Why good Dancers are Popular

It's easy to understand why good dancers are in demand. Just watch any crowd on a ballroom floor. Those who can dance well look happy -in tune with the gaiety and the music. Not only are they enjoying themselves but their partners are having a fine time, too.

We dance because it's fun; that's reason enough. But dancing is also an easy and delightful form of exercise. Good dancers have a vigorous youthful posture, supple grace and superb muscle tone. People like to dance; they are born with a deep love of moving to rhythm.

ANYONE CAN LEARN TO DANCE

I have never met a normal person who could not become a fine dancer. You have the same natural ability others have and goo dancing is within your reach. But remember -you can't learn to dance by reading. You'll have to practice. So don't just skim through this text. Learn each step thoroughly before you go on to the next.

First, learn to do each routine slowly, without music. Dance alone. When you can do a dance pattern easily and with perfect confidence, try it to slow music. After an hour's practice, try the step to fast music. Do not attempt dancing with a partner until you can do your own part in time to fast music and with complete ease.

WHY YOU SHOULD LEARN TO DANCE ALONE AT FIRST

Dancing is a muscular exercise and, as with all such activity, calls for smoothly coordinated movement. This takes repetition of action to attain, and until you do practice sufficiently your muscles cannot perform with ease and grace. Your movements will be heavy and labored.

If you were just beginning to learn a muscular sport like tennis, it would not be fair to subject anyone but a teacher to playing with you. Until you had perfected your strokes and could run lightly about the court concentrating on the game itself, you would not be much fun as a partner. It is the same with dancing. Until you know your step patterns and can concentrate on the rhythm of the music, neither you nor your partner can enjoy your dancing.

A beginner in dancing has one great advantage over one who is learning a partnership sport. For you can learn to dance alone -without a teacher, a relative or a friend to help you. I can give you definite reassurance about this because thousands of men and women have learned to dance through my instructions. I have spent many years perfecting this method and if you will follow it, you will have your full share of the pleasure and happiness which every good dancer enjoys.