We should revert to really basic Billy-Idol-type dancing.

Not with ourselves... just the way in which he dances.

I found an amusing instructional site on "How to dance Goth"click!

erm that link is posted on page 1 of this thread Gemma.

Hmm, I usually dance around in my room to cruxshadows, pump the music up as loud as possible so nobody can hear me hit my head against the wall (my room is very confined:().

I usually end up doing lots of martial arts type stuff, lots of fast flowing and wavy hand movements with slow intervals or pauses. I dunno if you can call it dancing though, I think if I tried that in a club I'd end up hitting someone (oopsX)) and getting kicked out.

Theres also the "I'm not really here" dance, which consists of 2 step and moving my arms just enough to make it look like I'm dancing but not get me noticed :p

Oh, I think I know that one...
That's for fairly crowded dance floors, shortly followed by the 'if you kick me in the shin once more I'm going to break your legs with my new rocks, so please get a bit more sense with regards to where you're dancing' dance?

"Stranger now the ending rests"

Hidely ho,

I dance like a loon on speed! Or at least I think so. I just find the beat and let go. I, personally, think I am an awful dancer, but I really enjoy it, so I don't care. I was told a while back by a few people that I am considered one of the best dancers back home (doesn't really say much for the rest of the crowd then really!). Apparently, I also dance differently to each song, and you can tell what is on simply by the aspect I take on when shaking ma groove thang.

Ever since moving to London, I get the oddest looks from the local alternative folks I have encounter. Most people sort of shuffle from side to side whilst I leap about, thrash like a nut and headbang my little heart away. Great fun, but kinda odd being the only one.

Oh, I hate hard-coring. Standing there with your bottom stuck out swing your fists in the air just seems kinda off to me. I don't even really like mosh-pits anymore just because I'm not into beating people up. Rather do my own thing in my own space if you get my drift.

It depends on the song for me. If it's something slower, like Dead Can Dance or the like, there's always that sort of slow swaying, eyes closed, I'm ignoring everyone else dance. For faster beats, I just let my body do whatever it wants to the beat, often with my elbows out a little (what can I say? I grew used to sharing a floor with moshers). As I was dancing just this weekend to some older industrial, my best friend told me I was fun to watch because I'd dance and dance, then get bored with dancing and start to bounce in place.

Luna - "Pogo dancing is fun!"

I love to dance, I don't care what I look like just so long as there is some music on I can move to. If I'm in a really dancing mood I can dance to just about anything except cyber, pop or dance. However I value my neck too much to do much headbanging! My favourites to dance to are London After Midnight, Sisters and NIN. I adapt my dancing to whatever is playing. I'm quite shy though so I tend to hide behind my long hair and dance either by myself or with my friends. Its not that I care what I look like just that I'm too shy to interact with anyone else!

I don't drink though as it stops me from dancing as I tend to fall over instead! I get a bigger high from just dancing to some music I love!

For me it's gotten to a point where I don't drink at all when I go and just end up dancing all night. I just enjoy myself too much, and they always play a good song when you go to the bar so I've stopped.

i love to dance!!!!!!!!:)
....really, i drew my life with this music.........
i have my own style, sometimes i like to imitate my friends...but it depends on the song ^^
i love how goths dance !!!:) *___*

When I've got nothing to do I put on something like Disturbed or Wumpscut and dance to that(specially Forsaken by David Draiman! )...it's pretty odd though (in my oppinion, since hardly anyone ever sees me dance because I'm so picky to what I dance to). If you take Michael Jackson and ancient Egyptian with a splash of "gothyness"...well, that's me when I dance! (:

I'm going dancing tonight...at a non-goth club. Which is okay, except I don't like the music nearly as much, and I can't dance worth a damn any way other than gothy (which, for me, is moderate arm-waving and the little kick thing). Fortunately, this club mixes some 80s into their usual fare of techno, but it's still not quite as much fun. And boy is it a meat-market! Ahh, for my goth friends back...

Being that I'm not a dancer I can answer this. I just sit back and watch and what I see is everyone wiggling, jumping or moving around however they feel like! Sometimes it's not even to the beat of the music. Just crazy-like. (:

-Matt

Wow this is pretty surprising to me. In my opnion I can't dance all that well, so one day I just did tai chi movements following the music and it seemed to work quite well...but I thought I was nuts.

Little did I know other people felt the same way. Its gonna be interesting going to a club now and trying to pick out the tai chi goths...lol, it'll be something to get drunk too...

In my experience I have seen two types of goths dancing:

There are the ones who try and be as stiff as possible whilst swaying and occasionally flicking a limb at random. All while trying to look intense.

Then there are those who stomp and thrash like their hair is on fire and they're trying to put it out whilst kicking the person who lit it...

Oh, and then there's me. I try and do the exact opposite of what everyone else is doing basically to take the mick. It usually works, especially if i mix in a bit of preppy up-beat style at the same time just for kicks