Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Wedding/ First dance lessons NYC

 Your First dance in NYC: make some magic, the secret? Learning how to dance together for your wedding is a perfect metaphor for getting married! Work together as a team, make each other look good, move as one; communicate perfectly and you’ll wow your guests!

Dance together…. into your future!
Learn how two bodies move as one with Ballroom Wedding Dance, simple steps or full choreography in the heart of NYC and Westchester
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Friday, February 19, 2021

About Wedding First Dance Lessons

 

About your wedding Dance Lessons


Be sure to bring your wedding shoes (or comparable pair, to avoid scuffs) to some of your lessons.  It’s most important for the ladies, as dancing in heels is very different than in flats, so plan to bring and practice in your shoes.  Men can also benefit from rehearsing in dress shoes, because they are often slippery. (It’s a good idea to give them a test drive.)

 

Brides, your dress could interfere with your dance, true. There won’t be many “dress” rehearsals, so let your instructor know about the length and size, or whether anything restricts your movement. We can easily factor that in planning your dance.


On the Big Day, there is generally some time, whether a walk through, a specific time you have set aside as a breather, or even better during the First Look or pictures(!) to do a mini dress rehearsal to,

a) brush up before showtime!  

b) and see how the dance feels in the dress (and tux jacket.)

 

Video some of the lesson to practice with at home. It’s useful, and an amazing practice tool.

 

Plan on practicing some between lessons to get the most from them. All you need to do is 10-15 minutes a couple of times a week. It makes a huge difference. Your instructor can then answer any questions you have. But it maximizes your time in the lesson. Like anything else, the more you do of something the better you will be at it.

 

But please remember dancing is all about having FUN with your partner!  Try not to correct each other  or put too much pressure on getting every move right. If you learn to move together as one unit, to work as a team, it will work out, even if maybe, it isn’t exactly per the blueprint! Work together and be as supportive as you can be. No one watching you knows the routine, so you can’t be wrong if you work things out together. But sticking to the ground plan always makes things easier, but it’s a fact of life that things never turn out exactly the way they were designed.)

 

BallroomWeddingDance with Peter Jones

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Monday, February 15, 2021

FIRST DANCE TIPS

 

FIRST DANCE TIPS

 First, keep in mind: If you can walk, you can dance!


Now for some tips and  wedding/ First Dance - Best Practices!


It’s a good idea to schedule your dance lessons at least 3 months before the wedding.  That gives you more scheduling flexibility but is still close enough to the wedding that you won’t forget! Plan the final lesson to be about a week or ten days before the wedding regardless, as a brush up. Planning ahead makes your life a lot easier, as the Big Day approaches. And Dancing is going to be a Life skill!

 

If you have your First song picked out before your first lesson, great. But if you’re not sure about it, no problem. If you can bring in your top 2 or 3, or a short list of some sort, we can talk with you about them and help you pick the best dance song.

 

A good wedding dance is around 2 ½-3 ½  minutes.  You want to be able to keep your guests engaged, and 3 to 3 and a half minutes is about as long as you can reasonably put a dance together in a relatively short period of time, (while you’re doing a thousand other things!) You want it just right, not too long, not too short.

 

If you are doing a mashup or medley, be sure to let me know the idea early on and have it edited by the halfway point of the lessons.  It’s important to have the final vision done with enough time to nail it.


Peter Jones

www.Ballroomweddingdance.com


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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Pick your First dance song

Picking your First Dance song for your #weddingdance is sometimes not obvious or easy, if you don't have a "This is our song!"  situation. Here are some of the top songs, and you can go to https://www.ballroomweddingdance.com/first-dance-songs  for links to these, and some of my all time favorites!   

TOP TEN WEDDING DANCE SONGS 2021

Monday, January 19, 2015

Come to a hot SALSA Dance Party: Tues. 8:00pm with Peter! 1/20.Tommy's Brightside Tavern, Jersey City: 141 Bright Street, http://bit.ly/1zAbTh0 Dance, + drinks, +(wings) or + dinner! Really nice place

Friday, October 31, 2014

Wow! Halloween already? What happened to the year? Hundreds of happy wedding couples and some genuinely amazing stuff came my way in 2014: snagged a Reality Show ("Married at First Sight"), an Independent Film (The First Lesson), Dancing With the Stars pro Louis van Amstel visited, Rachael Ray invited one of my couples  to perform on her nationally broadcast show, Tony award winning Patina Miller studied with me, as did Eric Trump.... and the year isn't over yet!

Peter Jones
www.BallroomWeddingDance.com
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Last week I filmed a segment with one of my couples (Manisha Mahajan and her fiance Alex) for the #RachelRayShow with #DWTS pro #LouisVanAmstel crashing my#weddingDanceLesson! It was a blast! Then they went on to the Rachel Ray studio and danced on National TV! They were amazing! 
Don't know the air date yet, but I'll keep you posted!