"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy." -jacques d'ambroise
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Places to Go Social Dancing
- Chevy Chase Ballroom
- The Promenade
- Glen Echo Park
- Hollywood Ballroom Dance Center
- Atlantic Ballroom
- Capital Ballroom
- Avant Garde Ballroom
- Mobtown Ballroom
- The Jam Cellar
- Crown Dance Studio
- The best way to find a partner if you're a member of BAM is to talk to our team captains. They can give you names of people in the area looking for partners.
- DC Dancenet offers an excellent partner bulletin board that contains listings for both professional and amateur dancers.
- USA Dance is the nation-wide organization of competitive, collegiate and social Amateur Ballroom Dancers in the United States. It functions as the governing body in the USA for amateur ballroom dancing (also known as DanceSport.)
- Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD)
- International Dance Teachers' Association (IDTA)
- World Dance Council (WDC)
- World DanceSport Federation (WDSF)
- National Dance Council of America (NDCA)
- United States ISTD (USISTD)
- Dance Vision International Dance Association (DVIDA)
- DC Dancenet offers listings of nearly all of the studios, instructors, and events in the DC Area. Although the layout is a little cluttered, it is still an excellent resource.
- Henry Neeman's United States Collegiate Ballroom Dance Hotlist is an amazingly comprehensive list of collegiate ballroom dance clubs.
- An American Ballroom Companion contains the full text and images of lots of dance instruction manuals, but they're old; as the page says, circa 1490 - 1920. Maybe not very practical today, but still interesting to look at and to see how the times have changed.
- Ballroomdancers.com is an online resource for the ballroom dance and dancesport enthusiast with images, movies, syllabi, variations, and several glossaries.
- Ballroom Guide is a site made by a couple current Open dancers from the competitive circuit offering a bunch of instructional videos, competition locators, and other resources.
- DanceSportPlace.com is a subscription-based video service that offers lectures and instructional videos from many of the top pros. While it does have a monthly fee, their videos are very good, and they offer a new free video regularly.
- Dance Forums is a site that a lot of our members have used to get feedback on ballroom questions.
- Daniel Libatique is a DJ for the collegiate ballroom circuit (and our own DCDI DJ). He's made playlists on Spotify for every single ballroom dance and "Round of the Week" playlists for each style. They'll help a lot with finding music when you're practicing on your own.
