Best Ballroom, Latin, & West Coast Swing Dance Lessons in Reno

  West Coast Swing Dancing in Reno and Sparks Now when we say we have a swing dance club or are going swing dancing, we actually mean we have a West Coast Swing Dance Club or going to dance WCS.  They don't play East Coast Swing music but the music that triples you could dance ECS to it. If you don't know anything about West Coast Swing, let me give you a quick history lesson and explain the difference between swing dances.  The origins of our dance came from Lindy Hop.  Our music was faster, women wore heels and skirts or dresses.  Over the years the music started changing and slowed way down.  Followers put on jeans and low heel dance shoes and even the strike of the foot changed in how we dance it.   A great teacher named Skippy Blair was instrumental in popularizing it in the 50's when she was with Arthur Murray Dance Studios.  She told me that it was originally called "Western Swing" and her response was, "No one is going to want to dance country swing.&

  The Ballroom of Reno School of Dance is Partnering with the Boys & Girls Club! We are very proud to share the news that we received official notification from the Leonette Foundation that they are awarding The Ballroom of Reno our grant request for the funding to initiate the Dance With Me - Youth program for the Boys & Girls Club!! We would like to thank Mo Kachurak, President of the Leonette Foundation, and Mike Wurm Chief Executive Officer for the Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows . We cannot be more excited to have our very own Gerzon Chaves start teaching our first classes at the Boys & Girls Club. He won't be teaching ballroom dance in the Reno facilities...yet...but he has great plans to get them doing Latin dancing quickly and easily. It's gonna be awesome! Thank you to everyone involved in making this happen. We look forward to a long relationship in bringing dance to the future dancers of the world. Gerzon will be starting Bachta lessons a

  Ballroom Dance in Reno for Fitness and Mental Health? I am no doctor, I rarely even go to the doctor, but I do have several friends that are doctors.😁  They all agree if you move your body every single day that is a good thing.  So, all of you that love to "watch" Dancing With The Stars",  "So You Think You Can Dance", Dance whatever show, I hope it inspires you to get your butt off the couch and start dancing for yourself! There are so many videos, articles, and people talking about all the good dance can do for us. I am not going to write an article to convince you to start Ballroom, Latin or Swing dancing in Reno, Sparks or even the Carson areas.  Why? Because that is something you know you want to do or you don't.  So, I am going to go the other way. Some reasons not to dance You just don't want to.   What someone doesn't want to dance?  I know lots of people who don't want to dance, but they love the gym or running or playing tennis or

  Why would a ballroom dance studio have free adult group dance classes every week for beginners? That is a great question.  Other than the Ballroom of Reno being a non-profit dance studio in Reno NV and offering free beginner group classes as a way to create outreach to our community, they decided when they opened 9+ years ago that they wanted BOR to be different.   Being Different How I feel they are different is the Ballroom cares more about growing the dance community and making it affordable for everyone.  Some studios like  Arthur Murray in Reno have a free private lesson which is nice but how much can you really learn in one hour?  The Ballrooms group class is every week for an hour and you are usually repeating the same moves so you get comfortable and confident to move to the next level.  Another way the Ballroom is different is they have all independent instructors that charge their own rate and most are part of the introductory special of only $39 for two private lessons and

Best Ballroom, Latin, and West Coast Swing Dance  Community in Reno, Carson, and Sparks EVER! Thank you This is just a way to tell everyone to thank you for all the support and giving for our Two Left Feet Dance Camp.  We had a great time and lots of new to dancers showed up to play and lots of seasoned dancers were there.  We appreciate and adore you all.  We would not be in existence if it were not for you and this fundraiser would not of been a success without you. Here are just some of the photos from Saturday... Instructor Desiree showing Country Two-Step turn... New and Old dancers of all ages in class... These are a couple of my favorites because both of these are just a couple of the experience dancers that should up to give support... Here are Mariah and Andrea from Embrace teaching Salsa...or bachTA not bachada like I say it 😎 New students learning Salsa!... Gerzon and Lisa switching it up from teaching Salsa and Bachata and now teaching Foxtrot!  You go G! The Longest Day (

  West Coast Swing in Reno is So Much More Than Just Dancing What do I mean it is more than just dancing?  Well, we are a dance family.  If you are new to The West Coast Swing Community from Sparks, Carson, and Reno areas you will discover that having this common bond, everyone just seems to come together and you start to miss people when they don't show up for a couple weeks.   Monthly West Coast Swing Club Dances We have great WCS dance clubs that meet once a month. There is a great one in Reno called Biggest Little Swing Dance Club or as we call it BLSDC (Balistic) Here is a link to the website  http://blsdc.org/  and Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/BiggestLittleSwingDanceClub    Carson has a really fun club called High Sierra Swing dance club  http://hssdc.org/ Don't forget about our sister club in Sacramento!   Capital Swing Dancers Dance  https://www.capitalswingdancers.org/ Weekly Classes I have three weekly classes at the Ballroom of Reno School of Dance Studio.    G