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Ann Arborite Dorian Deaver

Teaching the wedding dance

by Vickie Elmer with additional reporting by Eve Silberman

posted 6/23/2011

Dorian Deaver beams at the ten couples standing nervously on the dance floor at the Eberbach Cultural Arts Building in Burns Park. It's common, he reassures them, "for the ladies to be more enthusiastic than the gentlemen, who genuinely don't want to look bad." By the end of the lesson, he promises, they will be gracefully "dancing out of the room."

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