Dancing gives you great opportunity to find the love of your dreams

These days “how we met” stories we hear from couples who’ve met in Salsa classes, socials, night clubs, etc. are countless. I was in Babaluu’s on Valentine’s Day where a guy proposed to his girlfriend and brought tears of happiness to everyone’s eyes! I think everyone would agree that dance classes are one of the best places to meet someone. If you are not too sure, read this writing;

Let me ask a question first: what do we do in our regular day to day activities that give us the opportunity to meet someone new for dating? As a rule of thumb, if you are looking for a date, “you must prospect”! This means you must go to places where you can meet new people, and if you are smart, and agree that you can’t find the right person at first sight, you will choose places where you can actually interact with people and get to know them more before asking them out. That’s exactly the opportunity a dance class or a dance social gives you.

In dance classes, you don’t need a partner and if you are not with a partner you will automatically follow the rotation rule; so everyone will meet everyone and has fun talking and laughing while practicing moves. In salsa practice sessions, you dance with different level dancers and can teach and learn from each other while getting to know new people and arrange next meetings in clubs or other sessions. All three places let you not only meet new people, but also talk to them, dance with them and get to know more about them. Let me stop right here and add a quote from Salsa Connection blogger Sam Gill; his February tip says: “Women, if you are looking for a relationship, dancing may give you great clues about a guy. How physically comfortable is he and how does this correspond with your own physical comfort levels? How interested is your dance partner in making a salsa connection with you? My guess is that if he doesn’t connect with you in ways you can experience on the dance floor, he’ll likely not be able to off the floor. If he blames you for his dance mistakes … you’ve learned something important about him. If he shows off his dance moves and pays no attention to you … you’ve learned something important. If he assumes you know nothing and proceeds to constantly instruct you … you’ve learned … You get the point. A social dance relationship reveals loads about a person and how they will approach other social and personal relationships. This is why I think dancing is actually a pretty great place to meet and get to know people.” Same things are true about women’s dancing attitude and men’s interpretation about it.

In addition to this, Salsa Dancing is a complete teamwork. There is a great line in the amazing movie “Dirty Dancing” where Johnny –the instructor- talks about each dance partner’s moving zone and dance frame and how each partner must learn to dance in his/her zone and avoid invading other party’s zone. We teach this in our classes and you’ll master it through time. This is a basic lesson of respecting each other. Good dancers are good not because they know 10,000 moves but because they’ve learned to respect other party’s frame zone and that will accompany them through their personal lives as well! 

So you see? As I said, you’ll all agree that dance classes give you perfect opportunity to find your special someone through meeting new people, learning about their attitudes and personality in addition to their looks and then making a decision that is more likely to be the right one than your other dating decisions.