Secrets of Great Dancers to Partner Dance With Anyone

Name: Secrets of Great Dancers to Partner Dance With Anyone
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Overcome Your Excuses and Learn 6 Specific Ways of Partner Dancing Like A Great Dancer

Created bySamuel Phillips

Last updated 10/2017

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What you'll learn

Practice this 1 element of connection in dance to lead or follow anyone around the dance floor regardless of the style of dance.
Discover little known ways to style and add your own personality to your dancing.
Express confidence in your dancing and learn how to tell what your partner wants from the dance.
Demolish repetition and boredom. Uncover in musicality 1 thing to have a unique dance every time even to the same song.
Uncover the Dos and Don'ts of dance in technique. Explore the correct way to bring attention and elements of danger to your dancing.
See how you can eliminate your excuses from dancing in movement. 5 minutes of practice can change how you move forever.

Course content

8 sections • 26 lectures • 1h 32m total length

Introduction Video7:55
Learn the building blocks of partner dancing, from connection and personal sound to confidence, musicality, technique, and safe movement that lets you dance as one with your partner.

One Technique to Lead or Follow anyone on the dance floor introduction2:24
What is Grounding?1:01
Ground yourself through grounding by keeping contact with the ground to maintain balance and respond instantly to movement, ensuring you move with changes and stay connected to your partner.
Why is grounding Important?2:12
Grounding creates a clear channel of communication by maintaining balance and center of gravity. It lets the lead guide hips and feet with frame and tension for fluid movement.
How do you obtain Grounding?3:23
Learn how grounding anchors both followers and leaders on the dance floor by slowing movements, freezing frames, and focusing on balance, posture, and body weight shifts to enhance connection.
What else can you do with grounding?9:39
Explore how grounding and connection in partner dance enable space awareness, hands and body communication, and personal expression to the music while keeping partners safe.

Little known ways to create your own dance expressions introduction.3:35
Discover how to add your own personality to partner dancing by expanding your comfort zone, exploring the space between predefined patterns and footwork, and mastering the magic between the dots.
What, Why, and How: Magic Between the Dots2:59
Discover the magic between the dots by inserting deliberate, personality-filled moments into basic steps, express yourself within the dance structure, and keep movement controlled.
What else can you do with Magic Between the Dots?2:43
Explore how to translate daily movements into dance using the magic between the dots, experimenting with tempo, count patterns, and between-step motions to build confidence on the dance floor.

Confidence by tuning your connection introduction1:59
Develop confidence by tuning your connection with your partner and making mindful adjustments to match their experience, focusing on connection rather than overwhelming them.
Scenarios you will face on the dance floor when tuning connection is needed5:29
Explore three on-the-floor scenarios and master tuning your connection to display confidence, keep partners looking good, and adapt with playful, responsive movements.
What, Why, and How does tuning your connection works?1:56
Tune your connection with your partner by a quick pre-dance check, read their expressions, and adjust to what they want to feel confident in social dancing.
What else can you do with tuning your connection?1:49
Tune your connection to read what your partner wants, then adapt a single move into three variations by adding or removing elements, boosting confidence and musical storytelling.

Musicality and creating a story Introduction3:52
Master musicality in partner dancing by telling a story with movement through rhythm, mood, and song phrases. Interpret changes in rhythm, melody, and instrument layers to create unique, expressive dances.
What is creating a story and Why is creating a story important?3:32
Create a storytelling approach to your dance by linking movements to the song’s mood, emotions, and musical elements, then adapt speed, direction, and levels to reflect the music.
How to create a story?4:55
Learn to tell a dance story by mapping plot, conflict, climax, and emotion to routines and solos, using tools, music, and adaptable character dynamics to captivate partners.
What else can you do with creating a story?2:18
Learn to use musicality to tell a story through restrained movement, balance, and connection. Contrast the music with deliberate partner movements to express time and space.

