31/08/2026
Maybe you miss a step.
A move doesn’t work the way you expected.
You lose the rhythm for a moment.
That happens. Social dancing isn’t rehearsed, so you can’t predict everything that will happen.
And this is something I always tell my students:
Recovering is part of the dancing.
Find the rhythm again. Turn what you were doing into something else. Simplify it. Adapt and keep going.
Sometimes your partner won’t even realise something went wrong.
Being a good social dancer isn’t about making sure nothing ever goes wrong. It’s also about becoming comfortable enough with what you know that you can reconvert what happens and continue dancing.
That’s something we practise in my one-to-one sessions because I want my students to be prepared for what actually happens on a social dance floor, not only when everything goes according to plan.
Comment ADAPT if that’s the kind of social dancing you’d like to develop.