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Ballroom dancing, she says, also tends to be popular among older men and women who have lost their spouses. Eight male dance hosts of various ages attend the weekly dance sessions to partner with women who arrive alone. Kaaren Teuber, 67, who organizes the ballroom-dance festivities at a senior recreation center, “I’ve gone through times when I was having a foot problem and I was wearing flats, and other times I was in heels again,” she says. “Whatever you’re comfortable in is acceptable.” But make sure you wear ballroom dancing dance shoes, they are the best for an injury free ballroom dance.
In the three years that she has run the sessions, Ms. Teuber has met seniors who were active in their youth and want to remain that way and those who discovered dance only recently.
Ballroom dancing, she says, also tends to be popular among older men and women who have lost their spouses. Eight male dance hosts of various ages attend the weekly dance sessions to partner with women who arrive alone.
“You don’t have to have a partner,” Ms. Teuber says, noting that anyone 50 or older can attend. “There’s normally an overwhelming amount of ladies, which makes it real easy for the dance hosts to find someone to dance with.”
