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Breakthrough and Dance Like Nobody Is Watching
“Dance like nobody’s watching,” may be overused! It’s still true. You are taking dance classes because you want to learn to dance, or improve your skills. If you and the rest of our students were already world champion dancers, you wouldn’t need dance lessons, and we...
More Variety Makes You a Better Dancer
I believe that learning several different styles of dance can help you to become a more versatile dancer. The reason for this is that many of the dances you can learn at Chicago Dance share similar elements, and having variety in your classes will help improve your...
What are Your 3 Proven Principles to Learn to Dance
In reading a very interesting article about fitness training, I was thinking about how the concepts apply to dance instruction and training. There are a lot of coaches, instructors (and students) that espouse one method or other as being the best, the only "right"...
What to Wear to Ballroom, Latin, Salsa, Swing and Tango Classes
One of the most frequent questions we hear at Chicago Dance is “What should I wear?” Your shoes, clothes, jewelry and personal grooming are all important things to consider before heading out to class. Shoes are always a new student’s biggest worry. Most new dancers...
Romance, Dance and Courtship
This is a very interesting article about dance from the Harvard Medical School. Dance allows females to discover the quality of a male's genes through dance, demonstrating his health, stamina and neuromuscular control. Ah, courtship. That crazy time when you’ll do...
When should you start preparing your wedding dance?
How far in advance should we start preparing for our first dance at the reception? We have a year before our wedding. Make your wedding dance part of the planning from the very beginning. If you start right away, even a year before your wedding, you will have much...
NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER!
Are you ready to make a move?