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Dancing
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03/26/13 |
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A number of years ago, I got tired of Mary Louise asking me to get on the dance floor with her since I didn't know a single step. I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of so many people. Then I saw an ad in the paper from Arthur Murray Dance Studios for an introductory package of ten lessons for $10. I thought that ought to about do it. We'd take ten lessons and then I would feel comfortable dancing in front of people. Well, eighteen years and thousands of dance lessons and dollars later we are still embarrassing ourselves in front of large groups of people. OK, that's harsh. We are now competing at the national level and sometimes do reasonably well, only occasionally embarrassing ourselves. We won the National Championship in American Smooth in 2004 in our age group. Then when we moved to Tasmania, we started dancing International Standard style as they don't do American style anywhere but here in the States. Standard is much more exacting and the competition is fierce, so we are struggling a bit more with it. We placed 3rd at Nationals in 2007 and not so well in 2008, but we are making serious progress and placed 4th in 2009. Here are some photos of "Fred and Ginger" as my mother calls us.
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