Labret is right. If they need to dance so bad -- why don't they dance at home? Some of my girlfriends did dance at home which I thought was cool -- but most of the time they need that group therapy. But I think it's a little more than that...
I think dance is really a complicated subject actually... if it wasn't 5am I wouldn't be talking about this either hehe... On the rare times that I have smoked weed -- a few things happen. 1. My appreciation for music is heightened... I can go into a state of euphoria where I feel like I am in sync with the fucking universe -- this music has been created just for me -- and there is an integration of the creation of the dance <-> creation of the music that is free of the limitations of time and space... This is a very personal experience and I'm not one of those social smokers that sits around laughing about stupid shit just to be "happy"... Needless to say -- I turn up the volume to the max... and I don't even think about it -- I just get up and start dancing... as if by instinct. Ordinarily this never happens -- even if I am drunk out of my mind. Sometimes I wonder if my parents smoked too much weed when I was conceived for me to need a drug to experience the joys of dance that "normal" people enjoy without too much thought... LOL. These dance sessions usually turn sweaty and intense where my mind is working in high gear... last time it happened I was doing all sorts of analysis on the qualities of movement... the visualization of the character of movements, accelerative qualities, tension vs. relaxation and other dualities, as well as volumes of other shit that would flip out your mind... The end result is that I'm sweaty, exhausted, and feel fantastic... if anyone were to witness what I actually did they would probably need to see therapist afterwards -- their ego would be challenged and they would probably lose consciousness... LOL Otherwise I don't care to or feel the need to dance in public... It seems that girls are more easily able to tap in to that sort of euphoria...
I think your upbringing has something to do with it also -- it's a matter of training... like martial arts...
One more thing... think about the beat when multiple people dance in a group. People are incorrect to think that there is one correct way to move to a "beat" -- take a simple example -- move up and down -- one person can move up to the beat -- the other person down to the beat... If everyone is moving up and you are moving down -- you seem to be off beat -- but in reality it's all the same beat... Exactly the same way a rapper can change the tempo from fast to slow and still be on point even though the beat has not changed... Anyway so dancing in a group you become syncronized/integrated into some kind of wierd movement orgy where you relinquish some of your decision making process whether you realize it or not -- you may think that you are original or have some kind of self expression -- but in reality you are being influenced by those people dancing around you...
