Advanced Sequence Dances

(4 minutes)

Published by: De Fino Ballroom Studio - Florida - March, 2025

This is a beautiful dance, but made with simple steps most people could easily learn. (Within a dance class not just by the video.)

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Ten Sequence Dances Set A Barclay Blues New Vogue Modern Waltz Berringer Blues Charmaine Foxtrot Spanish Waltz Portland Swing White Rose Foxtrot Rumba Dubai Tangoette Woodside Waltz

Ten Sequence Dances Set C Alpha Waltz Bambi Blues Blenheim Stroll Catherine Waltz Emerald Rumba Excelsior Schottische La Bomba Tango Lucille Waltz Mayfair Quickstep Swing Waltz

Ten Sequence Dances Set B Carousel Foxtrot Cheney Blues Cherry Tree Saunter Killarney Waltz Magnolia Waltz Montague Quickstep Tiger Eye Tango Tracie-Leigh Waltz Twilight Waltz Rumba Loui-Anne

Ten Sequence Dances Set D Fiona Polka Linden Swing Saunter Shiraz Sindy Swing Emmerdale Waltz Tango Serida Westlynn Waltz Merrilyn Schottische Parma Waltz Red Rose Saunter

By necessity there are some well known dances that will get lost. We can't maintain an ever increasing list of dances, it's not possible.

Changing the Sets suggested Above?

First, I've not been active in sequence dancing for 20 years. I don't know many of these dances at all. Many dances I've included in Set A, Set B, Set C, and Set D, may not deserve that importance FOR BEGINNERS.

I notice that the quick dances, jive, samba, cha cha are under represented. Also some of the "swings" are not danced in quickstep time. Also the distinction between Viennese waltz turns and modern waltz turns has often been lost. And of course many men don't distinguish a chassé turn from waltz turns.

Dance Scripts are intended to accurately describe a dance for teachers. But dancers need different language to describe what they are doing. Accurate names like natural turn and reverse turn are useful, but many dances have a set of steps that need words you can say, that tell the dancer what to do, that can be "said" as the steps are danced, in time, and also alignment if possible.

If this initiative is to have value, we need to work on the Lists A, B, C, and D, to make sure as best we can the essential dances for beginners to learn are included. I know that means some beautiful dances you might love cannot be included because it's also necessary to keep variety in EACH of the lists.

Here is suggested template for building FOUR SETS from a clean slate. I've tried to do this, and the lists I built are fresh and interesing. But there are people here who know much more than me, and who might do much better.

I've created a WhatsApp group calked "Sequence Dancing Beginners" where we can talk about these issues.
Follow this link to join the WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Kx4Wyt9aE81DnKbgJQzNNH?s=sh

If you want to see a list of the above forty dances and the EIGHTY dances (incomplete) excluded that page is here.

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