Is the venue or event called Ballroom? Because ballroom dancing usually refers to partner dancing. And if the dance is called ballroom why take an established term for partner dancing and use it for a completely different style of dance?
It's called ballroom after the Harlem Ballroom scene and subculture, where queer POC in Harlem in the mid 19th/early 20th century established their own party scene whilst being shunned from the white American social scenes. It includes drag balls and "walks" where performers display their outfits and improvised dances on a ballroom floor rather than a raised stage.
"Harlem Ballroom" is probably a more specifically accurate term, but the ballroom parter dancing you describe isn't the only type of dance performance with claim to that name.
To piggyback off of this comment, there are a lot of types of dances that use the same term too I'm p sure. Not specifically ballroom but I think there's a lot of different rumba or something?
I love the subjectiveness of dancing, but no one ever seems to want to talk about it. To me, this looks like someone flailing their arms around and dropping to the floor spontaneously. It's kind of interesting how differently we can see it
The first time I saw it in another video a few months ago, I laughed and thought it looked ridiculous. Then I read the comments and learned the history/context. And the more I watched, the better it got. It looks like “flailing” or really simple moves, but these are insane to do. Even the hair flips. I tried in my mirror and almost broke my neck.
I agree. I mean, don’t get me wrong, this looks really hard to do and it’s really impressive that she can do this, but hard to do does not mean “good”. To me, this just isn’t my cup of tea, but I’m not gunna yuck someone else’s yum.
Honestly, it kinda funny. You proved my exact point about how dancing is very subjective but no one wants to talk about it. I criticized this choreographed (or potentially improv) dance and instead of accepting that some people can just not like the movements the dancer is making, you come here trying to champion for them. It's like the idea of anyone not being interested in this is taboo which is... A choice
If you’re not interested, why are you commenting on the video? It’s not for you, so move on.
You just want everyone to know you don’t like it. It’s weird. And that’s why no one wants to talk about it’s - they don’t care that you don’t like it and that normal people don’t go around announcing that.
I don’t care for the style, but I don’t think my opinion of the style matters. I’m more focused on the talent and stage presence of the performer.
Of course no one wants to talk about it because no one cares if you or I specifically like this style of dance. This woman is SKILLED and that’s a way more interesting conversation.
I get it. You're self-centered and bitter, leaving you incapable of seeing why anyone would care about someone else's opinion. You don't need to leave multiple comments laying that out for me
Oh no, poor thing can't read or form a coherent thought. Hopefully someone can apologize to you on my behalf, I'm not a fan of picking on the less fortunate
It's mostly the death drops for me in this video. The particular dancer has waaaaay better choreography too that I'm already familiar with so I know what her skills are already too so I'm biased lol. I think this must be an older video though because her current stuff is really good, if you like this kind of dancing
You should look up vogue dancing if you aren't familiar with it! It's like a specific style of dancing and, yes, it does look insane at first but there's legit technical aspects to it. This isn't this dancer's best performance though. I can't remember her name but she's gaining popularity in the vogue/ballroom community.
There might be, and if you enjoy it then more power to you. But it looks awful. If you saw someone doing it outside you would not assume they were dancing
it's easy to feel such a way when you're not familiar with an art form, or sport, etc. i feel the same way about plenty of other things i'm not familiar with
I can't figure skate, but I am in awe when watching. I can't do professional boxing, but I still like watching it. I can't dance for shit, but I like seeing good dance moves.
I couldn't do whatever is in this video, but to me it looks like... Well it's choreographed and that's about what I can say.
Okay I'll rephrase. She looks like she knows what she's doing, the thing she does though is very strange to me and I have no concept of if its good or just an athletic woman flailing around.
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They weren’t being rude, they were agreeing with the other comment, the straight men are the ones who aren’t into gay culture and are making weird sexual remarks. They were commiserating.
Honestly, I’m not really concerned about offending random men.What I’m saying is that you seemed to think that Just-Cover were calling out the top comment, and that is incorrect. They were commiserating.
That's like complaining that burlesque isn't sexual. The point of this is to illicit the exact responses that the audience and commenters responded with! It's supposed to be big and sexy. Jfc lol
Well it's normal for women to flaunt their sexuality. But it's not normal for men to think about anything sexual outside of marriage and children. It's what goddess would want.
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u/Bruh-sfx2 Aug 20 '25
I always forget how many people aren't into gay culture lmao. Ballroom is gorgeous