DANCING GUIDELINES
Every dance is different, each subject is different, each time you dance things will be different. Each dance should be as original as the time and place it is performed.
Just Remember, no dance is ever perfect, there is always room for improvement with practice and patience.
The first part of knowing how to create a dance, is learning a few rules that exist.
- Never touch a Free with your body during your dance, you may use a piece of silk or a ribbon or even a girls silky hair.
- NEVER copy a dance. Dances are the property and of those that wrote them, you may use them as guideliness when just learning, but that is all..the rest is up to you.
- Never refuse to dance. If commanded, you will dance. If you do not have one prepared then you are expected to come up with one quickly on the spot.
- Never use a prop (bells, bellychains, silks, whips, belts, and so on) in your dance you are not normally allowed to touch, or have been gifted, without permission from your Owner or another Free. Once the dance is completed immediately return the item to your Owner or the Free who gave you permission to use the item.
Of course some dances do require props: poles etc.. but that is a different matter.
- Dances should be roughly 8 posts long, they can be as short as 6 or as long as 11, but any longer is too much, your audience will get bored.
- Follow the guidelines depending on the type of dance you are dancing. Original dances would not follow the basic guidelines, but still whatever idea you have in mind to accomplish should always be kept in your thoughts.
THE DANCE STEPS
Introduction - 1 or 2 posts in length, the foundation.
These posts establish the place (i.e. going to the pits), costume, mood, and kind of dance. The why and your own emotions at the begining.The music is usually introduced during this section as well. Describe the type of music being played, bold, soft, trilling, or heavy. Describe the instruments you hear, there are various kinds of drums and stringed instruments that produce a wide variety of music for you to dance to. **This is the section when you first grab your audiences attention and once you have it they rarely turn away.**
The Middle - 5 to 8 posts in length, develops the theme established at the begining and describes any transformations. **This is where you display your beauty to the audience, keeping their attention.**
The end - Ususally only one post in length. The resolution of the dance, the conclusion, the picture of change (if any). Make sure to actually indicate it is the end, important because some dances rise and fall. It is a polite way of telling the audience they can cheer for you (lol). Some girls say "The end" some say ~La Kajira~
TYPES OF DANCES FROM THE BOOKS
Beauty Dance: slave dances to enhance beauty, each movement of her form displays inside and out. Dances for each free as if only for that free, emphasizing charms.
The girl wore Gorean dancing silk. It hung low upon her bared hips, and fell to her ankles. It was scarlet, diaphanous. A front corner of the silk was taken behind her and thrust, loose and draped, into the rolled silk knotted about her hips; a back corner of the silk was drawn before her and thrust loosely, draped, into the rolled silk at her right hip. Low on her hips she wore a belt of small denomination, threaded, overlapping golden coins. A veil concealed her muchly from us, it thrust into the strap of the coined halter at her left shoulder, and into the coined belt at her right hip. On her arms she wore numerous armlets and bracelets. On the thumb and first finger of both her left and right hand were golden finger cymbals.
Chain Dance: -"A girl is chained to a stake by a warrior with the chain interwoven from the ko-lar of her neck through the wrists and down to her ankle cuffs by ten feet of play between the slave and the driven stake. The slave dances to show her submission and joy of being a slave. The chain wraps around her and she writhes and fights at first, and fights wildly, but she eventually she submits because of her desire and the fire within her belly. In the end, she shows her joy at feeling the confinement of the chain around her slaveheart." ~Nomads of Gor, page 159~
Need Dance: "There are usually five phases to such a dance. In the first phase the girl, dancing, feigns indifference to the presence of men, before whom, as a slave, she must perform. In the second phase,for she has not yet been raped, her distress and uneasiness, her restlessness, her disturbance by her sexual urges, must become subtly more manifest. Here it must be evident that she is beginning to feel her sexuality, and drives, profoundly, and yet is struggling against them. Toward the end of this phase it must beome clear not only that she has sexual needs, and deep ones, but that she is beginning to fear that she may not be, simply as she is, of sufficient interest to men to obtain their satisfaction. Here, need, coupled with anxiety and self-doubt, for she has not yet been seized by strong men, must become clear. In the third phase of the dance she, in an almost ladylike fashion, acknowledges herself defeated in her attempt to conceal her sexuality; she then, again in an almost ladylike fashion, delicately but clearly, with restraint but unmistakably, acknowledges, and publicly, before masters, that she has sexual needs. Then, with smiles, and gestures, displaying herself, she makes manifest her readiness for the service of men, her willingness, and her receptivity. She invited them, so to speak to have her. But she has not yet been seized by an arm or an ankle, or by her collar, a thumb hooked rudely under it, or hair, and pulled from the floor. What if she is not sufficiently pleasing? What if she is not to be fulfilled? What if she must continue to dance, alone, unnoticed. At this point it becomes clear to her that it is by no means a foregone conclusion that men will find her of interest, or that they will see fit to satisy her. She must strive to be