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A p r i l 2 0 1 6 2 3 Portland after dark Fromtopcoreytempletonmeaghanmaurice By karen Hofreiter S ummer with its sun dresses and short-sleeve T-shirts is just around the bend. For most of us this means its time to tone those winter-white limbs. But if sweating it out on the treadmill like a hamster on a wheel is as appealing as an iceberg-lettuce diet dread not. Its possible to get a sizzling workout as tantalizing as a spicy chicken curry sans calories. Best of all it doesnt require spandex or sacrific- ing your lunch hour. This miraculous rem- edy Dancing. If youre conjuring thoughts of nerve- jostling techno beats epileptic lighting and sticky neon blue shots and thinking No thanks then relax. This is not the dancing of your teenage youth although it can be just as sweaty and exhilarating. A multitude of studios venues and groups around Portland offers op- portunities to swing tango and fox-trot an evening away with contagious music and adult liba- tions. Two left feet No problem Salsa dancing storms into Congress Square Park in May with lessons by PM Salsa. Below Salsa meets metropole at Pearl on Fore Street. Dance celebrates the hidden quarters of our city. Dance Dance Dance DanceLets In Portland dancing has always been a guilty pleasure. Weve even punished people for it. On May 1 1788 after a mass spinning bee attended by over 100 ladies in finest attire an agreeable variety of excellent pieces in psalmody was performed at Par- son Deanes house. Gentlemen were about taking in the musical performance and more. There certainly should have been dancing. The floor vibrated. Looks were ex- changed and blushes.There was a rumor of tapping toes. But Dancing was not allowed as we may learn from the indictment on record in 1766 against Nathaniel Deer- ing and his wife John Walte and his wife and others of the first families for dancing in a private apartment of Freemans tavern. The Kings attorney David Wyer argued the case. They were acquitted on the grounds that it was a very private hop and not a public dance or ball according to A History of New Eng- land 1881. Footloose 1788 were acquitted on the grounds that it was awere acquitted on the grounds that it was a very private hop and not a public dance orvery private hop and not a public dance or