DanceMentor
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What would you say are the top 5 cities in the World to find the very best dance instruction for ballroom dancing?
Where are the best dancers?
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Chris Stratton
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Cities are good for sustaining a community of dancers, but quality of coaching really seems to be an individual thing - it doesn't matter where you study, it matters that you have access to someone who can really help you. If you define the best coaches as those who have students at world- or blackpool-finalist level, it's a pretty short list, and so necessarily a handfull of home locations. If you can't study with someone like that all the time, then I think the next best thing is to work with them a few times a year, and then seek out a more available coach who can best (compatibly) assist your development between those infrequent appointments. But there's more to dancing that just coaches, so in the end, the best locations are probably those that have a suitable everyday coach or two, but are also places where you can have a partner, and a non-dancing life.
tanzsegler
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The best cities in the world to find dance coaches. Where is your partner located? Your dancing friends? Your competitiors? They are some of the people who will be most critical of you if you ask them to.
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Warren J. Dew
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I'd say four of them are London, Surrey, Tokyo, and New York. There's probably one in continental Europe somewhere, too.
Chris Stratton
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Maybe the answer depends on knowing a few folks travel schedules...