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At many local weekly dances, all the best dancers take over one corner of the room
(like the “Cat’s Corner” of the old Savoy Ballroom) and the beginners tend to stay at the other end and dance with each other. You can see how it would be rather difficult to ask the good dancers to dance if they all hang out in a crowd and you have to barge in to even speak to them. So, make a special effort to get down to the beginners’ end every so often and ask someone for a dance. Resist falling into a clique at your local club: to outsiders, though you will be seen as the best dancers, you will also seem snobby and un-touchable.
Consider asking newbies: you were once one. Those experienced dancers who agreed to dance with you as a newbie gave you incentive (by “suffering” through with your learning) to keep going to reach a point of being a “decent dancer”. Do the same for the newbies you meet and make then feel welcome - it is an investment in your future dance partners. Remember, as a beginner you don’t know how perfectly right it feels for two people to dance as one until it happens to you for the first time. With your new ballroom dance shoes it happens sooner than expected.
