We're Rick Lightbody and Carol Johnson.  We began dancing and teaching together several years ago, after each of us had pursued our dance passions separately through a variety of styles for many years.  Rick had begun with musical theatre, jazz dance, and East Coast swing, while Carol—also well-versed in musical theatre—had studied tap, jazz, modern, and hip-hop.  Rick later added salsa to his repertoire, as well as other forms of Latin dance, West Coast swing, and various types of Anglo-American and international folk dance.  Carol got hooked on contra dancing and then quickly became intrigued with the myriad possibilities of partner dance.  Thanks to a series of workshop intensives with Richard Powers, a well-known dance historian and Stanford social dance instructor, Rick discovered the twin joys of cross-step waltz and rotary waltz, which to this day remain his favorite dances.  When Rick teamed up with Carol, he found an adept and enthusiastic companion in this triple-time passion, and she became his new teaching partner.  We also began our collaborative study of many other partner dances.  These include West Coast swing, Lindy hop, salsa and salsa rueda, several ballroom forms, nightclub two-step, hustle, blues dance, Scandinavian turning dances, and—most recently—Argentine tango.