About Let's Dance Studio

Most people think of dance as something that only professionals perform on stage and spectators watch passively, that it is an art form separate from ordinary people and from everyday life.

Our Mission

In fact, our culture is dominated by visual consumer media that reinforces dance as being visual and passive, rather than participatory, social, tactile or even musical. Today, almost all the ballrooms have disappeared and the expression "ballroom dancing" has been redefined by the commercial franchised dance studio industry to mean competitive dance sport. These studios have tried to create a monopoly not only on dance teaching, but also on dancing itself, creating a very small list of permissible dances, pruned down to a small set of allowable moves, with the music confined to a narrow range of allowable tempos. At Let's Dance, we recognize and believe that:

• Dancing is about more than just steps and moves. It is about feeling and connection, improvisation and harmonious attention based on respect between the dancers and a love of the music and dance culture.
• Dancing means an activity to participate in rather than dance as a performance to watch.
• Dancing is a part of living and combined with other aspects of cultural and social life; it is a total activity involving body, mind, spirit and feeling.
• Dancing is personal, intimate, communicative, social and public; it is creative, spontaneous, individual, structured, coordinated, and conventional.

• To provide a co-operative rather than competitive community of social dancing.
• To nurture and pass on the dance tradition so that others may experience the joy of dancing.
• To create multi-generational environment that includes dancers of various degrees of skill and experience.
• To promote integration of new dancers into the dance community surrounded and supported by experienced dancers rather than merely segregated and impeded by other struggling beginners.

After all, "Dancing is the loftiest, most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself!" - Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life