SHALL WE DANCE?

This is from the 10/11/07 posting over at Steve's Corner regarding dance classes for the Fezziwig Ball:

Next week is the start of dance lessons again, yeah! Time to get the dancing shoes on and hopefully this year Quirky and I will be able to finally dance the Venitian Waltz together. Also, time to start finding some more clothes to go with my victorian re-enacting outfit. Quirky and I do re-enacting not a whole lot since I was in school but this year we are going to do more.

Ah hah! Perhaps that is why we are having problems waltzing together--I'm try to dance the Viennese Waltz. Seriously, though, we are continuing to find it difficult to Viennese Waltz together. We waltz just fine with other people. As Robin, the dance mistress, said last night, the problem when we dance together seems to be that either both leads or neither leads. Scott's theory is that since we are both the oldest children in our families, we both want to take charge. I mentioned my fear of falling since I seem to keep sliding out of his grasp and my difficulty in trying to figure out where he wants me to go. He gets frustrated with me because I sometimes stop when I have no idea from the way he holds me what he is trying to do or get me to do, a problem that exists only on the dance floor. It doesn't help that at class people simply stand around on the dance floor, creating roadblocks, rather than dancing. We talked about waltzing in a parking lot so that we can use the lines to help us move forward in a straight line. It will all come with practice, I'm sure.

Last night, in addition to the waltz, we worked on the shottische, a contradance, the first figure of The Caledonians, and my favorite, the Spanish Dance. We actually did just fine on the waltz part of the Spanish Dance--even though I think that both of us were leading.