My problem with dance classes
Sep. 8th, 2009 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I finally realized why I don't like taking beginning waltz classes: everyone in them is a beginner. I don't want to learn to dance with a bunch of men who are also learning to dance, because then all we do is stumble around stepping on each other. I want to learn from black belts, not white belts. It goes much faster that way.
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Date: 2009-09-09 09:07 am (UTC)We need a weekend away in a nice hotel with nice young men who are paid to teach us to dance.
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Date: 2009-09-09 11:16 pm (UTC)I did go to ballroom dance classes with a friend (girl) when we were both about ten or eleven, but that was terribly slow and more like the-blind-leading-the blind. As a teen, in formal dance situations I tended to get whirled round the floor by friends of the family - chaps of my dad's age who could really dance, and one of the best dancers I ever encountered was the father of a college friend.
BB is a strong dance partner in terms of having a good sense of rhythm and space and of being a good 'leader', so as long as I forget what the dance is supposed to do and concentrate on following where he's heading, we're fine. He and I are both out of practise, now, but we can still manage a waltz, quickstep, foxtrot or cha-cha if we have to, and we can both hold out own in a ceilidh, though I tend to try and pick the less energetic dances. (It's more a question of stamina rather than not knowing the moves for every dance.)
At number one daughter's wedding we ended up doing the quickstep and the cha-cha. Sadly there wasn't a waltz (my favourite) on the menu.
And last week while running the village tea-dance I discovered that I could still manage a valeta.
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