Technique and using contrast introduction3:13
Develop technique and contrast for partnering with anyone by using efficient practice, injury prevention, and layers of simultaneous movements, and by mastering fast-to-slow transitions.
What is contrast and Why is contrast important4:35
Discover how contrast in tempo, motion, and mood drives engaging partner dance, shifting from high to low intensity and planned motions to capture attention and create anticipation.
How contrast works?3:19
Discover how contrast in partner dancing creates mood by moving opposite to music, grounding movement in connection, style, and storytelling through musicality.
What else can you do with contrast?2:18
Explore how contrast emphasizes emotions, adds variety, and keeps dancers engaged by interpreting music's structure on the dance floor, while using contrasts to challenge partners and recover from mistakes.

Movement and ease of movement introduction2:22
Develop effortless transition between moves, balance, and partner connection to dance with ease. Learn to express emotion, musicality, and adaptive communication for confident partner dancing.
What is ease of movement?4:30
Master ease of movement by grounding from your core, aligning hips and feet, and using gradual resistance to guide transitions with a relaxed partner connection.
How is Ease of movement done?3:23
Learn how easy movement in partner dance comes from engaging the core, transferring weight between steps, and practicing walking variations—line, circle, semicircle, crisscross—to build muscle memory.
What else can you do with ease on movement?3:10
Explore expanding footwork and timing variations in movement, using counts from 1 to 8 to create musicality, while practicing lead and follow communication, spatial awareness, and decor in partner dance.

Requirements

Just the willingness to practice what you learn.

Description

At someone point you will have the opportunity to dance. And let's face it. Unless you are physically disabled, anything other than taking the dance floor will come across as being shy, uninteresting and boring. I understand, You feel awkward. Have 2 left feet. Don't have the 20 years experience.

Listen, those are excuses and poor excuses at that. Dance is a language, and like a language you do not have to know every dip, flip, turn pattern, footwork trick, or technique to feel comfortable on the dance floor. This course is designed with structure to teach you principals of partner dancing so you're comfortable on the dance floor.

These principals: Connection, Style, Confidence, Musicality, Technique, and Movement applies to any type of partner dancing. And when you understand these principals, it makes understanding the different styles of partner dancing a lot easier.

Understand, You won't be auditioning for dancing with the stars. But you will be confidence enough and know enough about movement to never be afraid to walk on the dance floor again. In this course I'm going to show you specific ways to modify the movements you're already doing and use it on the dance floor.

We will explore 6 traits that all great partner dancers share:

Connection
Style
Confidence
Musicality
Technique
and Movement.

And give you a specific action steps to accomplish a specific goal. Such as:

Being able to lead or follow anyone around the dance floor.
Creating your own dance expression based off your personality.
Knowing when to keep things simple and when to challenge your dance partner.
Having a unique feel to your dancing even to the same song.
Creating different layers and dynamics to your dancing in a lazy way.
Changing your movements in 5 minutes to never be afraid to walk on the dance floor.

Each trait has a single obtainable goal, and list:

Exactly what it is
Why it is important
How do you do it
and What else you can do with it in your dancing.

Who this course is for:

Anyone new to dancing should talk this course.
Anyone who wants to unlock the "unspoken" rules of dancing which takes years to learn from experience should take this course.
Take this course if you want to get on the dance floor with confidence and to have a deeper understanding of motions, contrast, grounding, musicality and techniques as it relates to partner dancing.

Secrets of Great Dancers to Partner Dance With Anyone

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 8min

Start Here: 6 Concepts Great Partner Dancers share1 lecture • 4min

Connection: The One Technique To Lead Or Follow Anyone Around The Dance Floor.5 lectures • 19min

Style: Little known ways to create your own dance expressions.3 lectures • 9min

Confidence: Fulfill your partner needs without asking what they are4 lectures • 11min

Musicality: 1 thing to have a unique dance every time?4 lectures • 15min

Technique: Lazy way to add layers to your dancing and look different from others4 lectures • 13min

Movement: In 5 minutes you can change how you move forever.4 lectures • 13min

Requirements

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Who this course is for: