
Discover salsa basics for beginners, including rock steps, quick and slow timing, side breaks, and weight change, and build rhythm and confident body connectivity.
Prepare your space and posture, stay hydrated, and explore the four elements of movement as building blocks for weekly video practice.
Learn the four elements of ballroom movement—posture, tonality and connection, and brainpower—while building left-right awareness and four directions through box steps in foxtrot, waltz, rumba, swing, cha cha, and salsa.
Learn the basic waltz, mastering box timing and hesitation timing, then practice crossovers and fifth positions with a strong posture and open frame for confident dancing.
Master the ballroom rumba basics—from box steps and crossovers to first and fifth positions—using a four-beat rhythm with slow and quick timing and Cuban motion.
Explore the basics of swing dancing in ballroom 101, mastering triple basic, promenade, and continuous rock with fifth position transitions, while building frame, connection, timing, and lead and follow skills.
Learn the basic cha cha, including rock steps, progressive basics, crossovers, and fifth position. Discover how rhythm, frame, and weight change create a playful, social dance.
Master the basics of the foxtrot, including slow and quick steps, posture, and a smooth frame. Practice patterns like the promenade and left rock turn to dance with momentum.
Learn basic salsa fundamentals, including rock steps, side basics, and side breaks, with emphasis on weight change, tonality, posture, and dancing with rhythm.
Welcome to “Ballroom 101”, the very first place for single folks to begin your social dance journey; a journey to awaken and free that “inner dancer” you know is hiding somewhere inside you, secretly waiting to break out.
Do Any of these sound like you?
· “I have NO clue about the “right way” to approach partner dancing...”
· “I don’t have a partner, so there’s NO WAY I can learn ballroom dance.”
· “I think I might be a hopeless case because someone once told me I had no rhythm, and I believed it..”
· “When the music starts playing at a social event, I start to panic. I quickly and somewhat awkwardly move a “safe distance” from the dance floor.”
· “I make “pre-dance apologies” to potential partners who won’t take “No“ for an answer.”
· “I would like to learn to dance but I just can’t find the time to do it.”
Well, NOW you can put that all behind you…
Ballroom 101 is designed specifically for single individuals. There is so much you will learn, in terms of basic dance patterns, postures and rhythms without the need of a partner.
But, before we look at the course, let's look at some of the many incredible ways that learning to dance can enhance and even change your life.
· Dance is like exercise, but its fun exercise.
· It raises your heart rate and speeds up your metabolism.
· Dancing releases endorphins, serotonins and dopamine in your bloodstream that raise your spirit, make you feel good in your body, and can help chase away the blues.
· Dance done right, will naturally improve your posture, balance, and coordination. You will feel more alive in your body, which translates to greater confidence as you move through your everyday world.
· Learning to dance is one of the very best activities to support brain plasticity - keeping your brain active and healthy as you age.
· It’s an activity you can share with friends, family and partners for the rest of your life. You are never too old to dance.
· Most of all dancing is fun. Really fun. AND, Everybody loves a good dancer!
In the first lesson in ballroom 101, we’ll start by learning four elements of movement that are common in ALL dances.
These elements are like building blocks, that begin to create a foundation of skills from which more patterns can be learned in the future. from these four simple elemental skills we’ll build six popular ballroom dances…
The elegant Waltz, the romantic Rumba, the all-American East Coast swing, the cheeky cha-cha, the classy foxtrot and finally, the spicy Salsa!
These foundation lessons in Ballroom 101 have introduced thousands of new students, “singles AND couples”, to the unexpected simplicity of learning to social dance with a partner.
At the end of this course and with some practice, you’ll be able to get out on any social dance floor, feel more assured, more confident and have lots more fun!
If you’re ready to increase your self-confidence, look and feel better, meet new people connect more deeply with your dance partner and CREATE YOUR BEST LIFE… Now’s your time!
Click the "Enroll Now" button to start your exciting journey into the world of social dance and get the attention you deserve! I’ll see you inside the course!