I've started learning Tai Chi. Not easy.

I'm really crap at ceilidh dancing.

I seem to find the same difficulty with both: I don't easily memorize sequences of spatial movements.

Tai Chi has the advantage that I only have one (very long and complicated) sequence to remember, whereas at ceilidhs the caller might come up with new ones every night. And there does seem to be some intrinsic logic to the Tai Chi form, it didn't just pop out of a choreographer's head.

Anybody else find these related? Does learning Tai Chi eventually help you make sense of dance figures?