Dancing to and fro

My tap class got canceled because there were too few people to make up a class this semester. BOOOOOO.

On the other hand, someone at work reminded me that contra dancing is a thing here, and a contra dancing organization hosts cheap dance nights every week, with the following benefits:

1. A lesson half an hour before the actual dance, so I can figure out what the heck I'm doing.


2. A start time and location that are amenable to me going home between work and the lesson to eat something.


3. They're on Fridays, which is a much better option from a not-getting-up-at-6:15-the-next-morning perspective than Wednesdays.

Also, my coworker said that these things tend to be made up of young geeks and old hippies, which sounds like my kind of crowd. (I might even make friends who actually live in my city!)

Apparently contra dancing is a bastard child of square dancing and English country dancing. It's a partner dance, but steps are called, and you switch partners. Sounds enough like ballroom to be interesting, anyway.