If you want to learn how to ballroom and
latin dance for fun, for your wedding dance, to releave
stress, to take part in dance competitions or simply for a great
workout, you have come to the right place. Our studio provides private,
semi-private, group or party dance lessons. We service Brampton,
Woodbridge, Toronto, Caledon, Mississauga, Orangeville, Thornhill,
Maple, Richmond Hill and the GTA.
Our professional staff will provide you with fun and easy instructions
which are proven you get you dancing after your first class!
Our professional dance instructors will be able to teach you all the dances
available in the Latin and ballroom categories, including: waltz,
tango, foxtrot, quickstep, rumba, cha cha, samba, salsa, meringue,
bachata, swing, jive, paso doble, club style, and much more...
DID YOU KNOW...
The word 'ballroom' denotes a room where balls may be held: that is:
formal social dances. Balls were important social events in the days
before radio and television (as in 'having a ball'). The word 'ball'
derives from the Latin 'ballare' meaning 'to dance'. The figures in the
modern ballroom dances have now been standardised and categorised
into various levels for teaching, with internationally agreed
vocabularies, techniques, rhythms and tempos. But it was not always
so.These 'Standard Ballroom' dances have diverse origins. rhythms,
tempos, and aesthetics, but have one thing in common: they are all
danced by a couple (usually a man and a lady) in 'Closed Hold',
maintaining five areas of contact between the partners while performing
all the figures of the dances.The peculiar ballroom dancing "Closed
Hold" possibly had its origins in the time when men wore swords while
dancing.As most men are right handed, it was conventional to wear the
sword and scabbard on the left-hand side of the belt, to facilitate the
drawing of the sword with the right hand. It is hard to draw a sword
with the right hand with the scabbard on the right. Thus if a man was
to put his arm around a lady's back, she would have to be on his right,
or she would keep tripping over the sword. For a simple promenade
around the floor, the man would naturally take the inside of the
circle, so that his sword did not hit the legs of the audience around
them, and the woman would be on his right arm on the outside of the
circle. They would then have to promenade anti-clockwise which is
probably the origin of the anti-clockwise progression of the ballroom
dances around the floor.
WOODBRIDGE
4000 Steeles Ave. W. #18
Wodbridge, Ontario
L4L 4V9
1 block West of Weston Rd. |
BRAMPTON
59 Main St. North
Brampton, Ontario
L6X 1M8
at Queen St. |
Phone: Woodbridge: 905-850-2742
Brampton: 905-595-0951
Email: info@artofdancecenter.com
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