Steve Holdener Mambo is a highly energetic Latin musical form and dance style. However, it is not to be confused with a Mamba also known as The Black Mamba, a very deadly snake in sub-Sahara Africa. The word mambo (“conversation with the gods”) is the name of a priestess in Haitian Voodoo derived from the…
Tag: Ballroom Dance Club
Clubs & Classes, June 2015
Let’s Dance and SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Clubs
Steve Holdener The Viennese Waltz, also known in German as the Wiener Walzer, is quite different from other forms of waltz. It is a rotary dance where the dancers are constantly turning either toward the leader’s right (natural) or toward the leader’s left (reverse), interspersed with non-rotating change steps to switch between the direction of…
Clubs & Classes, October 2014
Ballroom Dance Club – swing to the beat
Steve Holdener I love a song that has a nice swing beat. In SaddleBrooke we like to dance to both an East Coast Swing (ECS) and West Coast Swing (WCS). There is both commonality and differences between the two swing dances. They are both social partner dances and belong to the group of swing dances;…