Links
Local Schools
The Washington DC area is fortunate to have so many colleges with strong ballroom dance clubs.
- American University (AU) -- no web page or e-mail known
- Catholic University of America (CUA)
- George Washington University (GW)
- Georgetown University (GU)
- University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
Not so Local Schools
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- New York University (NYU)
- Ohio State University (OSU)
- Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
- University of Connecticut (UConn)
- Uconn DanceSport in Storrs, CT.
- University of Delaware (UDel)
- University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
- Univserity of Virginia (UVA)
- William and Mary (William and Mary).
Places to Go Social Dancing
- Chevy Chase Ballroom
- The Promenade
- Glen Echo Park
- Hollywood Ballroom
- Atlantic Ballroom
- K2 Swings Dance Studio
- Du-Shor
Music
To access a free database of downloadable dance music,
- Go to www.imeem.com
- In the search box at the top right, type "Ballroom atMaryland" (exactly as it is typed here). Hit "Search" with "Everything" selected from the dropdown menu.
- Ballroom atMaryland's profile should appear in the Search Results. Click on the profile name to view the available playlists.
- To hear a song, click on its title. You will be prompted to either Login or Sign Up for an account. Create your own account following the prompts.
General Links
- DC Dancenet offers listings of nearly all of the studios, instructors, and events in the DC Area. Although the layout is a little cluttered, it is still an excellent resource.
- Henry Neeman's United States Collegiate Ballroom Dance Hotlist is an amazingly comprehensive list of collegiate ballroom dance clubs and an excellent resource.
- The International Collegiate Ballroom Dance Competition Information run by Michael Posner at MIT is an excellent listing of nearly all collegiate dance competitions.
Partner Searches
- The Baltimore/DC area has its very own partner search database for collegiate dancers hosted by MIT.
- DC Dancenet offers an excellent partner bulletin board that contains listings for both professional and amateur dancers.
Swing
- The University of Maryland Swing Club
- Jitterbuzz - web page for the serious lindy hoppers in the D.C. area, with weekly events, etc.
- Gotta Swing.com - Tom and Debra's home page dealing with all things swing.
- www.delphi.com/swingoutdc
- Dance Store
- www.wsdc.org
Dance Organizations
- "The United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association (USABDA) is the nation-wide organization of competitive, college and social Amateur Ballroom Dancers in the United States. It functions as the governing body in the USA for amateur ballroom dancing (also known as Dancesport.)"
- The Youth and College Network's (YCN, a branch of USABDA) mission is to promote partner dancing among the college students and youth of the United States. Their dance network is open to all, including ballroom, country-western, salsa, tango, and swing clubs.
- Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD)
- International Dance Teachers' Association (IDTA)
- International DanceSport Federation (IDSF)
- National Dance Council of America (NDCA)
- United States ISTD (USISTD)
Sites Around the Web
- An American Ballroom Companion contains the full text and images of lots of dance instruction manuals, but they're old; as the page says, circa 1490 - 1920. Maybe not very practical today, but still interesting to look at and to see how the times have changed.
- Ballroom Dancing Information, general and specific, is a page created by one of the BAM officers that contains a lot of useful information (and links) on a variety of topics including dance etiquette, syllabus lists, competition help, and lists of figures and combinations taught in some of the dance classes offered by BAM over the years.
- Ballroomdancers.com is an online resource for the ballroom dance and dancesport enthusiast with images, movies, syllabi, variations, and several glossaries.
- DanceTalk.com is a bulletin board system for dance discussions, broken into categories, just in case the rec.arts.dance newsgroup isn't enough.
- Dancers' Archive has lots of stuff on all types of dance (FTP site)
- DanceScape is geared towards competitive ballroom dancing (dancesport).
- Latin-Dance.com contains lots of information related to latin dancing primarily in the DC area
- Let's Dance! is somewhat local to the areas of New York City, Philadelphia, and New Jersey, but still has a bunch of general information, too.
- List of Lists of Dance Music provided by the U. Penn club.
- Much Ado About Ballroom Dancing gives a good introduction, however this page's author has gone commercial by publishing a book and removing quite a bit of information from the web page. The page is still somewhat useful, but it was a lot better before the book came out.
- Rec.Arts.Dance FAQ has got such a variety of information that it's worth listing here.
- WebSurfer's Guide to Ballroom Dance provides a lot of links to other web sites with instructional content to help you learn to dance on-line.
- The World Dance Plaza is a good general site with lots of info. In particular, I'd suggest checking out their statements archive, it has many nice little dance tips for everything.
- Yahoo's Ballroom Dancing Page