Do A Little Dance . . .
Getting techies off their tushes and onto the dance floor
What do you do when your computer has crashed, your IT guy has
gone home with a migraine and your stress level has peaked? Have
you considered dancing?
Evan Margolin, 31, thinks of himself as an "evangelist of
dance." Margolin was himself a start-up guy, enduring the
weekend-less months until he sold the company he co-founded. Then
came DotCom Dance. Margolin put together the San Francisco-based
organization over the course of a weekend last October with a
quickie Web site, a mailing list and a post on Bay area bulletin
board Craigslist.org urging
people to get out of their ergonomically correct chairs and into
their dancing shoes.
Margolin understands if techies are initially wary-dancing
isn't innate, even for him. His brother had to persuade him to
take a ballroom dancing class, and he didn't buy into the
boogie until he witnessed a couple salsa dancing at a club.
"The music and the dance just spoke to me," he says.
Before he knew it, he was out dancing four nights a weeks and
taking lessons in various genres.
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With dance as an outlet for pent-up stress, Margolin feels like
a changed man and wants to offer everyone-not just tech types-the
chance to experience like gratification. Several events held at
nightspots throughout the Bay area, and taught by local
instructors, have already been met with surprising enthusiasm. By
branching out geographically and starting a nonprofit called
DanceOut, geared toward other markets like teens, Margolin is
betting dances could be the solution our overworked society needs.
And with events costing $8 to $10, it beats a massage!
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