Guides
Short, evergreen guides to help you find your footing — then jump into the live event directory.
Getting started
Useful guides
- Your first social dance or class
- Practice parties and social dances
- Dance floor etiquette
- How to prepare for your first dance lesson
- How to choose dance shoes
- Group dance classes vs. private lessons
- How to find your dance style
- Understanding lead and follow roles
- How dance builds confidence
- Why dancing is great exercise
- How dancing improves brain health
- Dance vocabulary every beginner should know
- Understanding class and event levels
Style guides
- Argentine Tango | Beginner's Guide
- Bachata | Beginner's Guide
- Balboa | Beginner's Guide
- Blues Dancing | Beginner's Guide
- Bolero | Beginner's Guide
- Carolina Shag | Beginner's Guide
- Cha Cha | Beginner's Guide
- Charleston | Beginner's Guide
- Collegiate Shag | Beginner's Guide
- Contra Dance | Beginner's Guide
- Country Two Step | Beginner's Guide
- Cross Step Waltz | Beginner's Guide
- Cumbia | Beginner's Guide
- East Coast Swing | Beginner's Guide
- Ecstatic Dance | Beginner's Guide
- English Country Dance | Beginner's Guide
- Foxtrot | Beginner's Guide
- Freestyle | Beginner's Guide
- Fusion | Beginner's Guide
- Hustle | Beginner's Guide
- Irish Dancing | Beginner's Guide
- Israeli Folk Dance | Beginner's Guide
- Jive | Beginner's Guide
- Kizomba | Beginner's Guide
- Lindy Hop | Beginner's Guide
- Line Dancing | Beginner's Guide
- Mambo | Beginner's Guide
- Merengue | Beginner's Guide
- Milonga | Beginner's Guide
- Nightclub Two Step | Beginner's Guide
- One Step | Beginner's Guide
- Paso Doble | Beginner's Guide
- Peabody | Beginner's Guide
- Polka | Beginner's Guide
- Quickstep | Beginner's Guide
- Rumba (American) | Beginner's Guide
- Rumba (International) | Beginner's Guide
- Salsa | Beginner's Guide
- Samba | Beginner's Guide
- Scandinavian Dance | Beginner's Guide
- Scottish Dancing | Beginner's Guide
- Square Dance | Beginner's Guide
- Tango Vals | Beginner's Guide
- Tango | Beginner's Guide
- Viennese Waltz | Beginner's Guide
- Waltz | Beginner's Guide
- West Coast Swing | Beginner's Guide
- Zouk | Beginner's Guide
- Zydeco | Beginner's Guide