> if you are simply willing to let go on a dance floor as a male, you were likely to be termed a good dancer in my youth Can confirm. My strategy for single d

> if you are simply willing to let go on a dance floor as a male, you were likely to be termed a good dancer in my youth Can confirm. My strategy for single dancing was quite literally "do arbitrarily chosen motions in rhythm to the music with a straight face", and even when I chose motions I thought were silly (like pantomiming scooping ingredients into a bowl and stirring them), I never got the impression that anyone thought it was silly, and I started getting lots of people telling me that I'm a good or even a really good dancer. My experience is that, if you move a lot, do it with an approximately correct rhythm, and do it with energy and enthusiasm, and you don't actually bump into people or fall over, then people will be pleased. It is possible that I've developed actual skill, but I think the above is most of it. It does not translate into being good at dancing with a partner, except by implying basic proficiency with movement and rhythm.