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re: Your favorite International Standard combination
Posted by Dronak
2/5/2002  9:12:00 AM
I'm glad you like my pages enough to recommend them, HaOanhTranThanh. My main ballroom page is http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/ballroom.html but sub-pages are in a dance/ directory, so the direct URL for the combinations page would be http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/dance/combos.html The Gotta Dance site is also nice (http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~telemati/dance/steps/index.html), but I don't think it's been updated in a very long time. The main page's section called What's Happening says it's new, but the events are dated from late summer 1995. Still, the dance routines that are there can be a nice resource.

As far as the original question goes, I'm not sure I could pick out some favorite combinations offhand. In part, it depends on what you're looking for. There are combinations that could be considered favorites just because I use them a lot. There are other ones I like, but don't dance a whole lot, perhaps because they use higher level figures and I'm still working on getting them down correctly. And there are still others that I think would be cool, but are currently above my level and I can't dance them. Which do you want? I don't have the _Ballroom Dancing_ book by Alex Moore, but I've heard good things about it so I may try to get it some day. I do have _Popular Variations_ by Moore and that is a good book. It contains many different combinations for waltz, foxtrot, tango, and quickstep. Both syllabus and open figures are used in them and I think there are some combinations with only syllabus figures. If you want a book of combinations for standard, I'd go with Alex Moore's _Popular Variations_ because that's exactly what it lists, combinations. Actually, if you do some web searches you may be able to find a listing of all the combinations from the book on the web. No descriptions, of course, just the table of contents list of combos. I'm pretty sure I saw them somewhere because I think I have an electronic copy of the list of combinations and I'm almost certain I didn't type it up myself.
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James Marshall
marshall@astro.umd.edu
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall

re: Your favorite International Standard combination
Posted by HaOanhTranThanh
2/3/2002  6:21:00 PM
Please to look at web pages of Donak "http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/ballroom" in combos.html or "Gotta Dance" by Kace Ong. I think it is very helpful.
For books, as far as we know, Ballroom Dancing by Alex Moore is best. In this book, Standard combinations are picked up from page 163 for pages Waltz, page 100 for Quick step, page 227 for Foxtrot and page 286 forTango. For advanced dancer, it may be "Popular variations" by Alex Moore. It consists of 240 variation for 4 Standard dances.

We hope that what we have written above is helpful.

HaOanhTranThanh

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