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Afternoons on both Friday and Saturday. Hooray for no early heats!

So... I'm guessing that most people are skipping this one this year? @j_alexandra let me know if you will be there and when. Might be easiest if I tell you when I'm dancing and what I'm wearing so you can find me... or we can pre-arrange a time/place if you know the venue well.

This thread is seriously making me miss the old popcorn emoijii.

Well, I am dancing Friday and Saturday, so I'm down... would love to meet you in person! And could use a cheering section ;)

Who's going this year? Dancing when? DF meetup maybe...???

They turned pro. Pretty sure they went to Russian nationals earlier this year... but I don't read Russian so can't confirm :)

I'm confused about how that's different than following skills... Maybe that means that following skills is too broad? In my head that means sensitivity to lead, ability to interpret and express the lead, are they over their own feet/moving their own weight...

*Rant warning* F*, people who can't stick to a schedule. I have 3 ballroom, 2 ballet and 2 yoga classes booked per week on a standing schedule that lets me make it all work. I fit in practice and the gym around those things. When pros or facilities start changing things around/cancelling, it...

Asked a fellow dancer to watch the opening of my waltz last night. The context: After months of low key complaining about feeling squished in hold (pro and I are the same height, but my limbs are longer - and as I've gotten better, it's become a challenge to manage), I got upset a few lessons...

Oh, agreed... I didn't say anything on the cut. My pro is the same. He complains about the back on one of my dresses, but not the other... and they are cut from the same pattern. I find it amazing that I have two dresses that are exactly the same cut, but in different materials and colours (and...

Ah, ladies' poise... so challenging to do right! I highly recommend reading this: https://riotandfrolic.typepad.com/blog/2012/03/dont-dance-what-you-see-episode-vi-ladies-poise.html It can, as Larinda pointed out, take years to get strong enough not only to hold the position but to create it...

< has a new paso, up to the first highlight. Hooray for throwing out my old one (basically a syllabus routine that I learned in 2 weeks so that I could have all 10 dances for nationals last year) and replacing it with an "open open" (as pro called it) routine that plays to my strengths and...

OMG, people. The dress-selling experience... this is why I don't make dresses for a living. Dancer comes to mine and tries on several of my old dresses. Likes 2, takes pictures to discuss with her pro. I hear later from her pro that she's worried about the open back on them. He asks me to...

I change things when I hit those rough patches. Over the years I've taken a break (or several), added a second style, shifted my focus from social to competitive, taken additional lessons with someone else somewhere else, dabbled in powerlifting, learned ballet, studied health and fitness, made...

<< still sometimes dips her head (and occasionally also lets go) when she dances an underarm turn, and is absolutely not a beginner. (I'm tall. Shorter leads often can't get their hand high enough to give me the necessary clearance while maintaining hold, and beginner leads often forget to...