6 Myths About Dance Classes

6 Myths About Dance Classes 

We get it.  Dancing is not something you do everyday.  It is out of your element.  Nerves can show up before your first dance lesson.  Feeling this way makes you a human.  But like any normal human, you’ve heard stories, voices, even warnings under the veil of advice, that has stopped you from doing things outside your comfort zone.  Taking dance lessons is one of those things.  

Guess what human?  The myths stop here. 

Myth #1: “I wasn’t born a dancer” 

Neither were we. Dancers weren’t born dancers. Engineers weren’t born engineers. 

Dancers, engineers, jugglers, magicians, school bus drivers, and every other occupation or skill takes lessons. We believe that there is a dancer in all of us. Our curriculum and dance classes can turn anyone into a dancer. So, in a sense, if you were ever born – then we can make you a dancer. Case closed. 

 In 1911, that’s what many would-be dance students were saying, and that’s where a young guy named Arthur Murray developed a ground-breaking solution: The Four Basic Elements. You see, with these simple, everyday ingredients, he found that you could combine them to create any level of movement in any dance. Today, we still utilize the Four Basic Elements to help people survive, or stand out, on the dance floor.   

 Myth #3: “Lessons will be too expensive” 

Anything that you’ve never tried is too expensive; Especially if you’re not sure if you’ll ever use it. So, until you take a free lesson for yourself, dance lessons could seem like one of those products at a mall kiosk, or something “too good to be true” on an infomercial. The solution: – try the free lesson and dispel some of the myths about dance lessons and your ability to benefit from them. 

This myth really begs the question: “What are you waiting for?” Like, seriously… is there a sign? A text message? If you are reading this article… then that is the only sign you need.  There will never be a perfect time to get married, go on vacation, have a baby, or take a dance lesson. You’ve just got to schedule it, show up, and see that you were more ready than you thought (the dance lessons, that is). 

Well, let’s think this through. Let’s say you don’t have any milk at home. Rather than going to the store, you decide, instead, to tell everyone about this lack-of-milk problem. From there you skip out on: the milk festivals, the milk mixer at work, and the milk toast at your brother’s wedding.   

You see, we carry milk, er… rhythm, on our shelves at Arthur Murray.  We can teach this to you. In fact, we have an endless supply of rhythm, timing, and confidence.  It is stocked, and available, at our dance lesson superstore… or you can just keep talking about how you don’t have it. 

This is actually a really great advantage. 

1. Unsuccessfully recruit a partner over a long period of time… and not take lessons while you wait. 
2. Successfully recruit an unwilling partner who will, then, recruit you back to the couch.  Ouch! 

1. Learn at your own pace 
2. Get a better workout 
3. Develop you into a dancer 10,000 times faster than it takes you to convince an unwilling partner