Partner Dance

Within This Branch

• Argentine Tango 7 entries

  Close-embrace tango improvised step by step, walked rather than figured.

• Ballroom 34 entries

  The standard partner dances, danced in a hold and travelling anticlockwise around the room.

  • Foxtrot
  • Quickstep
  • Tango
  • Viennese Waltz
  • Waltz

• Hustle 2 entries

  Partner dance to disco, danced along a slot with the follower turning almost throughout.

• Latin 40 entries

  Latin American dances worked as a set technique, danced on the spot with the hips driven from the floor.

  • Bolero
  • Cha Cha Cha
  • Jive
  • Mambo
  • Paso Doble
  • Rumba

• Social Latin 23 entries

  The Latin and Afro-Latin dances danced in clubs, led and followed on the night rather than set as figures.

  • Bachata
  • Brazilian Samba
  • Kizomba
  • Reggaeton
  • Salsa

• Sokkie 12 entries

  South African social partner dance walked smoothly around the floor, also called langarm, sakkie-sakkie and kotteljons.

• Swing 11 entries

  Partner dances danced to swung jazz, on a bounce and with the follower sent out and drawn back.

  • East Coast Swing
  • Lindy Hop
  • Rock 'n Roll
  • West Coast Swing

• Wedding Dance 23 entries

  A first dance taught to one couple for one occasion.