Waltzing is a strangely selfless practice. You work your ass off by yourself, and sacrifice what you've done to the intimacy and closeness of one man and one frame and one step at a time. I am a proud, independent woman who loves and (I daresay) needs the structure only afforded by being able to relinquish control and fall back in those arms--knowing that those arms are confident, capable, and unyielding to the ignorance or unwillingness of the audience to understand or appreciate that relationship. The waltz is beautiful when the audience sees the hearts of those dancing it.
