TY - BOOK AU - Benevento, Antoinette AU - Dobb, Edwin TI - Dancing through life: lessons learned on and off the dance floor SN - 9780312370855 AV - BJ 1595 .B46 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - St. Martin's Press KW - CONDUCT OF LIFE N1 - Prelude: the art of balance -- First steps -- Silencing the inner critic -- Dance of desire -- Two left feet -- Energy in motion -- Dancing solo -- Duets -- The dance of life -- Taking the lead -- Dance of departure -- Back on the dance floor -- The dance of your life -- Reprise: putting your best foot forward N2 - A warm and encouraging self-help book that draws inspiration and motivation from ballroom dancing. Precisely because the dance floor stands apart from the everyday world, allowing dancers to play, experiment and take on new roles, it also serves as a stage for human behavior. Antoinette Benevento, a former national ballroom dancing champion and co-owner of Fred Astaire Dance Studios, has been a student of that stage for 25 years. She has discovered that getting out on the dance floor is a powerful and empowering metaphor for living fully in all realms of life ER -