Shagging in Glasgow
- scotland dancing
To rectify the latest imbalance between posts about hiking versus posts about dancing I shall now report about how I learned to shag in Glasgow. Collegiate Shag is the name of an early swing dance which works well for fast music and is demonstrated here:
And here without the GEMA wall:
The two dancers in the video are Jaime Shannon and Tony Fraser from New York who are arguably the greatest Shag teachers worldwide and also Shag world champions. As part of their Europe tour they stopped by in Glasgow to give a Shag and Lindy workshop. They are indeed exceptionally good teachers but also really nice, and in case of Tony, rather charming.
I should probably mention that while the term “shag” for a type of dance has its origins in the US, it is usually (and frequently) used in a very different context in the UK, and the Urban Dictionary provides a quality definition for it (click). This makes it fun to ask people conversationally (and in public) whether they want to shag.
I was so lucky to get to dance socially (outside the lessons, at a social dance) with Tony twice that weekend. I consider this even more of a compliment (and an accomplishment) as the second time it was him who asked me! I’m not sure if that had ever happened before: that a truly good dancer would ask me again. Because I do dance terribly when I am intimidated and nervous, and after an awful dance no one would ask for seconds. Maybe I wasn’t that intimidated this time because Tony was cheeky, funny, and one head shorter than me - and also because these days, I’m on fire!
And here without the GEMA wall:
The two dancers in the video are Jaime Shannon and Tony Fraser from New York who are arguably the greatest Shag teachers worldwide and also Shag world champions. As part of their Europe tour they stopped by in Glasgow to give a Shag and Lindy workshop. They are indeed exceptionally good teachers but also really nice, and in case of Tony, rather charming.
I should probably mention that while the term “shag” for a type of dance has its origins in the US, it is usually (and frequently) used in a very different context in the UK, and the Urban Dictionary provides a quality definition for it (click). This makes it fun to ask people conversationally (and in public) whether they want to shag.
I was so lucky to get to dance socially (outside the lessons, at a social dance) with Tony twice that weekend. I consider this even more of a compliment (and an accomplishment) as the second time it was him who asked me! I’m not sure if that had ever happened before: that a truly good dancer would ask me again. Because I do dance terribly when I am intimidated and nervous, and after an awful dance no one would ask for seconds. Maybe I wasn’t that intimidated this time because Tony was cheeky, funny, and one head shorter than me - and also because these days, I’m on fire!