Learning A New Dance

[Spitfire]

So what dance if any do you want to learn, but for whatever reason haven't as of yet?

I want to learn Viennese Waltz and have taken more interest in Foxtrot, which at first I wrote off as not being very exciting, but am now finding it to be more so enough to go beyond a few basics.

 

[fascination]

oh...all sorts...I'd like to learn more AT, more WCS, ballet...

 

[Ray Sison]

For me, Spitfire, I have pursued all the ones that I have an interest it--and steered clear of the ones that I have little interest in (and some of these are of the club variety)...

 

[Kits]

I want to learn the quick step. I like moving fast. Although my feet aren't that cordinated yet..

 

[Ray Sison]

To Kits

I want to learn the quick step. I like moving fast. Although my feet aren't that cordinated yet..

Kits: I agree on the Quick Step. And you'll get there--I know you will...

 

[jjs914]

I want to learn AT...and west coast swing.

 

[Chris Stratton]

I want to learn the quick step. I like moving fast. Although my feet aren't that cordinated yet..

Quickstep can actually be one of the easier dances.

There are of course elements of it that have to be practiced, but they respond fairly quickly to practice because they are about learning new motions in your body rather than building new physical strengths. In quickstep the pace of music lets your body weight cruise across the floor, but in the slower dances a lot of practice is to build the specific physical strength to move the weight with smoothness and control at a slower than initially comfortable rate of travel.

 

[Kit05]

Samba, lindy hop, and blues.

Also cha cha and rumba, I kind of already know them but since it's been so long since I've even danced them, I'll consider them "new" again. =)

 

[Ray Sison]

Samba, lindy hop, and blues.

Also cha cha and rumba, I kind of already know them but since it's been so long since I've even danced them, I'll consider them "new" again. =)

Lindy Hop is great fun!

 

[danceronice]

Samba and Int. Rhumba because I do the other Rhythm and Latin dances, and then I'd have the whole set.

Also, I'd like to be good at Quickstep, but as I'm not going to do any of the others there isn't much point in spending lesson time on just one Standard dance.

 

[TAK]

Paso. Someday. Argh.

 

[Izzy20]

Argentine tango and west coast.

I'd also like to learn more smooth. I can dance it socially but would like to know enough that I don't have nightmares about the waltz.

 

[Apache]

Apache... so hard to find a teacher for it.

 

[Lioness]

Foxtrot and AT...haven't learnt any of either

 

[Terpsichorean Clod]

Peabody! And jive (ever since I heard the song "You Can't Stop the Beat")! :bouncy: