How to Dance? Take it Easy!

The reason most people never learn how to dance is because they think it is hard. Shows like Dancing with the Stars, with all the light and sound effects, costumes, sky high eye-lashes and heels, make the average person think "I will never be able to do that!" The people on the screen have hours of dance lessons, personal trainers, coaches, people to get them coffee and lunch while they have the luxury of fully emerging themselves into the intricacies of the Foxtrot. You, on the other hand, have to feed the dog, take the kids to soccer practice, invent something for dinner, and possibly watch Twilight, if you ever get to it at all.

Understandably, the time to make your Foxtrot (or Salsa, Cha-cha, Waltz, or any other dances of choice) look fabulous is hard to come by. Fortunately, social dancing, and even performing, is often not so much about what you do, but about how you do it. Remember the box step that you learned in that group class you made it to once, three months ago? Well, guess what? There is a reason the box is the basic step of so many dances - professionals do it too! We have it in our competition and performance routines about 90% of the time. It is just done so well that you probably can't see it! What you see is the glittery costume, the make-up, the smiles on our faces, the fact that we look like we are having the time of our lives doing it up on that stage.

Of course, when you go out social dancing with your honey on a Friday night all of this may be too much, but who is stopping you from looking like you are enjoying yourself? Instead of trying to make it perfect, stopping every two steps to check if your body is properly (and painfully) twisted in the right direction at precisely the right angle, why not leave the technique in class, and have a great time just dancing to music?! What if you can't remember anything at all about what you learned about a particular dance? Don't let that stop you! Usually, as soon as you start moving to music (and by moving I mean swaying, vibrating... anything) your body will remember the steps on its own, and if that doesn't happen - who cares? One of the great things about social dancing, as opposed to dance competition is that there are no judges, so go ahead and have a great time!

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