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Originally Posted by StokeBloke  Have you ever caught a work mate standing behind you making the famous hand chopping motion across the throat at the new person in the office as they say to you at the water cooler "I hear you dance"? No. Me either, I am too busy boring the bejasus out of the new guy about why a semi-circle to the left is pure ridiculousness when it comes to leading a dance partner to look over my shoulder and see the sobs of pain... |
Funnily enough, I had the opposite experience – I actually had colleagues coming up to me and saying “I hear you dance – is it Ceroc?” Admittedly one had done it for a while whilst at college 10 or 15 years previously (but has since got married, had children and a career – with which dancing isn’t compatible apparently)
and the other had done one class and was keen to give it another go (apparently the girlfriend was a keen dancer, if a bit of a heavy follow, and he wanted to surprise her). Wound up at someone’s leaving drinks talking ad infinitum about it, and even showing some moves. Sadly, the day I arranged to take J to a class, the markets crashed and he’s not come up for air since
As for “brand awareness”, I was aware of the name “Ceroc” when I first started, although I’m not sure I could have told you exactly what it was. “Some sort of jive, came from France” would probably have been my answer. I’d never heard of Modern Jive. I was aware of jive, jitterbug and lindy hop too, probably more so, and from childhood. But then I’ve always loved dance, even if I haven’t always done as much as I’d have liked (wish I’d found MJ years ago).
I wonder why Ceroc don’t have a listing in Time Out
Whilst I came across Ceroc by chance through a friend, had I been looking to start a class, that is one place I would have checked.