How to Dance to the Beat of the Music

Dancing to the Beat

Male: The most important thing in Swing Dancing is to dance to the beat of the music. You could know all kinds of flashy moves, tricks, flips, but if you are not dancing to the beat of music, it is not going to look good. We are going to listen a little bit of swing music right now and just practice going side to side to the beat of the music

Female: As we go side to side, we want to keep our weight over the front part of our feet, over the balls of our feet. We want to keep our feet shoulder with the parts and we want to bounce a little bit with our knees on the upbeat. So, it goes like this, step bounce, step bounce, step bounce, step bounce.

Male: Let us try that from behind. Okay, you just learned the first four beats of the six count dance. That is the side to side or the slow-slow of the whole thing.


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