On Instagram, Marlon Almeida (@marlonalmeida77) describes himself as a “promoter of social dancing”. Almeida, who worked as a software development professional for 14 years, decided to take a career break in 2014 to teach dance. He has since been conducting social dance classes in the suburbs, spreading the love for salsa, bachata, ballroom and jive. “Jive is for everyone—it’s easy, fun and even a newcomer, can pick it up. By convention, the man leads, and the woman follows. But, in my classes, we’ve had women dance pairs as well,” says Almeida, adding that a more gender neutral term would be “leader” and “follower” for the pair. With Christmas dance on everyone’s mind, Sunday mid-day got Almeida and his dancing partner Rhea D’Souza to give an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide that will get you grooving, especially when the playlist switches to Crazy Little Thing Called Love.