Yes.

dgcasey...
yes to what exactly? c'mon, there have to be some guys out there who actually want to dance!!!

Your choice, pick one. Just like from a Chinese menu.

A. Lonely
B. Want to learn to dance
C. Get more dates

I'll have a B and three Cs. And my buddy here, he'll have a double helping of A, B won't do him any good 'cause he's a klutz, but maybe we can get a mercy C for him.

you're funny you know that!?! very creative, my friend, very creative

so are you lying to me about your choice? i want to make sure i get the order right... last time i messed up the manager threatened to fire me... not too ZANG!!! (you will only get the ZANG part if you have seen wayne's world... my favorite movie!)

I hope there are single guys out there that like dancing but unfortnatley the ones at my dance studio are married.

Anyway, I have a question in regards to the comment about that instructors will always give you positve/good compliments to keep you coming. So, how do you get them to give honest remarks? My instructor gives me compliments but he also corrects me. I just hate to think that he is having me do these competions if I look terrible out there. Instructors don't do that do they?

They shouldn't. The way the student performs is a direct reflection of the instructors teaching after all. If the performance is terrible, though people will first react to the dancer, it wont take them long to start asking what studio told that person they were ready.
There are instructors who believe that the sooner you compede the better. But I understand that they do not necessarily do try to push you into buying expensive programs but honestly believe it will do you good. Both because you will do intensive practice and because it will give you a sence of achievement.

I started doing competitions early on to just give me goals and get used to performing in front of judges and an audience. Yes, we made lots of mistakes, but we gradually started improving. Planning and working on competitions will improve your dancing.

To be good at competitions takes years and not many are very good in the beginnng. Forget about winning or what everyone thinks of your dancing--just do it for you and for your own growth and improvement.

One always feels unrehearsed and unprepared before a competition.

Thanks to Google and your website, I am able that what I am experiencing is not uncommon: I have a beginner's crush. When I joined that studio, I was desullusioned about another studio and wanted to have a change and of course I wished that I would find a very charming uplifting instructor and I did and of course I signed another contract... but I should have been more careful about what could be happening to me. I got seriously hooked and poisened... I do not regret it, if I did not want it to happen to me I think the instructor would not have reacted to it. The only thing that I regret is that some instructors are out there to fish for revenue. And in deed they would react and send you a nice flirting look eye movement or give in to make you confortable, but in this relationship nobody wins. I feel that I could have learnt a lot more if I would not have been in interferring with his instruction. However, every time I was drawn to him, the guy would undiretly sting me as it would feel that I was not concentrating on the dancing. This hurts. As well, if he was skilled could he not see it and tell me directly in a gentle way? Or if he was that experienced could he not have avoided and foster naturel human appropriate behaviour? I want to dance and I want to feel confident that the instructor I am dancing with is there to nourish my gentle, caring, well behaved personality. Is it too much to ask?