When you dance on the social floor, do you find movements that don’t work as well as they did in class? Looking for a way to improve your social dancing? If you feel overextended, off-balance, or just plain uncomfortable, the problem might be that your body isn’t in the right position. Improve your social dancing … Read more
Quickly, leaders: what’s the best way to make sure that your follower has an amazing dance? If you answered, “Lead all of your cool patterns so she knows you’re a rockstar,” we need to talk. There’s a much better way to create a dance that will leave your followers breathless and gushing. Inexperienced leaders tend … Read more
Learning to follow—to actually follow—is one of the most difficult partner dance skills imaginable. When everything in your experience tells you that you step forward on beat 1, when you can hear the beat telling you that you’re done with the anchor, when you’ve danced a thousand tucks and you know that you’re going to … Read more
At a very simple level, there are two ways to improve your dancing. The first is to practice more efficiently; the second is to practice more. For most of us, the second is tough because we have jobs, we don’t have tons of money to spend on floor time at the studio, etc. So, the … Read more
