Do You Believe in Dancing?

The educational psychologists who thought about the things that we were supposed to be learning about must have had some notion that we, as 10 or 11-year -olds, should believe in dancing...albeit...square dancing! And so, all the girls were lined up on one side of the gymnasium, and all the boys were lined up on the other, and the two lines were nudged to the middle, and that's how one was assigned his or her partner. And as if that match-up might lead to something more enduring than a fleeting do-si-do, the true gamer would try to rig the mix by spotting the place in line where that one girl he wanted to dance with was standing and all the while hoping that she was going through the very same machinations.

If we have the educational psychologists to thank for our healthy introduction to dancing, we have only ourselves to give it continuing, full expression.

So,

Meet your honey and strut on down,
Right foot up and left foot down,
Make that big foot jar the ground,
And promenade your partner 'round.

Swing your partner 'round and 'round,
And turn your corner upside down.
And turn your corner like a swingin' gate,
And meet your partner for a grand chain eight,
And hurry up boys and don't be late.

OK, maybe square dancing will not be part of our Ladue Class of 69 Reunion experience...but dancing surely will be! Swing, waltz, country, salsa, tango anyone? Naw, just gimme that old-fashioned rock-and-roll (a la Bob Seger)!!