(Dance 2B) Intermediate Night Club Two-Step
Building on a foundation of basics taught in our Beginner-level Night Club Two-Step class, Club Professional Alexandra McPherson introduces intermediate-level steps and technique to enhance your dancing.
Night Club Two-Step is a slow dance that is perfect for nightclub, party, or wedding dancing. Wedding couples choose it because of its romantic, slow, and relaxed characteristics that are typically danced to a slower tempo of music. It is also popular with Country Western dancers who might include a version of this dance in their competitions. In addition, it is a common dance at West Coast Swing dance events because the music of both share the same emphasis, i.e. on the second beat.
This dance style is typically danced to ballads with a 4/4 timing, however, it can also be done to easy listening, smooth jazz, and R&B music. Night Club Two-Step is an easier dance that almost anyone can learn. Its key characteristic is a rock step (5th position break) followed by a side step with a slight sway. The frame is relaxed with a little more distance between the partners, and some say it is one of the most practical and versatile social dances ever conceived!
Night Club Two-Step was developed in 1965 by a 15-year-old West Coast Swing dancer from Whitaker, Illinois named Buddy Schwimmer. He developed the Night Club Two-Step while practicing with his sister as he searched for a way to popularize slow ballad music.
Lessons
(Dance 2B) Intermediate Night Club Two-Step – Lady’s Outside Underarm Turn (Pivot Turn)
(Dance 2B) Intermediate Night Club Two-Step – Lady’s Inside Turn
In our last class, the followers danced a Right Rotating basic while doing an Outside Underarm Turn. In this lesson, we will learn how to do the Left Rotating Basic and a “Cross Body Lead” type of action, with an Inside Turn. The lead and follow for these 2 patterns are entirely different so the […]
(Dance 2B) Intermediate Night Club Two-Step – Inside Turn from Open Position
In lesson 3 of our Intermediate NCT-S, Alex continues to build on the Follower’s Turns. The lead in this figure is initiated from an Open Position, which means it can be lead from a, “one handhold, a double handhold or a cross hand hold position.” Alex states that she will focus this week’s training on […]
(Dance 2B) Intermediate Night Club Two-Step – Couple Rotation
In this last lesson of the Intermediate Night Club Two-Step, Alex teaches us two patterns for the price of one! She begins by teaching us a basic rotational figure using Pivot Turns. While this is quite functional, she subsequently kicks it up a notch by adding a flashy and showy ending to it. This is […]