Hello everyone,

I'm doing a graphic design project about dance and I'm interested to know what the WORST part of taking dance lessons or being a dancer is? Let me know :) x

Probably the worst part of taking dance lessons is the initial fear of getting started. Then once you start expecting too much too soon. Practice, practice, practice makes for good progression, even if you have no dance partner to practice with i.e. doing the patterns solo. You could spend 50 hours on practicing rumba's cuban motion in the box step (once you get the jest of it from an instructor) and then soon thereafter incorporate it into the rest of the rumba patterns you've learned. Then the hip motion would come easier to learn in the merengue, cha cha, salsa, & bachata.

The worst part of being a dancer is not enjoying ballroom dancing to the fullest... with the progressions you've made. They'll always be better dancers than you at whatever level dancer you become and it can be easy to be dis-content / envious of others. Enjoy the moments and be thankful for them all.

For the leader: followers who grip my fingers, followers who don't engage in the movement, followers who don't maintain tone.

For the follower: leaders who pull on the arms, leaders who don't move their body, leaders who contact the no-go areas.

It's when you are a beginner and you are scared to dance with other people say if you were girls you are nervous to dance with a boy and if you are a girl you are nervous to dance with a boy.

Feeling like everyone but you understands a new figure and that somehow the instructor just started speaking a foreign language. Then you bite your lip, fight back the tears and remember eventually it will make sense, and just keep trying.