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The Standard Dancing Pyramid

Learn about the Standard Dancing Pyramid

The Standard Dancing Pyramid Back when we were teenagers, our Standard dance coach at the time introduced us to the Standard Dancing Pyramid. It was a great way to understand the different styles of Standard dancing and how they relate to each other. Also, the Standard Dancing Pyramid provided us with a better understanding of different teachers’ backgrounds, which gave us the tools we needed to…

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When COVID-19 and Ballroom Dancing Collide

Right now, as I’m writing this (though certainly not as you’re reading this), I am in the car with Simeon and one of the teachers at our studio, Atanas Malamov, driving from Provo, UT, to Las Vegas, NV. In a strange way, driving a few hundred miles south-east is getting us closer to our final destination, Seattle, in the far Northwest. And the reasons for why a 5 hour drive to Las Vegas, in the…

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The 5 Biggest Ballroom Costume Trends of 2019

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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 have just got to go!

What we found most interesting as we cycled through these trends was…

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10 Dance Hairstyle: For Latin and Standard in 2019!

A 10 Dance Hairstyle that works perfectly for Latin and Standard!

How often are 10 Dancers caught in this situation? The organizers of the competition decided to hold the Latin and the Standard events on the same day! Or, the competition is only a one day event? Or finally, the organizers are actually offering a 10 Dance competition, which means we have to do both styles on one day?! Either way,…

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Ballroom Makeup Tutorial: An Easy and Customizeable Look!

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Ballroom Makeup Tutorial for International Standard or American Smooth! In this video tutorial, Kora demonstrates step-by-step how to achieve this beautiful look for International Standard or American Smooth. Follow along on our YouTube channel to recreate this look for yourself. And just in case you’d like to buy the exact products that Kora uses in this tutorial, all products featured…

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Womens Ballroom Shoes: A Buyer's Guide (Part Two)

Womens Ballroom Shoes: A Buyer’s Guide (Part Two)

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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, and the fit. Because you will do so much dancing in your…

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Womens Ballroom Shoes: A Buyer's Guide (Part One)

Womens Ballroom Shoes: A Buyer’s Guide (Part One)

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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 bring that knowledge to you.

In this article, we will…

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How to Overcome Bad Results

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Happy June! We know it’s been awhile since we’ve published a blog post, and that’s because we were laser-focused on our training for the Blackpool Dance Festival! Well, now that the festival is over and we’re in Bulgaria for a bit of R&R, we have a little more time to publish a post. Unfortunately, our results at the Blackpool Dance Festival were far less than satisfactory. So we thought,…

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Clear Skin: How Dancers Maintain Healthy Skin

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We’ve published quite a few step by step articles about how to do competition makeup. This article is great for learning Latin competition makeup for women. And in this video, Simeon teaches all of you men out there how to do your competition makeup. But with all of the makeup we put on our faces, it can be difficult to maintain clear skin. As professional dancers, we often wear makeup…

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Vanilla Mango Pudding - High Protein and Healthy!

Vanilla Mango Pudding – High Protein and Healthy!

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Spring arrived, the sun reappeared, and Costco started carrying mangoes again! We love mangoes. Not the big orange/green types most often pictured as mangoes, but the small golden yellow ones called “Honey Mangoes”. Those are our favorites. We buy a huge box of them at Costco every week when they’re in season and have no problem ingesting all six of them in the week between our Costco…

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Fake Tanning Products Overview

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In this article here, we discussed a method of applying fake tanning products that is most popular with professional latin dancers. However, in this article, we are going to discuss the different types of fake tanning products, what makes them different, and the pros and cons of each.

Different types of fake tanning products.

There are two different types of fake tanning products. The…

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Why Matcha Tea is So Good For You: The Health Benefits of Matcha Tea

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Being that today is the day after St. Patrick’s Day, we decided to celebrate this “Day of Green” by focusing on one of our favorite green foods: Matcha Tea. But why matcha tea, you ask? Perhaps you don’t even know what matcha tea is! Well, in this article, we’re going to focus on the benefits of matcha tea, how matcha tea can help you, and why you should be imbibing this bright green…

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5 Tips for Being Totally Prepared for Dance Competitions

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We are at the airport on our ways home from the 2019 USA Amateur National Dancesport Championships. It’s an ungodly hour in the morning and while we sit here struggling to keep our eyes open, we can’t help but reminisce on the competition this last weekend. This competition is special, in that we don’t have to dance. We travel to Utah solely for the purpose of making sure our students are…

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A Guide to Perfect Tanning for Latin Dance Competitions

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By this time, it should be a well-known fact that it’s impossible to achieve any fragment of success dancing Latin if you don’t know how to apply fake tanning. Unless you’re natural skin color is exceptionally dark, knowing how to apply fake tanning is of absolute necessity. So in today’s post, we’re going to go through the process professional latin competitors use to apply tanning for…

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5 No-Nonsense Tips For Dancers to Get Along With Each Other in Dance Practice

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Earlier in the month, we published an article about developing self-love. This time, we wanted to flip the coin and look at the uglier side – fighting during dance practice. More precisely, we wanted to give you some no-nonsense tips to help you get along with each other better during dance practice.

Let’s face it, dancers fight… some of us, a lot. It’s a natural part of the process. But…

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6 Practices Ballroom Dancers Use to Develop Self-Love

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Have you thought about your value? Whether you haven’t given much thought to it, or you find yourself struggling with self-esteem, use this post to discover your value to the dance floor. Since Valentine’s Day is February 14, we always view February as the Month of Love. We could go into so much detail about loving your partner, or the love we have for one another. But instead, we wanted…

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How to Make Beautiful Crepes Recipe

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Hello, guys! As you well know, Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Whether you are planning on celebrating Valentine’s Day with somebody else that you love, or building your own self-love (blog post about that coming up soon!), we wanted to share this crepes recipe with you so you could celebrate in style. Since Valentine’s Day is the Day of Love, and the French are known for…

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