Anyone else just can't dance?!

[Sometwp]

It's been an issue my whole life. Even in primary school discos I was just an awkward mess and would end up just sitting on my own at the side.

Decades later, nothing has changed.

I work for a big company and Christmas parties are already in the pipeline and straight up I'm feeling the dread. I always end up being the only one who's sitting down/hanging at the bar and it just makes me feel incredibly awkward and embarrassed. People will try to drag me onto the dancefloor which just makes me feel worse.

I've tried dancing but I just CAN'T. DO. IT. (I seriously can't emphasize that enough).

I don't want to be a party pooper and just not go to any of the parties. I've tried getting drunk but it just amplifies the anxiety.

I always just end up sitting on my own feeling like a right pillock and I go home feeling really idiotic about myself.

Can anyone relate? I'm socially awkward at the best of times which doesn't help.

[Leflic]

Me! In my head I like dancing but have zero control and look a mess on the floor..Can’t even do Zumba.
I can however do a mosh pit. Not much help at a Christmas party but I tell myself I just need the right music.

[Loveislandaddict]

Yes, I can relate.

In my head, I want to be the Darcy Bussell on the dance floor, but in reality I’m an elephant. Occasionally I do get up, but feel socially awkwatd. Everyone around me is letting their hair down. However, if I sit down, then I don’t feel that I’m very good at making witty conversation either.

[Sometwp]

Yes! I do the head dancing thing too.....I'm badass in my head but my limbs obviously have other ideas

[formerbabe]

I'm the same. I'm actually quite coordinated and have rhythm if I had a routine to do but I can't just get up and dance because I don't know what to physically do with my arms and legs.

[NotMeNoNo]

I hate dancing and am bad at it. Can just about manage a ceilidh but freestyle disco party dancing not a hope. I'll sit at the side and talk to you. 😊 I don't care about it now though!

[Sux2buthen]

Love singing and dancing. However I'm all enthusiasm but no Rhythm and tone deaf.

[CherryPavlova]

My husband can only do barn dancing.

[user1493494961]

Me, I have no co-ordination.

[Prokupatuscrakedatus]

Oh yes, I am one of those, too. I lack almost all feeling for rythm (I think I can't even spell it.)

• the typing course disaster when I could not follow the "tacts" of the others and was asked to leave
  
• the birth prep course where they wanted me to dance earthmother like across the room (Does anyone remember the song about the dancing centipede?)
  
• the gymnastics exam - without music great, but ...

[Mookins14]

Me too! It's so awful. Always has been. So awkward when people try to pull you up and then you can see their shock and confirmation as you (or I) move like a wooden puppet.

Shockingly (to me anyway) is that my daughter is a dancer. She has had huge success and always scored highest for musicality when she took exams so I can only assume it bypassed me (and every ancesestor i know of) and all landed in DD!

[BrokenWing]

I am a brilliant dancer in my head but only when I am completely alone in my house. As soon as anyone is watching I am a complete mess!

[LittleTopic]

I can’t do anything unless it’s a strictly enforced dance routine e.g. Saturday Night, the Macarena, YMCA.

[madcatladyforever]

No I'm hopeless too. Just got no sense of rhythm at all and my balance goes as soon as I try.

[DramaAlpaca]

I can't dance even if it's an established routine. I cant get the steps into my head & end up falling over my own feet or bumping into the person next to me. I'm just not very coordinated.

[Pricedrop]

how are there so many non-dancers on this thread; but i am always alone when out and sat by the side watching people dance??

[Sometwp]

Fellow sufferers!

I could probably manage the likes of Zumba, but free dancing I'm beyond hopeless.

It actually really bothers me. The first mention of Christmas parties and I felt instant dread.

[Sometwp]

Good point Pricedrop!

It's the sitting on my own that I hate the most. It's so humiliating

[Iamtooknackeredtorun]

Is it that you have no sense of rhythm or that your dance moves are erratic or that you're just self conscious when being watched?

[Loveislandaddict]

For me, it’s erratic dance moves. I basically can’t dance. Can do barn style dances, and do have a sense of rhythm, but I’m uncoordinated on the dance-floor. A serious case of dad( or mum) dancing.

[elp30]

Omg yes!

I'm Latina and we are supposed to be sexy, sultry, shapely women with a sense of rhythm that just doesn't quit.

I'm the Latina that the Aztec gods of my heritage forgot.

I have no Jennifer Lopez backside, no Sophia Vargara sultry sexiness or Salma Hayek's insane beauty but most importantly, I have absolutely no sense of rhythm. I seriously cannot dance at all!
It's truly humiliating to go to my family's special occasions and I'm just on the sidelines wishing I could dance the cumbias, the sambas, the chachas but I'm lucky to walk and talk at the same time. I can't even do Zumba.

What did the Latin gods give me? The insane ability to drink tequila to drown my sorrows. I'd give that up to dance the lambada, the forbidden dance!

[Sometwp]

All of the above Iamtooknackered.

I don't have any coordination of rhythm whatsoever. I don't have a clue how to actually dance. I've tried swinging my arms around and stepping back and forth in a repetitive manner but it's just looks dire. I seriously just look like an idiot. To top it off I'm hugely self conscious about how I look (admittedly I do look ridiculous) and I'm riddled with anxiety.

[User67836]

I’ve been wondering about trying to find a dance class that teaches how to Christmas party dance, I just want to feel relaxed and confident.

[Sometwp]

Same user. I just want the basics to get me through the party season.