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Everything I Learned About Energy Happened on the Tango Dance Floor
I’ll be honest with you — tango was not the very first dance I thought I wanted to dance. I really loved latin ballroom and fell in love with Vanessa Williams in the movie, Dance with Me. Like you, I’ve enjoyed watching ballroom dancing on television but it never truly clicked with me. I was looking for more intimacy and connection but just didn’t know it.
I was also always bored with the leader who seemed to dance by himself to show off but had little regard to the experience of the two of us dancing together.
Most people enter the social dance scene to try something new. It is a good alternative to just hanging out at a bar and, if it clicks, a couple of hours of salsa dancing ends up burning a lot of calories. Prior to the pandemic, salsa and bachata dancing were filling my need for cardio exercise — I just didn’t know it. It is interesting to see how the pandemic has made us all reflect on our lives and how we are using our time. Sometimes the things we were doing for fun were actually benefitting our bodies more than we realized. It wasn’t until it was taken away that we realized how much our bodies craved movement and play.
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