General Information about Partnership Dancing • Learn to Do Partnership Dance - Free Lessons Online, printed instructions provide information about how to begin dancing Social Foxtrot, Single Swing, Triple Swing, Waltz, Rumba, and Cha Cha.
• Aspects of Partnership Dancing Describes the interrelationship of social, ballroom, and round dancing and how each aspect can support the others
• Social dance floor etiquette "Dance Floor Rules" provided by Merrymakers Social Dance Club, Mesa, AZ
• There Is Always More to Learn: Examples of experienced teachers/dancing finding more to learn; how can new dancers/teachers learn more/faster?
• Which Rhythms are American Style and Which Are International Style?
How Timing Relates to Dancing
• Dancing Depicts Music: What dancers need to know about timing; counting time in music and applying it to dancing
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Why Is Dancing Important?
• Benefits of Partnership Dancing: Annotations with Links to Online Studies
• Promise of Arts Education, especially Dance: What Everyone Should Know!
• Dance Quotes to Get Your Body Moving 140 itemized quotes (Look for the numbers)
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How the Body Moves (Not Just the Feet)
• Harmonious Movement - General Principles Concepts for dancing effectively as partners; principl
• Body Awareness - Walking: Compare walking in Standard/Smooth dances vs. Latin dances
• Body Awareness - Cuban Motion / Latin Hip Action: Learn how to use the hips in different situations to avoid injury and refine dancing. Figure 8 motion of hips and arms; implementing the hip twist, forward checking actiion, and pendulum swings
• Are "Forward" and "Rock Forward" the Same? No! the body moves differently in both.
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Balance in Turns: Learn the "Switch Turn" technique to maintain balance and avoid vertigo during turns
• Much of Dancing Is Illusion: Why the back step looks much bigger than it is!
• Protecting Knees from Injury: Three common practices to avoid to protect knees
• How the Feet Move: Walking forward in standard/smooth rhythms and Latins
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Refining Dance Positions
• Improving Dance Position: Most significant element to elevate dancing
• Closed Position - Many details about achieving a helpful frame, using appropriate posture, understanding "right side to right side," and "changing the Follow's head," and more
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Banjo / aka Outside Partner: Understanding contra body, moving to Banjo from Closed Position, the tracks used in this position
• Sidecar / aka Partner Outside: Moving to Sidecar from Closed Position; dancing the Wing
• Semi-Closed /aka Promenade: Understanding a refined Semi-Closed Position; moving from Closed Position to Semi-Closed; some cautions from earlier habits
• Other Positions: Butterfly, Low Butterfly, recommended handhold, Handshake Position, Open Position
• Roundalab's Images of Various Dance Positions
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Promoting Dancing
• Can Social Dancers Become Round Dancers?
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