pleasing. If she is not good enough she may be chained, unfilfilled, another night alone in the kennel. There are always other girls. She must earn her rape. Too, if she should be insufficiently pleasing consistently it is likely that she will be slain. goreans place few impediments in the way of liberation of a slave female's sexuality. In this [fourth] phase of the dance, then, shamelessly the woman dances her need and, shamelessly, begs for her sexual satisfaction. The phase of the dance is sometimes known as the Heat of the Collared She-Sleen. The fifth, and final phase, of the dance, is far more dramatic and exciting. In this phase the girl, overcome by sexual desire and terrified that she may not be found sufficiently pleasing, clearly manifests, and utterly, that she is a slave female. In this portion of the dance the girl is seldom on her feet. Rather, sitting, rolling, and changing position, on her side, her back, her belly, half kneeling, half sitting, kneeling, crawling, reaching out, bending backwards, lying down, twisting with passion, gesturing to her body, presenting it to masters for their inspection and interest, whimpering, moaning, crying out, brazenly presenting herself as a slave, pleading for her rape, she writhes, a piteous, begging, vulnerable, ready slave, a woman fit for and begging for the touch of a master, a woman begging to become, at the least touch of her master, a totally submitted slave. The fourth phase of the dance, as I have mentioned, is sometimes known as the Heat of the Collared She-Sleen. This portion of the dance, the fifth portion, is sometimes known as the Heat of the Slave Girl." ~Rogue of Gor, page 18~
Pole Dance: Pole represents the Owner of the slave. Touches and moves upon pole as would Master. Tehtered or restricited in her ability to move freely. At the end, submission is found, willingly bows to place face in the dirt before the pole. "The slave will attempt to arouse and entice the pole or "Master" with erotic movements that involve her touching and caressing "Him" (the pole), beckoning her use by "Him". This dance can be done either by securing her to the pole or she may remain free from the pole, swirling around in frantic and heated movements." ~Blood Brothers of Gor, page 39~
Sa-ella Dance: "The Sa-eela is one of the most moving, deeply rhythmic and erotic of the slaves dances of Gor. It belongs, generally to the genre of dances commonly known as the Lure Dances of the Love-Starved Slave Girl. The common theme of the genre, of course, is the attempt on the part of a neglected slave to call herself to the attention of the master. The Sa-eela, usually performed in the nude, as though by a low slave, and by a girl freed of all impediments except her collar, is one of the most powerful of slave dances of Gor. It is done rather differently in different cities but the variations practiced in the river towns and, generally in the Vosk basin, are in my opinion, among the finest." ~Guardsman of Gor, page 259~
Seduction Dance: Often removes clothing seductively or commanded to dance nude after Master stripped her. No sexual act, just seduce to take to furs after completed. In this dance the girl often removes her clothing seductively while dancing or she is stripped by a Master and commanded to dance nude. The dance does not complete the sexual act between slave and Master but instead is to seduce the Master into pulling the slave to the furs when the dance is completed. The more seductive the slave during the dance, the better the chances are for seduction after the dance. "The name of the dance is fairly self-explanitory, in this dance the slave tries to seduce a Master, perhpas even to get him to buy her." ~Tribesmen of Gor, page 101~
Six Thongs Dance: "The girl has 6 leather thongs attached to her body: (ankles,wrists, belly, and neck) She dances as a girl who is captured. She will show her defiance and bewilderment at not being able to move freely, the dance growing more frenzied until she is subdued by the Masters that hold her. The girl is thenpresented to one Master, who asks her if she is slave, to which she will proudly say that she is." ~Raiders of Gor, page 228~
Submission Dance: Shows dedication to be kajira, submission to home/Master. Unique to each slave. "Performed for the girl's true Master, each dance is different and unique, as is each Freeperson. It can be done in many ways, from the kajira allowing her hands to roam her own body in throbbing lust for her Master, to the girl writhing in desire and submitting at His feet." ~Dancer of Gor, page 190
Virgin Dance: 1) virgins perform the dance, 2) dance used only by virgin, prior to sexual use. Assets displayed. 3) role dance, slave dances as if virgin expecting to be ravished There are three basic categories of virgin dances. First, they refer to the types of dances fitting for a virgin. These dances would rarely be seen in a tavern. Second, they refer to any dance that displays a virgin who is soon to lose her virginity. Third, and most commonly, it refers to a "role" dance where a girl dances as if she was a virgin but knows she is soon to be ravished. This type of dance is rarely done by an actual virgin. It is not a story dance but is more an emotional or attitudinal piece
Whip Dance: "In the whip dance, though there are various versions of it, depending on the locality, the girl is almost never struck with the whip, unless, of course, she does not perform well. When the whip is cracked, however, the girl will commonly react as though she has been struck. this, conjoined with the music, and her beauty, and the obvious symbolism of her beauty beneath total male descipline, can be extremely, powerfully erotic. In an elegant, civilized context, one of beauty and music, it makes clear and bespeaks the raw and essential primitives of the ancient, genetic, biological sexual realtionship of men and women." ~Rogue of Gor, page 101~
***Of course, some of the best dances are original dances not based on any book dance.***
