One of the great things about modern jive is that it’s easily accessible. There’s no modern jive dress code, no requirement to wear a specific style of outfit. You can just turn up in what you fancy. Jeans are popular, with leggings now popular for girls, dresses for those who like to dress up a…
How to save money on your dancing habit
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…
The ‘quirky’ things modern jivers do
When you take up modern jive, you never know what you’re going to get from it. Hopefully you’ll learn to dance if you can’t already. Or improve your dancing. But you might not have realised you’ll be picking up some habits and quirks that you’d have thought a little strange before you started dancing. Things…
Accessibility of social dance – what’s in my dance bag
The brilliant thing about social dancing is how accessible it is for most people. Apart from class costs (and potentially travel costs if you can’t share lifts, walk or cycle), there’s virtually no outlay when you’re starting out. You don’t need special shoes Just smooth soled shoes that stay on your feet are fine. So…
Are dance shoes essential for modern jive?
I’m a big believer in having the right tools for the job. Having danced a lot as a child, there was a uniform, and that included the right dance shoes for the job. Ballet needed basic ballet shoes, plus character shoes post grade 2, and then pointe shoes later on. Modern dance needed jazz shoes….
