Hot Dance How-Tos
How To: Foxtrot
In this series of video dancing lessons you'll learn how to dance the Foxtrot from professional dancers and dance instructors Sarolta Eke & Tamas Kassay as they demonstrate Foxtrot dance steps such as the Foxtrot walk, basic zig zag step for men and ladies, the rock turn, Foxtrot promenade, backwards lock moves and Foxtrot patterns.
How To: Dance the Cha Cha
Introduction to the Cha Cha Part 1 of 18 - How to Dance the Cha Cha.
How To: Do beginning ballet steps
Eileen O'Brien, expert dance instructor, will demonstrate a variety of beginning ballet steps and positions.
How To: Irish Step dance at an intermediate level
In these instructional video dance lessons, our expert will demonstrate intermediate-level Irish step dances, including treble shuffles, cuts, kicks, and hop moves, as well as combination clicks and stamps. Additionally, you will learn how to do the butterfly combo, complete with tips and suggestions for your own practice routines.
How To: Irish step dance
In this instructional video dance lesson, our expert will explain the basic stances of Irish Step dance. Additionally, you will get to see a wide variety of moves and combos demonstrated, complete with tips and suggestions for your own routines. Learn how to dazzle a crowd with your Hop Step move and when its time to use a Rock move. This series is a basic introduction to Irish step dancing for novices and beginners.
How To: Do pole dancing climbing moves
This video will teach you how to poledance. Wendy Dayle will focus on climbing moves in pole dancing and provide step-by-step instructions on how to climb the pole and perform a variety of sitting and standing moves.
How To: Do the fireman move in pole dancing
Wendy Dayle will focus on the fireman move in pole dancing and provide step-by-step instructions on how to gain momentum, place your hands, swing on and exit the pole.
How To: Do pole dancing inverted moves
Wendy Dayle, our expert in this video series will focus on inverted moves in pole dancing and provide step-by-step instructions on how to do an open V move, a handstand and a backward handstand move.
How To: Do pole dancing leg hook moves
Wendy Dayle in this free video series will focus on leg hook moves in pole dancing and provide step-by-step instructions on a variety of different maneuvers and dismounts.
How To: Do advanced Flamenco dancing
In this video Flamenco dance instructor Yvette Parrish demonstrates and provides instruction over: Flamenco practice attire, hand movements, arm movements, dance warm-ups, skirt work, toe slide combinations, horse dance, Flamenco fan work, little shawl or manton dance movements, and big shawl or manton moves that are essential moves for Flamenco dancers.
How To: Do the C-Walk Shuffle Hop
Learn the Shuffle Hop a basic move in the C-Walk style of Hip-Hop and urban dance. The shuffle hop is essentially the Shuffle except you can you move in different directions.
How To: Do the X-Hop
An old school Hip-Hop dance move. The X-Hop has also become a basic move in the C-Walk style of Hip-Hop and urban dance.
How To: Dance in a nightclub
This video, Dancing: An Emergency Guide For Men, is a very informative video for dance floor enthusiasts who...well...can't really dance. You will need: the wisdom to recognize you can't dance and the drive to improve. Don'ts: no stepping on toes, slapping, pelvic thrusts, no singing, no mauling, no woop-wooping, no narrative dancing, no pointing bouncing or finger snapping. Remember to relax, feel the rhythm, move to the beat, take a walk around the dance floor, learn some basic steps and th...
How To: Dance the Electric Slide
Learn to do the Electric Slide. This video came from a wedding of the instructor Debbie Johnson from Just4KicksDanceSchool. This goes through all the steps and she calls out the numbers, then the music comes. This is an oddly shot home movie.
How To: Do Adam Carolla's touchdown dance
This is a football tradition to do a celebratory touchdown dance. Here is Man Show's Adam Carolla's personal take on the touchdown dance.
How To: Dance the puppet master with Elijah Wood
Dance with Frodo, I mean Elijah Wood. Raise your knee, raise your foot, raise your other foot, do the puppet master!! This is a great dance for kids! Dance the puppet master with Elijah Wood.
How To: Windmill
This is a step-by-step instructional video on how to windmill. Stretch, warm up muscles with strength and balancing drills, practicing indoors and then outdoors.
How To: Communicate with your partner in the Lindy hop
Sosh and Gina continue your Lindy Hop education. This clip will teach you how to communicate with your partner. The front to front, the sling shot, the scissor kick, the swing out, the big turn, are all dance moves distinct to the Lindy Hop. It was named for Charles Lindbergh and his Atlantic crossing in 1927. Black communities invented the moves, and the popularity spread throughout the world.
How To: Move your arms in belly dancing
This also shows you how to move hold yourself and points out the age old trick of a great smile. This woman is an excellent belly dancer and certainly one of our favorites.
