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Ballroom Dancing in Eugene

This paper focuses on the aspects of ballroom dancing. I chose this site because of a few reasons. The main factor is that I live on campus and I did not have a way to get to any of the other sites. Another reason that I chose to study ballroom dancing is because I got a little taste of it a few years ago. When I was in seventh grade there was a cotillion class offered. My mom singed me up for it against my will. At first I didn’t want to go to the class, but after a couple of classes I was having fun. It was a great way to get to meet some girls and get to dance with them. This is almost the only dancing that I ever did.

There were a few things that were very surprising to me. First, there are many different dances that are considered to be part of ballroom dancing. I thought that ballroom dancing only included waltz and cha-cha. Later I found out that there were other dances such as tango and salsa that are also considered ballroom dancing. I believe traditionally these dances...

Posted by: Tamara Moore

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