Now, with the governorship and the Assembly in their grasp -- control of the Senate appeared split between the two parties, but one race was so close it was possible the Democrats could seize control there, too -- Democrats in the ballroom reflected on their experience and pronounced that it was a good, if painful, lesson.
"To the drag queens of that time, vogue was a beautiful escape, a way to dance away the pain and oppression they were experiencing," Kevin Omni Burrus, a ballroom dancer since 1975, told DNAInfo in 2012.
Across the ballroom, punter Jeff Feagles talked of remembering the experience.
Some schools, for example, specialize in competitive dancing, while others focus on helping first-time dancers gain the experience (and courage!) to brave the ballroom dance floor at their next wedding invitation.
Ms. Marra, a 39-year-old former ballroom dancer, said she had nothing but awful experiences when she tried an Internet dating service.
She did a little journalism, of the "RAT BITES SLEEPING CHILD!" sort, but credited a job at the Trianon ballroom in Chicago with opening her mind to experiences not her own.
One of the main differences between the LMD and other databases is that the genre labels were assigned to each song in the database by two ballroom and Brazilian cultural dances teachers with over ten years of experience.
My hour as a wallflower at the Brookhaven ballroom gave me the confidence that I could at least survive this experience, at a safe distance.
Channel controller Charlotte Moore said: "BBC1 is the TV home of ballroom dancing so where better to see deserving, real-life heroes and heroines experience the sparkling joy of Strictly and all for such a great cause in Comic Relief".
Channel controller Charlotte Moore said: "BBC1 is the TV home of ballroom dancing so where better to see deserving, real-life heroes and heroines experience the sparkling joy of Strictly, and all for such a great cause in Comic Relief".
