Category: Social Dancing
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Embrace the fear of being a beginner!
Dancing is a muscle memory skill like any other, just like learning a musical instrument, playing a sport or driving a car. The secret to learning social dancing is just consistency. Practice and repetition will lead to comfort and enjoyment… but before you reach those goals, you have to get over the obstacle of putting yourself…
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Traveling dances vs. everything else
In social partner dancing, every dance style falls into one of these two categories: dances that travel the floor and dances that don’t. In all the traveling dances, dance partners seek to make a circuit around the perimeter of the dance floor. In the non-traveling dances (sometimes called “spot” dances), you stay in one general…
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Social dancing: an excellent hobby for… introverts?
How’s that for counterintuitive? Before I explain myself, let me just get the easy part out of the way: Of course, social dancing is an awesome hobby for extroverts! I mean, what could be better? Meeting tons of new people doing an active social hobby that, by its very nature, encourages you to circulate around…
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What is salsa dancing?
The world of social dancing is full of terms that mean different things in different contexts. In the simplest and most direct meaning, “salsa dancing” is just dancing a social style called Salsa, or even more simplistic, dancing however you like to Salsa music. However, the concept of “salsa dancing,” as it actually plays out…
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Why partner dancing is the best hobby for single people
I simply cannot count the number of times I’ve heard: “I would love to do that, but I don’t have a partner.” This phrase, of course, always surfaces in reference to social partner dancing, like ballroom, salsa, swing or tango. It might sound completely logical at first blush… after all, if you’re going to learn…
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What are the “ballroom dances”?
Want the short answer first? All of them. The ones you dance with a partner, of course. But yes, people who call themselves “ballroom dancers” stake a claim to ALL the social partner dances. That’s because people who do ballroom dancing as a hobby don’t put exclusions or limits on the number of dances that…
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What is ballroom dancing?
A guide for social dance enthusiasts… of dances other than ballroom. It’s pretty common for me to run into misconceptions about ballroom dancing when I talk to avid dancers who practice other social styles. Social dance hobbyists tend to end up in one “scene” or the other, depending on how they got started dancing. Did…
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