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Learn more about ballroom dance technique and other aspects of specific dances.
Diagrammatic Analysis – Swing Action in Foxtrot
A Diagrammatic Representation of the Foxtrot Swing Action in the Feather Step In this detailed document, Barry Gasson…
The Hockey Stick
By Barry Gasson Another fundamental figure in Cha-Cha-Cha and Rumba is the Hockey Stick. Fan and Alemana, Fan…
Classification of Lifts in Dance
By Sylvain Lafortune It is important to realize that during a lift, the partners are no longer individuals…
The Alemana by Barry Gasson
A detailed study to give valuable insights about this figure, which is commonly danced incorrectly.
Cuban Experience # 1
By Brigitt Mayer Here’s my take on this beautiful experience, as it appeared in Dance Beat May 2014.…
Is There Really Anything New?
By Barry Gasson In today’s modern world of technology, there is a bewildering amount of information available to…
Barbara Ambroz workshop the Cuban Experience
By Sasha Pust From February 10-18, 2014 in Havana, Cuba, a very unique and extraordinary workshop took place. Some of the top professional Latin couples, single dancers and teachers joined forces with authentic Cuban dancers to experience, learn, feel and get inspired by Cuban music and dances
Devotion to the motion …
By Ruud Vermeij
Because a dancer is a person he or she can never be wholly abstract. A male person is a man dancing, a female person is a woman dancing. Together the statement is made. Nothing more is necessary to create man and woman, one does not have to "act" man or woman
Rhythmic quality in dance is more objective than it seems
By Xavier Mora
This article is part of a project that aims at changing this state of affairs. It is a sequel to a more technical paper that makes use of some mathematics. Here we will skip the mathematical technicalities, but we will still try to explain how do they result in dance-interesting conclusions.
Jitterbug/swing/jive 1944 movie clip
This is a really fun and funny film to watch It shows moves from other dances that made their…