..when your Left can’t get it Right!!!

Dancing can be fun. Learning new dance forms, and brand new sequences can be quite exciting, going a long way to increase your dance vocabulary, your dance repertoire. But too much of dancing can leave you in one mass of sweat, can leave you confused. After all too much of a good thing ain’t always a good thing. And if you are a character who can’t dance for hours at a stretch, not because you don’t have the stamina or stomach for it (if the stomach can be used here), but because you are learning, and all the learning can leave you with a cognitive overload (there I go and use ID jargons).

So as you go from one dance form to the next you struggle to pick steps, things that are not quite rocket science (or maybe it is). As if dancing to the beat/count wasn’t confusing, you end up being perplexed and lost, trying to keep up. So your right is figuring what is right and your left simply can’t get it right. So you struggle to keep up with the class, finding yourself a step behind (like finally managing to figure out last weeks sequence this week) and off beat and time, not to mention you struggle to find a rhythm and rhythm ain’t going to get you.

But you soldier on and try to keep your chin up and not let your shoulder sag. Conversely your confidence continues to take a beating when you struggle to get it right. So you look exasperated at your partner, ending up apologising for your inability to lead her correctly, and muddling up your leads or even stamping her poor foot or banging into the next dancer. She’ll either try to calm you down and help you get it right, or she may just go and lead herself (instead you leading her), thus causing your poor confidence to take a beating.

So you end up looking like a poor lost puppy trying to make sense, like a deer caught in the headlight, who’s brains has turned to mulch, has frozen. Your hands and legs don’t seem to coordinate, move in the way they ought to. So you end being intimidated by every partner, especially if she’s a stunner who has mastered the steps that you’re struggling to figure out (forget learning).

But then you have to take a deep breath, calm yourself down. Remember the very reason you took up the challenge. Relax, you don’t have two left feet, literally and figuratively. You may take time to learn, but learn you will. You have your friends and partners to help you with it, and when in doubt ask for help, cause help will be given to those who need it the most (damn I can use this Harry Potter line in any situation) and of course the instructors are more than happy to help. So fikaar not and remember this is meant to let you unwind and relax and learn something new. It may take you time, you may seem exasperated, flustered, but you will eventually get it. So don’t you worry too much. And should you forget what you have learned before, you will figure it, that’s what revisions are for.

So in end, even if your left can’t get it right, you’ll learn, eventually. So relax and enjoy the process, cause in the end all will be well. And hey dancing is well and truly fun.