How do you make friends and talk to people, including the opposite sex, at parties?

ZephBonkerer said:
I talk to my dance partners all the time during a dance. Especially when I have demonstrated one of my "magic tricks" in salsa. Or when it's time to "charge into action" during a bachata.

During a bachata, I will ask if they are OK with certain sensual moves like the shadow position (which I learned recently). I have added a lot of sensual elements to my bachata recently.
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Are you really sure you are dancing bachata :D
 
For me making friends at dance parties is difficult since I, and many others, come to dance. My main dance friends are from ride-sharing, small clubs, or going to festivals together, but usually those people are the ones I met at clubs.
 
ZephBonkerer said:
They make all kinds of bachata around here. If what they call bachata isn't really, then what is it?
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A sensual dance invented in Spain which was also named Bachata based on the music it used to be danced to, now even that isn't usually the case as remixes have become quite popular. The original Bachata dance is from the Dominican Republic.
 
dadada_486 said:
OK, I know what you are thinking, but I have specific reason for asking this. Dance is supposed to be a social activity as well as a physical one. So even if you are not looking to date, you might want to at least make some friends. But doing this at a dance event might not be as easy as it seems. Believe it or not, I have been to parties where I wind up talking or meeting noone. I might as well have been a ghost going right through? Particularly at very cliquey events.

Usually you don't talk to your partner while you dance. This spoils the dance and makes it a very bad one. But secondly, if you are there primarily to dance, what happens is you dance with someone and then change partners immediately for the next song. The most you can get in is a thanks. Even if you talk to someone for a bit, he or she gets pulled to the next dance. So how do regular dancers of all the the dances here go about this, to be more social, make friends, discover who people are etc. etc.?
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I just walk up to people and tell them about the time I saw a big hawk, thought it was a northern harrier but was mistaken and it was a rough legged hawk.
And how if you don't k ow what you're looking for, a female or non breeding Lapland longspur looks an awful lot like a sparrow.
Show stopper everytime.
 
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