by SwayedBottoms, BallroomBooks.com webmaster
Matt Barber, author of Beginning Ballroom: Why’s, Do’s, Don’ts, and Shoes, says the answer to whether or not You require dance attire depends on how serious You are about learning how to ballroom dance. Be careful here, as Barber defines the “serious” dance student as anyone who is willing to exchange hard-earned cash for intangible dance lessons from their local dance school or dance studio…
As Matt explains, You don’t really need a gee to learn karate, a chef’s coat to learn the culinary arts, or a tennis skirt to learn tennis, yet students of these and other activities wear the “uniform” anyway. In fact, most hobbies require the student to don the “uniform du sport” by the end of the first week of lessons. Sure, the dress is somewhat functional; however, more importantly, the attire subconsciously forces the learner to take his or her lessons a little more seriously as the costumes are all but the everyday. Says Barber, “we ballroom teachers have always done our dance students a bit of a disservice by not forcing them to wear dance attire on their dance lessons. Our dance students would get so much more out of their ballroom dance lessons if only they were to take five minutes to change into dance attire before their dance lessons begin.”
Imagine for a moment the difference between walking into a dance studio or dance school right after work in Your business attire and trying to focus on your dance lesson versus taking just a few moments to change into your dance attire and then proceeding on with Your dance lesson… Does not the change in attire equate to a change in focus?!
Barber says to think of it this way, (unless You go absolutely crazy with it) the money You spend on dance attire can very easily turn into money saved from having to take repetitive lessons in the future.
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