
We took lessons at FADS for 5 years. They promoted showcases and competitions, but did not hassle us about it. They said learning exhibitions would help our dancing and we learned about 4 different mini exhibitions, with the understanding we were learning to improve our dancing not to perform.
The exhibitions they gave us were really neat and will do them or parts of them in our social dancing. Some of advanced elements they put in them, we adapted to other dances, because we liked them so much.