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The Dances

The Dances

Here are a few of the dances we teach. You may start working on your Waltz and find you’re more of a Bachata person, or you may find that you’ll have to learn them all.

A bachata class in full swing at Big Apple Ballroom — dancers framed between two partners in the foreground, a student mid-step at the center of the floor.

Bachata

A couple wrapped close in a balboa hold, cheek to cheek and grinning, in the red glow of the speakeasy bar.

Balboa

Michael and Jackie in a close embrace at the bar — a slow, romantic bolero in black and white.

Bolero

Two dancers arms spread wide mid-cha-cha at the NY Nightlife Showcase — white suit and panama hat beside a sequined gown.

Cha Cha

Three dancers in fringe flapper dresses and headbands mid-Charleston kick at the NY Nightlife Showcase bar.

Charleston

A couple mid-foxtrot — she in a long white gown and black hat, laughing over her partner’s shoulder as they travel down the floor.

Foxtrot

A couple in black stepping in sync through a hustle at the NY Nightlife Showcase.

Hustle

Jerry leaping mid-air behind Vanda, who lunges toward the camera in a yellow fringe dress — jive at a Big Apple Ballroom show.

Jive

A dancer mid-spin in a full-circle dress printed with vintage movie-star faces, red trim flaring — lindy hop on the studio floor.

Lindy Hop

A dancer in a hot-pink feathered top mid-laugh with her partner — merengue on the studio floor.

Merengue

A couple with arms raised together under green and violet club lights, dancing nightclub two step.

Nightclub Two Step

A couple dancing Paso Doble in a dim ballroom, the leader in a black and gold matador jacket sweeping a red cape low across the floor while the follower turns beside him in a lilac ruffled gown.

Paso Doble

A couple in vintage dress trotting side by side across the floor at a Big Apple Ballroom Salon Series night.

Peabody

A couple airborne mid-polka hop on the competition floor — bright green ruffled gown beside a black tailsuit.

Polka

Competitors mid-quickstep at a DanceSport ball, the follower’s purple gown flying as the couple travels past the judges.

Quickstep

A couple in casual dress in a deep rumba dip — she arches back over his arm, studio-lit against a plain backdrop.

Rumba

Black and white: a dancer in a fringed dress hits a deep extended line, her partner crouched low beside her — salsa at the speakeasy showcase.

Salsa

A swing couple mid-step at the NY Nightlife Showcase — her ponytail flying, the band clapping along, in black and white.

Swing

A couple mid-gancho in an Argentine tango on the gala floor at the City's Dancesport Challenge.

Tango

A couple sweeps through a Viennese waltz on the competition floor, the follower’s pink-and-green gown caught mid-turn.

Viennese Waltz

Jaren and Enxhi in an oversway on the competition floor — black tailsuit and a turquoise ballgown mid-swirl.

Waltz

A West Coast Swing group class at Big Apple Ballroom, couples practising in loose rows under purple lighting with the studio’s logo on the wall behind.

West Coast Swing

Tybaldt dips Vanda in a deep zouk cambré, both in white, red light cutting through the haze at the NY Nightlife Showcase.

Zouk

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