How To Be A Better Dance Partner (Without Improving Your Dancing)
If you’re reading this site, then it goes without saying that Latin dances (salsa, bachata, kizomba(yes, we know its not a Latin dance)) can…
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How to Enjoy Dancing More: Part 2, Communicate
This is the follow-up to this post, so be sure to work through that first! You might also want to revisit these questions periodically….
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How to Enjoy Dancing More: Part 1, Know Yourself
What if I told you the secret to enjoying dancing more was inside you? Not in improving your technique or making the right friends…
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How to Balance Your Dance Life With the Rest of Your Life
In my early 20s I lived in San Francisco and worked in an office with a lot of other young, recent grads. It was…
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Get Down With Choreography
A student asks, “I love dancing but can’t seem to get the choreography down. What should I do?” Last year my partner Liz and I…
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How to Dance With Confidence When You’re Still Learning
Dancing with confidence comes from truly loving what you’re doing in that moment. If you genuinely love what you’re doing, everyone else around you…
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Implementing Your Code of Conduct
However important writing up a code of conduct is, it’s even more important that your community buys into it and that you have protocols…
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What Should You Practice In Your Dancing?
As a Ballroom and Latin dance instructor, I’m always surprised to hear my students’ response to “did you practice last week?” Too often they…
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Code of Conduct Questionnaire
I am enthusiastic about dance scenes creating their own codes of conduct, tailored to their dance style and community. This article will take you…
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Dancing With a Weird (But Fairly Mild) Injury
Last week, I sliced the tip of my left index finger off with a bread knife. Luckily, it wasn’t serious and didn’t require stitches…
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