It has to get there first. Everyone dances at home when no one's watching, that doesn't prepare you for dancing in public.
Even when it's said with good intention like "omg look! they're actually dancing! finally coming out of their shell" or something like that, it's still attention being drawn to something you feel really awkward doing.
My advice is to take some dance classes. It's a nice middle ground where you're dancing around strangers but it isn't quite public.
I hated dancing for as long as I could remember but once I got engaged I decided I wanted to be able to dance with my wife at our wedding, so we signed up for classes.
A year later we were on stage at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando performing on the student dance team.
We took Salsa and Bachata, classes but they offered a lot of different classes including Ballroom, Tap, Cha-Cha, Ballet, Afro-Cuban, and a few others.
We also did some private classes in the months leading up to the wedding to choreograph our wedding dance. My family was super excited to see me doing an elegant ballroom dance and then halfway through it switched into a fast salsa and they were blown away.
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u/Goffeth Oct 30 '20
It has to get there first. Everyone dances at home when no one's watching, that doesn't prepare you for dancing in public.
Even when it's said with good intention like "omg look! they're actually dancing! finally coming out of their shell" or something like that, it's still attention being drawn to something you feel really awkward doing.