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Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov  Mick (Michaella) Walker, who taught once a week at Cambridge when I first learnt to dance. She is the best teacher I have ever had... |
When I was a timid soul who was too scared to ask people from refusal row to dance with me (probably because I kept getting refused) I saw Mick and was dazzled by her beauty and talent....I had to ask her to dance.
I thought she was the best female dancer that I had ever seen. It was like meeting a pop star.
The thing is she didn't refuse me and told me that she enjoyed dancing with me! I was amazed. She complimented me on my dancing and told me that she would be telling certain people about me and I should be onstage.
This was incredible for someone like me who quite getting knockbacks from the so called "best" dancers. Actually I didn't get that many knockbacks simply because I didn't ask that many of the refusal row people to dance with me...but when I did ask I got knocked back.
But Mick was the best female dancer and she didn't knock me back. She was the one who encouraged me the most at that time.
SHe is what I think of as a truly inspirational leader and she helped me to go for it in modern jive.