It is a doorway to escaping the confinement of your ego prison, of becoming part of a transcendent unity, a group organism unfolding in motion. It is flight for the earthbound, a kaleidoscope for the blind, a shattering release for the unfeeling. Dance presence represents a mind set, an attitude, a bearing that communicates confidence and sense of direction on the dance floor. It means intuiting where the other dancers in your radius of action are, your position and motion relative to them, and anticipating how your movements will interact with them. Presence , life presence is the same, generalized to Real Life.
Couples dance unfolds the mysteries of touch, of subtlety, and balance.
The simple line dances are easily learned, and mastery of couple dances, folk and square, even ballroom, follows with practice. Ballroom dancing has made a remarkable comeback lately, and with good reason. It gives shy people the chance to experience physical closeness to the opposite sex in a safe setting. It teaches the skills of touching and harmonizing movements, of relating to that warm female that you are embracing in a stylized dance flourish. Most areas of the country have folk, contra, ballroom, and square dance groups.