Polished and Anymouse are both right. We started out with an instructor that was not very good and very probable passe. We were taught the old hold of hip to hip, for example, which is wrong now and I believe, wrong five years ago. That was my point, we found an instructor with qualifications and experience that was severely lacking in the qualifications most needed. Of course, any one who dances at Blackpool is awesome no matter what method they adopt. We are social (middle aged) dancers who want to be the best we can be and want to learn it right the first time.

"As I pointed out the hold has changed. The position of the body has changed."

What you haven1t the perspective to realize that there were people at the top doing it both ways then, just as there are today. A couple who does it one way wins and you think the world has changed. A couple who does it the other way wins and you will conclude that the world has changed back.

"see Luca and Lorrain on posture."

And how many others dance like Luca & Lorrain? You keep confusing individual variety for global shifts.

That1s not to say that there is not a slow evolution. But the actual lasting part is much smaller than the couple-to-couple variation at any point in time. And the actual significance is a lot less than you would imagine.

Dancing in the end is dancing - but often only those with far beyond the ordinary experience get back to the point where they can transcend the details and actually understand that.