I have a friend of mine, Beata Howe, who is a wonderfully talented, lovely lady. She is also a US Open Champion. Check out her website when you get a chance. She has this really awesome page on her website. It starts out with:

"See if you can relate to this sequence Stage One Interested --not sure you can do it but really want to. Think everyone is great and amazed that we can actually "get" it. Stage Two Excited --Making noticeable progress and kind of excited to dance and learn more. Stage Three WEEEEEE! - Graduate from your first level and dance with a better dancer and everything just works! You are a dancer!...

There is more, but the basic idea is that people who dance are special because people who dance are a small percentage of the population. That got me wondering, just "how small a percentage?" Being a former librarian, I did a little research and found..... [drum roll please]
NOTHING Yes, I found nothing. There are no statistics on how many people dance or how many people take dance lessons. There are a few tidbits of information but nothing definitive and nothing that answered my question: "How many people in the world dance?" and "What percentage of the world's population compete, take lessons, etc in dance?" So I did what any red-blooded over weight unemployed person who is trying to become a full-time writer and dance instructor would do... I guessed. And I wrote a whole article about my guess: "Dancers Are Special People..." which you can read over on Squidoo.com. Here is an excerpt:

How many times have you heard someone say "I can't dance"? Hmmmm? I bet you've heard it a lot. However heartfelt folks may be who say "I can't dance," they are incorrect. They are mistaken. They "jus' ain't right" or, as we say in Texas: "They are pure-dee wrong!" EVERYONE can dance! Dancing only requires two things...

I hope you enjoy the article. You can read the rest of "Dancers Are Special People..." over on Squidoo.com See ya on the dance floor!

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Posted on June 10, 2012, in Dance and tagged Dance, dancers, dancers are special, dancing, Line dance, percentage of people who dance, Performing Arts, Squidoo, Squidoo.com, Texas, world population