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.
