Feel gracious as you bow to your partner and escort her off the floor
3rd of 20 reasons why dancing is great for your well-being. Here's the full list.
Respect and tenderness towards your partner is its own reward. It's another paradox that it is very modern to display what were once considered old fashioned manners. Opening car doors or walking on the outside of the footpath were dismissed and abandoned as being anti-feminist a few decades ago. We seem to have matured through that now and without exception I now find those little symbols of respect are received with appreciation.
There is a very good article on dancing etiquette by Aria Nosratinia here:
A quote from a compilation of Tom Parsons, used with permission http://www.dancer.com/tom-parsons/quotes.html
The waltz is a dance of quite too loose a character, and unmarried ladies should refrain from it...very young married ladies may be allowed to waltz if it is very seldom....
--From "The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness," 2nd American edition, Boston: Allen and Ticknor and Carter, Hendee & Co., 1833.
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Chris Mitchell
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