At one time or another, all of us here have had the uncomfortable experience of either being or watching someone with absolutely no sense of rhythm, movement, or beat try and dance and move to the music. We call them people with "Baptist feet."
No matter that the bass line is thumping along so loudly that it's giving everyone else synchronized migraines – it seems there is always someone out on the dance floor who just can't find the beat and move to it. For those with well-tuned senses of rhythm and movement, watching such an out-of-step, out-of-sync struggle is agony.
How can they not feel the downbeat?
How can they not want to move at the right moment?
How can they not vibrate internally with the external rhythms that surround them?
It seems that the ability to dance, to move in ha…