♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Susie Murray: So ballroom dancing is just something that you can actually do with somebody else anywhere you go, anywhere you travel.

So it's something that you can use all the time and that is what people really enjoy about it.

♪♪ ♪♪ Susie Murray: I teach private lessons, I teach group classes and then I teach the college kids.

I've taught kids.

I think the oldest person I ever taught, I taught her until she was 93.

So yeah, and she was an amazing dancer, she was amazing.

♪♪ Susie Murray: There's called ballroom dances, so those are the smooth dances that travel around the floor.

So it would be like waltz, tango, fox trot, Viennese waltz, quick step, those kind of dances.

So they are smooth, gliding across the floor, big long dresses.

♪♪ Susie Murray: Then you would go to faster dances or what we call rhythm dances.

Just because they are more stationary dances they don't use as much space.

So cha-cha, rumba, swing, salsa, merengue.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Susie Murray: Either they want to come and have fun, they want a night away from their kids, a night out to do something and have fun.

Or some of them just want something that they can do together that is in common that they both like and enjoy.

♪♪ Susie Murray: Some people do it for the exercise because it's a great way to get exercise and have fun at the same time instead of the treadmill or something.

Special events is a big one.

So a lot of people come in for weddings.

And so we do choreography for their first dance.

Forward, forward, forward, side.

Nice.

♪♪ So now, swing.

Okay?

It's been a little while since we did swing.

Do you remember swing?

So triple step, triple step, rock, step.

♪♪ Angela Buswell: Swing is our favorite.

It's just fast, it's upbeat, you're constantly moving.

There's a lot of just fun movements to it in a lot of different variations.

We've learned so many different variations of it.

And wherever you go, whether you go to a wedding or just out to the bars or something like that, there's always music that you can apply it to.

So it's just kind of more universal and can be used every time.

♪♪ Susie Murray: We always have goals for each student of what it is that they want to get to or do.

We work on kind of people's balance.

As people kind of get older they get more unsteady, especially in the winter.

A lot of people come in that time of year because they're worried about slipping and falling and that kind of stuff.

So we work on kind of their grace and their poise and how to present themselves.

Quick, quick, turn in.

So we go back on the left-- Susie Murray: And I think just other people sometimes they're super clumsy and super just awkward.

And so then it's kind of getting those people to a different level.

I definitely have done that with some of my guys.

Getting them to acknowledge that now they're actually dancers and people that always want to, everybody wants to dance with them now because they are so graceful and so smooth.

And so I think it's just changing the perception of how people see people.

♪ Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart?

♪ ♪ How the music can free her whenever it starts ♪ ♪ And it's magic ♪ Mathew Cover: The song kind of inspires me usually the theme I want to put under the songs.

You can make it goofy, you can make it serious.

There's a lot more to it than just learning how to do the steps.

There's a lot of being an actor or actress and playing a role almost.

It's a part of me that I hadn't really ever explored prior to learning how to do ballroom and that has been really fun for me.

How'd it go?

Woo-woo!

Okay, music time.

Music, maestro!

Here we go!

♪♪ Susie Murray: So the leader is going to be the person who is going to decide what you're going to do step wise or around the floor.

So you have to, as a follower you have to be able to relax and not try to guess what they're going to do.

♪♪ Susie Murray: And it's a nice stress reliever because you can just dance and everything just kind of goes because I don't have to think about anything.

I can just enjoy the moment that I'm having with whoever I'm dancing with.

♪♪ Susie Murray: I love it.

Each day is never the same and it's always a new adventure and I love that about dance because there's always more and there's never an end.

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