Recent content by BlueBambue

Charleston is still danced a lot, just not in ballroom studios. The lindy hop scene teaches and dances it a lot.

Thanks FaceTheMusic.

Thanks for all the suggestions. We've decided to go with the "tickle tange" by cirque de soile.

Hi, I was hoping some of you might have some ideas for me. I'm trying to put together a routine for a show this semester. The theme of the show is "Do you believe in magic." The problem is is that the theme is fairly light and fluffy, the opposite of tango. One thing I thought about doing was...

ditto to what everyone else said about the rhondes and quads. One thing that helped me with that (though I am nowhere near perfect at the moment) is pilates. I would try to explain what I learned in that class, but my knowledge of anatomy is inadequate.

As someone who dances swing I would say it is feasible that you are actually an advanced beginner. Many dancers start teaching locally in 2-3 yrs. This assumes you are taking lots of group classes and getting some personalized attention (either in private lessons or in snippets within the group...

It doesn't mention partner dancing as far as I can tell. One thing is does say about dancing is that the early paso doble dance was influenced by military marches, but I think that probably refers to non-partner dancing. Take this with a grain of salt as I am not quite fluent in spanish.

never having dropped a follow doesn't equal never injuring a follow or making her uncomfortable. I think you need to be careful that you don't superimpose how you view yourself onto those you lead. If you take it for granted that everyone absolutely loves to dance with you, you will be blinded...

I'm going to add my vote for the "no around the world dips at socials" If I have the description of this dip right, this is my absolutely least favorite dip ever. It feels uncomfortable and very awkward and is potentially back injuring. This potential is higher when I am surprised and cannot...

I think that you just need to be upfront with these people about what you would expect from a practice partner. If some of them aren't scared off by the amount of technique expected, I don't think any harm would come from 1-2 hours on a strictly trial basis (emphasize that you aren't committing...

I, too, have never heard of around the world. Are you able to describe it?

The type of dip I do involves no grabbing of the waist. What I do (for smooth/standard) varies a bit from follow to follow and dance to dance but is something like the following. I drop frame in my left hand, move my right hand slightly closer to the middle of the follows back and maybe a little...

This is a reaction to a post Dancingirldancing made in the BR-folk square and the 3 ladies thread. I'm sure this has been discussed in one of the social dancing etiquette threads, but I couldn't find it. I have a very different opinion of the appropriateness of dips. Perhaps it has something...

I am in total agreement. I know that I have acted similar to Carol in the past, but was having trouble explaining why. This is exactly what is going on in my head when I start refusing to do moves. Especially with dips. Even if you attempted to do a really easy one that you can probably do...

I'm sure there are multiple schools of though on how to get a good closed position. They are probably all aiming for about the same thing, just coming from different directions. However, I'm not sure that is the case in your situation. Maybe this could be the way I'm reading it and my own...