Wednesday Practice
Occasionally, the club offers a free, informal all-level practice session, open to members and non-members alike. If a room is reserved on campus, the room can be used for practice when a lesson is not being taught. It's best to bring your own music player since we don't always have ours there at the practice time.
Open Practice Times:
Wednesdays - Feb 24th, March 3rd, 10th
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Location: The Crossing (downstairs basement room)
1127 University Ave (Click for Map)
(Our Samba lesson begins at 6:00pm [Details])
Sometimes organized lessons are taught by an instructor at the practice session and cost a small admission price to attend. The cost varies depending on the instructor and lessons taught. During a scheduled lesson, you may still practice if the room is large enough, however you will not be able to play other music during that lesson time.
UW ballroom class participation credit is only available for the organized Wednesday lessons and the social dance events. For lessons, we write Lesson on the participation slip and it's up to your professor if lessons count towards your class credit. We do not provide participation slips for open practice times, but you are still welcome to use the time to practice for your UW dance class.
See the our Lesson Schedule for upcoming lesson series and lesson times. Outside of those lessons, experienced dancers are sometimes on hand during the practice times to help you learn some basic steps or improve your technique.Practices are an opportunity for you to meet other people and to work on your dancing. (Lessons and practice sessions are the time to learn to dance - social dances are for fun!)
You can work on new steps, good leading and following, balance, poise, posture, frame, partner communication, floor craft, and footwork, or anything else, really.
Regardless of how long you have been dancing, all of those aspects of ballroom dance can continue to improve. Beginners will benefit from exposure to many new dances and moves. Advanced dancers will enjoy refining some of the more sophisticated elements of dance.
After all, good dancing is not always about fancy moves, but about how well two people can move together and communicate on the dance floor. You can never be too good to improve your dancing!
