Learn the other role

All you want to do first is to take a styling class. Why is this? All of our styling classes have completely taken out any gendered-biased learning and have parts and pieces of all aspects of dance, so it’s a good way to start warming up both your legs and both your arms for the journey ahead! Let’s start working on being ambidextrous.

Congratulations! Now the next big step you want to take is understanding what symmetry is. It can be tricky at first but once you get the hand of it, I promise, it’ll make everything easy. We know it usually takes some time to master so we’ve prepared this course with begginer steps so it is easy to comprehend. Take your time, you have two weeks for this one!

Now that we can dance solo a little bit and also understand what symmetry is, let’s start with the basic vocabulary. This one is very easy, they’re simply 14 basic bachata concepts we want you to know very well. They’re very fast videos of 1-5 minutes long and you have a week! Let’s do this! We have the same for kizomba and for salsa if you explore the classes if you need them too.

Let’s work on connection this week! For this one you need a partner, or various ones. And we want you to understand connection and work on body language and weight shifts! It does not matter if you’re here for kizomba, bachata or salsa. Make sure you go to our kizomba course and scroll to the Technique Excercises Class! You have one week to be constantly practicing this excercise!

Oki! Are you ready for what comes next? Puzzles! Yes, that’s it! You reaaally want and need to take this puzzle class. Understanding how creating a dance works is fundamental, it doesn’t matter if you’re learning to lead or to follow, you need to understand how combinations work so we create new ones.

Now that you know all about symmetry, puzzles, beginner concepts and names, a bit of styling and technique. How about we start diving into moves? Try one of these two this week. Let’s start with cool stuff you can use tonight in the social.

Oki! You know all the fundamentals so we’re sure by now you can ace your way through the beginner’s course!! Some classes you should be able to simply listen to them by now but most of them hold important information you must know. Take your time and really dig in this course for after you complete it you can safely dance the other role in socials!

Ok, let’s go! Are you ready for a full combo you can do in socials? Whether you’re learning to lead or to follow, let’s try this class, shall we?

Ok… we’ve been holding out but… are you ready to try some rolerotation? The very first class of the school. Let’s do this! We can do this!

It’s time to step it up a little bit, let’s try some more complicated arm technique so we start adding texture to your repertoires and techniques. This week, let’s work on arm techniques.

You might have noticed by now that sometimes you end up doing basics on a loop thinking about what’s next… or watching your lead thinking for moves… That’s completely normal! That’s what this class is for!

Let’s complicate things a little bit now, shall we? Let’s add check turns. By now you should be able to take dance classes in both roles. So can we please ask that this week you take this class twice? We know you can do it: once as a lead and once a follow. Let’s do it!

Let’s learn two moves with the fundamentals Giving and Stealing now from Elena and Dennis from Berlin. We know you’re going to nail this class! We know it’s rolerotation but we still ask you to do it twice! Since you will ALWAYS learn double.

Congratulations!!! You made it!! Four months! They passed fast, right? You are more than ready to take on this class now in both roles. We hope you’ve loved this journey with us and now you can text us every Tuesday, tell us where you feel you are in your journey and we’ll recommend where to continue next.