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igor2003 -> RE: Ballroom dancing. Sexy or Lame? (2/7/2010 8:11:54 PM)
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Okay, I'm going to jump in here with a couple of cents worth my own thoughts even though I'm not female.
I used to hate dancing. I felt uncoordinated. Two left feet and no sense of time. Then one day an ex girlfriend talked me into going to a Fred Astair's dance party with her since she had started taking lessons. I said I would go watch, but that was all. Well, the female dance instructors were very good looking and quite persuasive and finally got me on the floor for some very basic steps. I found out that it was actually quite easy...at least the "beginner" steps...and I found myself really enjoying it. So much so that I signed up for the cheap "introductory" lessons. There were only a few of those and when they were coming to an end I was kind of sad because the Fred Astair lessons are not cheap and I couldn't afford their regular bronze level lessons. However, at the last dance party I could go to they had a drawing and I won $500 in dance lessons! If I remember right that was only 4 lessons and 3 dance parties, but it was better than nothing!
By the time those lessons ran out a new place had opened up that offered group lessons which were considerably cheaper, so off and on for the next 10 years I took lessons, not only in ballrom, but country, swing, and Latin as well.
It isn't really about "sexy", especially if you are strictly a social dancer and don't really care who your partner is on any particular dance. But some dances like the Rumba and Tango can be VERY romantic and intense when you are with the right partner.
If nothing else it is great socially and is good exercise.
Leading can be looked as dominant, however I normally enjoy a more submissive role in my personal life, but I still lead when I dance (and have been complimented on my strong decisive lead many times). The reason a man usually leads is not really dominance, but simply because the man is normally taller and can see where he is leading to so that they don't run off the floor or into other dancers. I HAVE known couples, though, where the woman did do the leading, and it was often a disaster when dancing near them since I had to watch out not only for "us" but for them as well.
I would say to at least give it a try. Maybe it's for you. Maybe it isn't.
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