Poly Ballroom Dancing
This week, Dancing With The Stars featured ballroom dance trios! As a poly & a ballroom dancer, how could I not love it? Besides just the idea of doing ballroom dance with more than one partner, the introductions to each of the dances show some themes that I think poly people will find very familiar!
First, all of the trios are actually pre-existing couples who invited a third person in. Second, within the trios there is a mix of all dancing together and sometimes splitting up into various duos - not always losing the new member, sometimes it's one of the pre-existing members dancing alone with the new member! In other words, sometimes they all dance together, and sometimes one of them wanders off and leaves two of them dancing alone, and sometimes the two dancing alone are not the pre-existing couple - sometimes it's one of the pre-existing couple and the new person. All relationships need some alone time, and many experienced polys know that, even in triads, you gotta have some alone time with each of the others and you have to nurture that relationship with the new person.
As for the dances...
See the dances:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlxLHt1kqn8&feature=relmfu - the one and only female-male-female trio. Listen to the judges comments at the end ... I bet it's one of the only times we'll ever hear "I loved your threeway!" on network television!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjrNo0GoSg This one is the Bollywood-Samba fusion dance that Sharada posted. So, ballroom dance, trios, 2 hot guys, & Bollywood, what's not to love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XcOiWQi40&feature=relmfu Can we say adelphogamy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mydjLm9kEIw&feature=relmfu I would actually like to see more androgyny, gender-bending, & putting the women in the same costumes as the men (not just slutty versions of the men's costumes) like this did at the beginning. There was also a nice wardrobe malfunction recovery here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UackRABCKI&feature=relmfu The first of the "bring in the new guy to teach the first guy something". Listen to the judges comments again ... where do they come up with this stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYkZRyjeTUE&feature=relmfu And the other "bring in the new guy to teach the first guy something"; also the most obviously "protect the girl from the interloper" storyline
First, all of the trios are actually pre-existing couples who invited a third person in. Second, within the trios there is a mix of all dancing together and sometimes splitting up into various duos - not always losing the new member, sometimes it's one of the pre-existing members dancing alone with the new member! In other words, sometimes they all dance together, and sometimes one of them wanders off and leaves two of them dancing alone, and sometimes the two dancing alone are not the pre-existing couple - sometimes it's one of the pre-existing couple and the new person. All relationships need some alone time, and many experienced polys know that, even in triads, you gotta have some alone time with each of the others and you have to nurture that relationship with the new person.
As for the dances...
- There's the FMF that you'd think would be everyone's dream but was actually very rare as the only grouping in that configuration out of all the trios on the show, and the two girls who used to be rivals but are now whole-heartedly throwing themselves into a partnership with perfect harmony.
- There's the MFM where one guy was afraid the other guy would be "better" than him & the girl wanted to use his jealousy to her "advantage".
- Then there's the MFM where the couple brought in the guy's brother because of his talent and skill, so they thought they would be better as a whole group for the addition (and they were).
- There's the MFM where the first guy brought in the other guy because he knew how much the girl loved the other guy & the first guy enjoyed the "break" and letting the other guy take care of the girl some of the time.
- And finally are the two MFMs where the girls each brought in the new guy so that the first guy could learn something from him and grow and improve themselves through relating to the new guy. Although, ironically, the dance story of both of those MFM trios was of the new guy trying to "steal the girl" and the first guy chasing off the intruder!
See the dances:
Click to viewhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlxLHt1kqn8&feature=relmfu - the one and only female-male-female trio. Listen to the judges comments at the end ... I bet it's one of the only times we'll ever hear "I loved your threeway!" on network television!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjrNo0GoSg This one is the Bollywood-Samba fusion dance that Sharada posted. So, ballroom dance, trios, 2 hot guys, & Bollywood, what's not to love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XcOiWQi40&feature=relmfu Can we say adelphogamy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mydjLm9kEIw&feature=relmfu I would actually like to see more androgyny, gender-bending, & putting the women in the same costumes as the men (not just slutty versions of the men's costumes) like this did at the beginning. There was also a nice wardrobe malfunction recovery here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UackRABCKI&feature=relmfu The first of the "bring in the new guy to teach the first guy something". Listen to the judges comments again ... where do they come up with this stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYkZRyjeTUE&feature=relmfu And the other "bring in the new guy to teach the first guy something"; also the most obviously "protect the girl from the interloper" storyline