Tulsa Dance Masters

Fox Trot -The Silver Fox Trot is a dance with a wonderful feeling of continuity and movement which enables you to glide around the dance floor with the skill and control of a proficient ice skater. Yet, when necessary, Fox Trot can be confined to smaller dance floors.

Waltz – The Waltz gives dancers the nicest kind of chance to practice balance and to move lightly with ease.

Viennese Waltz – The splendor of Waltz is epitomized in the elegant and graceful of this dance.  The gliding, turning movements suggest that the dance is skating on ice.  The dance brings to mind chandeliers and lovely ladies in their flowing gowns dancing to the lilting sound of Strauss waltzes.

Tango –  Considered the dancers dance, the Tango is one of the most beautiful of all the dances and is earthy and one of the most dramatic.

Quick Step – Considered the ragtime Foxtrot, the syncopated movements are infectious and rhythmic and makes you think of the Charleston in the twenties of old.

Rumba - The Rumba is a dance that shows off the man's strength and the lady's femininity. The man creates the frame through subtle movements and leads in which to present the lady in open position where her hands, head, and us of Cuban Motion enhance the total look of the dance.

Cha Cha – Probably the most popular Latin dance in the U.S. It began as part of the Mambo, was easy to learn, infectious, and demands that sitters become dancers on the floor.

Salsa – Salsa music is a mix of African and Cuban and other Latin-American rhythms that traveled from the islands (Cuba and Puerto Rico) to New York during the migration, somewhere between the 1940s and the 1970s. Salsa is one of the main dances in both Cuba and Puerto Rico and is known world-wide. Salsa is danced on music with a recurring eight-beat pattern or two bars of four beats. Salsa patterns typically use three steps during each four beats, one beat being skipped. However, this skipped beat is often marked by a tap, a kick, or a flick. The music usually involves percussion rhythms and is very fast with around 180 beats per minute.

Samba – The South American Waltz sparkles, happy and bubbly, and thus develops effervescence and spontaneity when danced today. This dance is sensuous and yet can move you do dance, even if you don't know all the steps.

Mambo - The wild feeling within you that has to be released with certain restraint will explode in a harmony of movement in the Mambo.

Bolero – The Bolero is a smooth, sophisticated, sentimental love dance.  The emphasis is on smoothness and grace with much communication between partners.  The slower music, to which it is performed, enhances a feeling of romance.

Swing (East Coast) – Originally called the Lindy, swing enables you to express your own personality through the various movements and syncopation's of the patterns. Swing can provide as much or as little exercise as you want depending on the tempo of the music and your mood at the movement.

West Coast Swing – Officially the “California State Dance “, many couples start and stay in this dance for the rest of their lives.  This is a slot dance and is danced to music from jazz to country rock.  It has many variations as it does styles in movement.

Hustle (Slot Hustle) – The Hustle gives us the fusion of Swing and Disco

Night Club Two Step – A true nightclub romantic couples dance, this is a lady's choice and has many movements of interest to all that dance it.

Country Western Two Step – Considered a sloppy fox trot, in the ballroom community, this dance has crept into ballroom and is quite a nice relaxing break from the other ballroom dances.  Bouncy and yet smooth in movements, this dance can get your adrenaline pumping on the dance floor.