Dance Rules

1) Don't push your partner.                    2) Don't pull your partner.                                            3) Don't turn your partner.

    no one likes to be pushed!                        no one likes to be pulled!                                           Your partner can lose their balance!

4) Don't teach your partner.                 5) Don't help your partner, focus your steps.                 6) Don't control your partner, dance with her.

     that is your teacher's job.                   If you know your steps everything is easier.                   This makes everything easier

7) Don't work, it should be fun.            8) Don't strike pose in the outside lane of the dance floor.        9) Don't dance clockwise.

     Work only during training.                  You will stop the flew of dancing.                                                 The rule is counterclockwise.

  10) Don't be rude! Be nice to your partner and other dancers. Share the dance floor

THE SIX LEVELS OF DANCING

Level 1:

Two people are just learning how to move in unison without stepping on each other and not hurting each other.

Level 2:

The man and lady should now dancing in time to the music while doing basic pattern and variation.

Level 3:

The man is now dancing more complex variations and patterns. They begin to use the space more interestingly with rotation and changes of direction while maintaining the floor.

Level 4:

The man stops worrying about his own steps and starts leading the lady with easy and control. This is when his leading skills excel and he understands what the follower needs. It is often the time and the man starts to show off his lady with more elaborate variation.

Level 5:

This is when the man and the lady start to play with the rhythms syncopations, changes, slow, quick's, accent and stops are all used and then the dancers can find the beat again to continue dancing.

Level 6:

The ULTIMATE LEVEL when it all come together. This is when the dancers become "the physical instruments" of the music. If a deaf person were to watch them dance, he/she could see the music through their movement and interpretation. This is when the man leads his lady to the stops, accents, energy level and mood of every song. Therefore, every song looks different because the dancers is inspired in that movement to feel that piece of music, and every dancer feel the same music in a different way and dance it different.