merengue and figure drawing cannot be reconciled

In figure drawing class, one of the first things you learn about posture is that when a person shifts their weight onto one leg more than the other, the hip on the weight-bearing side goes up, on the non weight-bearing side, the hip goes down. To correct for this imbalance, at the same time the shoulder on the weight bearing side shifts down, and the shoulder on the non weight-bearing side goes up.

In merengue (and a few other Latin dances) you intentionally do the opposite... you stick your hip out in the opposite direction than you are stepping.

Merengueros apparently never take figure drawing classes. Or perhaps that's what makes it dancing as opposed to just stepping back and forth.