BEGINNERS SURVIVAL KIT: BALLROOM BLUES
13 Classes | 95 minutes
Explore the style of blues dance that developed in ballrooms, danced to more melodic styles of blues played by Big Bands during the Swing Era. Think travelling steps, elegant lines and momentum.
COURSE AIMS
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Add more travelling steps to your repertoire
- Dance in close embrace with your partner
- Transition between close embrace and side by side positions to create ‘promenade’
- Travel in ‘promenade’, adding rotations to your movement
- Use promenade to initiate an inside turn
- Use promenade to initiate an outside turns
- Lead and follow speed and direction changes
- Improvise and mix together the different moves in promenade
- Rotate while in close embrace
- Use promenade to initiate a slide (a great way to get the ending of a song or a break in the music!)
Purchase of this course gives you unlimited access to the lessons forever!
