Ballroom

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

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

A great Ragtime dance craze article with Turkey Trot and Argentine Tango

This is a great article mostly for the images and layout of the newspaper, it’s such a well designed spread. There are also right ups about and images for the Read More

LuLu Fado Take Two!

Since my initial posting I’ve made an interesting find, I may have stumbled across the names of the those responsible for the introduction of the dance into popular culture, both here Read More

Ragtime Ballroom

Ragtime ballroom dancing rapidly evolved involving many experimental forms and fusion of old and new styles of dance.

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