2015-16 Academic Catalog

This course is designed to introduce people to West Coast Swing and give them the fundamentals to be able to appreciate and enjoy social dancing in the broader West Coast Swing community. It assumes no prior dancing knowledge. The fundamentals of partner dancing will be covered at the beginning and at the end of the course, students should feel comfortable dancing basic West Coast Swing to a variety of different styles of music and with different partners, and have gained an understanding of the ways to communicate with their partner and express the music in their dancing.