{"id":2313,"date":"2016-06-06T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2016-06-06T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T10:00:28","slug":"you-dont-need-a-partner-to-learn-to-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/ballroom-dances\/you-dont-need-a-partner-to-learn-to-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don’t Need a Partner to Learn to Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You don’t need a partner to walk into our studio. Your instructor will be your partner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a woman among our dance students who started dancing shortly after her husband\u2019s sudden death. Seeking to assuage her grief, she stepped foot in our studio and has never looked back.<\/p>\n

Now, she competes in dance competitions, partnered with her dedicated dance instructor, and has built a community of friends among the dance students who come here, reviving herself since that crushing loss.<\/p>\n

This woman cleared the biggest hurdle we see that prevents people from learning to dance, when they really really want to. And that is, they have no apparent partner.<\/p>\n

Even people who are happily paired up may want to dance while their spouse or partner does not. No problem, we say, but still they have trouble stepping foot inside the studio without the comfort of a companion.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a funny thing because in most relationships, we cannot find everything we need for a satisfying life. That\u2019s why we have friends, lovers, tennis partners, work colleagues, and more \u2013 because one person cannot fulfill all of our dreams and desires.<\/p>\n

So, too, with dancing. Given the recent dance craze fueled by Dancing With the Stars and other popular prime time dance shows, people are interested, eager and open to dance \u2013 they just don\u2019t realize that they can do it without a partner.<\/p>\n

And in fact, shows like DWTS are great examples of showing up without a partner. On TV, the celebrity shows up solo and is paired with a dance instructor \u2013 and all is well.<\/p>\n

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Not only do our students make friends in dance class, our instructors serve as dance partners in competitions and classes for many students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I get requests through Facebook, \u201cOh I’d love to learn how to dance, but I don’t have a partner.\u201d Frankly, you learn faster when your teacher is your partner because they\u2019re the expert. They know how to lead, and it becomes easy to follow.<\/p>\n

Of course, the ultimate goal is to find partners to enjoy dance with, and even if that\u2019s not the person you\u2019re spending your life with, it can be the new community of friends you find in dance class.<\/p>\n

Seventy-five percent of our students come to us without a partner. Many are single, widows, widowers or never-marrieds, but many are happily paired and simply have an interest their partner doesn\u2019t share.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t begrudge your spouse his golf time, or her devotion to spinning or yoga, do you? So what\u2019s the difference with dance?<\/p>\n

The dance studio is a safe environment to explore the desire to move on the parquet. Forget Richard Gere in Shall We Dance<\/em> \u2013 professional dance instructors don\u2019t lure students away from their marriages. Marriages don’t end because one spouse dances and the other doesn’t.<\/p>\n

In fact, research shows that the key to a happy marriage is the independence both spouses feel freely to explore their own interests.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more important to fall in love with yourself and love your life. That\u2019s the most attractive trait you can have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a woman among our dance students who started dancing shortly after her husband\u2019s sudden death. Seeking to assuage her grief, she stepped foot in our studio and has never looked back. Now, she competes in dance competitions, partnered with her dedicated dance instructor, and has built a community of friends among the dance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballroom-dances","category-dance-info-news-trends","category-dance-lessons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}