In my last post I left you at the start of my competitive career, aged six and excited for my first pretty dress and “real dancer” shoes. It may seem pretty early to start competing at a tender age of six, but I’m firmly convinced that I stayed in dancing because I had the chance …
Tango today! This standard dance is actually the easiest to practice in smaller spaces- the lack of swing and rise & fall makes it a bit more manageable when it comes to making it fit into your living room. Read our guide to practicing Tango at home and click on IGTV buttons for a short …
It’s all about Waltz today- how do we fit it into a small room? Where do you even begin and is it even possible to practice Standard dances without sufficient space? Read our guide to practicing Waltz at home and click on IGTV buttons for a short video with all of the exercises. let’s waltz …
HOW TO PRACTICE AT HOME PART 2 – sAMBA Today, we’re starting with our tips about how to practice at home and the first dance will be Samba. Being the first Latin American dances, it seemed like a good place to start our training sessions with. In this post you’ll find a general idea of …
HOW TO PRACTICE AT HOME PART 1 – INTRO It’s no secret that 2020 has been a difficult year for dancers all around the world. Dance schools have mostly been closed throughout spring and the current winter wave of Covid infections doesn’t seem to be going anywhere- the end result being that most of us …
WHY SHOULD KIDS DANCE? Following on from my post from a few weeks back where I wrote about reasons why we all should definitely dance (see here – https://dancesmilelive.com/why-you-should-dance/ ), today I wanted to tell you about all the benefits of dance for young kids and how great it would be if every child would get …
WHY YOU SHOULD DANCE Dancesport is all about pretty dresses, countless hours of practice and competition, right? Right. But dancing is about so much more than that, it’s one of the healthiest activities you can do to get in shape, it improves your stamina and tones your body. “Plus, it gives you great looking …
MY DANCE STORY – CHAPTER 2 As you read in the first chapter of this series of posts about my dancing career, my first dance lesson was a mixture of joy, tears and hanging on my teacher’s leg. I seemed to like it enough to come back the next time…and the time after that…and …
MY DANCING CAREER…HOW DID IT HAPPEN? Hey there! After a poll on my Instagram account on what I should write about first (if you don’t follow me yet, I’ll wait for you to go and join our little family😊 ), dance was the winner. So I thought it might be quite fun to do …
WHY DO I DANCE? The most common question I get asked. And the answer? A very clichéd “because it makes me happy”. The simple truth is, it does. You see, ever since I was a little girl, I knew I wanted, needed, to be a dancer. It didn’t necessarily look that way when I …
