“Captivating…similar parts memoir and ethnic history, Henry Alford seamlessly interweaves heartwarming and hilarious anecdotes on the subject of his deep dive into everything dance” (Misty Copeland, THE BRAND NEW York Instances Book Review).

When Henry Alford wrote approximately his knowledge with a Zumba course for The New York Times, little did he recognize that it was the beginning of something much bigger. Dance would develop and take on many assignments for Henry: exercise, stress reliever, self-confidence builder, a justification to visit, about AND We Danced: A Voyage in to the Groove a way to obtain ongoing question, and—when he dances with Alzheimer’s individuals—even a kind of community service.

Tackling an array of forms (including ballet, hip-hop, jazz, ballroom, touch, contact improvisation, Zumba, golf swing), Alford’s grand tour calls for us through the functions and jobs of luminaries ranging from Bob Fosse to George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp to Arthur Murray. Abundant with insight and humor, Alford mines both personal experience and fascinating social history to provide a witty and eventually shifting portrait of how dance can communicate all things human. And Then We Danced “is definitely in one sense a celebration of hoofer in every its question and range, from give up to refinement. But it is also background, investigation, memoir, and even, in its clever, sly way, self-help…very funny, but more, it is joyful—a dance all its own” (Vanity Fair).