Back in the day when I went dancing (heh) my girlfriends and I always had purses, and yes they are annoying. Since we all had them, we'd check them in at the door, or when that wasn't available, we'd either carry them around (sucks) or sometimes if it seemed safe enough, we'd make a small pile in the middle of us and dance around that.
As for not knowing how to dance...dancing these days is all about how you feel when you listen to a particular song. The easiest thing is to just close your eyes and go with the music - move as and when you want to - some songs you hardly have to move at all...just make sure you like the music! If you enjoy it, the dancing will come naturally. I can't dance if I hate the music, I don't get people who will just dance to anything.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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