Bridging the gap from Intermediate to Advanced

[geoff332]

There are a couple of things I had to work on to progress my dancing. These things are going to be different for everyone, depending on their background/

• Confidence: to realise that I was actually not bad at this. Being a confident dancer is really important to being a good dancer (assuming you're not overconfident).
• Musicality: listening and dancing to the music, rather than popping out a series of moves.
• Discovering my own style and way of dancing that's how I like to dance, and finding some basic movements that fit with that style.

There are other things that I think are important, but I was already reasonably good at when I started ceroc - things like frame, basic dance technique, good basic rhythm I'd learnt in a previous dancing life. My dancing was always smooth and I was never excessively obsessed with knowing a million moves.

[scotttwin]

The single biggest thing that helped me develop my dancing was having a friend video my dancing with my favourite dance partner. I realised the nicest moves to watch, were actually some of the less interesting to lead.