1. Personal Grooming: Please, wear deodorant, brush your teeth, or pop a breathe mint! If someone offers you a mint, they may be trying to tell you something! Wash your hands before the dance, after you use the restroom, and after the dance. Touching hands, that are touching hands, that are touching hands....
2. Ladies, if you have long hair please put it up, no lead likes to get pelted in the face, or even worse, the eye by a whip of your hair!
3. Men: (or women) Bring extra shirts if you are a sweater. There is little worse than having a guy lead you in a move that entails your hand sliding around his mid section and back and getting a hand soaked with sweat!! There is also nothing more flattering and shows respect more than a guy that will take a moment to step away to put on a fresh DRY shirt!
4: "Line of Dance": The smooth dances (Waltz, Foxtrot, and Tango go Counter Clockwise around the floor! For Swing and other stationary dances, stay in the middle and let those that wish to move around the floor do so.
5. I personally recommend that every girl dance with a gentleman if he asks at least once. After the first dance if you still don't want to dance with him you can do so with a more clear conscience.
6. Don't be a "Ballroom Bully" Share the floor. If the floor is crowded save the theatrics for a later time. Be respectful of those around you.
7. Men: If you don't have a place to set your personal belongs place your keys and such in your LEFT pocket. So you don't potentially hurt your partner
8. At the end of a song: Leads, please don't abandon your partner on the floor, escort her back to her seat, or the edge of the floor. Unless she is picked up by another along the way.
9: Say Thank You to your partner at the end of your dance.
10: "Never blame a partner for missed execution of figures. Once in a social dance I accidentally overheard a novice couple, where the lady said: ``I can do this step with everyone but you!'' The fact that she was wrong (I had seen her other attempts) is irrelevant. The point is that she was unkind and out of line. Even if the gentleman were at fault, she was not to say something like that"
"Today's beginners will be the good dancers of tomorrow, so be nice to them and dance with them"
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