Category: Ballroom Dancing
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Why Every Adult Should Take Salsa Dance Lessons
Salsa! It’s the dance I can’t stop talking about! Salsa is flirtation, it’s that look you catch someone giving you from the other side of the bar that makes your heart leap. It’s the thrill of meeting someone beautiful and realizing they like the same things you do. It’s a conversation of bodies which can…
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I Wouldn’t Pay a Nickel For a Dance Lessons
A student came up to me at an Arthur Murray event and said “Rocco, I wouldn’t pay a nickel for a dance lesson, but I’d pay just about anything to feel the way dancing makes me feel” I wasn’t sure what to say at first. Was he dissatisfied with his dance lessons, or was he…
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Dance For Health: Don’t Be a Couch Potato
It may sound morbid, but I promise it’s for your own good when I remind you that life is passing you by every moment you ignore it. I want you to take a dance lesson today, not tomorrow, not next week — today. Now. People who learn how to make something of their lives think…
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Dance Lessons Are Like Chicken Soup for the Soul
Life is full of emotions we want to express. Sometimes we’re overjoyed and we want to shout it out loud to the world, sometimes we’re sad and need someone to talk to. Sometimes we’re nervous or anxious or enthusiastic or nostalgic. Life is good, and it provides us with a plethora of feelings to express.…
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How to Beat the Winter Blues
December, January, February, and March are not easy months to endure. They’re cold and unforgiving, and in the wrong year a New Jersian can expect an aching back from shoveling snow, cracked lips from freezing wind, wet socks, frozen fingers, and iced over car windows. It’s no wonder why some people get “seasonal depression” during…
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Dance for Confidence: How Dancing Can Help You Look Good & Feel Amazing
Having confidence is the best way to feel good. It’s not the easiest way by far, but it is the most enduring. Some people look at the path one has to travel to achieve self confidence and they cringe. It can be hard and requires you to really dig deep within yourself. What’s worse is…
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A Dancer’s Guide for Busy Parents
You’re a parent! Since your baby was born, you drive 75% more often, and your house somehow smells different than it used to. Stains accumulate so quickly you can hardly keep up with them, and paying for college becomes a huge issue for the second time in your life. Being a parent is a bit…
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Ballroom Dancing: Zero to Ladies Man in 10 Lessons or Less!
Ten lessons. Seven and one half hours. That’s how long I need to take you from zero to 007, from goofy clutz to George Clooney. Ten lessons. I can peel you off the wall at every party and put you right in the center. It’s a pretty brazen boast, I know, but it’s one we…
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5 Ways Ballroom Dancing Keeps You Young
Ballroom dancing is one of those activities with no drawbacks. It’s fun, social, intellectually stimulating, it’s universally popular and respected, and it’s accessible to everybody. One of the often unsung benefits of ballroom dancing is its rejuvenating quality. Dancing is a primal expression of life, one humans have been using since before written history. Dance…