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My girlfriend worked part-time as a traditional thai dancer during her Uni days to help support herself thru school, since her parents were too poor to afford her Uni fees.I often go watch dance when I visit her and there is a dance on. Really enjoyed watching her grateful movements then. Too bad no more opportunities since she graduated.

What surprises me what that somehow, all her "colleagues" (including herself) really not have much time to practise their dancing. Often the team leader just give them a briefing about half an hour before the dances started and a dancer leader (they take turns leading) will give verbal cues during the dance. Unless one knows the dance very well, it is very hard to spot the mistakes that were made during the dance. Sometimes they even have to play by ear and make up the dance along the way, though there is usuall a general pattern. Seems to me that most of them are natural dancers.