Salsa is a fun and fast paced street-Latin dance originating in Cuba, the Caribbean and South America. The music is often upbeat and is played and danced all around the world.
The Waltz was first danced in locations of modern Germany and Austria between the 13th and 18th century, before managing to reach modern ballrooms where it revolutionized dance and fashion, becoming one of the most popular dances on Earth. We dance a modern lead-and-follow style.
Bachata is a Latin style of social dance from the Dominican Republic which is now danced all over the world. It is associated with bachata music and like salsa is a relaxed style of dance.
Swing dance comes from a group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s. The origins of each dance predating the popular “swing era”, originating in Harlem, New York. During the swing era, there were hundreds of styles of swing dancing. We dance a single and triple step.
The foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor. It is danced to big band (usually vocal) music. The dance is similar in its look to waltz and originated in the United States in the 1920’s.
The Cha Cha Cha is a popular social dance characterized by the “cha-cha-cha” rhythm, now commonly referred to simply as the Cha Cha. It is a Latin-style dance and is danced at ballroom competitions. The dance originated in Cuba and became popular in the United Stars during the 1950’s.
Rumba, also known as ballroom rumba, is a genre of ballroom music and dance that appeared in the East Coast of the United States during the 1930’s. It combined American big band music with Afro-Cuban rhythms making is slow and graceful.
Tango is a partner dance originating in the 1880’s along the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. It was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries, where natives mixed with slave and European immigrant populations. Many variations of this dance currently exist around the world.
Samba has its origins in Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century, rising in popularity in France during the mid-1920’s. The dance was made popular by actors such Fred Astaire and Carmen Miranda in movies from the 1930’s. The ballroom style of Samba, though danced different from its origins, is an extremely popular partner dance and is usually danced under the rhythms of Brazilian Samba music.
A light-hearted dance of the standard ballroom dances, fast and powerfully flowing and sprinkled with syncopations. Quickstep was developed in the 1920s in New York City and was first danced by Caribbean and African dancers. Its origins are a combination of slow foxtrot and the Charleston, a dance which was one of the predecessors to what today is called swing dancing.
What is now called the Viennese Waltz is the original form of the waltz. It was the first ballroom dance performed in the closed hold or “waltz” position. It is a fast paced (180 beats a minute) rotary dance where the dancers are constantly turning either in a clockwise (natural) or counter-clockwise (reverse) direction interspersed with change steps to switch between the directions of rotation.