The two statements below reflect our beliefs in Round Dancing and what it is and can mean to your life. It is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend quality time with your partner and your friends. It is also one of the healthiest activities to be found in any walk of life. If you haven’t experienced Round Dancing yet, give it a try. We guarantee you will enjoy it.
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What is Choreographed Ballroom Dancing?
Choreographed Ballroom Dancing is a unique form of social ballroom dancing. Dancers come together at local clubs and organized functions and clinics throughout the United States and abroad to learn a new dance or two and add it to their repertoire. These dances are choreographed, as a ballet is, to a specific piece of music. The dance routines and dance figures conform predominantly to international ballroom standards and consist of all the standard dance rhythms ... Waltz, Rumba, Cha Cha, Foxtrot, Tango, Bolero, Jive, West Coast Swing, etc. Choreographed Ballroom Dancing, sometimes called Round Dancing, has evolved over the past fifty years and has an ever-expanding inventory of over ten thousand choreographed dance routines. The dancer learns the routines as well as the names of all the dance steps in each rhythm so that when the music is played the couple can follow the cues that are spoken on the microphone by the Cuer, just in time to prompt the next step to be danced. It is this aspect that makes Choreographed Ballroom Dancing especially unique. It is also challenging for the mind as well as the body and a joy to behold as every couple on the floor dances each routine in unison.
(From the ICBDA Website)
Round Dancing & Dancing with a Difference
Discover how prompted choreographed ballroom dancing can change your life forever! The prompted and choreographed version of ballroom dancing to a particular piece of music, hereafter referred to as Dancing with a Difference, adds a new dimension to the popular phenomenon that is known as Round Dancing. We (ROUNDALAB) are a worldwide, non-profit organization of volunteers and dance instructors who love Dancing with a Difference. We greatly appreciate the excitement and romance, as well as the social and health benefits that this type dance brings to our lives. This website is dedicated to help you experience for yourself..... the fun....the excitement......and connection .......of Dancing with a Difference. It is our mission to inform, instruct, and motivate all dancers, and all potential dancers, so that the cultures of all nations, races, and religions may benefit. An additional purpose is to educate the public regarding this enjoyable and rewarding recreational activity. Competitive Ballroom Dancing was recently granted recognition and membership in the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee. We do use International and American Ballroom figures in our choreography.
(From the Dance Round Out Your Life Website)