Are we all born to dance?

Are we all born to dance?

4 August, 2008 | 6.39AM

• Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
• Written by: Christen Reutens

Some say dancing is the human mating ritual, the homo sapien equivalent of birds tweeting sweet songs to each other or two butterflies flutering around each other in harmonious synchronization.

If that’s the case then the need to dance and dancing skills should come from deep within ourselves, as they’re part of our soul and part of the justification for our existence, right?

This video, which shows a little boy of about two-years-old dancing may help answer that very question.

Babies copying their parents is nothing new - learning fast is part of the evolution of human survival - but when the video reaches 0.20 seconds the baby does a dance move which is simply too perfect to suggest it was mimicking its parents.

It’s as if the music simply caused the baby to dance in that particular way.

And that got me thinking. Why do we dance a certain way to certain types of music?

A trance dance is different to a drum & bass dance, for instance.

I used to believe that the different scenes had led to different types of dancing because the people, acting like a tribe, had copied each others moves until a distinct dance had evolved for that scene.

But this video shows that perhaps it is the very music that affects the rhythms our bodies produce, and we are but spectators, along for the ride.

Is there a raver inside all of us?

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