The article describes a waltz dance intensive at Schloss Elmau, a Bavarian Alps castle. Participants, primarily older couples, are guided by 27-year-old instructor Erik Dietrich. His teaching emphasizes personal connection and joy through dancing. The castle offers various leisure activities and cultural experiences, but the author's focus is on rekindling memories of her grandmother and family history through the dance. The experience is more than just learning steps; it is about emotional intimacy and the beauty of movement.
I want to be twirled, so we do as Erik says. We are in a ballroom in a recently refurbished castle in the Bavarian Alps, learning how to waltz.
As a teenager, he says, dancing saved his life. Now, at 27, he works as a dance teacher in a high school in Munich.
Erik wants his pupils to enjoy the experience, to feel the joy that comes from moving to music, to have conversations with our bodies.
But none of that has brought me and my husband to Schloss Elmau. The resort periodically offers weekend-long dance intensives and we have come to twirl!
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