Yes! I tried a dance class out of town on Monday night, taking my sister, who has never tried modern jive before. In the lesson, one of the female leaders told me my first move was wrong and attempted to instruct me (in a very jerky, bouncy, Germanic way) on how it should really be done.
In the freestyle before the intermediate class, a guy asked me to dance who kept 'directing' me with words. When he eventually asked if I could do the "whirlygig-flying-dutchman crossover whiplash', I was very, very close to asking if he was able to lead it silently.
Oh, and all of the above was done to really up to date music such as Michael Jackson (no, I don't know the track - aren't they all the same?) and Kylie's "Spinning Around".
After that, my sister and I ran away & bought a bottle of bubbly and shopped for shoes on-line ... improved the evening no end.
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