About How To Ballroom Dance For Beginners – Faq
Helen asks…
I want to join an adult beginner ballroom dance class on Long Island, NY!!!!?
It seems as if all dance classes are either for children, or for “intermediate” and “advanced” adults. What about people like me, who don’t know how to dance, don’t want to become professionals, but DO want to become sufficiently comfortable with a few ballroom dance styles so that the words “Let’s go dancing!” evoke joy and fun and not fear of looking like an ass on the dance floor?!
Surely someone on Long Island is willing to teach the adult beginner???!!!!
Customer Service answers:
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James asks…
ballroom class – only teach choreography?
I am going to take a beginners ballroom dance class. and i noticed that for most studios, we just learn the dance steps and move on to the next dance. So how will this help me? Should i take ballroom?
Customer Service answers:
I suppose that will give you some basic patterns to keep in your pocket, so to speak, for when you take real lessons. You’ll want to take private instruction to get the technique, of course, or the patterns will be useless, but that isn’t to say the introductory patterns will be a total waste, only that they aren’t sufficient, or even most important.
Mark asks…
Anyone have any info (or a DVD) for a beginner ballroom dancer?
I am looking to get an Instructional DVD on ballroom dancing. I don’t know exactly what ballroom dancing is, so I don’t really know what to look for. I have never danced before, I plan on buying it and learning with my girlfriend for her birthday. She knows how to swing dance and she said she would like to learn ballroom dancing.
Does anyone have any info or specific DVDs for a beginner ballroom dancer?
Thank you!
Customer Service answers:
You can learn some basic patterns at sites like http://www.ballroomdancers.com and you can get pretty well all the DVD’s you’d like at http://www.dancevision.com , among others.
That said, I’d strongly urge you NOT to delude yourself into thinking you can learn to dance from videos, or even save money from them. You can see some figures and get a rudimentary understanding of what music matches what dance, but the connection and communication that make up 90% of ballroom dancing have to be learned by feel. You can learn some basics in group lessons, but you really won’t begin to learn how to dance until you each have occasional private lessons as well. For instance, I still have a bad habit in standard dances of letting my right elbow drop an inch or so. A pro can feel that and may even see it, but we mere mortals would never notice.
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