VetOfTheSeasDown with gym class!
DagwoodIIIWhen they filmed the movie βVan Helsingβ in Prague they needed one hundred couples who knew how to ballroom dance. Everyone thought this was going to be difficult to set up, but it turned out that literally every extra they hired could waltz. Back in Soviet days, the country didnβt have a lot of money for sports equipment, but every school had a record player. They taught the kids ballroom dancing for the Physical Education requirement.
π π°π’π«π±π¦π’π«π± ππ¦π’π π’ π¬π£ π π₯π’π’π°π’We went to dance classes all throughout I think eight grade and learned a few of the classical dances. Waltz, Foxtrott, Cha-Cha, Tango. Thatβs Eastern Germany in the early 2000s.
Now Iβm imagining Mel Brooks doing a black-and-white German Expressionist scene of nine year olds in tuxedos and gowns doing the tango.
A_norny_mousseDance classes in a normal secondary school? Wow, we never had that. We had a private dance school for couple dancing in town, many kids did that at about age 13 (I think it was a minimum age thing).
It wasnβt in school, it was an after school thing at a dancing school. It was relatively affordable - I think it was at least in part paid for by the ministry of education - and we all went there together after regular lessons. I never heard of anyone not attending.