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Ballroom dancing -- with a new twist: Carroll school's club gives old-school moves a 'groovier swing'.
Byline: Gina Davis
Oct. 30--Chris Mayne is almost as surprised as his partner, Sarah Jones, at how smoothly they're moving with this ballroom dancing thing.
Mayne, 17, is the giddy one as he extends his arm while Jones, 15, firmly grasps his hand and as gracefully as possible spins away from him. "We're good," Mayne, a senior, announced over the music, chatter and laughter filling the cafeteria at Winters Mill High in Westminster.
"I'm so proud of myself," Jones, a junior, said as Mayne reeled her back in. It appears the two were born for swing dancing. And the tango. And the foxtrot. It's 3 p.m. on a Monday and the two teens have joined about 40 other schoolmates for a meeting of the high school's recently formed Ballroom Dance Club. The club is part of a growing trend among teens and young…
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