Happy New Year! Being that this blog post will start off our new year, we thought it a perfect time to go back and take a look at the top five ballroom costume trends of 2019 to help get some perspective for 2020. Some of these trends are awesome and we really hope they stick around, but some of them …
For students just starting out, buying your first real pair of womens ballroom shoes can be a daunting thing. There are so many brands, so many different types, so many different heels! In our many years of teaching, we have offered buying advice to hundreds of students on their first serious pair of dance shoes. Now, we want to …
In Part One of our Buyer’s Guide to Womens Ballroom Shoes, we discussed what makes womens ballroom shoes so unique. We also discussed the differences between International Standard shoes and American Smooth shoes, and took a look at the front of the shoe, the toe box. For Part Two, we are going to break down the heel, the colors, …
Texture and sculpture. This is the #1 ballroom dancing hairstyle trend of 2018 and you need to be doing it for your next comp. You could hire someone to do your hair at competitions. It’s easy, you don’t need to travel with anything. But at over $100 each time, that can add up. And what happens if you go to a …
We are heading off for L.A., and as always, we like to travel like dancers. It’s not a goal to broadcast to the world that we’re dancers. But after so many years of training, it’s definitely hard to turn off the dancer mentality. Being a dancer is 24/7, right? That’s the whole idea behind a #dancerslifestyle. So we like to …