Flamboyant queer: Oh my god, the black security guards complimented my moves! That’s like the Nobel Prize of dancing!
Fag hag: I don’t think Nobel Prizes work that way…
–Stuyvesant High
Flamboyant queer: Oh my god, the black security guards complimented my moves! That’s like the Nobel Prize of dancing!
Fag hag: I don’t think Nobel Prizes work that way…
–Stuyvesant High
Mom: Sit down!
Eight-year-old daughter, dancing: No! Someday I’m going to make lots of money dancing!
–Canarsie-bound L train
Older kid: So, what you been up to, little man?
Five-year-old boy: You know — drinking the beers and dancing with the girls.
–Penn Station
Sweet-looking old man teaching ballet: This is an adult ballet class. We have to try and do things correctly. A children’s ballet is different. Technically, it qualifies as child abuse.
–Steps on Broadway dance studio
Chick on cell: After the crash test dummy, there were two geishas who belly danced.
–Harlem
Overheard by: Hott Bi Luv
Chick: … But he didn’t expect it to be a bunch of animals — rabbits and bears in little outfits and shit. And doing little dances. And he was maaad…!
–1 train
Overheard by: Ladle
Agitated old Jew to wife: I’m just saying, for my money I want the Electric Slide, I want the Macarena, I want the Chicken Dance, you know what I mean?
–68th & Lex
Indignant mom: She secretly enrolled her in ballet without telling me!
–Monroe St & Franklin Ave, Brooklyn
Old Einstein-looking guy with charming European accent: I always wanted to be a belly dancer so I was surprised when I became a composer.
–Subway
Overheard by: Ben H
Chick #1: So he just threw his shoes out?!
Chick #2: Yeah, he said he would never dance again.
Hobo: Never dance again!
–St. Mark’s & 2nd Ave
Guy: I don’t think people are ready to do the Charleston, yet. Because it’s so spiritual, you know?
–Grand & Mulberry
Overheard by: Trey Givens
Guy with fliers: Ladies, come on in and meet your future husbands. They’ll be the ones dancing on the poles.
–Times Square
Overheard by: Too young to marry strippers
Guy: What? Bar None? Bar None is just a whorehouse with a dance floor.
–12th and 3rd Ave
Black dude: Damn, girl, you so fine you’d make an African in a canoe with a spear wanna jump up and dance!
–2nd Ave & 11th
Overheard by: gneumatic
Poorly-dancing Asian guy: I feel really Latino when I’m dancing to Spanish music.
–Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Broadway
Overheard by: javster
Dorky college freshman: Dude, I totally blacked-out last night… Last thing I remember I was dancing with her mom.
–1 train, Times Square station
Overheard by: Gnomar the gnome
Teen boy #1: Yo, we should go to the bellydancing tree-house today.
Teen boy #2: I hope you meant tryouts.
–Stuyvesant High School
Black teen boy #1: What the hell is this?
Black teen boy #2: What are you, stupid? This is what they call
misinterpretive dancing.
–Union Square
