A Fun Old School Cha Cha Cha Combination For Your Repertoire.

This combination was taught at the 1962 Chicago National Association of Dancing Masters Ballroom Workshop by Grace Hanson. The combination is entirely socially leadable and features a side by side Read More

Pachanga: The Little Known Dance That Almost Took America By Storm.

In 1961 New York City dance halls, a new sound was being heard, it wasn’t the driving rhythms of the Mambo or Merengue, nor was it the undulating Cha Cha Read More

Mixing It Up With

Reviving A Classic Ballroom Dance and Mixer In 1936 a sound and was being introduced to New York city ballrooms by Cuban band leader Eliseo Grenet. It didn’t take long Read More

The Peabody: Saving An American Original (expanded edition)

In my article I revealed that it is possible that the Peabody was named after the infamous New York police captain William Frank Peabody. I have been able to find Read More

Staying Alive! Original Latin Hustle, It’s Not What You Think.

So you’re probably saying right now – “Sure, but why should I care about some old disco dance?” A Few Quick Points on Why Latin Hustle is the Bomb! I love, Read More

Those Crazy Kids! ; Collegiate Dance In The Roaring 20’s

This article originally appeared in the 2016 Jan-Feb edition of American Dancer Magazine, a publication of USA Dance. The full magazine can be viewed online at AmericanDancer.org

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Teaching Lindy Hop the Old School Way

I recently purchased the Dancing Masters of America; Description of Dances Taught book for the 1940 convention and promised to share some of the material with those that follow me online. Read More

A Paul Jones, Mixers, and Elimination Dances

The following information is from the 1968 4th edition printing of Dance A While by Jane Harris, Anne Pittman, and Maryls Waller. I’ve chosen the following pages to provide readers the opportunity to Read More

Mixing It Up! The Forgotten Art Of The Social Dance Party

NOTE: This article was originally published in the American Dancer magazine May-July 2016 edition. I have included the article as it originally appeared below. If you have any questions, ideas, Read More

Heel Leads in Ballroom Dancing are Optional and Here is Why

In walking based dances such as Fox Trot, Waltz, and Tango one of the first lessons taught in dance studios is to walk “naturally” forward using a rolling heel to Read More