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Strictly Ballroom: You, Too, Can Learn to Dance
Blogged under Apparel, Costumes, DVDs, Hobbies and Crafts, Informational by Debi Martin on Thursday 10 April 2008

Was your man born with two left feet? You’ve got just enough time until the season of wedding party dances is upon us to teach him – and maybe yourself – how to move on the dancesport-ballgowns.jpgfloor with the greatest of ease. Chuck Reed’s How to Dance with Two Left Feet: A Comprehensive Guide to Real World Dancing ($60) offers hope to the rhythmically-challenged with simplified, sometimes humorous instruction on a three-disc DVD covers basics such as how to lead and how to find and follow the beat in the music. Direct your guy to How to Have More Social Success for  tips on the basics of dancing. The site, written by a self-described recovering socially inept awkward guy, says men need to know that they just have to be good enough to blend in with the crowd on the dance floor and not look like a dork. At Learning2Dance.com, you and yours can learn from a dance instruction video that timing really is everything in salsa, hiphop, ballroom, Latin, tango and more and will even make a custom DVD for you. Highly recommended is DanceTutor.com, because its instruction videos can be downloaded and watched frame-by-frame and in slow motion. A manual is still a good choice if you or your partner scored high in kindergarten on the “follows directions well” portion on your report card. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ballroom Dancing includes step-by-step photos that cover common ballroom dances and an instructional DVD ($17). Both you and your partner will feel like stepping out in official ballroom wear from DanceSport Ballgowns. For those who crave context, the dance manual section at Library of Congress includes much more than a history of social dancing in America. Video clips feature dancers in period costume performing dances like the Washington Post two-step against the backdrop of the Library’s Great Hall in the Jefferson Building.

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