When you're a dancer you can dance all over. You start out on the stage and do some dancing. Then about halfway or so into the song you begin to take it off!
You might take off a jacket and dance around some more. Then you might jump off the stage and go into the audience and dance with a girl and have her help you take off your shirt. Or you can slowly unbutton your shirt and slip it off and wave it over your head and fling it into the wild crowd! (Try to watch your stuff and see who gets what...so you can get everything back again....sometimes they want souvenirs! I've actually lost a lotta clothes and things so be careful...One time at the Rose in 1980 I lost a nice scarf a friend had lent me...that mistake cost me $60!!) Tease and be sexy to the music...easy for a guy who likes music and girls!
Shoes, you just kick off! But boots...you can have a girl help pull them off and then you might fall away into a backward somersault!
And then lean back and move with the music!
Table Diving & Tabletop Body Surfing: This is so much fun....you're down to a T-strap or G-string and sweating by now....you yell to the ladies, "Move your drinks!", and you wave your arms out to the sides. "Here I come!" ....you start running towards the table from about 15 or 20 feet away and just dive onto the tabletop and slide along with your sweat and the momentum carrying you! What a blast! The ladies love it! And this is one of the times in the show they'll be tipping!
I started doing table sliding at Saints And Sinners in 1979. They had long folding banquet tables placed end to end. A nice long slide!
Table Dancing: Fun but you have to watch out for wobbly tables! And of course you don't want to kick any drinks over! But the ladies are right there and you can get more tips if you come to them.
Floor Work: I liked to go down into the splits and then roll around and stretch and do pushups and turn around and do backward bends from a kneeling position ...all to the music!!
Then I always liked to pick a lady out of the audience and dance with her for a while, get right next to her and a little in front but our bodies touching then bend over with my hip stuck out to the right, the girl goes over just like judo, and I let her down easy and we're both on the floor, I do a couple sexy moves and then I'm up again and pull her up. I dance her over to her chair and she and her friends are all laughing and had a great time.
...(to be continued)***
We worked together at the Horse..with Felix
ReplyDeleteWow Sorry! Didn't see your comment until now! How are you? Wasn't it a great time at Crazy Horse! I should've stuck around longer especially after being on the cover of Miami Magazine! But I had a great time dancing up north. Did you stay in the business?
DeleteI heard Felix passed away...too bad...he was a real star! ...and a good buddy!
I've been trying to get around to contacting Marty. He says he has pictures. Do you? I have more, but from my later dance years (need to find them in storage!)...my only Crazy Horse pictures are on this blog...Take Care...