I would argue that it is the brain that makes me clumsy at dancing. I do have a pair of perfectly good legs but dancing requires that I coordinate them and that most likely resides in the brain, in how the brain sends signals to my legs to move according to the rhythm of the music. The brain and also more broadly the central nervous system and possibly also the peripheral nervous system (I forgot all the physiology I learned in school and do not remember what the role of the peripheral nervous system is). So because something is wrong with my brain, I cannot make my voice sing correctly and my body move according to the music I hear. I know I.am doing thinfs wrong, signing off key and moving clumsily, but I am unable to fix it on my own. Either it is experience (I have not had good teachers and, instead, I was ridiculed as a child which caused psychological trauma) or lack of luck or some faulty nervous circuitry (I do score in the 20% percentile of online tests of discerning sounds on the website of the Yale school of medicine, but I am not completely tone deaf). If it were possible to fix such things medically, I would not go to an orthopedic surgeon to fix the legs or an ear nose and throat specialist to fix my vocal tract but instead of to this hypothetical specialist who can fix how the brain orchestrated all of those and more. We do not have such specialists.

I am sorry I am leading this thread astray but I felt compelled to dispute the dance analogy in your beautiful post, Rose.