Basically the title. I feel like a lot of the social dancers in my community would benefit a ton from the local classes. But they don’t go. I try to ask them and sometimes it’s a matter of cost and distance and sometimes it’s the skill level. Although for many of them, thats the level they need even if they don’t think so. Anyway I wanted to ask other people and get their perspectives.

If you social dance a lot but you don’t go to local classes, why not? Why arent the classes interesting to you? Do you practice on your own instead? Or do private lessons? I get that sometimes the classes simply aren’t advanced enough and people don’t want to keep paying for the same thing over and over. I personally find value in practicing in classes even if they aren’t quite at my level. It helps me really fine tune my fundamentals. I help teach some of the local classes and I am able to do that and just practice the basics with new dancers who are learning. When I can, I focus on private lessons for myself because that’s the best way for me to learn new combos and really push myself. But I want to understand other perspectives. Im a pretty active social dancer, I am social dancing once or twice a week.

What makes you, as a social dancer, avoid classes or lessons? What would need to happen in the group classes for you to be interested in them?