youtube dot com/watch?v=kraUx73hSb0 The first 10 minute or so are the solo foxtrots.
If one takes a detailed look at the final of the 2012 WDSF event in Melbourne, Australia (readily available on YouTube), it is interesting to...
in my personal experience, about 2 hours of floor time per week per dance (i.e. excluding lesson time, breaks, warm ups, random chitchat time, etc....
I will preface this by saying I have never danced Smooth (not from North America), but I do dance Standard and a bit of Latin, and there are...
Does your right elbow ever end up behind your right shoulder in Promenade? Which direction is your torso facing (in relation to where your partner...
caw, could you describe where your weight is at the third step ("&") and the sixth step ("S")? by describing - is it 100% over the heel of one...
BMI is but a rule-of-thumb, and applies to MANY people, but not EVERYBODY - any self-respecting health professional will tell you that. It is...
I'd like to conduct a little experiment/illustration of a point about artistic interpretation, using music, rather than dancing, as the basis of...
sorry, that was chris hawkins' timing. joanne bolton danced 123&a, but again following the rubato.
One final post before I slide back into the shadows... Questions: Does a good dance teacher teach you to be confident on the floor? Does a good...
Slightly facile answer would be: as many as it takes. A working knowledge of physical therapy to rehabilitate and teach injured and recovering...
12&3& but following rubato of the bass (left hand) part of the piano?
a good teacher recognizes and then gives students what they NEED. a good businessperson recognizes and then gives customers what they WANT. a dance...
I do not mean to disparage judge's skill or knowledge of dancing - as I stated, I believe all judges have a minimum (and this minimum is already a...
Few exceptions aside, a couple can make about 180 degrees of turn on any given step, often less for comfort. This 180 degree turning step can take a...
Therein lies another problem - different people view choreography differently. Just as there are different levels of achievements as dancers, one...
Makes a lot of sense, but 1 question: when (if ever) do the training wheels come off?
If I might attempt to articulate an idea I believe has been floated... Tricks/"flash" are, by their very nature, "tricky" - they are more difficult...
One can either take the simplest steps and study/practice/learn them to perfection and apply the "solid fundamentals" from there to complex figures....
Wouldn't it depend on the music? How many notes **not beats - that's fixed!** in the particular bar, and the distribution? (Or if a vocal rather...
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