About two months ago, I wrote the above Facebook post in response to a conversation that was occupying a lot of space on the American Vernacular Facebook dancersphere. Ruth Evelyn, a prominent international blues dance instructor started a conversation about not being asked to dance at events. Her story was corroborated by a number of phenomenal follows of varying levels of introversion and extraversion, different default facial expressions, different friendliness levels in t

There is a tendency amongst the more technical amongst us to look to science to settle disagreements, even within dancing. Sometimes, we might not even actually disagree so much as just want to make sure that there is some nuance present in the discussion of different bodies moving differently. With that in mind, I want to produce a single axiom, which I propose we call The Hoffberg Principle for reasons that will become clear entirely soon enough. The Hoffberg Principle stat