While we walk everyday, it’s not often we consider how to walk for an audience or how to “dance walk” to a piece of music. Dancers, models, and performers have practiced movement technique to make their struts more noticeable, strong, and even desired. Whether you’re planning an upcoming show entrance, choreographing a strut filled dance, […]
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Dream Big & Dance Better There’s nothing like a new year to help us reassess ourselves and create new goals for the months to come. As dancers there is always room for us to grow, so why not use the start of 2015 to check in, think about where you are, and where you want
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Lift, Dip, and Dazzle! Dance lifts and dips are two elements of ballroom and latin dancing that can be both very exciting and scary. Here at Bella Ballroom we have the pleasure of working with many wedding couples who are non-dancers but want to impress their guests on their special day. Dips and lifts definitely get
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Being single and having the urge to learn how to partner dance can be a rather daunting idea for some, however it does not need to be this way. At Bella Ballroom, our passion is teaching dance. This means we have a passion for teaching single dancers, engaged dancers, and married dancers. This also means
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Dancing is a sport most believe to be impossible to enter if you didn’t start dancing at 3 years old. There are certain styles that are definitely difficult to learn at an older age, as your body has not been manipulated to move in those ways; however, there are forms of dance that you can
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Social dancers who are new to a dance scene or club may have a harder time knowing how to get asked to dance. Without having an existing reputation or being a familiar face in a new dance setting, follows (and leads) can have a trickier time getting invited to share the dance floor. Read on for
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It isn’t always easy to find places to dance and a dance floor out in the real world to practice your moves. Sometimes you have to get creative in order to practice dancing. Here are some places that tend to work well as substitutes for a dance floor. 1. Living room, bedroom and/or kitchen floor
It’s always a little amusing to me when our Orange County dance classes students come in for their next lesson and they give me that look like they have a confessional. You know the look; similar to a puppy’s gaze after they’ve gotten into the trash. They don’t even need to say it… I already
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Different Types of Dance Partners: Social Dance Studio- As you start to venture out and try your new skills on the dance floor, you will notice all different kinds of leads and follows. Rather than get overwhelmed by the fact that the dancers are different than your instructor, I am here to help you identify
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MUSCLE MEMORY IN DANCE: LEAVE THE BRAIN AT THE DOOR Dancing can be frustrating for people when they are not getting the moves. There are so many elements to remember…place your hand here, don’t drop your arm, remember your foot work….ah! How do you keep up?! I always tell my students at Bella Ballroom (our
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