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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Balboa (dance)
		Balboa is a complex form of a Swing Dance.
		It is danced with the Lead and follow dancing where their chests touch for a body lead connection.
		Some of the original Balboa dancers said this once "We can't tell you how to dance Balboa, but we can tell you when you are not dancing Balboa." The main types are single time Balboa, double time Balboa, and triple time Balboa.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ba/Balboa_(dance) (94 words)

	Balboa (dance) - Definition, explanation
		Balboa is a form of a swing dance that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Balboa is danced to a wide variety of tempos.
		Balboa is also danced to slow music (under 100 bpm), which allows more time for intricate footwork and variations.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/ba/balboa__dance_.php (1397 words)

	BALBOA DANCE page. Streetswings Dance History archives
		The Balboa is a form of the Swing dance family.
		A dancer getting tired would pull his partner close and do Balboa to catch their breath, then swing out again or it was just plain to crowded to dance and they did or had to do the Balboa all night.
		Balboa is mainly a closed position swing form, that uses very little break-away's, only a few turns, and usually fast footwork.
	www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3bal1.htm (558 words)

	Balboa Nation - The World's Home for Bal-Swing
		Many dance historians state that the dance was a derivation of Foxtrot, others believe it evolved from the Charleston or Collegiate Shag.
		Balboa is an 8 count dance so a connection with other 8 count dances would be consistent.
		Pure Balboa is characterised by a fairly upright posture with both partners standing 'chest to chest' in close intimate contact.
	www.balboanation.com /balboa.html (616 words)

	Learn to Dance - Balboa (dance)
		Balboa is a complex form of a Swing Dance.
		It is danced with the Lead and follow dancing where their chests touch for a body lead connection.
		Some of the original Balboa dancers said this once "We can't tell you how to dance Balboa, but we can tell you when you are not dancing Balboa." The main types are single time Balboa, double time Balboa, and triple time Balboa.
	www.c5x.com /List_of_dances/balboa__dance_.html (298 words)

	What is Swing Dancing? (East Coast Swing, Lindy Hop, Charleston, Balboa)
		Lindy hop combines elements of solo dancing with partner dancing in its foundational step the 'swingout', where the European partner dancing format was adapted to allow men and women to dance together (a practice usually forbidden in African dances), and yet also to improvise 'alone' without disturbing the structure and flow of the dance.
		Balboa is a form of a swing dance that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Balboa is danced to a wide variety of tempos.
	www.swingdancenashville.com /what.shtml (544 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Balboa
		Balboa, Colombia a town and municipality in the Department of Cauca, Colombia.
		Balboa High School, a public high school in San Francisco, California.
		Balboa (dance), a close embrace style of swing dancing
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Balboa (151 words)

	Rendezvous Ballroom, Balboa, California
		The 12,000-square-foot dance floor could easily accomodate over 1,500 couples with a 64 foot soda fountain on the ground floor along with dozens of couches and a smaller soda fountain above on the mezzanine and balcony surrounding the dance floor along with 50 more couches.
		dancing to the Big Bands at the Rendezvous Ballroom and partying until dawn at hundreds of overcrowded rental apartments and rooms throughout the Balboa and Newport Beach area.
		The "Balboa Shuffle" is most useful when an extremely slow number is played and the "Balboa Hop" is utilized when the beat is too fast for any other dance.
	www.100megspopup.com /ark/RendezvousBallroom1941.html (477 words)

	AllBalboa.com
		Danced completely in closed position, Balboa evolved in conservative dance halls where space was limited.
		Pure Balboa is characterized by a fairly upright posture with both partners standing 'chest to chest' in close contact.
		After a while some of the original Balboa dancers tired of doing just pure Balboa and started to introduce fancier variations which forced the 'chest to chest' connection to be broken.
	www.allbalboa.com /history.htm (571 words)

	Weekly Bal-Swing, Balboa & Lindy Hop Classes w/Steve Garrett & Heidi Salerno
		Steve has been teaching Swing for 8 years, dancing for over 10 years, learning directly from the old timers who danced the dance in the 30's and 40's and is a Master in Kung Foo San Soo.
		Balboa is a closed position swing dance with no break aways that was started in the early 1930's by dancers in the Los Angeles area.
		Balboa Swing is a beginning Balboa & Swing class where you will learn the 5 Fundamentals: the basic, transition, come around, inside turn and back to closed, as well as various outside turns and Pure Bal moves and some basic L.A. Style Swing moves, like an 8 count basic, side pass, sugarpush.
	www.balboaswing.com /lessons.html (1193 words)

	Swing Dance Brisbane : Recapturing the spirit of the 20s, 30s and 40s
		Unlike earlier jazz, swing was tailor made for partner dancing, a fact that promoted swing to its position as the first and only form of jazz to be embraced by a mass audience.
		Sometimes referred to as the Jitterbug, this energetic, groovy and sometimes goofy dance was one of the first popular partner dance styles of the swing era.
		Like Balboa, it is primarily danced to fast tempos, and has a cartoon-like appearance with slick, fast footwork and sometimes goofy styling.
	swingdancebrisbane.com /about/what_is_swing.asp (737 words)

