Comments on: Tai Chi Disco Dance – Having Fun with Tai Chi

By: jamie

jamie — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:38:41 +0000

Bruce I think it’s time to move on from disco taichi the next big thing would be the BAGUA BOUNCE I got the copy right on that !

By: DojoScore

DojoScore — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:36:56 +0000

And now this style of Tai Chi has become more popular than you ever intended.

By: From the Authors’ Blogs: Mat Gratitude, Wimpy Kiais, & Tai Chi Disco Dancing « Blue Snake Books

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:27:35 +0000

[...] And finally, Tai Chi: Health for Life author Bruce Frantzis shows readers how to loosen up with traditional…and not-so-traditional movements of tai chi in his classic video, “Tai Chi Disco Dance.” (read more here) [...]

By: David Saxton

David Saxton — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:42:48 +0000

Beautiful! It always amazes me how your energy is visible when you move.

By: Charlie Morris

Charlie Morris — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:23:59 +0000

Bruce,
That is a wonderful video. What a wonderful story and such light moves as well. Beautiful.

namaste,
Charlie

By: Ajo Kifli

Ajo Kifli — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:51:01 +0000

Joyful exercise. Thanks Bruce, I like it.

By: Jane Launchbury

Jane Launchbury — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:13:03 +0000

Love the Tai Chi Disco, which I’d seen you do brilliantly a very long time ago. Cleared the dance floor neatly as I recall!
Got me thinking…
I keep being asked to teach children and young people and had slithered around avoiding this one. This month I got pinned down to do 4 sessions in our local primary school. ‘Could I do four 30 minute tai chi experiences for all the children in Key Stage 1 (age 5 – 7) for Chinese New Year and ‘no’ is not an acceptable answer!’
Even half an hour is a l – o – n – g time for a whole year group of lively six year olds to do anything with focus, let alone move slowly… We tried a ‘soap bubble form’ for a few serene seconds, until one little boy did what all small boys do with soap bubbles. The sound of popping and giggling all round the hall was not quite what I’d had in mind, though it was very funny. The thing that really worked was working with some music I’d taken along, though it wasn’t quite disco, and for that matter it wasn’t quite tai chi either… but it was near enough, and it worked astonishingly well. It even worked with 5 year olds and particularly well with the children who started the sessions whirling around on the floor like demented beetles on their backs. In fact it worked so well that the head teacher wants an after school tai chi club for parents and children together. We tried it with our adult classes as a warm-up and now the majority want it regularly. So Bruce, you’ve hit on a winner – tai chi dance. Or at least something tai chi like to music. We used to do it every year in Malaysia of course, in the parks at dawn. Plenty of serious tai chi players were doing their qigong and taiji practices to the latest pop music on their ghetto blasters as well as traditional tunes and I’m sure they still do. It brings in a FUN element alongside the serious side of tai chi practice, and people relax. Let’s have more fun!! I look forward to the first Instructor Training in Tai Chi Disco!

By: Mari

Mari — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:30:31 +0000

I’d love to do Tai Chi to music because I love dancing and the music would help me remember the moves much better. Forget salsa – this is great!

By: Meredith

Meredith — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:19:18 +0000

Very cool, Bruce, and a good idea. Tai Chi Body Movement IS joyous!

By: Peter A Gilligan

Peter A Gilligan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:08:01 +0000

Hi Bruce just to confirm that the band’s name was Bronski Beat. The name was taken from a character in Gunther Grass’s novel called “Bronski”. My mate Steve Forrest was so influenced by that book that he changed his stage name to Steve Bronski and founded the group Bronski Beat. He also provided the music for a Tai Chi video I made. Which caused him an amazing amount of grief with the label’s lawyers who were outraged that he just gave me the master tapes so they had no handle on the copyright fees. We’d made a mutual assistance pact before his band signed with the label so he just toughed it out saying that our contract pre-dated their contract )

I always wondered what music you used to start the Tai Chi disco craze and now I know. Small world ain’t it!