Dancing is weird. Dancing is like painting sounds with your body, yet we rarely know how to hold the brushes. It has been my experience that what makes an entertaining dance is not the skill of those dancing but their lack of social inhibitions. People enjoy dances because dancing gives people a chance to let go and be a little sillier than they would normally, to meet people that they would otherwise be too shy or reserved to approach. When everyone is well beyond their typical comfort zone, a little social awkwardness in conversation is easily overlooked. One does not need the security of dance lessons to feel comfortable at dances, they just need to remember that everyone feels or has felt the same as they do, yet have learned to let go be free and make a fool of themselves in style. Like one of my many mottoes... you can do anything if you do it with a smile; so you can do the sprinkler all night long if you smile the night away!
All things considered, I only danced one song tonight.
