Saraband

This choosing a word for the dictionary via random means is fraught.  Today’s word was saraband.  Maybe you have never heard of it.  I had not.  The dictionary says it is a stately old Spanish dance.
According to Wikipedia the Sarabande evolved from a Spanish dance with Arab influences.  It started lively and ended up being stately.  It goes onto say the form of music was used in the compositions of Bach, Handel, Debussy, Greige, Benjamin Britten and a number of other composers I have never heard of.
A Jesuit priest in 1609 described it as incredibly undesirable.  I do have a problem with that as both Bach and Handel do not seem to have seen it as a problem.
Each to their own I guess.  To me most musical forms are neutral. Maybe like AI or the internet or the like.  They can be used for both good or bad.  In itself it is neither, but in its use it is one of them.
I am not into it myself but I really do like dance.  Correction.  I do do an incredibly good “Sprinkler.”  But most of my dancing is on the inside of me, or out of sight.  I did get a rude shock recently though as I would retreat to my “alone” place to dance only to discover I was not alone.  The neighbour chose to introduce herself from over the fence there.
I actually do not think she will do it often though as she is 80 something and short, and our introduction was her putting her head up so she could just see and talk.  In no way do I see her as such, but the way she talked to me reminds me of a dog that puts its head up to a narrow opening.
The definition of the word included the word “stately” so I reckon that would exclude me.  Ok I have been told I come up alright with a scrub but it really is something that is very rarely me.  I am way more at home in an old shirt, pants and sandshoes and in the garden.
Others are into it.  I enjoy watching it.  Participating in it is different.  As a one off maybe.