A few years ago, <3 and I decided to learn to dance. We signed up for a jive class and kept going, on and off, for a couple of years. As time went on this became more off than on for various reasons, until we moved house a year ago and fell off the wagon completely. Since then we have been meaning to learn some more dancing together — <3 has been doing bellydancing, but we haven't managed to sort anything out for both of us.
Well, on Friday we got ourselves to a "social dance" class: a short course over six weeks which teaches the basics of a number of dance styles. So now we can (just about — slowly) waltz and foxtrot, and did a bit of rock 'n' roll (the latter seemed a bit trivial after the earlier jive lessons). This was loads of fun and the class had a great atmosphere. Over the coming weeks we look forward to learning to cha cha cha and quickstep, and possibly other stuff too. Look out Fred and Ginger...
Incidentally, <3 put a smile on my face by noting that Ginger Rogers was reputed to have pointed out that she did everything Fred did, but backwards and with high heels. Good point...
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