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I spent sometime today looking for video clips of rumba syllabus figures and found some good ones. According to this page on the USISTD site, the following is the international rumba syllabus. Rumba Pre-Bronze/Student Teacher Basic Movements Cucarachas New York Spot Turns Left and Right Shoulder to Shoulder Hand to Hand Progressive Walks Forward & [...]

These are some of my favorite Rumba songs. Amazon.com Widgets

Dance Vision is doing a holiday sale. If you buy 5 videos/DVDs, you’ll get 3 free videos or DVDs. This is almost 40% off for the entire purchase. There’s no limit to the number of times you can use this offer. These are the ones I’d like to get if my budget allows. The first [...]

When you dance latin dances, you need to be grounded. By “grounded,” I mean *the center of your weight should be low *when you step and transfer weight to a leg, your supporting leg should  compress into the floor *you need to have constant foot pressure on to the floor In addition to the groundedness, [...]

Here is the list of tempo for each dance (American style and International style) as specified by NDCA.   International Style Cha Cha   — 31 MPM (124 BPM) Samba     — 48-50 MPM (96-100 BPM) — 2 beats per measure Rumba    — 27 MPM (108 BPM) Paso Doble –60-62 MPM (120-124 BPM) — 2 beats per measure [...]

MPM (measures per minute) and BPM (beats per minute) Rumba is danced to a slow 4/4 (4 beats per measure) time music.  The American style rumba is faster with 32-36 MPM or 128-144 BPM than the International rumba (27 MPM or 108 BPM), according to the NDCA (The National Dance Council of America’s rule book. [...]

World Super Stars Dance Festival DVDs are always joy to watch. So far, I only have 2005, 2006, and 2007 DVDs, and the 2007 version is my favorite. Especially, I like Brian Watson & Carmen’s rumba and Jive and Slavik Kryklyvyy and Elena Khovorova’s cha cha. (This DVD is available from Danceshopper.com.) Although Carmen’s dress [...]