James Joseph

Every Man's Survival Guide to Ballroom Dancing: Ace Your Wedding Dance and Keep Cool on a Cruise, at a Formal, and in Dance Classes James Joseph

*** PUBLISHER'S NOTE ***  This book does not teach specific ballroom dances. This book teaches partner dancing basics, like how to hear the beat, how to count both music and dance, understanding dance rhythm (including the rhythm for 18 common social dances) and how to dance to any kind of music. It's a book to read before your first dance class.?This book will teach you the basic principles common to all music and dance, enabling you to walk onto any dance floor and perform an admirable dance, with any partner, to any music, with confidence and grace.

?This book is for non-dancers, newbies and beginners. Part guerrilla manual and part cotillion handbook, this book is an insider's guide to social dancing. Whether you fear dance or can't dance or hate to dance; or whether you're rhythmically challenged or just new to dance; or whether you've finished dance classes more confused than when you started, this book has the tools a guy needs to know to make his partner happy. (Ladies, despite the title, 95% of the book's content will help you too.)

• Learn a foolproof method for hearing the beat of the music 
• Learn to count music (they don't teach that in dance classes)
• Learn the correct way to count step patterns
• Learn rhythm: single, double and triple rhythm, the building blocks of all dances
• Learn three simple rhythm patterns that will get you through any song 
• Chapters on: slow dancing, survival dancing, the wedding dance, how to fake a dance, and more
• 17 easy exercises (most you can do without a partner)
• Free instructional video clips at ihatetodance.com