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5 Things to Bear in Mind When Teaching Online Dance Classes
Whether you’ve been teaching for a month or a decade, online dance classes require different skills, mindsets, and equipment. As we’ve seen dance studios closed and human contact outlawed, the partner dance world has been moving online – which is welcome news to dance teachers looking for a way to
Misleading Online Dance Events Are Eroding Our Trust
It’s finally here: the day of the online event you’ve been waiting for. You scraped together the ticket money despite being furloughed, because taking classes with your favourite international teachers from the comfort of your flat is an unmissable opportunity. Yet when your classes start, the video keeps freezing, half
Will Online Latin Dance Classes Mean Female Teachers Finally Get Equal Recognition?
Not everyone is losing out in the COVID-19 dance world. On the face of it, the global pandemic has devastated the partner dance industry: festivals have been postponed, classes cancelled, and people’s willingness to dance with strangers is at an all time low. But amid all this, one group seems
The Myth of “Just Follow” – And Why It’s Wrong
Before I started leading, I knew how hard I had to work to be able to follow well. And I knew, because my dance partners told me, that not all followers had equal abilities. Yet I still, deep down, believed that followers “just followed”, like humans “just breathed” and fish

5 Things to Bear in Mind When Teaching Online Dance Classes Whether you've been teaching for a month or a decade, online dance classes require different skills, mindsets, and equipment. As we've seen dance studios closed and ...
Misleading Online Dance Events Are Eroding Our Trust It's finally here: the day of the online event you've been waiting for. You scraped together the ticket money despite being furloughed, because taking classes ...
Will Online Latin Dance Classes Mean Female Teachers Finally Get Equal Recognition? Not everyone is losing out in the COVID-19 dance world. On the face of it, the global pandemic has devastated the partner dance industry: festivals have ...

Shines in Salsa, and Why You Shouldn’t Be Dancing Solo Salsa dancing is not about boasting to your partner. OK, I admit it, we show off a bit. However, it's the fun type of showing off that's about your dance partner ...
How Learning Spanish Changed My Relationship With Latin Dancing Salsa and bachata dancers often tell me “I wish I spoke Spanish” or “I’m learning Spanish now”. They gush over how wonderful it would be to understand the lyrics of ...
You Can’t Separate Latin Dancing From Its Black Roots If you dance salsa, bachata, and other Latin dancers, you're dancing to music that has its origins not just in Latin America and New York but also in black African ...