And then once you're a part of the whole room, it's just a matter of creating the maximum amount of time in the music for the lady to hang out, to look good. Like most dancers, Stuart and Kornelia are amateurs and don't get any sponsorship. Both of their workplaces are teamfocussed and thus sympathetic to all the travel and practice. I can remember working at places where you'd never mention that you're a ballroom dancer. And time is on Stuart and Kornelia's side.
Ballroom dancers tend to reach their peaks relatively late in life.
And the analogy I come back to is that I imagine having a child as being the most magical thing. If you watch a small child, it's just so pure. It's an unexplainable thing. And as people grow up, society hammers that out of people. But when people dance, you can see that spark of purity in them that you can't explain.