What is
Choreographed Ballroom Dancing (also known as "Round Dancing")?
This
is a unique form of social ballroom dancing. Dancers come
together at local clubs and organized functions and clinics
throughout the United States and abroad to learn a new dance or
two and add it to their repertoire. These dances are
choreographed, as a ballet is, to a specific piece of music. The
dance routines and dance figures conform
predominantly
to international ballroom standards and
consist of all the standard dance rhythms ... Waltz, Rumba, Cha
Cha, Foxtrot, Tango, Bolero, Jive, West Coast Swing, etc.
Choreographed Ballroom Dancing, sometimes called Round Dancing,
has evolved over the past fifty years and has an ever-expanding
inventory of over ten thousand choreographed dance routines.
The dancer learns the
routines as well as the names of all the dance steps in each
rhythm so that when the music is played the couple can follow
the cues that are spoken on the microphone by the Cuer, just in
time to prompt the next step to be danced. It is this aspect
that makes Choreographed Ballroom Dancing especially unique. It
is also challenging for the mind as well as the body and a joy
to behold as every couple on the floor dances each routine in
unison.
RoundaLab and
ICBDA
(International
Choreographed Ballroom Dance Association) set the standards for
this type of dancing. Watch videos and learn more at
DanceRoundOutYourLife.com.
