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Linda Barrontine
and René Zgraggen, Montgomery, AL
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American Style
A type
of ballroom dancing which evolved from social dancing and is now a fully
recognized competitive style of dancing. (www.ballroomdancers.com) |
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Viennese Waltz
Instructions:
Demo of basic steps
(Source: www.ballroomdancers.com)
Play Clip
Competition:
Beautifully international style done by a couple of
masters.
Play Clip
Competition:
It doesn't get any better than this.
Ben Ermis and Shalene Archer-Ermis doing the American style V.
Waltz.
Play Clip
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Mambo
As opposed to Salsa Mambo,
the American style Mambo is more stylish, with more dramatic
poses and tricks. Most people have trouble breaking on the two
beat.
Music:
This is a rare clip of Tito Puente,
considered the best Afro-Cuban musician and timbales drummer
ever, demonstrating his incredible skills on the timbales.
Play Clip
Here, Tito plays
Mambo Birdland, a classic. He drives the band along with his
drums, representing a whole percussion section all by himself.
Play Clip
Music:
These are two clips of Perez Prado,
sometimes called the king of mambo, playing his very distinctive
style of mambo. He was very popular in the 50's and 60's and his
songs are still popular today. In the first clip he plays Mambo
No. 5, in the second, Que Rico El Mambo. As well, you can see
some mambo dancing, the way it was done more than 50 years ago.
Play Clip 1
Play Clip 2
Instructions:
Demo of basic steps (Source:
www.ballroomdancers.com)
Play Clip |
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Social and Night Club
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West
Coast Swing
Note that there are two basic
ways of dancing the W.C. Swing, the ballroom way (most ballroom dance studios
teach it this way), and the way the rest of the world is doing it. All the clips
below show the latter technique.
Instructions:
Demo of basic steps (Source:
www.ballroomdancers.com )
Play Clip
Instructions:
(Source: www.YouTube.com ).
Ronnie DeBenedetta & Brandi Tobias - West Coast
Swing Workshop - Capitol 2007. This is an excellent
clip, showing several appealing and interesting
intermediate patterns.
Play Clip
Performance:
Benji Schwimmer & Heidi Groskreutz's First Place
West Coast Swing performance in the Showcase
Division at the 2005 US Open Swing Dance
Championships
which won them first place. What can one say about
these two? Style, technique, shwomanship, flawless
execution. It doesn't
get much better than this.
www.USOpenSwingDC.com
. (Source:
www.YouTube.com )
Play Clip
Performance
: John Lindo & Blake Hobby at Dallas
dance. This impromptu performance is quite exceptional. It's
West Coast Swing at it's very best, improvisational, imaginative and
full of surprises, impossible moves and poses, and always full of enthusiasm.
But above all, it's FUN.
(Source: www.YouTube.com ).
Play Clip
Performance: Benji Schwimmer & Heidi Groskreutz
at
the 2001 US Open Swing Dance Championship, Showcase Division.
Another performance by the champions. Watch some of their trademark
tricks. (Source:
www.YouTube.com )
Play Clip
Performance: Freestyle by Robert
Cordoba And Deborah Szekely.
Sarah Fryman of Dothan, AL
writes: "This is a funny, sexy, and
breathtaking WCS."
Play Clip
Performance:
(Source: www.YouTube.com ).
Sarah Drake, Kyle Redd, Brandi Tobias & Ronnie
DeBenedetta Dancing Together in Paris - July
2006
Play Clip
Competition:
(Source:
www.YouTube.com ). Chris Bailey and Melissa
Foti competing at UCWDC Worlds 2008.
Play Clip
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Salsa Mambo
Salsa mambo
differs from American style mambo in that it is
usually danced to a faster beat and does not have
the same dramatic poses and tricks. It has a lot
more in common with swing or jive with the same
fluidity and lots of underarm turns and circular
variations. It can be danced on the one or on the
two beat.
Instructions:
Demo of basic steps,
danced on the one beat
(Source:
www.ballroomdancers.com )
Play Clip
Instructions:
Cristal Yorke and Iran Castillo
showing a nice Salsa variation.
This is not for beginners though. Learn the basic steps first. (Source: www.YouTube.com )
Play Clip
Demonstration:
Angelo Luzio doing the Mambo. Notice that Angelo breaks on the one
beat. Some nice variations for intermediate dancers.
(source:
www.bailahuntsville.com
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Play Clip
Social Dancing:
Notice that both, in the performance
and the social dancing below, the Salsa dancers
break on the second beat, rather than on the 'one' as generally
taught. However, breaking on the 'one' is quite acceptable in
Salsa, but never in ballroom Mambo. This is an excellent clip of
what's actually happening on the dance floor. Can't you just
feel the atmosphere? (Source:
www.YouTube.com
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Play Clip
Social Dancing:
Here is a couple practicing
to break on 2, which is a bit shaky. However, for social Salsa
dancers this is a good clip to pick up some nice variations.
(Source: www.YouTube.com )
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International Style
The
internationally recognized style of ballroom dancing
(www.ballroomdancers.com) |
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Country & Western |
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Two Step
Demo: (Source:
www.youtube.com
) Basic syllabus.
Play Clip
Competition:
(Source:
www.youtube.com) .
Ronnie DeBenedeta et Brandi
Tobias - City of Light 2007 UCWD
Play Clip
Competition:
(Source:
www.youtube.com) . Anthony & Nichole Lewis - UCWDC Open
Showcase - C-W Two Step at 2007 Peach State Country
Western Dance Festival in Atlanta
Play Clip |
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.
since 10/19/06
Published by René Zgraggen
Montgomery, AL
Dancing@renez.com
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