you find you find you find you love dancing

I remember this song, Love Dancing, from when I first started going out to clubs like Mars and Red Zone and Palladium (R.I.P.) and it would come on and everyone was like, Whoaaa !! It was house but back then there weren't these distinctions between types of music—if there was a groove you would move ..

Times have changed, and now everything's in these easy-to-market categories 'cause people love their labels .. but I like when things aren't straight up one thing or another—when they combine and blend to create something entirely new .. like breakin' .. I remember when it first came out, or at least when the cute boys were spinning on the floor in the cafeteria while Another One Bites the Dust was playing and their over-sized adidas shelltops would go flying across the room ..

But thing is girls weren't breakin' .. Ohh yea I would have loved to have gotten down but it just didn't seem like it was gonna happen—what with my only knowledge being a couple of steps of the Hustle gleaned from never-missed episodes of Dance Fever .. So I am blessed to have met thew incredible Rokafella, b-girl supreme, who has been teaching me and my girls some steps so we can finesse it .. Not like we've got it, 'cause we don't, but we wanna learn and that's where it's at ..

We're starting practice at Dance Theater Workshop every week .. It's b-girlin' for old ladies .. You gotta be in your 20s, if not 30s or 40s. Cause we don't need some fresh young thang coming thru like yo yo yo check this out. I mean, that's nice, but us grandmas need to be amongst our own. So honey, if you're an old girl lookin for a new trick, give me a shout. 'Cause when you bust a move like Young MC, people in the place are gonna be like WWWHAAAAAAAT !!???!!??!



Photograph of Rokafella by Martha Cooper, from We B*Girlz