The Basement Club has a variety of music but also a variety of people. Not all are human forms, some have whiskers, some have ears and tails. You just never know who you will meet here.
One of America’s most popular pastimes is surprisingly absent from today’s culture. But maybe there’s a way we can get it back? What do you think? Is there a chance for people to be dancing like they used to?
Music today doesn’t seem to be written for the purpose of dancing as much as it may have been historically. Today’s tracks seem more heavily geared towards digital entertainment and viewership rather than physical instructions for your next rendezvous with the dancefloor.
Because we’re constantly curating our ideal digital lives to our friends via social media, we may be consciously or subconsciously steering ourselves away from dancing in public because we’re too afraid of embarrassment or the possibility of humiliation.
So why not dance a little today in real life.
In a recent survey about dancing and the old school dances, Gen Zers admitted that they didn’t know what any of these iconic dance moves were called — or that they even existed. So I guess formal dances like in a ballroom are very foreign to them and maybe they refer that to Baby Boomer's moves. Although to be correct here the Baby Boomers did not invent that type of dance at all. Social or ballroom dancing was a staple of the so-called "Missionary" generation, born during and after the Civil War (1860-1882). It was adopted by the two following generations, basically, people born up to the mid or late 1920s.
It might interest you that ballroom dancing is still very popular in many central European cultures with Austria, and its capital Vienna, being a world leader in that area. Austrian teens spend many months attending dance classes and acquiring the skills necessary to succeed (or at least pass muster) on the dance floor.
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