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Articles relating to partner dance, dances whose basic choreography involves coordinated dancing of two partners, as opposed to individuals dancing alone or individually in a non-coordinated manner, and as opposed to groups of people dancing simultaneously in a coordinated manner.
Partner dance may be a basis of a formation dance, a round dance, a square dance or a sequence dance. These are kinds of group dance where the dancers form couples and dance either the same choreographed or called routines or routines within a common choreography—routines that control both how each couple dances together and how each couple ...
Judy Patterson Wright, 1996, Social Dance Instruction, Human Kinetics Publishers, ISBN 978-0873228305; Diane Jarmalow, 2011, Teach Like a Pro, Ballroom Dance Teachers College, ISBN 978-0983526100; Rudi Trautz, 2021, The Art of Teaching Social Dancing, ISBN 978-3943599862; Thomas Hill, 2022, How to Teach Ballroom Dancing, ISBN 979-8842347698
Dancing with the Stars airs Monday night at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC, and then again live from the ballroom on Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and simulcast on Disney+ and then next day on Hulu.
In many partner dances (e.g., ballroom dance) the male dancer typically assumes the role of lead and provides guidance to his typically female partner, the follower. This may simply be a matter of guiding his partner to the next fixed position during a set routine, or in free-form dances may include deciding and communicating the sequence of figures to be danced on the fly.
In the 1930s "shag" became a blanket term that signified a rather large family of jitterbug dances (swing dances) that all shared certain characteristics. The most notable of these characteristics are (1) a pulse that's consistently held up high on the balls of the feet (a.k.a. a "bounce" or "hop" to match every beat in the music) and (2) footwork with kicks that reach full extension on the ...
West Coast Swing is a partner dance with roots in Lindy Hop, characterized by an elastic look that results from its extension-compression technique of partner connection and is danced primarily in a slotted area on the dance floor. The dance allows for both partners to improvise steps while dancing together, putting West Coast Swing in a short ...
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