. please help me. and suggest dance schools. we live in market harborough

im so proud of him! dont worry about if he gets teased.. its not like your forcing him into it.. if he wants to do it then obviously hes ready for the comments people are going to say to him.. this will jsut build his character.. it first im positive guys in his school will make fun of him and he will want to quit and maybe he actually will quit but after a while, he'll realize thats what he wants to do and doesnt care what anyone else says which will make him such a better person, Dancing in jazz or ballet or lyrical will help him soo much to become a better person. It will teach him how to respect girls which most boys dont know how to do anymore. I strongly suggest you put him in classes. It will make him a healthy person emotionally and physically. I wish your son good luck! remember, never give up on him!

todays dancesyou cant learn in dance schools

dance alone.

start music, your son will dance

Have you seen those commercials for beer that are like, "He who knows, knows?" If he gets teased he can be like, "I get to touch girls all the time!"

well, apart from dance schools, i suggest he practice basic dace steps which can be appropriate to any music..

True he may get teased by the guys who don't get the girls the way your son will, especially if he keeps dancing as he gets older, but some day he'll thank you.

put him in hip hop or break dancing! everybody loves watching people perform hip hop!
& really its just depends on how he carries himself! my brother was in ballet, jazz & FOOTBALL in highschool & was very popular in hs [really hated it bkus i was known as JERONS little sister]! if he walks around like hes embarrased about it then people will tease him but if he shows off his cool dance moves to his peers then they might encourage him & wanna see more!

also put him in tumbling! who doesnt love seeing people do flips!

if he wants to dance, let him dance. don't make your decision based on what other people think is right or wrong.

I have several male friends who are dancers and they do get teased. In a very fun-loving way. I'm in highschool, so it's partially that we're just older, but I was told by one friend (male ballet dancer), that when he was younger, he wanted to do it. He knew that. He knew it wasn't something to be teased about. So, he was just confident about it and other kids realized that he didn't want to be teased, and the teasing wasn't actually making him feel bad, so they stopped. He also said it wasn't ever terribly harsh teasing anyways.

he should go for it!!!!!!!!!

there needs to be more guys that dance. u shouldn't let worrying about teasing stop him from doing it if he really wants to

No one teases a good dancer, ever!

At the end of the night at any nightclub, I have an instant fan club.

My preferences are:

Argentine Tango - HOT like hell because of its degree of intimacy. It makes for highly visual dances. If I dance it with the right partner, the looks of envy are endless. It is a very easy dance to learn initially because it is classified as a "walking" dance alongside foxtrot, 2step and the like. Then again, waltzes are also walking dances.

Salsa - very flashy if the handoffs are clean. Requires paying particular attention to music as the beat is very complicated. The "shines" of footwork can get complicated, but the dance is great to express individuality.

Hip hop - club music combined with elegant dance moves. A good hip hop dancer is easy to spot in modern clubs. Emphasis is on jumps and slides.

Lyrical - my choice of style for something like blues music. It can get scary if the music is dark enough. You can call it modern dance as well.

Traditional ballroom dances, such as cha cha, rumba etc - you have your european "smooth" dances and your "latin" dances. While it's fun for me to say that I know 16 dance styles, in reality I am not an expert in most of them. Beats like cha cha are very easy to learn because of the distinctive music. Rumba is a bit more complicated because you actually skip a beat.

They are great to add various moves into the repertoire. I like to mix in some footwork from jive into hip hop, for example.

Different dances teach different postures. In latin dance, for example, the upper body tends to be rigid. In smooth dances the emphasis is not on bouncing vertically.

To select a school, he should audit their classes first without taking a class to be most objective. Some teachers are much better than others. :)

Congratulations to him for asking you about this. He's well on his way to being in the center of spotlight.

I'll list a few links that I find useful. My own website is crazymidnightdancer, but it's not online yet. Bookmark it as it will be a very interesting site soon. :)

Salsa Brava sells awesome salsa instruction videos. Joby and Luis were in "Shall we dance" as principal dancers, so they are truly world-class.

SFTango is my local studio. Natasha and Ken are world-class experts at Argentine Tango.

I linked to an example of a hot salsa club in my area as well.

Oh... I'll be auditioning for So you think you can dance in a month or so. Most likely in Washington, D.C.

i can totally understand that but if he wants to dance let him.
i kno dancing is one of my "main points in a guy"...
i also kno that there is a guy in my dance class and really it just depends on how he carries himself.
if he gets embarrassed by it then people r gonna tease him. if he's just like "hell yea i do dance. and im one guy in a room full of ladies" he might become an idol.
it just depends on how he carries himself.

At 11 years old? Your son runs a risk of being teased if he sneezes in front of his classmates..... unless he does it with confidence and commitment. If it were you who wanted him to take dance classes then the teasing might be a problem - but if he wants to do it for himself then he's probably going to make it work!
My wife and I used to take a lad of about that age to a tap class; he'll probably end up a professional dancer and is interested in little else. He doesn't have a problem with teasing because becoming good at dancing has given him a confidence above that of any of his classmates. It has taught him how to co operate with other boys and become part of a routine and how to rely on himself when dancing solo. It has taught him also how to communicate properly with girls on an equal level. How many other kids get to learn all that?

He might get a bit of teasing at first - it depends what his school is like but if he has a genuine passion for dancing then that will soon pass. I'm sure that he already knows what dances interest him - let him choose them for himself and he will go for the ones which move him to succeed. Just get ready for some serious chauffering as he needs to attend different classes and auditions :)

And don't forget: Dancing is probably now more "cool" amongst kids in the UK than it has ever been. Good luck to him!