Social Dance: Steps to Success (Book) 2nd Edition

Move with grace and feel confident on the dance floor-step by step! Social Dance: Steps to Success will teach you all the moves for eight popular dance styles: Swing Cha-cha Fox-Trot Polka Waltz Rumba Tango Salsa/mambo Each step in the progression teaches you a new skill, then builds on those skills to develop creative dance routines. The first few steps provide a solid foundation of the basics to help you understand alignment, musical structure, and footwork synchronization with the music. As you progress, you will also learn how to lead and follow, move from one dance position to another, combine dance variations into sequences, and much more. Every step also explains why the concept or skill is important, identifies the keys to correct technique, helps you avoid common errors, and explains how to practice each skill. To help you practice, a compact disc is included that features eight tracks of training examples for identifying beat, measures, and general characteristics of the music, as well as 11 tracks covering instrumental practice music for each style of dance covered in the book. Written by master teacher and dancer Judy Patterson Wright, this book is part of the Steps to Success Activity Series-the most extensively researched and carefully developed set of sport skill instruction books ever published.