dancing is the new sexy…

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dancing has always been a favorite activity of mine, such great exercise & such a great way to get your heart energy flowing to great music with great people. A new study has now discovered that through the correct body movement we can attract or NOT a potential partner. Despite the fact that my teenage kids always made fun of me at our parties, I had a ball surrendering to the spirit of dance. I know they also let themselves go & stopped mimicing their mother when the gay boys would have them line up for a little of that good ol’ Line Dancing. Hysterical! But no I had never realized the impact we could have all been making then??

“If you’re on thin ice, you might as well dance.” Unknown

The results of the study were published Psychologists unlock the male dance moves that catch a woman’s eye :

The study, led by psychologist Dr Nick Neave and researcher Kristofor McCarty, has for the first time identified potential biomechanical differences between “good” and “bad” male dancers. Its findings are published today in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters.

Dr Neave believes that such dance movements may form honest signals of a man’s reproductive quality, in terms of health, vigour or strength, and will carry out further research to fully grasp the implications.

Here is what a good dancer looks like:

and a bad dancer looks like:

“Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.” Groucho Marx

The Economist has an article about the research Lord of the dance: The dance moves that make men attractive to women

THE need to identify a suitable mate is such a strong biological urge that the animal kingdom has spawned a bewildering array of courtship rituals. Hippo males fling their faeces; flatworms have penis-jousting contests; and humpback whales sing and leap above the ocean surface. Such competitive displays depend on the speed, strength and size of an animal, which is why they convey a measure of reproductive fitness.
Dancing is popular among animals for similar reasons. Scorpions and sandhill cranes, for instance, dance to impress. Humans also use dance as part of courtship, but it has been difficult for scientists to pin down exactly what it is about a dance that appeals to members of the opposite sex. This is because factors such as facial attractiveness, height and even social status tend to confound any attempt to judge the relative merits of a person’s gyrations.
Dr Neave explains that humans move in three planes. You can nod your head backwards and forwards, side to side or twist your neck to look over a shoulder. The women rated big movements in these three planes for both the head and the trunk as the most attractive. However, there was an additional factor, says Dr Neave. Head-banging (sorry, Motörhead fans) was simply not attractive: although it would show a large amplitude of movement in one plane it would not show the variability of movement that seems to appeal to women. Choreographers have told Dr Neave that movements in these three planes comes from strength and suppleness, so they would help to indicate a genetically fit male.
One curiosity was that, statistically, the speed of movement of the right knee also appeared to be important in signalling dance quality. Dr Neave, however, believes this may simply result from 80% of men being right footed, and so tending to place more weight on their left foot in order to demonstrate leg-waggling prowess with the right one.

“[Dancing is] A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” George Bernard Shaw

CNN also has an article about the research Scientists identify sexy dance moves with a video of their reporter dancing with a street dancer. Any excuse for some fun!

Well I am so glad that dancing is being elevated to greater importance in the mating process, cause it is just so much fun. Thought I’d leave you with a really brilliant video Evolution of Dance By Judson Laipply. Wow he can dance & almost anything, lots of laughs, enjoy….