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Cha-Cha
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Cha Cha is a fun, flirtatious up beat dance typically danced to latin music but can often be seen danced to the most recent chart hits.
Rumba
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Rumba is universally recognized as the dance of love. It is danced to slow, sensual music with a Latin beat and features a hip action known as “Cuban Motion.”
East Coast Swing
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This dance has its roots with the Lindy Hop dances done in the 1920’s and 1930’s. East Coast Swing is an energetic, fast dance, done usually with triple steps and rock steps to Big Band and even modern day music.
Bolero
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Bolero is a slow, beautiful, expressive dance that is somewhat of a hybrid. It combines the dance patterns of Rumba with the rise and fall action of the Waltz. Bolero is the slowest of all the American Style Rhythm dances.
Mambo
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Mambo is a fast and spicy dance characterized by strong Cuban motion, staccato movement and expression of rhythm through the body. Prerez Prado is credited with introducing Mambo at a Havana nightclub in 1943.
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Waltz
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Waltz is characterized by rise and fall and by sway on the side steps. The feet remain in contact with the floor at all times, creating a smooth, gliding look. Waltz has an elegant gracefulness with a romantic feel.
Tango
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Oh what a fiery and dramatic dance! American Style Tango evolved as a ballroom dance from the sultry Argentine Tango danced by gauchos and prostitutes in the brothels of Buenos Aires. Movement is stealthy, almost cat-like and has an unmistakable staccato feel and major dramatic attitude.
Foxtrot
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Foxtrot is the dance of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. This smooth and elegant dance had its beginnings in a New York theatre in 1914. The foxtrot is an all-purpose dance that can be performed to many different styles of music.
Viennese Waltz
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Viennese Waltz is characterized by its speed (twice as fast as Waltz) as well as a rise and fall and sway (less than Waltz). With its elegance and turns, Viennese Waltz has an air of magic about it.
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Cha-Cha
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Cha Cha is a fun, flirtatious up beat dance typically danced to latin music but can often be seen danced to the most recent chart hits.
Samba
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Samba is the national dance of Brazil. Samba is a fun, upbeat, lively dance that progresses counter-clockwise around the floor. It is characterized by its syncopated timing, bounce, and rolling hip action.
Rumba
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Rumba is universally recognized as the dance of love. It is danced to slow, sensual music with a Latin beat and features a hip action known as “Cuban Motion.”
Paso Doble
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Paso Doble is a stirring and dramatic dance based on a Spanish bull fight. The leader in this dance represents the Matador and the lady symbolizes his red cape. Paso Doble features beautiful body shapes and sharp, flamenco-like footwork.
Jive
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Jive is similar to a triple-step East Coast Swing. Jive, however, is much faster, and uses a lot of knee and hip action.
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Waltz
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Waltz is characterized by rise and fall and by sway on the side steps. The feet remain in contact with the floor at all times, creating a smooth, gliding look. Waltz has an elegant gracefulness with a romantic feel.
Tango
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Oh what a fiery and dramatic dance! American Style Tango evolved as a ballroom dance from the sultry Argentine Tango danced by gauchos and prostitutes in the brothels of Buenos Aires. Movement is stealthy, almost cat-like and has an unmistakable staccato feel and major dramatic attitude.
Viennese Waltz
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Viennese Waltz is characterized by its speed (twice as fast as Waltz) as well as a rise and fall and sway (less than Waltz). With its elegance and turns, Viennese Waltz has an air of magic about it.
Foxtrot
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Foxtrot is the dance of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. This smooth and elegant dance had its beginnings in a New York theatre in 1914. The foxtrot is an all-purpose dance that can be performed to many different styles of music.
Quickstep
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Quickstep is a fast, light, and elegant dance in which the partners seem to fly around the ballroom and execute a series of kicks, skips, jumps, and runs.
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Salsa
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This is a truly great club dance, one that is fun, accessible, sexy, and constantly evolving as new generations come to the Salsa clubs. Salsa is now danced to a huge variety of different music including, current popular music, with contemporary pop, rock, and R&B also added to the mix.
West Coast Swing
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West Coast Swing is smooth (no bounce) and danced in a slot. The dance allows room for syncopated footwork and improvisation. Followers have more freedom than any other dance, performing their syncopations at will.
Bachata
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Bachata is a dance from the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean islands. Both the music and the dance have been influenced by Cuban Bolero, the Merengue (also of Dominican Republic origin), Salsa and Cumbia.
Argentine Tango
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This gorgeous and improvisational style of dancing has its origins in the brothels of Buenos Aires in the late 19th century.
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Two-Step
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Often called the “Texas two-step” or simply the “two-step,” is a country/western dance usually danced to country music.
Merengue
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Merengue is a fun, fast and easy dance made up of simple steps.This dance encourages creativity as it’s fun and easy to create arms movements to go with the simple steps. Merengue is characterized by its marching rhythms and Cuban motion.
Nightclub Two-Step
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Nightclub Two Step is a slow, romantic, floaty dance that features rock steps and long glides across the dance floor. It is done to contemporary and popular ballads (“The Lady in Red”) is probably the classic Night Club Two-Step.)
Hustle
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The Hustle is the partner version of disco dancing. It is a fast moving, energetic dance characterized by its many turns.
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