Every Man's Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing: Ace Your Wedding Dance and Keep Cool on a Cruise, at a Formal, and in Dance Classes - Softcover

Joseph, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093025144X ISBN 13: 9780930251444

Verlag: BlueChip Publishers, 2010

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Overcome your fear of dancing!

New to dance? Can't dance? Hate to dance? This book is an insider's guide to social dancing. It's everything you should have learned in dance classes, but didn't.

Are you rhythmically challenged? Do you finish dance classes more confused than when you started? Do you wish you knew how to slow dance?

In this book--part guerrilla manual and part cotillion handbook--you will learn how to walk onto any dance floor and perform an admirable dance, with any partner, to any music, with confidence and grace. That's the ultimate goal of a social dancer.

Learn the essential principles common to all music, rhythm, and dance. Despite the title, this book will help both leaders and followers. Really!

You will learn:

• A foolproof method for hearing the beat of the music.
• How to count music. They don't teach that in dance classes.
• The correct way to count step patterns (dance figures--the fancy moves). Dance classes often mess this up, which adds to your confusion.
• Three dance rhythms: single, double and triple rhythm, the building blocks of all dances.
• Three simple rhythm patterns (the pattern of weight changes) that will get you through any song.
• The basics of leading and following.
• Slow dancing, survival dancing, surviving the wedding dance, and how to fake a dance.
• 17 easy exercises (most you can do without a partner).
• Plus, free instructional video clips at iHateToDance.com and HearTheBeatFeelTheMusic.com

This book has the tools everybody needs to know to make their partners happy.

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This book does not teach specific dances. It's a foundation book focusing on the basics. It's a book to read before your first class, as well as during your first year of classes. What you will learn is the rhythm pattern, the pattern of weight changes, for 18 common partner dances. You need to know the rhythm pattern for a dance before the first class because it will not be be explained or adequately communicated in a class.

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Learn the basic principles common to all music and dance, enabling you to walk onto any dance floor and perform an admirable dance, with any partner, to any music, with confidence and grace.

This book is for non-dancers, newbies and beginners. Part guerrilla manual and part cotillion handbook, this book is an insider's guide to social dancing:

• Learn a foolproof method for hearing the beat of the music
• Learn to count music (they don't teach that in dance classes)
• Learn the correct way to count step patterns (i.e., dance figures)
• Learn dance rhythm: single, double and triple rhythm, the building blocks of all dances
• Learn three simple rhythm patterns (i.e., the pattern of weight changes) that will get you through any song
• Learn the basics of leading and following
• Learn slow dancing, survival dancing, surviving the wedding dance and how to fake a dance
• 17 easy exercises (most you can do without a partner)
• Free instructional video clips at ihatetodance.com

Whether you fear dance, can't dance or hate to dance; or whether you're rhythmically challenged or just new to dance; or whether you've finished dance classes more confused than when you started, this book has the tools a guy needs to know to make his partner happy. (Ladies, despite the title, 95% of the book's content will help you too.)
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This book does not teach specific dances. It's a foundation book focusing on the basics. It's a book to read before your first dance class or if you're struggling through your first year of classes. What you will learn is the rhythm pattern for 18 common partner dances because knowing the pattern of weight changes for a specific dance before you step into the first class will give you a head start--and help you survive.
James Joseph used to hate to dance. He struggled to learn dance so he simplified the process and that's reflected in how he teaches. He took his first beginners' class in 1984. Since 1996 he has trained under Skippy Blair, a Swing Dance Hall of Fame member, and who is considered by many the teacher of teachers. He's now a GSDTA certified dance instructor.

Reseña del editor

Learn how to satisfy a woman on the dance floor. Part guerrilla manual and part cotillion handbook, this book teaches the basic principles common to all music and dance, enabling you to walk onto any dance floor and perform an admirable dance, with any partner, to any music, with confidence and grace.

This book is an insider's guide to ballroom dancing. It's for non-dancers, newbies and beginners. Whether you fear dance or can't dance or hate to dance; or whether you're rhythmically challenged or just new to dance; or whether you've finished dance classes more confused than when you started, this book has the tools a guy needs to know to make his partner happy. (Ladies, despite the title, this book will help you too.)

Hear the beat, move your feet: * Learn a foolproof method for hearing the beat of the music * Learn to count music (they don't teach that in dance classes) * Learn the correct way to count step patterns * Learn rhythm: single, double and triple rhythm, the building blocks of all dances * Learn three simple rhythm patterns that will get you through any song * Chapters on: slow dancing, survival dancing, the wedding dance, how to fake a dance, and more * 17 easy exercises (most you can do without a partner)

Free instructional video clips at http://ihatetodance.com

JAMES JOSEPH used to hate to dance. He took his first beginners' class in 1984, and he may hold the record for the most beginners' classes ever taken. He's still taking them. Since 1996 he has trained under Skippy Blair, who is considered by many the teacher of teachers. His current aspiration in life is to become a geriatric ballroom dance gigolo on cruise ships--but he's not old enough so he kills time by writing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BlueChip Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 093025144X
• ISBN 13: 9780930251444
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 149
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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