Tag: Argentine tango

18. Tango, Pt. 1: The Compulsories

It’s lent its stylings to two senior compulsory patterns, arisen in five seasons for original dance usage — and once as a secondary short dance rhythm, one of those topics we’ll discuss at another time — and otherwise functioned as the focus of countless more free dances. Of all specific partner dances, none can be…

Happy National Dance Day!

Given National Dance Day‘s origins in 2010 as the brainchild of dancer, television producer and director, and Dizzy Feet Foundation co-president Nigel Lythgoe, we’re paying tribute here with a look at a few times Lythgoe’s So You Think You Can Dance brought social dance to the stage with some success: 1-2. Heidi Groskreutz and Benji…