So You Think You Can Dance? Check Out These 25 Awkward Vintage Dance School Snapshots From the 1970s and ’80s

No longer must the photographs of childhood dancing days languish in dusty shoe boxes in a parents’ garage – now that everyone has mastered the wonder of an online photo album, they can be uploaded so moments of stardom will never be lost or forgotten.

The images come courtesy of These Americans, a website dedicated to collating retro scenes of American life from bloodied civil rights protesters to barflies in the 1980s and homages to the great American road trip.

Looking at these decades-old photos probably uncovered from a long-forgotten drawer somewhere, photos that were never intended for mass consumption of the Internet is making us feel a little weird, delightful as they are. Now who’s the awkward one?