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"Learning to walk sets you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express your whole self: the person you are." - Melissa Hayden

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Learn more about West Coast Swing

So You Think You Wanna Do a Routine

12 Ways to Get the Most Out of a Dance Event

Turning Tricks

How to Practice

Create your Dance Progress Plan

Wanna learn WCS? Start here.

Dancing with Pros

or anyone you consider better than you

WCS for Salseros

WCS for LindyHoppers

The Dance Partner Wish List

My Ideal Dance Event (Dancer's Perspective)

This article is also available in Pro's Perspective - please contact us for a copy.

Do's and Don'ts of Dance Etiquette

Glossary for Beginners

Seen It? Love it? Have to Have it?

How to Host a Workshop in your Community.

West Coast Swing in a Nutshell

On starting to teach WCS

On dancing with someone with "bad habits"

On getting no compression in a Sugar Push

On Hijacking

On how to train for lifts

On Pros' attitudes towards social dancing at events

On when/how to ask Pros to dance

On Teaching Technique to Beginners

On Upbeat and Downbeat Timing in WCS and Ceroc

On How Judges Judge Prelims vs. Spotlight

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