How social is your social dancing?
I go to social dancing events centred around many different dances and I meet a lot of people. I started to wonder how people conceptualise this space which has a very particular social flavour: you interact with strangers in a way that's fairly intimate, or at least requiring some trust and good communication, and then part ways.
I noticed that some people are pretty open with sharing stuff about their life outside of dancing and exchanging contact information with others, while others don't really want to talk much and seem evasive when you ask them anything approaching a personal question.
How private are you when doing social dancing? Is it like every other social call for you or do you want to keep dancing separate from other areas of your life? Is your approach only influenced by your personality or do you have more reasons? I've met people like uni profs at dance events and I imagine there are more cases where you might want to stay semi-anonymous.
(This question was brought by me wanting to befriend someone interesting I met at a dance event and being seemingly unable to because they appear to be such a private person and only want to talk about dancing or music, which I want to respect. It made me think, though!)