<<"Had you been even the slightest bit musical in the beginning, you would have danced yourself years ago."

Well, that's harsh. I wish I had started many years before but life got in the way.">>

I agree. Musically, I sang rather than danced for many many years. I danced as a child, but our community was all farming and dance wasn't something there if you were not a swan in elementary school.

I came to dance because I needed an activity that was good exercise that I would love passionately so that I would leave my desk and my work and go DO it.

My hubby promised to dance and has been too busy to follow through. He will eventually but he will never put into it what I wish he would.

It actually had little to do with children, we don't have any together and are finally attempting to do so. I will dance even if pregnant. I cannot imagine how having a child will prevent my expression of song and of dance.

So I agree, what polished said was rather harsh. Not everyone lives in a community large enough to have a ballroom instructor. Ours didn't. Where we live now does. Where I commute does. However, within the next two years we will be back in a community more than two hundred miles/four hours and one mountain pass away from a community large enough for a decent dance instructor.

So I am trying to do as much as I can NOW, while I have instructors, and I collect instruction DVD's for future reference and practice.

Back in the early ears of our nation's history, many small towns lacked sufficient means to support a preacher for their local church. To meet these local needs, the church organizations recruited and trained "circuit preachers." These mobile clergyman served among a number of such communities, travelling from town to town. Their exploits are celebrated in Dion's song "The Wanderer."

Extending your observations to the general population, there would appear to be an underserved market in dance instruction. Perhaps some new dance society will arise to hire and dispatch "ciruit dance teachers" to tap this market.

I gotta start charging for these posts.



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LOL, circuit dance teachers....actually not a terrible idea but I think the advances in DVD instructional materials, books, and all will fill in the gaps for me.

I plan to take lessons whenever I get where there are instructors and then work on what I learned from home. Eventually that will not be enough.

My hubby already put a dance space in the house plan--20 by 30 for practice and has promised me a bar and mirrors for stretching. And is still learning to dance with me. Who knows, perhaps I will eventually exchange a week of bed and breakfast space up in the mountains for a week of dance lessons....