Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, September 7, 1961, page 32 (of 47)
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Learn To Dance
Continued from page 7 For one thing, it gave me a form of exercise I really enjoyed (calisthenics bore me and I'm not very good at them), and of course it widened my social horizon. I began to attract good dancers because, as one of them said, "You make a man look good on the dance floor." These good dancers were not necessarily men I would have found fascinating during my mainly intellectual years. I remember the the dansant where I had a terrific time with a man well over 70 and, it seemed to me, seven feet tall. He knew every step of the tango ever invented. Men thirty years younger sat listlessly on the side lines and watched us. Also, I had found something I could do better than my children—that is, in a physical way. My activities have inspired the younger ones to look at their dancing classes as pleasure instead of torture. They want to be able to beat me at my own footwork. My eldest boy, addicted to the curious shuffle of his generation, has even willingly taken a couple of tango lessons, and he sometimes brings a young thing to view his mother at her dancing lessons. MAYBE I should no longer call them lessons because I am pretty satisfied with the steps I know, and if I progress much further I will soon narrow the field of my partners. One with whom I used to go dancing in the old days of my two left feet said to me after I had had about a year of lessons, "You're no fun for me to dance with any more. You've been taking dancing lessons." I've become a kind of dancing snob. But I must admit that I still don't know what I am doing with my feet, and I am completely unsuccessful in trying to teach anyone else even a rudimentary dance step. I can, however, not only give hope to others who imagine they can't dance, but I can give some pointers I had to absorb myself. These are all for the girls: 1. Take your dancing lessons, if possible, in something that will give you complete freedom. Tights and leotard, shorts and ballet slippers (or certainly shoes of some kind that will be completely comfortable). Dancing instructors prefer shoes with a slight heel, but they will put up with ballet slippers, and I do think that they give a beginner more confidence. Barring leotards or shorts, a full skirt of some kind is far better than a tight skirt for lessons. 2. Be particularly conscious when you are being propelled backwards to keep your feet together. One famous New York dancing teacher used to tell his little girl pupils that they shouldn't dance backward with their feet apart, for they then looked like a horse being backed into a stall. Keep your ankles together. 3. Don't be a drag on your partner. Each partner should be able to dance as if independent of the other. In other words, it's a fallacy that you need to have a "strong lead" or a "good dancer" in order to dance well. When you really know what you are doing, a partner with fairly modest ability won't bother you. 4. Never try to lead. If you get stuck with an impossible dancer, relax and try to follow what he is doing. If you really can't, plead thirst or a headache and sit down. 5. Never suggest a step to a man with whom you are dancing or try to show him a new step on the dance floor, even if he asks you to. Any such requested instructions should be strictly private. The man should always be in charge on the floor. 6. Don't be so overcome with delight when you are asked to dance that you barge ahead of your partner.