	Lessons
		Balboa is a dance that developed in the 1930's in southern California as a result of very crowded dance floors.
		Tradition holds that Balboa was developed primarily in Southern California in the 1930's, as a result of very crowded dance floors.
		Originally, Balboa was danced in closed position, but patterns and steps in the open position also developed.
	www.uky.edu /StudentOrgs/HKSDC/Lessons.html (1702 words)

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		Lindy Hop is an eccentric dance that came from depression era Harlem, it was the "Anti" dance of all dances because you could basically break the laws of the Charleston which was becoming acceptable to the mainstream.
		Balboa has no such history of being Anit anything,rather it was the dance to been done in order to Follow the rules,not break them.
		Balboa was also not the dance to express yourself as an individual to the music,rather it was a simple excuse to hold a girl and not take up any space on the overcrowded floors of Los Angeles which during the 20's was the largest Migration ever seen in United States History.
	www.cnl.salk.edu /~rob/strutters/balNotes.txt (3664 words)

	Dance Descriptions/Overview
		According to Jonathan & Sylvia (Balboa Pros) from Santa Barbara, CA., the Balboa is danced almost exclusively in closed dance position and most closely resembles a dance the natives of 1930s Chicago called the Shag.
		It was danced to big band music and was characterized by "breakaways" in which partners in a couple separated and improvised steps individually.
		The man is the center of attention (sometimes lending the appellate peacock dancing to the Shag) and the woman's steps are either mirror steps of the mans or a sort of marking time while he does spins and other wildness.
	savoycentral.org /classoverview.html (1288 words)

	priceless.com - Article - Balboa, Rediscovered
		They were dancing Balboa," says Paolo Lanna, 40, an instructor at New York's Dance Manhattan Dance Studio and an expert in early jazz dances like Balboa, which developed in California's Balboa Peninsula in the 1920s and 30s.
		At the time, the southern California dance pavilions were so crowded that movement was restricted, which led to the development of Balboa, a dance that's more contained than the jitterbug and other forms of swing.
		Balboa is more about instinct and intimacy than swing varieties that involve a lot of wide movements.
	www.priceless.com /articles/a137.html (530 words)

	Raper's Dance Corner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the dance community there are differing opinions as to which of these dances should be called Swing Dances.
		This is an advanced form of west coast swing dance that allows the leader or follower to extend patterns at will with their own interpretive styling to the music.
		Balboa is an offshoot of the original Charleston style of dancing.
	www.swingdance.com /swingdef.html (1305 words)

	Dance Descriptions/Overview
		Balboa is built on smooth, tight footwork and is ideal for fast tempos.
		It was danced to big band music and was characterized by "breakaways" in which partners in a couple separated and improvised steps individually.
		The man is the center of attention (sometimes lending the appellate peacock dancing to the Shag) and the woman's steps are either mirror steps of the mans or a sort of marking time while he does spins and other wildness.
	www.savoycentral.org /classoverview.html (1288 words)

	Edinburgh University Swing Dance Society / Swingdoctors (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lindy Hop is one of the most influential dances of the 20th century; it was the first true partnered swing dance and is the ancestor to a huge number of later dances such as jive, rock-n-roll and even break-dancing.
		Balboa is a jazz dance which can be done either to swing music or to the odler, Dixieland, form of jazz.
		Pure Balboa is danced in a closed position with a chest to chest hold and, except in the 'break', this close hold is never lost.
	golgi.ana.ed.ac.uk /Swing/edustyles.html (711 words)

	Nathalie Gomes & Yuval Hod - Upper Valley Swing Dance Network
		This is a once-a-year opportunity to learn from and dance with two of the most popular instructors in the world.
		Balboa is a style of swing dance that was popularized in the 1930s in southern California.
		The dance is known for its romantic closeness, fast and fancy footwork and effortless flow.
	www.uvswingdance.net /february.html (938 words)

	The Lindy Circle - Balboa History
		It was a two story dance hall covering half a block with a capacity probably in excess of 4000 at its peak.
		Maxie continued to dance and teach to the newer brigade of Balboa fans that blossomed in the late 90's before finally passing away in 2000.
		The current Balboa scene owes them an enormous debt of gratitude for preserving the dance and bringing it to the attention of the masses.
	www.lindycircle.com /history/balboa (1888 words)

	Dance History--The Balboa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Balboa has no spins or turns and is done only in closed position with variations on the 8 count basic (step, step, hold, step--repeated).
		It's a great dance when the tempo of the music is unrelenting (above 200bpm and beyond) because it can be done with little effort.
		Camp Hollywood (an annual dance camp in its 4th year in July 2001) features Balboa workshops taught by the "old-timers" and couples that have learned directly from the older generation.
	www.swingdancers.com /seattle/balboa.htm (209 words)

