For me, the main thing is how my partner is dancing. If she looks like she's enjoying it, with good eye contact, following the lead and the beat then I dance better and it just makes a great dance. This sometimes happens to music that I wouldn't normally rate as a favourite dance track.
The same applies when you ask someone you haven't met before, maybe a at new venue or a visitor to your regular venue, and as the dance progresses and you move from basic moves to "judge" her standard and move onto the slightly more advanced stuff. Sometime you get that magic moment when her expression changes from wariness (as if saying "I don't know whether I will enjoy this") to the big grin which says "this is going really well". That's when it all comes together!
Keep on dancin'
Dave
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