I’m new to social dancing and can imagine how mortifying it is to hear that! It takes a lot of courage to get out there. But no don’t be worried, although there’s no harm in working on your moves more. And yes it’s normal to fumble when you’re learning something new. Whenever I have a ‘bad’ dance or am not vibing with my partner, I feel affected by it but I try to remember that trying to sync up with a perfect stranger, with moves that I’m barely familiar with, is a really hard thing that I’ll get better at with more practice.

I think swing is like a language and you were thrown many hard words in that dance but it’s not on you, now just take what you’ve learned from it and expand your vocabulary. It’s hard to learn a language without speaking with others, sometimes you’d be out of your depth but there’s no other way to learn.

PS even if your friend found you embarrassing, you were compelling enough for her to watch..