Ballroom and Sequence Dancing

16th NovemberDavid Ingley
23rd NovemberJohn Kay
30th NovemberDavid Last
7th DecemberDavid Ingley
14th DecemberElizabeth Harrison
21st DecemberAnnie & Mike
Sunday Night Dancing at Haddenham Social Club

Ballroom dancing is a partnership dance where couples, using step-patterns, move rhythmically, expressing the characteristics of music. Ballroom dancing consists of two styles: the Smooth, or Standard, and the Rhythm, or Latin. The Smooth, Standard style focuses on the elegance, grace and fluidity of movement. Dancers rotate in a counter-clockwise direction, moving around the entire floor. The couple is constantly moving on the dance floor, transitioning from one place to the next in a fixed pattern. The Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz and Quickstep are danced in this manner.

Sequence Dancing is a type of ballroom dancing in which the couples dance around the floor in a fixed sequence of steps. All participants perform the same steps and movements simultaneously, so the dancers follow each other around the dance floor and everyone starts and stops at the same time. Sequence dancing may include different styles of dance, but normally a sequence will cover 16 bars of music in the genre being danced.