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4: Surely a “Good” Dancer can
dance to Any
Music?
Okay, but you have to ask yourself why you would want to.
If
you are at a “social dance”, where there is music and a dance floor,
the music could be anything at all and people will just smooch or disco
or shuffle, in whatever way they find fits – typical example: the
wedding party.
On the other hand, if you have specifically learned Ballroom
Dancing,
you will have been trained (or trained yourself) in the specific
movements which have developed to suit the Ballroom set of dance
rhythms. Those movements work best at the right tempo, and
don’t
properly fit other rhythms.
So, if you are there to enjoy just a social
occasion, you should not expect to use your Ballroom
training... and if you want to exercise your dancing, you need to
reserve
that for where there is the right music. That’s the
difference
between dancing at a social occasion and a Social Ballroom Dance.