“10 Checkpoints to Help Your Dancing”

Changing Lives through Dancing by David Woodbury                                      

Arthur Murray Santa Monica

Try these 10 tips to Summer-ize your Dancing!

  1. Plan your dancing events for the rest of the year. Showcases, Medal Balls, and all available events in your studio.
  2. Get a new pair of dance shoes, perhaps even smooth, rhythm, and practice shoes.
  3. Couple Medal Ball sequences with Closed and Open Categories. You will be prepared for any competition event.
  4. Up your lessons to two per week and attend 2 groups per week plus parties.
  5. Have a regular second teacher and dance with both instructors.
  6. Perform a spotlight on a party night.
  7. Shop around and purchase a new smooth and rhythm outfit.
  8. Practice by yourself regularly in your school. Use the mirrors and utilize the lesson music that is playing. Practice makes permanent. Great and continuous practice makes a champion dancer. Create a dance notebook and use videos.
  9. Find a like-minded armature partner in your school and perform a solo with them and then practice closed and open routines. Having a dance partner can make all the difference. Go to competitions with them.
  10. Lastly, invite your friends, family and work associates to come in and watch you and attend a party. Let them know about the Guest Party. They may get inspired and start dancing as well. Plus, this greatly improves your confidence as a dancer and a performer.

This list can be longer. My advice is to just fall in love with your dancing! Take it as far as you can and do all that you can. Say yes to every event and competition and dancing opportunity available. Let your teacher know how you feel. Convey your desire to dance more with your franchisee. Tell the other students that you want to best the best dancer possible. Make the time and find the tuition and cultivate your desire to grow in your dancing. Plan the “moon and the stars” and fulfill your dreams as a ballroom dancer.

Thanks for reading,

David Woodbury