Survey: Social Dance and Disability
Survey : to all dancers with disabilities, please share your experience …
The Importance of space management in a bal
How do we manage dance space at a ball? Let’s decipher dance etiquette, the sense of the ball, and respect for the lines of dance …
Women leading through History
Couple dances: but since when do women guide? Exploration of historical photographic collections in search of women leaders …
10 good reasons to start bal folk
If you’re looking for a dance activity with good music, huge variety and warm community, bal folk is for you ! …
How to be a committed dance teacher
What about questionning ourselves, for more benevolence and consent …
Which feminists fights in social dancing ?
An article about women’s rights day and the feminists fights of social dancing …
It’s the story of a ball, a big ball
It was on July 5th, the preview of Lætitia Carton’s movie Le Grand Bal, in the small Luminor, cosy movie theater in the Marais, historical neighborhood of Paris …
The Dansuality Concept
Is dance about sensuality and sex, or is there more ? What about the famous “flow” ? …
Raiz d’Aldeia, Festival de Arte & Cultura Tradicional
Since my first excursion in Portugal in 2015 for Forrò de Lisboa and Andancas, I can’t help myself to go back every year to try a new festival. Portugal and especially Lisbon is beautiful, sunny and warm, and they know how to organise simple and joyful events full of friendly people. In 2016, after the amazing beach edition of Festival 3 Temps, I decided to try Raiz d’Aldeia, a small festival in june about which I’ve heard an unanimous praise. A tough start Like the festival Andancas, Raiz d’Aldeia is far from …
Châtillon in Dreamland : recipe for a success
France. May. There is an amazing folk festival lost in the mountains. Let’s talk about music, dance, food, drinks, fancy costumes and hiking in the woods ! …
Switch leading and coguiding
For several months now, the video below went viral amongst dancers. The speakers, two professional dancers are explaining a concept existing for decades in social dancing but unusual / partly ignored / rarely put in words before : if you get rid of the gender roles of partner dancing, then you can learn both roles and build a new dialog with your dance partner by switching lead during a dance. Content Liquid lead dancing Trevor Copp and Jeff Fox called Liquid Lead the concept they invented of switching leader during …
Mazurtango and romantic folk
A short summary of the birth of the bal folk mazurka dance, it’s evolutions in bal folk festivals and the arrival of tango …
Engage your body into the dance
When we talk about dancing, we come up with various subjects like social relations, fun, musicality, pulse, variations, spins, good or bad dancers, connection, leading, following… And from time to time, there is a person saying “dancing changed my way of holding myself and my confidence, made me think about my sensuality, improved my body and my health condition” …
