All in all, I’ve taught quite a few dance classes this year. For example, at the beginning\u00a0of the summer, I visited a local school and introduced\u00a0a class of\u00a0Eighth Graders to\u00a0swing dancing and last month I taught\u00a0a group of\u00a0a hundred and fifty teenagers (eesh!) at a youth retreat in Julian.<\/p>\n
As a general rule, when I teach dance lessons, the girls are really enthusiastic about learning whereas\u00a0the guys are usually more reluctant. I’ve noticed that this reaction is not\u00a0limited to teenagers.\u00a0I’ve seen\u00a0the same thing when I’ve taught \u00a0“young adults” and I’ve even seen the same reaction among real<\/span> grown-ups\u00a0<\/em>too! For example, towards the beginning of the\u00a0year I taught\u00a0Nightclub Foxtrot at a local parish event and, when it was\u00a0time for the lesson, all the men were suddenly rather absent… Where had all the “leaders” gone?<\/p>\n