Dis and Dats

On Oahu, in most places you learn steps. Then you learn more steps, then you
learn even more steps. This can go on for a long time. Then one day, you begin to
realize that you’ve got rhythm. You've learned the rhythm of the different dances. You have learned to dance. Of course a few teachers will make you listen to the music first, then teach the rhythm and then only after, begin to teach the steps. But that is too much like street dancing.

“I did have a few drinks Saturday night in Waikiki. They told me I did a
real sexy tango. I'm told I could’ve done even better with a partner.”

"Nobody really taught me tango. I learned by watching. But today I believe young people should find a good teacher to have a base and then do their street dancing. Do the best they can do by dancing and dancing. Step on someone’s feet, and have your feet stepped on. Dance with everybody and not simply with one partner."
Maria Nieves, famous Tango dancer.

From Exodus 20:14 The Ninth Commandmant
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”

What Dancing Can Do For You!
Blair’s Five Rules of Dancing: for all students of dance, whether in a class or for private lessons.

Rule One: We are all allowed to be Human.
Rule Two: We are all allowed to make mistakes, including the teacher.
Rule Three: The teacher is allowed to “razz” or to joke and have fun with the students.
Rule Four: The students are allowed to “razz” or to joke the teacher back, which is only fair.
Rule Five: Most importantly, whether in classes or in private lessons we are all raised to the same equal level of just being “students of life and dance” and “Children of God and Creation.”
So, have fun!

"This Nearly Was Mine" by Victor Silvester

"Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument

for that which we believe."