How much do you want to blend in? You could learn a hundred steps and no one would bother to look at you because they were all mechanical and all looked the same. Champion Donnie Burns used to go out on the competition floor and do only basics, with style, to win the top marks from the judges.
If you don't want people to look at you, by all means go on learning steps. Line dancing is a great place for that.
People watch dancers to recognize how their own bodies feel, not mechanical, but expressive. We dance teachers try to give students the tools to recognize their own bodies. Ballroom dance teachers go on to work with the connection between two people, the possibility of love that makes the world go round, rooted in the love of life and music and the moment.
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