Survey : to all dancers with disabilities, please share your experience …
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 …
Couple dances: but since when do women guide? Exploration of historical photographic collections in search of women leaders …
If you’re looking for a dance activity with good music, huge variety and warm community, bal folk is for you ! …
What about questionning ourselves, for more benevolence and consent …
Some feminist talks, workshops, dancing and glitters ! …
An article about women’s rights day and the feminists fights of social dancing …
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 …
Let’s ask 122 men why they like to follow ! …
Is dance about sensuality and sex, or is there more ? What about the famous “flow” ? …
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 …
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 ! …
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 …
A short summary of the birth of the bal folk mazurka dance, it’s evolutions in bal folk festivals and the arrival of tango …
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” …