WHAT YOUR DANCING SAYS ABOUT YOU

                                      A tongue-in-cheek psychoanalysis

Years ago, a Spanish (Portuguese?) entry won an international Clio award for best commercials.  In it, a woman talking directly to the camera complains with embarrassment that her husband drives too fast, which is a subliminal sign of a problem in the bedroom.  Without mentioning any of it, the message pinpoints the most sensitive pressure point of the target audience:  don’t drive like Speedy Gonzalez unless you want everyone to suspect your performance elsewhere…What does it have to do with dancing?  Let’s broaden Jeff Foxworthy’s popular stand-up routine “you might be a redneck if…”:

1. if you dance exclusively with attractive young partners, you can’t get their attention off the dance floor
2. if you dance only with popular skillful dancers watched by gawkers, you’re desperate for attention
3. if your dancing has a lot of flashy tricks, you’re desperate for attention
4. if you’re dying to perform on stage and never go social dancing, you’re desperate for attention
5. if you dance only in the most visible spots on the dance floor, you’re desperate for attention
6. if you hide among other dancers, you don’t want to be seen with your partner
7. if you hide among other dancers, you’re insecure about your dancing
8. if you’re a guy and wear heels, you’re trying too hard
9. if you can catch flying birds with a rake and still wear high heels, you’re a dominatrix
10. if you’re an instructor and never dance with your students, you can’t
11. if you’re an instructor and never dance with your students, you don’ have many
12. if you’re an instructor and never dance with your students, you’re selfish
13. if you’re an instructor and never dance with your students, you got sick and tired to dance with beginners
14. if you learn to dance with less popular partners then ignore them when you advance, you’re a “step-up” dancer with insecurity issues
15. if you refuse a dance cause the asker is ugly, you’re too
16. if you refuse a dance to a beginner, you’re selfish
17. if you refuse a dance to a beginner, you’re too old to waste your time.
18. if you refuse a dance to an advanced dancer and you’re a beginner, you’re gorgeous
19. if you refuse a dance to an advanced dancer and you’re a beginner, you don’t know he/she is a good dancer
20. if you refuse a dance to an advanced dancer and you’re a beginner and know he/she is a good dancer, you’re an idiot
21. if you never refuse a dance to anyone, you’re an angel
22. if you never refuse a dance to anyone, you’re a beginner
23. if you never refuse a dance to anyone and you’re an advanced dancer, you’re rarely around anymore
24. if you repeat the same moves and patterns regardless of the music you can dance without it 
25. if you're afraid to improvise, you're insecure in your dancing
26. if you you think this is all about you, you're....(add your own adjective here)
27. to be continued…
28. your additions here...

DIP (dance in peace)