How to Ballroom Dance with Etiquette
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2025
- Whether you’re on Dancing with the Stars, at a salsa club, ballroom dancing, showing off your moves in swing dance, flamenco dance, west coast swing, tango dance, rumba dance, etc…check out these top tips on dance etiquette from me...Dennis Lyle! I’ve trained dancers that have appeared on Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance, as well as some of the world’s best dancers, and have taught thousands of students to be smooth, comfortable, and confident social dancers.
In this video, I’ll discuss:
What to do before you go out dancing
What to wear
What to do when you arrive
How to ask someone to dance
What to do when you’re on the dance floor
Where to dance
What to do after the dance is over
And Much More
Check it out and hop over to theballroomteme... for more dance tips!
thanks! valuable advice!
One big faux-pas is unsolicited teaching to an unsuspecting partner who accepts your invitation to dance during a social dance. Unsolicited teaching causes a lot of followers to be turned off. They may even say "good-bye" to you and not dance with you even before you even step onto the dance floor expecting to dance with this partner.The problem is that unsolicited teaching destroys the enjoyment of social dance as it is. There is a time for you to teach unsuspecting partners but never on the dance floor unless the follower asked. Reserve that for lessons and workshops (usually happening before the real social dance happens). Even better, teach away from the dance floor--away from the line of traffic, so you never get into an accident--or your partner's.
Many years past, as a young and single, I danced with a lady who didn't know how to follow. in a few moments I knew exactly what was wrong.
this was not going to turn the dance into a total unsolicited teach, but it did need to be dealt with.
So, sympathethetcally, I said "Sweetie, it seems nobody told you that the majority of a man's weight is around his shoulders, not around his hips as is the case for women. so, If you want to control your man, grab his Shoulders!"
Instantly she caught on, and then could follow very well.
One way or another, I never danced with her again, maybe because there were other women around to dance with, and I often managed better with the latinas than the local Torontonians at the time.
Now, at age 71, it was one of many things I never forgot, as I can remember huge amounts of detail without a lot of conscious effort.
Interesting enough, that latin club (which no longer exists) is where I met a latina who had only been in Canada for 3 months. we went out for about 6 weeks duribng which I started to learn Spanish. When you do that, you "recruit" the whole extended family very fast. then love the fact that I could easily pronounce the Spanish very well.
By the end of that 6 week period, she disappeared, but this was at a time when Canada was tightening its immigration laws, and I surmise she was likely deported as an illegal immigrant.
Being one who loves public speaking, and now in the greater Montreal area, where I am frequently in public (in Canadian cities we use public transit much more than in an American city of comparable size - it is largely government run using government brokerage - a practise well used globally by the freight dforwarding and logistics industry.).
So I use all if my english, French and spanish on a regular basis.
To the younger generations, I also add "why am I doing this?"
"At 71 years old, I am not going to live forever, so what I have fought most of a lifetime to "exorcise" when it was too often abusively withheld by many. I do not want that learning to die with me, so in the sense of passing the Olympic torch, I am passing it to you, because you are the generation who are gong tom manage all this."
The majority take this very well, but as usual, there are always a minortity of sourpusses or "toxic people". Little do the sourpusses likely know, that if they show a negative reaction to this, even without saying a word, or in their parlance (in French; >, in Spanish " idioma ", both routine basic words in their respective languages), they may well be doing a lot of damage to their own social reputations there and then, by way of any third party observers/bystanders.
very important point
I love ballroom dancing and I bring my own partner my girl friend. Now it seems, its our responsibility that all single guys are entitled to multiple dances with my girl. This one night a particular guy during a bachata dance decided it was appropriate to act most inappropriately with my girlfriend, numerous times and I was deeply grieved and offended. later I was informed that all ballroom dancers are desensitized (like a frog in a pan of water their conscience has been boiled to death) and thats no big deal. Well it is to me, and since my partner lacks the temerity to tap a guy on the arm for fear she may offend the precious dance ediquitte which is worshipped by all, and tell him to act appropriately or simply push him away when dancing like that with someonelses girl, or better yet walk off the dance floor, she and I are will no longer switching partners. Etiquette shmetiquitte... in simpler terms it seems appropriate behavior is only one sided and this needs to be addressed, because in today sexually charged society it's deparately needed!
Are You aware Dennis that there are ONLY two forms of Dance articulated on every single SOCIAL Dance Floor in the World? Can You please tell us what they are and where they are to be Properly Executed?