Dancing is an expression of creativity and a way to interact socially with others. However, it can also be a source of anxiety for people who feel awkward or self-conscious. While dancing often looks spontaneous, it may involve choreography, which is developing and learning dance steps ahead of time. If you go to parties or night clubs and see people moving and grooving out on the floor, they usually aren’t doing strictly choreographed routines. In many cases, however, they are spontaneously making use of choreographed steps that they learned elsewhere.

If you’ve never had the opportunity to learn any dance steps, it’s no wonder that you feel uncomfortable when the music strikes up. Fortunately, there are well-known moves that you can learn on your own and then break out at your next social gathering. The following start with the simple and then move up to the more complex.