Chacarera, part 2

This is how it starts:

Incense. Prayer. On the table beside the stereo is the Spanish language version of a moving book, The Mastery of Love. With a brief prayer and meditation, Daniel invites us into a space that is not about dancing so much as the movement of our hearts.

The clapping is not so difficult. It is ma-Ma, pa-PA, Daniel says.

The choreography is easy. If you can count to three and cross one leg in front of the other without falling down, you can do it.

Thanks to twelve years of music study I can count to three if someone helps me get started. Thanks to two years of tango study I can cross one leg in front of the other without falling down.

There is some difficulty about the arms. Most people at first, they look like they are robots made of Legos. But if you have always harbored a secret dream to be a chorus girl in 1940 B-grade musicals, you can lift your arms just right.

The steps are easy and repetitious. It's fun to have someone opposite you, not in an embrace but connected just the same.

It's so easy that you can soon forget about the steps and lead wtith your heart.

We end in a circle, praying for peace.

I am cut out for chacarera!