This unit covers topics like controlling speed, rhythm, musicality, and building combinations.

Class 1: Rhythm and Tempo 

This class discusses six of the various basic steps and rhythms that exist in country swing and how they are applied to match tempo with the music.

Class 2: Playing with Combos

This class investigates a number of classic moves and discusses how they fit into the framework of the Position and Transition model of dance, and how to use that model to build combinations, or alter them to create new combinations and patterns.

Class 3: Building Move Sets

This class investigates organizing moves and combinations into sets to better recall and execute moves quickly in time with music, including building a basic combo.

Class 4: Phrasing

This class explains how to structure the format of a dance to match the format of music, linking the two together and showing dancers how to prepare for move sets in advance, a critical aspect to improv.

This unit focuses on leading and following techniques and how partners express and interpret intent.

Class 1: Framing and Cues 

This class is a series of exercises aimed at developing effective leading and following technique crucial to quality social dancing, and presents a range of cues that help dancers perform specific actions. It also discusses how cues are determined by their intent, i.e. how their form is designed by their function.

Class 2: Driving Momentum

This class is a practical experiment on how a lead guides the momentum of themselves and their partner in order to create fluid and harmonic dance patterns, and how momentum effects timing, selection, and execution of moves.

Class 3: Reciprocation and Accommodation 

This class is an extension and combination of the exercises in class 1 and the experiment in class 2. Putting an emphasis on how interpretation of intent between partner is determined by their attention to each other, and how to accommodate for the unexpected when intent is not interpreted the same.

Class 4: Opportunity 

This class expands the skills in the other three classes by applying the concept of opportunity, or how to balance control between the lead and follow to allow for more mutually involved and playful dance found in expert dancers and social dance improv.