• Keep an open mind
• Be honest about your abilities
• The best dancers are passionate not perfect
• Practice gives you confidence
• The best partner has respect for you
• Keep dancing, never give up
• Try to avoid romance with your dance partner, or expect a bumpy ride

When you write your profile and describe the dance partner you are looking for, you can identify the type of event, the level of ability, the length of time (e.g. course), location, time available, type of dance, height, build, age. We also expect you to want to know about your dancer’s personality. In this section, we have included concepts that are important when dancing, so you can rate yourself on such things as irritability, patience, happiness, conscientiousness, confidence, self-consciousness, speed of learning. There is a also a space for you to put anything else that is important to you (e.g. no freckles or people with crooked noses).

This information will help inividuals find you when they search within your locality. THis information should be detailed within the following format:

City #1, City #2, City #3

When deciding what dances you can offer / would like to learn / want your dance partner to be able to dance, it is best if you narrow down the possibilities. If you feel compelled to highlight a lot of dance styles, say Ballroom, Tango, Ceroc, Latin, Jive, Disco, American Smooth, Waltz, Quickstep, Foxtrot, Cha Cha Cha, Hustle, Samba, Rumba etc, then it will help others if you give a bit more description in the open box about which you can and cannot do already, and which you like most of all.

To select more that one dance style, you can use one of the following methods:

Selecting Dance Styles Consecutively

1. Using your mouse, select your first preferred dance style
2. Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and select the last preferred dance style

You will see that all of the dance styles between your first and last preferred styles have been selected too.

Selecting Dance Styles in Non Consecutive Order

1. Using you mouse, select your first preferred dance style
2. Hold down the Ctrl key and select each preferred dance style making sure to always hold the Ctrl key down at all times whilst making your selection.

You will see that all of your preferred dance styles have been selected.

De-selecting Dance Styles

1. Hold down the Ctrl key at all times until you have finished making your de-selection, then click on each highlighted dance style that you wish to exclude from your selection.  

When assessing another person’s profile, try and keep an open mind. Things like age, build & looks are considerably less important than personality factors. People over the age of 50 can be equally as good dance partners as those who are 20; similarly with size. A person may be large but able to shake that body really well and have excellent timing and rhythm. Appearance, especially in photographs, can be deceptive, so try not to be too superficial in what you are looking for.

If you are looking for romance, there are plenty of other websites that you can browse. We want to keep our focus on the dancing, but if romance blossoms who are we to comment.

Two words of warning:

1. It pays to be honest about yourself and your dancing capabilities. After all, good or bad, you will be found out very quickly if you are being economical with the truth.
   
   
2. Be careful. As with any website, we cannot be absolutely certain that members are genuine & do not have criminal tendencies or mental illness. These people will be in the minority but it is essential that when you first make contact, you protect your identity and do not give too much away too soon. You should also make sure that you meet in an open place where there are other people. This is unlikely to be a problem as most dancing takes places amongst other people, but do be careful.