How To: Connect with your partner in the Lindy hop
Learn this exciting swing dance from the 30s. Sosh and Gina will start at the very beginning, no experience necessary. Learn how to dance from our instructional dance video clips (it's like a virtual dance lesson). Each? week we will post a new video clip here on our video podcast. If you're interested in more check out our site www.iDance.net.
How To: Dance Waltz Variations
This is a video demonstration of the late 19th Century waltz. This waltz is a ballroom and folk dance. The waltz first became fashionable in Vienna around the 1780s, and spread to many other countries in the years that follow. The waltz, and its closed position, became the example for the creation of many other ballroom dances. Subsequently, new types of waltz have developed, including many folk and several ballroom dances. This video is only a demonstration, and unfortunately it does not giv...
How To: Dance Waltz and "Loomis' Glide Mazurka"
In this demonstrational video you watch a ballroom full of people dancing the waltz and "Loomis' Glide Mazurka". The maurka is a lively Polish folk dance. This video is only a demonstration, and unfortunately it does not give step by step instructions.
How To: Dance the "The Eugenie" and Waltz Cotillion
This video is of a large group of people dancing "The Eugenie" and Waltz Cotillion in a ballroom. These are both late 19th Century dances. This video is only a demonstration, and unfortunately it does not give step by step instructions.
How To: Dance the Butterfly
This video is of the late 19th Century dance called the Butterfly. The Butterfly is where a woman/man has fake butterfly wings attached to their arms and dances with them on. This video is only a demonstration, and unfortunately it does not give step by step instructions.
How To: Dance the The German (also known as cotillon)
This video is of the German. The German is a combination of comedic games and dancing. This video is only a demonstration, and unfortunately it does not give step by step instructions.
How To: Dance the Grand March
This video is a demonstration of how to walk/dance the Grand March (also known as The March, Polonaise, Grand Promenade, and Opening March). This march is the formal and traditional way to begin a formal ball.
How To: Belly roll
Want to make that stomach look like a flowing sexy ocean? Watch this video to find out how to do the belly dance move, belly roll.
How To: Booty dance
Your body language tells a lot about yourself...No hiding or excuses anymore when da beat drops...Learn the A-B-C of urban dance moves with Booty Basics and feel more confident on the dance floor! Every one CAN dance: just follow the step to step guide, add your special touch, and rock it!!!
How To: Do a belly dancing hip raise
Interested in belly dancing? Wonder how they get those hips to shake? This clip will teach you how to do a belly dancing hip raise. Do a belly dancing hip raise.
How To: Do basic break dancing moves
This video tutorial will show you how to do various break dance moves. You will learn the windmill, turtle, backspin, top rock, foot work, and swipes. Do basic break dancing moves.
How To: To do the glide dance
Want to move smoothly across the dance floor? This video will show you how to move not only side to side but forward and back by gliding. To do the glide dance.
How To: Move your partner side to side on the dance floor
Gina Deambrazio and Gino Spizatti demonstrate the cross body lead which allow you to move your partner side to side on the dance floor. This salsa move takes the female partner from one side to the other. The man must stay as still as possible, so that the woman may move around effortlessly.
How To: Perform a headspin
You can learn how to perform a headspin which is a break dancing move. This is one of the more dangerous dance moves. You stand on your head and use your hands to spin yourself around in circles. Unless you understand Japanese, this video doesn't really help you learn anything.
How To: Move your partner on the dance floor
Gina Deambrazio and Gino Spizatti demonstrate the lady passing under a bridge move which helps move your partner on the dance floor. This is a variation of the salsa move cross body lead. You drop your arm, step to the side, bring her under, and do a basic.
How To: Do the basic Salsa right turn
Gina Deambrazio and Gino Spizatti demonstrate the basic salsa right turn. You have to do a straight turn into a pivot turn to make sure that you stay in line with your partner. You do two basics, a cross body lead, and a forward break through for the guy.
How To: Do the woman half turn
Gina Deambrazio and Gino Spizatti demonstrate how to spin your partner by doing the woman half turn for the salsa dance. The man does the cross body lead while the woman has to make a turn by stepping forward with the left foot. The man can never stop moving his feet because he always has to be thinking about where his female partner is going.
How To: Do a figure 8 while belly dancing
Meital demonstrates how to belly dance. You push your hip from the back corner and circle it forward. You also can push your hip from the front and circle it backward. This creates a basic figure 8 movement.
How To: Add flair to your routine with hip circles
Meital demonstrates how you can add flair to your belly dancing routine by doing hip circles. You lift your chest up, drop it down, and isolate your ribcage. This really more a chest circle, but impressive nonetheless.
How To: Add flair to your belly dancing with arm movements
Meital demonstrates how you can add flair to your belly dancing with arm movements. First, move you neck side to side, then your arms and hands.
How To: Add a bounce to your hips while belly dancing
Meital demonstrates how to add a bounce to your hips for belly dancing. You need to bend your knees and move your hips side to side. Keep the move with your heels up and walk with the move.