You already know I love storytelling, books, movies, music, and singer/songwriters. But I’m also quite fond of dancing. (Said with a jazz hands finger flourish like the lady in the State Farm/Aaron Rodgers commercial here.)
I’ve always fancied myself a crazy good dancer with mad skills. (I also refer to myself in my head as Princess and imagine that I have minions who wait upon me. But the two aren’t related. Or, are they?)
So, the other day it had gotten too late to go for a walk and I was determined to get my thirty minutes of exercise in. Rather than go to the community gym, I opted to pull out the Kindle Fire HD, slip on the Bluetooth headset and dance my way to fitness.
I turned on JT’s 20/20 Experience and started dancing. And dancing. And dancing some more. Before I realized it, thirty minutes turned into an hour. My knees didn’t much appreciate the pivots, turns, and imagined ballerina moves. But the rest of me felt exhilarated, every muscle singing (or groaning), thanking me for not giving into the comfy couch or my not-so-comfy computer chair.
The next day I told my young adult son, Chef Boy RD, that I was going to dance again. He–who had tried his valiant best to videotape my AWESOME moves from around the corner the previous day–rubbed his hands together and smiled with glee.
“This is gonna get tons of hits on YouTube.”
Of course, I did what any other mother would do. I reminded him that he’d have to find somewhere else to live if it did. He then proceeded to mimic my dance moves from the day before in something that looked less crazy good and instead was just…crazy. (Imagine a hip-hop dance contest consisting only of people who normally move around with walkers. Yeah…it looked something like that.)
The next day my husband–GQ Jones–commended me for working out after he flaked on me was too tired to go walking with me the previous night.
“I worked out for an hour,” I said proudly.
He smiled at me the way people often do right before they pat you on your head…when you’re five. “Babe, you were dancing for like six hours. You danced through two basketball games. And every time I came into the room you were doing the same move. But it’s good you worked out. I’m proud of you.”
So perhaps I don’t have have mad dance kills; instead I’ve gone slightly mad. Whatever. They’re kind of the same. And at least I worked out.
Maybe I don’t have the X Factor, that unknown, truly amazing thing. At least not where my dancing is concerned. But Marquese Scott, a brilliant dancer who’s been featured in iRobot, Peugeot, and One Coke ® commercials, and on Ellen definitely does. One of his dance videos is posted below. You can view more dance videos and commercials on his YouTube channel here.
What writers, musicians, actors, or dancers have that X Factor? How would you define what makes them so special?
Photo above is a still from the State Farm commercial on YouTube. Visit link above.
Hands down the artists I think have mad dance skills are Beyonce and Usher. Oh and by the way, in our heads I think we all have mad dance skills, unfortunately the people we live with bring us back down to reality where our mad dance skills are not so cute. Keep owning your mad skills girlfriend, even if they are only in your head. 🙂
Beyonce and Usher are good choices. Both are very good dancers. All of his other issues aside, right now the best dancer I’ve seen in quite some time is Chris Brown. I also really like the choreography in Justin Timberlake’s videos. It’s always clever and innovative. And thanks, I will keep on dancing. Maybe I should really mess with the guys and put on some old leggings and a sweatband and go all Flashdance on them. LOL.
I don’t know who has the X-factor, but I loved this post about you dancing. 🙂 I know I do NOT have any mad dance skills. Nope, not a bit!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, Zoe! Hey, lack of dance skills has apparently never stopped me, so I say go for it anyway. 😉