[ Site Index - View all pages on this site ]
(www.twosteptidewater.com
The Best smoke free Country & Western two step (2-step, Texas two-step),
Ballroom, Latin (Cha Cha, Salsa, Rumba Meringue), Disco (Hustle), West
Coast Swing (WCS), Night Club two-step, Swing Dancing for all of
Go To: [TwoStepTidewater Home page] [Links and other places to dance] [This Week At Two Step Tidewater Virginia] [Future Dance Events]
[Dance
Tips Menu
*************************************************************************************************
Two Step Tidewater Sunday Dance News
*************************************************************************************************
(01/16/2009 20:08 wh)
This week we decided to go back a little bit and look over some previous dance tips. Since Judy and I have had the pleasure of introducing many people to dancing through our Chesapeake Parks & recreation lessons we thought this would be helpful. From February 2003: Things I have learned in dancing: by Walter
When I first decided to take up dancing it was because the few good dancers I noticed a parties seemed to be so confident and having such a great time.
Looking back, I'm not sure if they were truly good dancers or just looked good to me, a non-dancer. I was one of those who avoided parties and school functions if they involved dancing. I had no idea what a Ballroom dancer was or looked like.
With all this in mind I was like countless others who decide to learn how to dance. I thought that you went into a studio, took a few lessons that involved memorizing some steps and you became a dancer.
So, to get back to the main subject, what I learned in dancing:
First I learned that dancing is much more complicated that I imagined.
Then I learned that I never will be done with learning. Once I became enlightened the fun began.
I learned that taking lessons would get a person nowhere unless practice was involved.
I learned that as a rule all dance students had a beginning and mostly were pretty helpful to others.
I learned that as different as the dances seemed at first, they become more similar over time.
I learned that unless you use patterns and moves they are soon pushed back into the cobwebs of forgotten memories.
I learned that although you memorize steps you cannot recall them fast enough to react while dancing. Soon we depend on reflexes, muscle memory and habit to make us dance. It becomes more and more automatic.
I learned that dancing develops your confidence and reflexes and balance and circulation and muscles.
I learned that I have many more friends than before.
I learned to study dancing and try to pick out the skills necessary to lead, socialize, teach and maneuver on a social dance floor.
I learned that dancing is two way communication between the leader and follower.
I learned that it's the little things that count the most when working on dancing skills.
I learned that my dancing looks much worse on video tape than I want.
And finally, during the last few years, I learned to view dancing as a happy activity. Not one to get too uptight over.
From all of this, I have developed two rules, which I ALWAYS try to employ in
my own dancing - and to teach others
1. HAVE FUN - "If it's not fun, don't do it."
Dancing is not about "divorce court" from you dancing partner, and
2. DON'T HURT YOUR PARTNER (or anybody else on the
dance floor).
Pay attention to where and how you dance, always keeping this as a guiding rule. Dancing can, and should be a wonderfully smooth and exhilarating experience; but, remember, your partner can't have fun - if you are jerky or try to do jazzy moves that you can't lead because you don't know them; because your partner doesn't know them; or because the crowding or condition of the dance floor is not conducive to that move at that time.
***********************************
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.
***********************************************
Any other ideas???
Mail it to us
<<--Return to
Dance Tips Menu
Go To:
[Two Step Tidewater Home] [This Week At Two Step Tidewater Virginia]
OUR POLICY: Webmasters; You are granted permission to copy any content from our web site, provided that you provide a link to http://www.twosteptidewater.com (Contact us by email if you would like a reciprocal link). We are always looking for ways to make Two Step Tidewater Virginia THE PLACE for dance information in the Tidewater area (Norfolk VA, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake VA, Suffolk VA, Portsmouth VA, Newport News VA, Hampton va, Hampton Roads VA, Yorktown VA, Gloucester VA, Jamestown VA, and Williamsburg VA) - and for other dance events or dance locations which are of interest to Tidewater (Southside and Peninsula) area Hampton Roads dancers. We prefer to exchange links with other dance-information sites. To add a dance link, or exchange links with your web pages, email Will Harper or Walter Schultz. Worthy dance events, may post to our web site by emailing a cut-and-paste ready announcement. Your announcement can be just a text announcement or even a full web page. We will host an ongoing web page, at no cost, for Tidewater Area dance-related activities, without their own web page. Be sure to include date, time, cost, contact and location information for your event. In exchange, we ask that anyone posting to our site, include a reference to www.twosteptidewater.com on your site and/or in your intra-group's mailing list emails. (Not just C&W. We'll include Ballroom, Swing, WCS, Disco, Folk, or just churches or other clubs with dances.) We will attempt to post/remove events within a couple of days - but we cannot accept responsibility for missing an event or any other reason. We will attempt to verify ALL links, to prevent any offensive or off-topic links, but, again, cannot be responsible for other's.
Webmaster: Will Harper
( http://www.willharper.com , http://www.hyperlearn.com , http://www.unityren.com , http://www.parkwaymfg.com http://www.holyhi.com http://www.niman-meyers.com )
(www.twosteptidewater.com The Best smoke free Country & Western two step (2-step, Texas two-step), Ballroom, Latin, Disco (Hustle), West Coast Swing (WCS), Night Club two-step, Swing Dancing for all of South East Virginia (VA) or North East North Carolina beaches areas (Norfolk VA, Virginia Beach VA, Chesapeake VA, Suffolk VA, Portsmouth VA, Newport News VA, Hampton va, Hampton Roads VA, Yorktown VA, Gloucester VA, Jamestown VA, Williamsburg VA, Hickory NC, and the beaches and outer banks of North Carolina (NC)