The Queen laughed…
As we prepared for the bicentennial of General Lafayette’s visit to Beaufort, our student Catherine, a gifted amateur archaeologist and historian, did some digging and discovered that the Marquis was known to be a poor dancer 🤭
Intrigued, I asked Lafayette about this when we met. Indeed, he confirmed the rumors…
It happened at court, he said. General Lafayette was dancing with the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and he was supposed to turn right, but he made an error and turned left. He was so clumsy that the Queen couldn’t stop herself from laughing.
Now, if this can happen to a hero of the American Revolution - a noblemen reared in the dance arts - it can happen to us mere mortals as well.
In fact this is the very thing that holds so many people back from stepping foot on the dance floor.
They’re terrified that they’re horrible dancers and if they try to learn, people will point and laugh and there’ll be much mockery, shame, and embarrassment.
This is actually the opposite of how we treat beginner dancers at our studio. People are kind, patient, and super accepting of everyone - even if you have two left feet ☺️
Here’s the truth:
If you come class, you will make mistakes but you’ll learn that it’s not the end of the world. It's how we learn.
You don’t have to be “a natural” or be born with rhythm; you can literally buy it.
Sign up for our Get Started beginner ballroom program and we’ll take you from zero dance skills to feeling confident on the dance floor in just one month.
You don’t need a partner or any prior experience.
Now, you won’t have mastered everything in 30 days, but you will be able to dance to an entire song to different types of music. And you’ll have gained the confidence that you can learn. And that - can take you everywhere!
At the Arsenal, I was honored to have the Marquis ask me to dance, and I can report that in fact, he was a very good dancer! (He must have gotten some dance lessons 🥰
Imagine being so famous that 200 years from now - people are still talking about that time you messed up on the dance floor 😳 Better enroll now before the paparazzi comes 📸
