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Dancing. I dance just about any partner dance I can get my hands on here in Umeå. There is a dance for every mood, for every season, for every person. It's so fascinating to see people (including myself) who are a bit clumsy and sort of fuzzy around the edges "in real life" transform into creatures with total awareness, perfect control, relaxed smiles. The presence you get to feel in dancing is a wonderful thing. You connect to someone, feel their musicality mix with yours, and you create something together that is only for that moment. And then there is the ultra-presence, the state in which the lines between me and the room and the music and the leader are blurred out, blurred away, and I am suddenly everything. Omnipresent. Like becoming a god for a while. And you wonder why I can't stop talking about dancing? Try it yourself, but be warned: it's highly addictive.