Fred Astaire Boca Raton Dance Studio - Styles of Teaching

     Most students who come through our door simply want to be able to get out there and DANCE!!! We’ve got the moves and the know-how to make that happen, using our unique teaching method, which has been tried and true for over fifty years. We understand that you don’t want to watch other people dance when you go out to that wedding, or when you go on that cruise. Likewise, we don’t want you to sit there watching, because we know how much more fun it is to be the one dancing. Not only are we happy to be teaching dance, but we are excited to see the progress of each of our students as they become confident social dancers.

     The Fred Astaire Dance Studios use a unique teaching system called interrelated system of teaching. Combining three different types of lessons in one program enables our students to get the most benefit with the fastest rate of development possible. Each lesson type individually helps the student master certain aspects of his dancing, but only in their combination will they produce a well rounded social dancer.

Private Lessons 

    Private lessons are designed to address your individual ”movement problems“ and get you in touch with your own body, the music and your partner on a ”feeling level“. In the beginning stages of your dancing we recommend that you take at least a few private lessons before you attend your first group class. The skills you will develop are technique and finesse with your movement.

Group Lessons 

     Group lessons are more mechanical in their approach and designed to convey step knowledge. They will help you to expand your variety of steps in each dance. Furthermore they will introduce you to the mechanics of the techniques that make each dance look and feel like its own. You can attend them with or without a partner. The skills you will develop are balance (since you will be doing all the steps also without a partner) plus leading & following (since you might be switching partners)

Practice Parties 

     Practice parties are the ideal bridge over experience between you taking lessons and actually applying your new hobby in the real world. They are like a real party or dance you would go to, just with the added benefit that your teacher is still around you and can gently assist you in finding your way in the dance jungle (on the floor with all the other couples). The skills developed are blending (means how you combine the steps you know) and floorcraft (means how you avoid bumping into other moving couples on the dance floor). The Tuesday and Thursday night parties are a great way to meet other people in the dancing community while increasing your own dancing knowledge.

The combination of private lessons, group lessons, and Tuesday and Thursday night parties is the fastest way to become a confident and stylish social dancer at any event offering the opportunity to dance.