AIBU to prefer Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers dancing to twerking, lol

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Different times and mores I know with both positive and negative aspects but BBC2 have been showing their old films and the elegance and floaty dress fabulousness is something to aspire to I think..

Is twerking a dance in itself though? I thought it was just, (how do I describe it)? a “one of move”, mid dance?

'white middle class culture is so aspirational'

Top row of the pc bingo card partially completed!

Films were in black and white for technical reasons, not for any other spurious thought!

Fonteyn and Nureyev's pas de deux from Act III of Swan Lake.

He can still reduce me to tears, Le Corsaire was one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen, sadly only on the London Palladium show though!

I wouldn’t say that the Astaire Rogers movies were middle class anyway. They were mass market entertainment made largely by and for working class and immigrant people. They were undeniably aspirational though, a large part of the appeal was the glamorous sets and costumes and jet setting lifestyles portrayed.

I think twerking is impressive when done well, but (and happy to be proved wrong here with videos) I'm not sure you can do as much with it. I don't know if you can twerk in a way that shows jealousy, or romance, or sadness.

Ballroom has different dances with different characteristics to different music, and a big part of it being impressive is two people moving as a single entity and interpreting the music together.

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I wouldn’t say that the Astaire Rogers movies were middle class anyway. They were mass market entertainment made largely by and for working class and immigrant people. They were undeniably aspirational though, a large part of the appeal was the glamorous sets and costumes and jet setting lifestyles portrayed.

I agree - they weren't any 'class' - they were American.