Social Dance Etiquette: Why You Shouldn’t Coach Your Dance Partners
This week I want to dive into something that happens all the time. It can get a little touchy and you’ve probably either done…
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Dance is for EVERYONE: Dancers With Disabilities Share Their Stories
A man in a titanium-framed wheelchair holds his hand out to a woman and leads her out onto the dance floor. As the claves…
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Photography at Dance Events
I’ve been doing social dancing for more than ten years now in a variety of different scenes, and I’ve seen amazingly different expectations related…
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Ladies Dance Floor Survival Tips 101
In my last post Why You Shouldn’t Dip Your Dance Partners, there was no shortage of “whip dip” injury stories from the ladies and gratitude for…
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Overcoming Intimidation on the Dance Floor
Let’s face it. Stepping out on the dance floor is often terrifying. No matter your level and how long you’ve been dancing, there’s always…
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How Thinking of a Dance Class as a Language Class Can Help Create Better Instruction
Teaching a dance class can be a lot like teaching a language class. I’d know. I teach both. Let’s begin with some basic similarities:…
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Dancing Through Parenthood: Juggling Family Life and Dance Life
At the Sunday afternoon pool party at Orlando Salsa Congress last year, the thing that struck me the most was how many families were…
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What’s the Deal with Taxi Dancers?
I don’t think it was until I was attending kizomba festivals in Europe a few years ago that my current notion of what a…
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Dancing with Pain
Many of us decide to take up dancing to improve our physical health–and why not? Dance is a fun, dynamic, social form of exercise…
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DanceInk – Maori Tattoo
The cool tattoo pictured above was sent to LDC from a dancer named Aver. He said… This tattoo represents a savage and exotic dance and was inspired…
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