Some articles and information for
Round Dance Leaders and Dancers

• Are You a 2nd Rate Person?
• Back to Basics
• Beginners Teaching Plan
• Helps for beginning dancers
• Cha-Cha teaching order for dancers that know 2-step
• Choosing dances
• Differences in Rhythms
• The ECTA Repertoire, what it is, why we have it
• Floorcraft
• Foxtrot, do we need to – should we always – start with phase III?
• Foxtrot – A Teaching Plan
• Fun
• How Not To Argue When Practising on the Floor
• How to conduct a Polonaise
• How to Write a Dance
• Jive – a teaching plan
• Jive – handouts for students
• Leadership
• Let’s Get Them Dancing!
• Let’s Learn Cha Cha  – 2 simple choreographies – the first one using 8 figures, the second one using 3 more. (These are just head cues.)
• Mixers
• Music Basics
• Organizing the Program for a Round Dance Event
• Polonaise, how to conduct one
• Picture Figures, some basics
• Slow Two-Step
• Similarities and differences in Rhythms
• Sukiyaki – some history
• Tango teaching plan
• Tango helps
• They Didn’t Do What I Said To Do
• Using Your Hands
• West Coast Swing
• Working with callers and other cuers on stage
• Yak Stack – setting it up
• Your mike, Your friend