Our Beginner Courses are separated between an Introduction Course and Beginning Essentials. For first time drop in dancers, the Introduction Course is the way to go. For dancers who want to work toward a skillful knowledge of country swing dancing and progress to advanced material, the Beginning Essentials course provides the basis of understanding the vocabulary, concepts, and movements that will allow them to make the best of more advanced classes.
For first timers, this short course can be completed in two nights and will get the greenest of dancers having fun on the floor. Covering both the basic steps and concepts of social dancing as well as presenting a range of fun and exciting moves, this course works as both a pick up class for a one-shot night of dancing, and a foundation for learning more advanced moves in the future.
For beginning dancers, and those who want to learn more about how to build combination moves in the future. This two unit, eight class course is guaranteed to make any dancer more knowledgeable in the universal patterns of positions and movements that exist in partner dancing.
When you have finished the Beginning Essentials Course, your opportunities and options grow. Any of the seven units in courses 3 and 4 can be taken in any order. With the strong foundation developed in Course 2 Beginning Essentials, students will see an acceleration to their development in these intermediate level classes.
This course, comprised of four units, focuses on developing different movement patterns and actions that can be added to the concepts learned in Course 2. Completion of the whole course will result in a repertoire of moves that will make every dance fresh and exciting.
This course is comprise of three units, each devoted to a concepts and skills essential to quality social dancing: structuring, communication, and stylization. If you are finding that your dances seem rough, jaunty, disorganized, or bland, these courses are what you are looking for to polish up your skills, effectively communicate with your dance partners, and add flair to your dance.