Social dancing is a casual form of dance. You rock on up in casual clothes, people don’t always wear dance shoes, and there’s no pressure to perform. You’re there to enjoy. The atmosphere of a freestyle is relaxed and there’s a feeling that anything goes. But there is an etiquette. You might not realise it….
People often comment how they’d love to learn to dance. But when you suggest modern jive classes, they come up with excuses. They can’t dance, they’ll be useless, there’s no classes near them, they don’t have the time, and it would cost too much. But dancing doesn’t have to be expensive – in fact it’s…
While most people attempt to dance at some point in their lives, even if it’s just a shuffle round their handbags in a club, or a bit of a dad dance, there’s not enough dance on television in my opinion. This has been increasing in recent years (especially if you’ve got more than Freeview on…
Modern jive is a social dance and that means there’s the chance to get social. Ok, so it’s about dancing too, and many people are there to learn to dance, then get hooked and want to improve to be the best that they can. But the social side of the dance scene can bring out…
With the number of modern jive options available in many areas now, venues are having to work harder to retain their dancers as well as to get beginners in. If beginners don’t get hooked that first visit, the likelihood is they may find something else to do instead of dancing. And the better dancers become,…
Apart from as a child and teen, being in my dance school annual shows, I’ve never done choreographed dances.. Certainly not within a partner dance context. But this weekend I went to the local west coast swing flash mob workshop. I probably can’t make the actual flash mob in September, but I thought it would…
When I started this blog, there was only one other standalone modern jive blog which launched around the same time. Ok, so some modern jive organisations have a few articles on their websites but none seemed to be regularly updated. With lots of discussions going on in Facebook groups or forums about modern jive, I…
