What is Social Dancing?
Social dancing is more than just learning to dance with the intent of socializing with others. Social dancing is the ability to creatively lead and follow dance steps and patterns by understanding the "language" of these social partner dances.
The goal of social dancing is to be able to get on the dance floor at dance nights and social events to communicate and "social dance" with others who understand the same dance language.
Social dancing is different to partnered competition dancing or partnered performance dancing. In these styles, the goal is to learn choreographies and routines with a single partner.
In social dancing, any routines you learn for social dancing is purely for the purpose of practice and learning. When you actually social dance, your sequence of patterns will be different every time and you'll be able to communicate with different dance partners!
Social dancing is the language of creative Lead & Follow!
The goal of social dancing is to be able to get on the dance floor at dance nights and social events to communicate and "social dance" with others who understand the same dance language.
Social dancing is different to partnered competition dancing or partnered performance dancing. In these styles, the goal is to learn choreographies and routines with a single partner.
In social dancing, any routines you learn for social dancing is purely for the purpose of practice and learning. When you actually social dance, your sequence of patterns will be different every time and you'll be able to communicate with different dance partners!
Social dancing is the language of creative Lead & Follow!
Lead & Follow
"Leading" is the ability to communicate and signal what step or pattern you'd like the partner to perform next. Leaders guide and invite different movements through different "social dancing signals" such as visual cues, frame and weight.
"Following" is the ability to understand what the leaders are signalling and react to their invitations.
Great leaders use a variety of techniques to make it easy and abundantly clear what they want the partner to do next. Great followers have strong awareness of the different patterns and can react to the leaders signals with grace.
"Following" is the ability to understand what the leaders are signalling and react to their invitations.
Great leaders use a variety of techniques to make it easy and abundantly clear what they want the partner to do next. Great followers have strong awareness of the different patterns and can react to the leaders signals with grace.