The dances offered in a Social Ballroom Foundation curriculum are: Swing, Hustle, Salsa, Rumba, Cha-Cha, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Merengue, Samba, Mambo, Bolero, Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, Viennese Waltz, and Quickstep.
A Private lesson is meant to address the students' individual needs. Up to 90% of the time can be spent acquiring the students' individual, technical, and essential movement skills, as well as variety in their dancing. Private lessons can be done as a single person or as a couple. This is the fast-track to learning and doing.
A Group class is typically defined as more than 2 people in a class. 90% of the class time will be spent learning and practicing the step only. Large group classes are socially challenging and fun. The students get a chance to change partners which helps to develop leading and following skills. We generally do not recommend that a person begin their dancing journey by starting with Group classes for obvious reasons. After a few Privates' however, group classes can be great practice time and a lot of fun.
Social Practice Parties are when the studio turns into a Dance Club. The students come and enjoy a supervised night of social dancing with their dance friends and instructors. The parties are a great way to meet, mingle, network, and of course to practice the moves that you have been working on in class!
Around the Town Club
One benefit to being a member of the Paramount Ballroom is participating in our periodic dance field trips. This is when we go out dancing for the night as a group to one of the local hot spots for a night of fun and social dancing.
Competition Team
If our owner Mr. Lazo is not judging, he loves to travel with the staff and students of our Pro-Am competition team as a group to one of the many competitive events that are held throughout the state and country. You may not believe that you are "competition material", however, once our students try this exciting outlet, they are hooked. A person can perform or compete in their own age group and dance level. This means that you do not have to be more than a beginner to enjoy this exciting feature of Ballroom dancing called "Dancesport". Some of the venues in the coming year will be New York, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando, and more!
The Social Foundation
The Social Foundation (or Bronze I) is characterized by a dancer who has the ability to get up on the floor (5-8 steps) in up to six of his favorite Ballroom dances. You will not have the time to thoroughly develop style or certain skills, but you will have overcome the fear of not knowing what to do. It is an eight-week program if you practice and visit us at least one time per week.
This Social Foundation is the first part in a four part series of levels that are also called the "Bronze Program". A Bronze dancer who has completed Bronze I, II, III, and IV is considered to be the complete Social Dancer. Only at Paramount Ballroom will a student have the ability to progress through the entire Dancesport curriculum in our Semi-Private class format. Every eight to ten weeks, we do a Medal checkout and examination for those who are interested in charting and confirming their progress.
The next challenge would be the Silver Level, and then Gold.
1. Beginning dancer; Knows nothing.
2. Intermediate dancer; Knows everything. Too good to dance with beginners.
3. Hotshot dancer; Too good to dance with anyone.
4. Advanced dancer; Dances everything. Especially with beginners.
5. Master Dancer; Knows nothing
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