Why seeing—and if invited, participating in—traditional dance can alter the way you travel.

The dance was rhythmic, as the length of time between movements in a sequence was uniform — like the gibbons were following a beat. And the structure of the dance was non-random, with movements ...

Is Pony Sweat, or any other dance aerobics practice, necessarily cool in the traditional sense of the word? Hell no—and, to be honest, that’s probably what appealed to me about the class.