This article is to provide helpful hints for our dance lessons students in our Orange County dance studios and beyond! We hope these tips are useful and help to bring your ballroom dancing to the next level! Turning Tricks and Tips! One of the reasons why…
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Finding the Beat in Ballroom Dancing – Orange County Dance Lessons It is one thing to know the basics and dance moves to a certain type of dance, but it is a whole other skill to hear the beat. To some people, hearing the beat…
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Dancing Classes For the Mind While watching clients dance around the floor at our Orange County dance studio, I always just assume that dancing classes are beneficial to their bodies: they are moving around, using their muscles, burning calories, and more. But, in my attempt to…
Read moreDance Is a Sport (Dancesport!) and Can Be Masculine Unfortunately, dance has a tendency to get a bad wrap from the male persuasion. Many men think that it is not a manly activity and would never see it as a sport. For the men coming…
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Kiz-om-what?! Kizomba Dance and Music! Intimate, sensual, romantic. These are a few of the words that come to mind when watching two dancers engage in Kizomba. Kiz-om-what?? Kizomba! Kizomba is both a music and dance style. The dance developed in Angloa, Africa in the 1980’s, but…
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Wedding Dance Classes: From the Audience’s Perspective When students come in to take wedding dance classes for the first time, I understand the nervousness. It is scary to start on a venture you don’t know anything about, one that you don’t know if you are good…
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Social Dance Etiquette 101 In any social setting we have to be considerate of others. Those in the social dance scene should know that the dance floor has it’s own set of rules and considerations. Being respectful and aware will make people enjoy accepting a…
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Ballroom Dancing for Confidence Building There is something about the way dancers look. Because I go to Chapman University in Orange County, I am surrounded by the dance world, and no matter what, you will always find someone who dances. Maybe they’re that person in…
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Hazardous Hair! A Ballroom Dancing Danger… I never considered my long hair to be hazardous until I started ballroom dancing. As a solo artist, doing head flips and tight turns with loose hair is a fun way to create dramatic movement accents. In a worse case…
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Suelto! Soloing in Salsa Dancing We all know salsa as a form of social dance involving two participants who engage in a spontaneous call and response of movement. Usually their hands or a closed frame position will connect them, creating a conversation of push and…
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