Dance Descriptions

This dance is both rhythmic & smooth and easy to learn. Great for weddings and is often danced to songs like: Red Red Wine, Home, and Stand by Me. To look good on any dance floor, learn to Night Club. This fun and funky dance is smooth, fluid, & stylish and is danced to some of the most popular music today blues, R&B, hip-hop, funk, jazz, & country music. Perhaps the easiest and quickest dance to learn and "Oh, so fun!" The music is funky and pulsating with a 4/4 rhythm. Disco Swing incorporates moves from hustle, swing, and jive. Lindy is an energetic, fun, social dance sometimes called the Jitterbug that is a fusion of jazz, swing, and Charleston. Dances in this section will prepare you for fun at the Blue Moon monthly "Club Salsa" dance. Popular in the Caribbean and Latin America, Salsa is an energetic and happy dance that is known for funky steps & styling, right turns, and cross-body leads. Originating in Colombia, Cumbia is a unique style of Salsa characterized by the dancers rotating, turning, and spinning around one another to rhythms of the Caribbean. Popular music from the Dominican Republic, Bachata is slow to medium paced that can be romantic or lively with basic steps, turns, and patterns that are easy to learn and fun to dance. A very popular dance in Latin America. This fun, energetic dance contains African and Cuban rhythms that meld into a Latin beat with Salsa styling. An upbeat, energetic dance with rolling Latin hip movement, Merengue originated in Latin America and is one of the easiest dances to learn. This slow Waltz is the epitome of ballroom dance characterized by elegant rise and fall action as the dancers move smoothly around the dance floor. The elegance of Ballroom Waltz will make an impression at any dance. Viennese Waltz is faster than American Waltz with the dancers gracefully rotating and turning around the dance floor. The dance to know for the faster Waltz music played by local bands and wedding DJs. Foxtrot is a "smooth" ballroom dance known for it's fluid, gliding movement. Foxtrot is danced to favorites like Moon Dance, Route 66, A Foggy Day, & Fever. Tango is a dance that originated in South America. In addition to basic steps you will learn fans, swivels, cortes, pivots, la puertas, kicks & points plus classy patterns and styling that are smooth and dramatic. A very popular Latin ballroom dance with patterns similar to those in Rumba. ChaCha is a fun dance for songs like My Maria, Smooth, Love Potion #9, and Oye Como Va. Swing is an upbeat, fun dance for Country or Rock music. Swing is often danced to songs like In the Mood, She Think's my Tractor's Sexy, Rock Around the Clock, and Honkytonk Badonkadonk. Rumba can be romantic or fun and is danced to Country, Rock, or Latin music. Songs like Kokomo, Cuando-Cuando, Amarillo by Morning, Falling Into You are often danced with Rumba. A versatile dance that works very well for weddings. Samba is an upbeat, lively dance of Brazilian origin that progresses around the dance floor. Samba is characterized by its bounce and rolling hip action and is danced to songs like Hips Don't Lie, Coco Jambo, and Livin' La Vida Loca.