Name is still pending, but I thought I'd start off the folk dance forum here with a link to my first video, some friends getting together to dance last weekend:

http://dancejam.c...

While the progression is based on contra, a kind of folk dancing, the music is Swedish hiphop and the dancers moves pull from swing, hiphop, sexy, tango, dirty... anything goes really, as long as it is on the rhythm. Mixmashing cultures and styles to our whim is what we are all about. The basic progression is agreed upon, and every thing else is improv around it.

I think that there should be more social dance frameworks for techno/hiphop/club dancing. You almost never see men and women dancing together in music/dance videos; it is usually taking turns to strut your stuff, then maybe grinding a little bit.

This kind of choreography is simple enough that calling could be integrated into the lyrics of a song. Somewhere between Crank Dat and singing squares I think that there is a niche like this waiting to be filled. If I were a dance music producer, I'd consult with me on making an album of this. Or at least a music video.

I'd welcome some discussion on these ideas.

Hey, thanks for doing this. Have you edited or created any dances?