Are you wondering what is rolling count in west coast swing? Rolling Count, turns out to be NOT a new concept. Â lt is simply an identification of a skill that has long been known, but not identified. Â Most top professional dancers eventually dance Rolling Count as a natural progression – that is simply identified as … Read more
The ultimate guide to finding the beat in the music! Question: Should I count the music?Answer: Always. * No matter who you are, what your musical background is, or how skilled you are at feeling the music, counting always elevates your dance. Dancers who move by feel only are unattached to their third partner, the … Read more
When you are working on any technical element of the dance, you want to be able to concentrate on the technique rather than what the music is doing. However, you also need to be able to keep a consistent pace as you develop fluency with the technique. Dancing to a metronome is the perfect solution. … Read more
When you’ve mastered hearing upbeats and downbeats in music, you are ready to bring that skill into your pattern work. West coast swing is a two-beat dance, so all patterns are built on the downbeat-upbeat structure. If all you dance is basic, off-the-shelf WCS patterns, you don’t need to know that structure because the dance … Read more
How many times have you heard, “Every pattern in West Coast Swing ends in an anchor”? Today, we’re going to flip things around and make every pattern start with an anchor instead. This exercise assumes that you are comfortable with your basic anchor: you can roll through the &a before the new 1, and you … Read more
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