When I first started dancing, a veteran dancer gave me the advice to avoid hanging out with other dancers OTC. "You don't know what they're really like, and you don't want to get caught in a shitty situation if they turn out to be drug addicts for example," was what she told me. Plus, I don't really want anyone to know where I live. And if two dancers get into a fight, I'm sure the fallout has the potential to be way worse than two non-dancer friends fighting.
So I agree with her to a point. Yes, there are all kinds of bad things if you let a potentially unstable person into your life, and SCs invite all kinds of unstable people.
That being said, as someone who's keeping her dancing life a complete secret from everyone else, I would love to have friends who understand. One fellow dancer in particular has always been cool to me and yesterday we talked about hanging out. BUT I understand that I only know her in the club environment, so there's a lot I DON'T know.
Anyway, how do you all handle club friendships? Keep them to the club? Slowly build up trust? Ever had any horrible fall outs with other dancer friends?



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