As a dancer, it’s always sad when another ballroom or dance venue closes, and over the last year there’s been a few. In particular in our area, the Rover Club in Oxford saw its last dance night in April. Those monthly nights were always packed out on the large dancefloor, and with a (seriously cheap)…
For a social dancer, being asked to dance is a big thing, as is asking someone to dance. I’ve always found you can’t hide away and not ask people to dance. Similarly it’s not the done thing to refuse a dance if someone asks. People do refuse but it’s rare, and I can probably count…
When they hear I dance, so many people say to me ‘oh I’d love to be able to dance’ or ‘wow that’s brave/good’ or ‘I’m jealous’ or ‘I’d never dance in public’ or ‘dancing’s for girls’ plus a lot of other variations. It seems there are a lot of myths around dancing and I want…
Hello and welcome to the first post at What about Dance. I’ve a long list of posts to write in future, but I wanted to start with a brief hello. Hopefully you’ll have been over to the About me page. If not, check it out then come back. I’ll wait. I wanted to add some…
