Contact us to schedule a workshop for your group and to find out when we will be in your area. Workshops are available for every kind of partner dancing. Workshops are available for all levels from people who have never danced before to advanced dancers and dance teachers. Workshops are available both to dance groups and non-dance groups interested in learning to dance.

Social Dancing

These workshops are for social dancing. Social dancing puts the social nature of dancing first. The goal is for two people to dance as one to the music. The most important job of a dance teacher is to provide an opportunity for people to dance. The next most important job is to teach people how to get along with one another at dancing.

Workshop Take Aways

In this fun workshop, you learn the principles that apply to every social dance. You learn to move as one with your partner. You learn to improvise to the music. Everyone learns to lead and follow the same way. You learn to communicate once. You apply the same principles in all your dancing.

You learn non-judgmental social dancing. You learn to dance with everyone everywhere. People become more respectful. Your group becomes more socialable. Everyone is able to have more fun.

You learn to dance without the use of force. People dance safely. Your experiences are more comfortable.

You learn to lead and follow unambiguously. Your communication is clearly defined. The rules are written down. Everyone knows what to do without confusion. You have a common language to talk about your dancing. Teaching social dancing is easier. Students get better faster.

Attendees receive a beautiful, laminated card with Weitzen's ABCDs of How To Dance With a Partner.

How Does the Woman Know What To Do?

Men and women have been social dancing together seemingly as far back as the eleventh century. Since that time, the big question has been how does the woman know what to do? For the last one-thousand years, every dance teacher has answered this question, and they have all been wrong. Some of what they say is good, some is bad, and sometimes they make up a story. Neither the teachers nor the students know which is which.

Dancing with a partner is a math problem. Andrew Weitzen first published the solution to this problem in 2007 in an ebook called Partnership Dancing. Weitzen showed there are four elemental patterns that make up all the figures in social dancing. Weitzen's three laws of balance, connection, and direction, define the choreography of the woman. Everyone is leading and following using these three laws without knowing what they are doing.

Weitzen presents the solution in the format of the ABCDs. A for Attitude lists these ten objective values for social dancing: safety, courtesy, comfort, teamwork, naturalness, freedom, clearly defined, easy, fast, and universal. The three laws meet all ten of these values.

What the Lady Does Is Simple in Theory but Challenging in Practice

In social dancing, we have two things, (1) the rules that define the choreography, and (2) the techinque for moving. Another way to say that is (1) what to do, and (2) how to do it.

When the lady is standing on one foot, she can step forward, backward, to the left, to the right, on the four diagonals, or she can turn to the left or the right. That gives her ten things she can do. The man also has those ten things available to him giving 100 combinations on the first step. Adding a second step gives 10,000 combinations without considering time, distance, or arm movement. Therefore, there are two many possibilities for the lady to know what to do based on choreography.

Whether she knows or not, the lady is following simple rules that apply to her every movement. Those rules are the three laws of balance, connection, and direction. These rules tell the lady what to do.

For the same reason, because there are too many combinations for the lady to know what comes next, the lady's technique, that is how she moves, must always be the same for the specific movements the man asks her to do.

In this workshop you learn both what to do and how to do it.

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The author books have been purchased in Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and elsewhere. The author has given workshops in Canada, the Philippines, and around the United States at educational institutions including the University of Florida, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Texas RGV, University of Wisconsin LaCrosse and for other groups in Chicago, Colorado, Detroit, Ft. Lauderdale, Maine, Miami, South Texas, Virginia, and elsewhere.