Many women experience dancing in their childhood with ballet, tap or jazz classes and performances. Due to this experience they often seem to learn faster when in a group or private partner dance class. In addition, many men feel they can’t dance or don’t have any rhythm.  This thought often hinders their progress, whether or not it is true.

In partner dancing the man is often the leader and therefore has more information to process in the beginning stages of learning to dance. The leader is responsible for planning ahead, choosing the next pattern while leading the current pattern and being aware of other dancers on the floor. The follower only has to focus on the current pattern.

To the man’s advantage, many men are right brained and therefore understand the technical aspects of dance (like math and physics) with a little more ease than women.