I love to dance _if and only if_ I have some idea of what I'm doing; barn dance/square dance/contra dance/circle dance makes me feel like flying (possibly because I'm small and therefore gain lots of momentum when someone swings me). Looking back at lots of miserable school and summer camp dances, I realize that the more 'ritual' dances were the ones I most enjoyed; quite possibly a major factor in the success of the Macarena (eek, was that only four summers ago?) was the set moves that were impossible to make a complete fool of oneself doing. Dancing has played a major role in my life in the past month or so; I dragged my boyfriend-to-be out on the dance floor for a waltz, and found that it's possible for a dance to be magical even while stepping on each other's feet.

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