	HepTown - Swing dance and Retro Culture
		Balboa is a form of swing dance that started as early as 1915 and gained in popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.
		It is danced primarily in close embrace, and is led with a full body connection.
		As a result, Balboa is considered more of a "dancer's dance" than a "spectator's dance".
	www.heptown.com (389 words)

	YouTube - Balboa dance performance
		Obviously, this was not meant to be a true hawaiian dance, but rather a swing dance with a hawaiian theme, which is rather popular.
		This routine features Balboa and Collegiate Shag patterns and was performed at Pier 54 and Mid Summernight Swing in NYC.
		Balboa Collegiate Shag BalBusters Mid Summernight Swing Pier 54 Dance Performance Class Paolo
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=wDh7XX3ooB0 (422 words)

	Swingtime Dance Company - Official Site of Paul and Natasha
		THE DANCE: The Balboa :This dance is a partner dance which originated in California in the 1930s.
		Danced in a close hold position, it is a stylish and simple way to dance to fast swing music - particularly on a crowded dancefloor.
		We are very pleased to have them teach this one off Summer special dance course at the South London Pacific.
	www.tonyrusecki.co.uk /swingtimedance/intro.htm (185 words)

	London Balboa Festival - The Workshops
		Leaders: You have done some classes in Balboa, but find that you are limited in your social dancing to just the simplest basic steps and tend only to incorporate Balboa into your lindy hop for short phrases at a time.
		Leaders: You do well when you are dancing with a good follower, but it falls apart if she does not know what she is doing and you struggle to compensate.
		You take classes or practice on a weekly basis and social dance Balboa on a weekly basis (all evening - not just one or two in an evening.) You are the best balboa leader / follower from your country, apart from those teaching internationally, and dance partners always comment about how good you are.
	www.londonbalboafestival.co.uk /workshops (1411 words)

	Swing Dance Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Balboa is a close-hold dance, generally danced to swing music but also suitable for some older, New-Orleans type jazz.
		As the swing age came, however, some Balboa dancers were influenced by open swing dances such as Lindy Hop and adapted their dance to create "Bal-swing", which is a mix of close-hold "pure" balboa and more open moves but still with a distinctive 'Bal' style.
		Stance: Balboa is not danced in a Lindy-style "get down": instead, both partners stand naturally, upright with knees slightly bent (slightly means that you knnow they are, but nobody could tell from looking at you).
	golgi.ana.ed.ac.uk /swing/balpage.html (701 words)

	K2 Dance Studio - Lindy, Swing & Balboa
		If you are new to K2 Dance Studio and would like to try out a class, you may register and if you decide not to take the Class Session contact K2 before the start of the second lesson for a refund (less $13).
		Balboa is a closed position dance which originally developed in the early 1930s in California.
		Balboa has great partner connection and goes especially well with medium to very fast tempos.
	www.k2dance.com /lindy.html (1410 words)

	JiveSwing.com - Balboa Classes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Balboa is a closed-position dance that developed in the Balboa Peninsula and then it evolved in the Rendezvous Ballroom on Balboa Island in Newport Beach, California in the 1930s.
		.Early in Balboa, the ballrooms wouldn't allow you to swing the girl out, but in later years, a newer style, now called Bal-Swing, was developed that relied heavily on 8-count patterns, as well as break-away moves, this is what is widely taught today on the Swing scene.
		Balboa can be danced to any tempo, although it's more common to see it danced at a fast tempo.
	www.jiveswing.com /classes/swingvillebalboa.htm (423 words)

	AllBalboa.com
		The Balboa was born in the Rendezvous ballroom (one block long) in Balboa Beach, California in the early 1930's.
		Just as a note; when I was going to Balboa there was a young lady that was a deaf mute that could do the Balboa very well and it was a long time before I knew her problem...so you can dance no matter what.
		The big bands and the Balboa faded out after the war but in the 1970's Johnny Sheeter started dances to a big band at the Pavillion in Balboa and so for about 10 years my wife and I went there doing Balboa and a small amout of Swing.
	www.allbalboa.com /deanraftery.htm (373 words)

	HISTORY OF THE BALBOA PAVILION (est
		Further, the nearby Balboa ocean pier was concurrently constructed as a sister project to the Pavilion to attract land buyers.
		Admission to the dances was free, but couples who used the roped off dance floor had to pay for the privilege to dance.
		The Balboa Pier was a sister attraction to the Balboa Pavilion.
	www.balboapavilion.com /history.html (2630 words)

	The Lindy Circle - Balboa Classes
		Balboa is an original swing dance that emerged during the late 1920's and early 1930's.
		Both dances evolved to similar styles of music so its easy to mix Balboa with Lindy on the social dance floor.
		If you are new to Balboa then join our teaching team downstairs at 7.30 for a group beginner's tutorial.
	www.lindycircle.com /classes/balboa.php (306 words)

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