Comment on [Link] Social dance and cognitive maintenance

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:47:52 GMT

I (like everyone else) will assume you mean social dancing, like swing.

In which case, my number one advice for efficiently learning is DON'T BE SHY about asking for dances.

So many new people in the swing community have very slow growth because they don't pro-actively seek out dance partners. The ones who get best the fastest are the ones who spend the majority of songs actually dancing, NOT just hanging around hoping someone will ask them to dance!

Most mid-sized cities have at least one swing community. Most decent-sized colleges have a swing club, and they almost always allow non-students to participate. Just Google " swing". I recommend social swing to ballroom.

Classes are good, and will teach you things step by step, but you then have to go to open dances to practice what the class taught. I would say at least 3 hours of open dance per hour of class. (These are cheaper too!)

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