I dance a lot. Out of all the dance communities I've been in, house dancers have been the most welcoming.
Like any other form of art under capitalism, dance has been colonized. Despite the colonization, when I go to places where people practice dance, studios that do house are probably the only place I can go to where I still feel encouraged by my peers even though I'm not very good at it.
Definitely. I went to a show once in a park where someone who has been part of the house scene for years did like a dance style demo to various classic house songs and was teaching folks how to do it along with her as an advertisement for her studio. It was cool.