so you want to dance at an event but it is too crowded......

[laloba]

Hi all,

So how do you feel when you want to dance at an event but it is just too crowded? Do you try to jump straight up and down on the spot? Do you push people around? Do you find everyone in the crowd ends up jumping up and down at the same time just to go with it? Do you just stand still and watch? Do you just wave hands around because you can't move much else? And do you think it's strange that even though the word 'dance' is fairly inherent in the concept of a lot of electronic music, a lot of the time it is impossible to have room to move at some events? (Big mainstream events, that is).

Please help me by giving your opinion! I am currently conducting some research on crowds at music events and I would be really grateful if anyone could help me out by answering the question posted in the title of this thread. Asking on a forum is hopefully a lot easier than hassling people as an event is taking place!

The reason for these particular (perhaps lame sounding) questions, which I know don't relate to all styles, is that I am interested in musical metaphors that relate to movement and space (up, down, high, low, drop, wave, etc). Your responses will help me to gauge whether others out there feel the same way that I do in terms of music’s affect and how a crowd situation changes body movement (eg. Do you do a certain dance move when the music becomes 'heavier?'). I’m not interested in how drugs change this, so whether you take substances at events doesn’t matter.

If you have an interesting festival story that goes along with your answer, I am all ears!

Any help you can give me by answering these questions would be amazing.

[EliteLennon117]

I do the bend my knees up and down with my eyes rolled in my head b2b gunfingers to the sky.

[bennyfroobs]

when its packed id always be somewhere theres space to skank around and actually get itno the music n have a boogie, isntead of just jumping up and down on the spot like some sardine fool. tho if ppl enjoy being squished by sweaty dudes with no shirts or some slag wanting to jump on their shoulders every 2 seconds fair play to them

[_cheef_]

I go to EDM event in this to try to avoid that situation but usually just end up getting tossed around atop the hands of the EDM crowd



I hate not bein able to dance at EDM shows any more.

[wub]

Either go find somewhere with a bit more space to dance, or else if it's proper pack up just let the motion of the crowd carry me like a giant wave machine.

[Preacha]

I go home and put the kettle on

[Molzie]

I go home and put the kettle on

Lol this

[Terpit]

Depends on the venue, if its really hot and rammed its gonna smell disgusting, people dancing with their arms in the air when they have BO is unpleasant.

[test_recordings]

Spark a fat zut and chill out

[Mason]

I whip me old johnson out

[jheybs]

go home for an early after party and youtube the songs i'd expect to be played

[Forum]

I like to gyrate my loins against the nearest femme until i jizz my whites

[Pistonsbeneath]

I bask and savor the EDM moment™ as if it were my last

[ASMATIK]

I find a wall to lean on and and just nod my head

[incnic]

EDM rave k00L
but how do u fele when it drops

[baseband]

I whip me old johnson out

he's not that old

[Sexual_Chocolate]

big up wheels of steel

[nousd]

pre 2007 wasn't a prob as we'd just be head banging & steppin in rows
but when dubstep nights started to get crowded with trendoids
we'd claim front of sub & microdance until it was another head's turn.
(big difference when you knew or recognized the regulars)

Nowdays sound systems are usually good enough to be able to dance on fringes with space (if you don't need to feel hidden)

If you want to dance "creatively" there's always less popular, more challenging nights without crowds.

[Forum]

How do you dance to dubestep? If only there was a youtube vid...

[Lye_Form]

stop making these bullshit threads please