*puts on a leisure suit*

[icepixie]

Discofox. Exactly what it sounds like.

In the "related videos" with footage from the championships, I'm having trouble telling it apart from hustle. The steps in the linked video, though, are very obviously indebted to foxtrot. Just...done to disco music. My brain kind of hurts right now.

(I got there while I was actually researching something vaguely related to modernism. The resulting linkstream went something like the obligatory xkcd comic.)

Comments

[rensong.livejournal.com]

Now, see, I should've known because its you posting it and stuff, but when you said "Discofox. Exactly what it sounds like," I was all "Cool! A fox doing disco!" and was actually kind of disappointed when it turned out to be normal people dancing, with no small furry mammals in site.

Apparently, this is my brain on Sports Night (which involves aaaaall sorts of random jumping from subject to subject and no few outrageous leaps to conclusions if you've never seen the show). Maybe I've ODed on it a bit the last few days...

[icepixie]

I too would like to see a fox dancing to disco music. (Although I probably would've said "discoing fox" had I found that clip.)

[lilsurelybeans.livejournal.com]

A dancing couple I was pals with in school once mentioned there being all kinds of "hustle" dances. They even mentioned a tango hustle. I haven't seen any of these fancy hustle dances before though. I guess this is like what they were talking about.
I can scarcely do the regular hustle without slipping on the cheese oozing from my pores. 8P

[icepixie]

Tango hustle? Wow.

I actually like the usual hustle a lot. My two closest ballroom dancing friends in college were fans of it, and one of those friends (my most frequent dance partner) learned some more advanced moves on his own that he taught to us. It is kind of cheesy, I guess, but I like that it's...kind of like a smoother version of east coast swing, almost. Vaguely.

[munditia.livejournal.com]

Heh. I love that XKCD comic and its take on Wikipedia -- I recently had to research some basic country facts on various states for copytexts at work, and I ended up boring my co-workers with anecdotes about the most famous writer from Djibouti or mutual unintelligibility among various Chinese dialects.