Wedding Dance Classes: From the Audience’s Perspective When students come in to take wedding dance classes for the first time, I understand the nervousness. It is scary to start on a venture you don’t know anything about, one that you don’t know if you are good at, and creating a performance for your friends and family […]
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Social Dance Etiquette 101 In any social setting we have to be considerate of others. Those in the social dance scene should know that the dance floor has it’s own set of rules and considerations. Being respectful and aware will make people enjoy accepting a dance with you instead of avoiding you, fearing a potentially
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Ballroom Dancing for Confidence Building There is something about the way dancers look. Because I go to Chapman University in Orange County, I am surrounded by the dance world, and no matter what, you will always find someone who dances. Maybe they’re that person in your class constantly showing up to class clad in baggy
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Hazardous Hair! A Ballroom Dancing Danger… I never considered my long hair to be hazardous until I started ballroom dancing. As a solo artist, doing head flips and tight turns with loose hair is a fun way to create dramatic movement accents. In a worse case scenario, hair might end up in the face to which
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Suelto! Soloing in Salsa Dancing We all know salsa as a form of social dance involving two participants who engage in a spontaneous call and response of movement. Usually their hands or a closed frame position will connect them, creating a conversation of push and pull. So what happens when the dancing duo separates? Every
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Working at a Dance Studio in Orange County: Working in a dance studio, as an office manager, is about so much more than answering phones, responding to emails, scheduling, and cleaning. A couple months ago, I came into this studio not knowing what to expect, not knowing how people would respond to a new face,
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The ‘First’ First Dance While the first dance between a bride and groom is commonly accepted as a modern European and American wedding tradition, it is uncommonly known why. There are various theories to how this ritual began. One explanation comes from the Eastern European idea of a formal ball. The old-fashioned concept of “opening
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Surprise, Surprise… Wedding Dance Surprise! One of the best parts of being an instructor at Bella Ballroom is getting the opportunity to help people plan for an upcoming surprise. Not just any kind of surprise… but a DANCE surprise. In my book this is undoubtedly the best kind. I’m the type of person who will
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As a communication studies major with a political science minor, I am constantly hearing about ethics and morals. In terms of a dance studio, I feel it is important to address the dance code of ethics and morals, or at least the importance of attitude when learning about dance. It just so happens that while
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It’s been a phenomenon lately to do everything on a larger scale than ever before. You know, the huge romantic gestures for things as simple as a prom proposal. And it is not like the trend has not reached as far as proposals and first dances either. While I myself believe it is kind of
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