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...Edgewood High School in Madison, Wis., this year, half the school's 480 students chose to take a ballroom-dance class to fulfill their physical-education requirement--over such other gym electives as golf, tennis, Ping-Pong and bowling...
...Francisco Unified School District, elementary, middle and high school teachers from 14 schools took six months of ballroom lessons, just so they could pass their skills on to their students...
...Angeles area, dance instructor Gaye Smith teaches ballroom and social graces to about 1,000 children a month in three different locations. Two years ago, she established a new class in Camarillo because 93 students from that town were driving over to her cotillion in Westlake Village so they could learn to dance...
...Brigham Young, the only university in the country that offers a degree in ballroom dance, some 6,000 students a year are involved in some fashion in the program. Ballroom is also huge in the Ivy League schools, as well as in colleges like the University of Wisconsin and Penn State, where students at the Beaver campus are on long waiting lists to get into the classes of popular teacher Richard Morris...
...sign that an activity is catching on in America is that it becomes increasingly competitive. A fast-growing dance-sport community, made up of competitive ballroom dancers, is campaigning to include ballroom in the 2008 Olympics. (The International Olympic Committee recognized dance sport as a legitimate sport in 1997.) Among the many websites that serve the ballroom community, www.dancescape.TV is visited daily by tens of thousands of fans and participants. How come? There's a lot to recommend ballroom, of course--whatever age a person is. It provides good cardiovascular exercise and helps develop muscle tone, grace, poise and balance...