American Smooth in the UK

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gingerbread

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I just saw this ad on the ballroom UK site:
Learn to dance American Smooth and Latin-American Rhythm with DancePoint Dance Point, a new school of dance under the patronage of Dancesport UK has officially opened on 9 Jan 2007 with nearly a full house on the first night! We have a group of nearly 100 people (50% men 50% women) who made learning to dance their New Year Resolution for 2007 The courses on offer are American Smooth for beginners (Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Viennese Waltz) and Latin-American Rhythm for beginners (Mambo, Cha cha, Samba, Merengue, Rumba, Swing, Rock'n'Roll) We now only have a few places left, so if you wish to join us - don't delay more info .
That made me very happy. Is it true?
How interested are you Brits in American Smooth?
 
but he lived here, right? there are lots of non-american-born smoothies and rhythm dancers, training in the states... i think it'll be interesting to see if american style catches on outside the us.
 
I think it's not only great, but it's smart, too. A studio can only do well to be the first (or among the first) to offer different options. Not everyone wants to or will compete, and even some might like to try something different. I hope it takes off!
 
yeah, good point - imported pros will surely continue to migrate over to smooth/rhythm since there's additional competitive opportunity there. but will it catch on at the social level?
 
Rock'n'Roll is basically a very acrobatic form of swing/jive. It's danced and competed in the US, too, but outside of the usual USA Dance/NDCA circuit. (Although the US's rock'n'roll association just joined USA Dance as an associate organization.)
 
Cool! Maybe eventually there will even be world championships. :) (Fingers crossed.)

Laura's description of rock'n'roll is a good, simple one. Rock'n'roll was certainly very popular in France about a dozen years ago. A lot of teenagers danced it then.

Christopher
 
R and R-- Amer style

There has been a long dissertation on r and r on the swing site , which gives extensive background on its emergence.
Just finished teaching a 6 week course here. It doesnt have the cache that the current trend ( Le roc and Ce roc ) is having .

American style as far as pro. am. is concerened , is very unlikely. Again this topic was covered in previous posts, at length . The large class was probably in the London area. I doubt the provinces ( I advert. one, no interest ) will take off . The social type b/room is becoming very popular .
Between one of my prof. friends and I , we have 47 couples .
I,m going to introduce sq. rumba into my latin" social " class on my next course .
 
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