How to Enjoy Dancing More: Part 2, Communicate
This is the second installment in a three-part series. If you haven’t worked through the first part, go back to it here and come…
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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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Things Your Dance Instructor Wished You Knew
Dance instructors can spend up to 10 hours a day in the studio. They see and notice a lot of things that we don’t,…
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5 Tips To Remember Dance Patterns And Moves From Class
How can I remember moves that I learned in dance class? In our second episode of the new podcast “On the Dance Floor”, Brian…
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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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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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Five Choreographic Tips To Mix Up Your Social Dancing
People often gravitate toward social dance because it doesn’t rely on set choreography and has a more spontaneous and improvisational nature. However, that doesn’t…
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Why Are We Uncomfortable with Safety?
The idea of making dance scenes “safer” isn’t new, but it’s also one that creates a lot of discomfort. Why is that? What can…
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Salsera Tries Tango: The Beginning of a Love Story
I’ve been fascinated by Argentine Tango for a while. The intensity, the focus, the precision, the musicality—it’s something that I’ve long admired, but has…
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What to Do When You Are Uncomfortable
This is written for all of you who have ever felt uncomfortable because of someone coming on to you during a dance. If you’ve…
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