How To Be One Of The Best Dances Of Your Partner’s Night
What does it take to be the best dance of your partner’s night? Incredible technique, advanced turn patterns, musicality? Years of lessons? Or simply…
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How to Avoid Collisions on The Dance Floor
What can turn a great dance into a nightmare one? An elbow to the spine, a sharp stomp on the foot, or even a…
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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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7 Ways to Make Partnered Dancing More LGBT+-Welcoming
Dear fellow dancer, teacher, event organizer: So, you want to make sure LGBT+ dancers feel comfortable in your local scene? Thank you. We’ve seen…
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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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How To Turn Dance Friends Into Real Friends
Dance friendships are a funny kind of relationship: we spend hours with people every single week but often barely know them. The endorphins rush;…
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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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