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The website currently has no "club" category. If it did, well, these days I think "clubbing" as a word for a range of dance styles would not include nightclub two-step. In some clubs nightclub two-step would make you stand out in a great way, but in other clubs you'd stand out in a bad way -...

Bolero - the American Rhythm dance - is generally danced between 96 and 104 beats per minute (24 and 26 measures per minute)." International Rumba is 100-108 bpm American Rumba is 120-144 or 128-144 (I've seen both ranges). Shannon Butcher's cover of Blondie's "Call Me" is 88 bpm. Bolero...

I've seen lists of vintage cha cha songs on StreetSwing, and I've searched Deezer for 1950s cha cha, and 1954 cha cha, and 1955 cha cha (up to 1959). I was expecting some recognizable songs with latin names, but I'm only recognizing "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps" (which I love) and "Tea for Two"...

It's okay that not all QQSS dance patterns start at the 1 of the music bars, but in lindy hop etc I've learned how much better it feels if dancers start the beginning of each musical verse with the 1 of a dance rhythm / pattern. Dancing 6 counts, after 4 dance bars you're at 24 beats, add a 5th...

I know 6/4 equals 4/4+2/4, which, when displayed that was is I think called Compound Meter. I know 6/4 can sound like 2 sets of 3/4, which is not what we want (but without a primary beat at the half-way point. I know 6/4 music exists - Synchronicity 1 by The Police, a lesser-known Radiohead...

"Curving left", "Turning left", "Rotate left" -- these all mean If students are watching me while I say "curving left" / "turning left" / "rotate left", they understand what I mean. If the words are in writing, readers will probably misunderstand - they will assume the path curves / turn...

I love both following and leading, but I expect some people resist partner dancing because they don't want to be a follower (or a leader) because of connotations of hierarchy. Do such words already exist? If not, can we find options? Brainstorming possibilities (yes, most are bad, but perhaps...

I listened to 15 Cuban songs called boleros - all faster than ballroom bolero - none feeling like a bolero. Has anyone ever competed / performed ballroom bolero using a Cuban bolero song? Perhaps I need to add a time dimension - some Cuban songs from the 90s called boleros (for marketing?) sound...

Santana's Smooth hits 4&1 2&3 with the same intensity and the same instrument. In this backing track, the 4&1 is a conga and the 2&3 is [higher-pitched percussion], but still, why 2&3? https://www.deezer.com/us/track/104827182 Marc Anthony's Dimelo (I Need to Know) is considered definitive cha...

If lead and follow step away from each other, some people say that is a mirrored dance / move. (Not a perfect mirror!) What do you call it when both partners move together (lead steps forward so follower steps backward)? (What's the antonym of the verb "mirror"?)

Based on the 15 Cuban songs I've listened to with "Bolero" or "Bolero-Son" in the title or description, it seems American Bolero is slower and softer. Would you agree? I'm new to both Boleros. Are there other differences?

For salsa with 2:3 clave, I think and feel it's better to dance on2. For salsa with 3:2 clave, the clave accents the 1, so if we can dance both on1 and on2, for those songs should we dance on1? How did/do classic mambo (1st step is the break step, on 2) dance to music with 3:2 clave? (Am I right...

I heard that music better-suited for international style accentuates the 2 and 4. True? Can you provide any examples where you can hear the 2 and 4 accentuated? Or examples that you think are better for international style for some other reason? Thanks

The syllabus does not include either move, at any level (beginner, pre-bronze, b, s, g), but do international latin dancers sometimes include these moves anyway? If not, why not? Not sophisticated enough?

Somatic practices encourage letting movement in one part traverse through fascia and bones to create movement elsewhere, not as an affectation (artificial), but as being not "closed off". Yet latin and ballroom encourages still upper body with rapid lower body. How can they both be right?

I tried to delete this. Can't find how. I think I know: Swing dances generally don't travel around the room. I wondered if jive was different, even though it's based on ECS, just because of being included in the international competitive ballroom scene, but it's in the latin category...

Tango (not Argentine Tango) is part of the Ballroom division, not the Latin division. Its roots are in Argentina - a predominantly-Spanish-speaking country, so why isn't it considered a Latin dance? Here's my answer: when Tango went to Europe, the floor patterns and [rhythm] became more like...

Why doesn't International Latin include Salsa? Because salsa is a street / social dance? How is that different from cha cha or samba? Why doesn't the American Rhythm division include salsa? It includes mambo. Why mambo instead of salsa? Because mambo came first and got included before...

A "trot" is not smooth, it's jaunty, so how did Foxtrot get the "trot" in its name? If it started jaunty and later became smooth, that sounds like such a major difference that I would have thought nobody would use the same name without a modifying adjective like "smooth". I know it is based on...

The NDCA Bronze Hustle syllabus moves in a rhythm of "&1 2 3 &1 2 3". (Not "&1 2 3 ... &1 2 3 ... " Van McCoy's "The Hustle" has this rhythm: How do you fit the one to the other? I found 3 videos of dancing to The Hustle: 1. professionally produced - women dancing solo / ensemble...