I think the best bit of this story is the smoke and mirrors of the trickster who sold the idea that you were thick if you didn't see the clothes.
I'm afraid that I find there is a similar thing going on in dances that are meant to be social dances. There is a mind-set that you can't be a good dancer if you can't do dance X, Y or Z. This will fool the simple minded and less than simple but gullible if it's said with enough confidence and associated glamour.
The simple truth is that we are social dancers through and through if we are attending Modern Jive events. Being "special" or knowing a "special" dance that others in the Modern Jive scene do not know does not mark you out "special" or superior, it makes you anti-social because it excludes people in a social setting.
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