Program Details

The featured dances are:

Latin, with Merengue and Rumba, and Ballroom which includes Foxtrot, Waltz, and Tango, plus Swing and Toe-Heel Polka, and the fun “Line” dances. Students learn steps, rhythm, body posture and style as well as the history and background. Understanding the basics and performing them in a correct form while working cooperatively with a partner leads directly into recreational dancing, for sheer pleasure or for competition, where couples can exhibit their accomplishments before judges.

The residency course culminates in a Ballroom Extravaganza or Ballroom Breakfast to celebrate the accomplishments of the children in a festive, fun and joyful manner with their parent, teachers and school mates including the display of literacy components (poetry, art work).

After all exhibitions are completed, a team of 12 students are chosen by audition at each school to dance at the “Colors of the Rainbow” Team Match (as shown in the documentary film “Mad Hot Ballroom”).