Improve Your Swing Dance Reno By Taking Different Types of Swing Dance Lessons
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How You Can Improve Your Swing Dancing in Reno with Swing Dance Lessons of Different Styles.
There is no dance called "Swing"
What? What do you mean? I have danced swing so I know it's a dance! Well, you dance a style of swing. You could have danced Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, East Coast Swing, Collegiate Shag, Jive, Bal-Swing, Lindy Charleston, Carolina Shag, St. Louis Shag, D.C. Hand Dancing, Rodeo Swing, Ceroc, Modern Jive, Boogie Woogie, New York Bop or West Coast Swing or shit there probably are more that I can not think of.
Why is it called swing?
In the '20s the dance came along with the music of the day. In Swing music, the musicians play some notes late and then catch up in the next couple of beats. (in dance we call that light and shade) They call that swinging the beat. So when you dance a swing rhythm you will hold one of the steps longer. An easy way to see it is to use words instead of numbers 1 & 2 you can say, "dot, dot, dash" when doing a triple step. Most swings have a pendulum swing but some other swings like West Coast Swing have a metronomic swing.
What is the best swing dance?
Well, that is a good question. I have danced many different styles of swing in Reno and taken swing classes and taught lessons at the Ballroom of Reno in West Coast Swing, Carolina Shag, D.C. Hand Dance and of course Jive and East Coast Swing. So, what swing dance would I tell Reno dancers is the best? Hmmm....Subliminal West message Coast inserted Swing here...That's is something I can't decide for you but I will tell you dances like WCS are more forgiving and can be danced to contemporary music that does not swing, so bonus for the westies. That alone makes it more fun with the variety of music. Hand dancing dances to non-swinging music as well. But there are only West Coast Swing dance classes for adults in Reno and Sparks. Sooooooo, there's that. 😎
What other Swing Dance in Reno Should I Learn?
East coast is easy but if you are a West Coast Swing dancer it will not make your dance better. However, Lindy Hop would. Lindy Hop is the grandfather of WCS and the leveraging and connection will help you understand what it feels like even though westies now have a much lighter connection until they are trying to convey something unique to their partner. Also, if you ever can learn Carolina Shag Swing dance it will teach you a ton of footwork that we use in west coast.
If you want to be a better East Coast swing dancer, learn some Jive. It will increase your leg speed and help articulate your feet giving you a good bounce that those styles require.
All dancing in Reno is fun but if you never have danced swing, give it a go and you will find fun and exercise all at the same time.
Near the bottom of the page are three different video links. The first one will teach you East Coast Swing for beginner swing dancers in Reno.
But first, join us for our Two Left beginner Dance Camp you will be able to take a "donation only" East Coast Swing Lesson.
and check out the calendar class schedule and look for all the FREE beginner group classes that the Ballroom of Reno has each week.
This one without a partner but shows the first three patterns in East Coast Swing
This one is West Coast Swing and a bit more advanced (also with a partner)
Cheers,
J
Jeffrey has taught all over the United States but makes his home at The Ballroom of Reno School of Dance. He can teach anywhere but The Ballroom of Reno is a non-profit that touches the community through free group classes and other outreach dance programs, the 7000 square feet of the dance floor, combined with the wonderful people and no sales pressure attitude makes it the best ballroom dance studio in Reno Nv. Every week Jeffrey has a free beginner West Coast Swing class open to the public. Be sure to go to The Ballroom of Reno website for the class schedule.
The dances the pros teach at The Ballroom of Reno school of dance are Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, Argentine Tango, Bolero, Rumba, Cha-Cha, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Samba, Salsa, Mambo, Merengue, Viennese Waltz, night Club two-step, Country two-step Salsa on two, Bachata dance, Cumbia dance, Bolero, your first Wedding Dance, and many other social partner dances, club dances so you can go ballroom dancing or club dancing in Reno and Sparks NV!
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
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.&
Are Private Lessons Worth the Cost for Ballroom, Latin or Swing Dancing? Can I be super honest with you? Yes. Now you may be thinking he is only saying that because he makes his living teaching ballroom and west coast swing dance in Reno . But I will tell you the truth about learning to dance at my level. I have spent more money than most college tuitions charge on my dancing and 95 percent of it was on private lessons. It did not matter what the cost was because I would only study with champions. It did not matter if it was my Ballroom, Latin (yes, I used to compete as a Latin Ballroom dancer), or West Coast Swing coach, they had to be a champion. Why am I bringing up that I only took lessons with champions? Well, it's because I wanted to be a champion and that was the only way I knew to get there. Do you need to take lessons with champions only? Hell no! Why in the heck would you spend lots of money to get the information you might not be ready for? I even tell peopl
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