We’ve decided to do something special through December this year. Every day until Christmas Eve you’ll find a new, exclusive expert tip, illustrated by one of our videos, on our advent calendar.

Our expert contributors are Jonathan Crossley, Hazel Newberry and Benoit Drolet – there’s more information about their dance careers and achievements here.

We’ll have a new tip every day, and our members can log in and see all the earlier ones. They also have access to many more tips and thousands of videos covering 86 steps in 4 dances, so what you see for free is only the tip of the iceberg!

To start us off, today’s tip is by Jonathan Crossley, on the Fleckerl in Viennese Waltz.

• Visit the advent calendar!

The Ballroom Genie library has been growing again. This time, the new steps are:

• Quick open natural turn and outside spin
• Right hinge with reverse pivot exit

If you haven’t joined yet there’s 1 free video for each step, but members get over 50, including slow motion for each partner, from every one of our 9 camera angles.

If you’d like to improve your dancing by understanding better how ballroom figures really work (and make life easier for your partner along the way!), it’s very quick to get started, just try the demo now.

We’ve just added a couple more of Hazel Newberry’s commentaries on popular Quickstep figures – if you’re a member, just log in and visit these links to find the new advice:

• Backward lock step
• Woodpecker action

This will be the last update with expert advice for a while. For our next few updates, we’ll be expanding our range of figures with more videos again, so keep an eye on the site!

If you’re not yet a member, you can join easily here for access to 4,500+ videos covering 84 steps, as well as more professional advice.

We’ve been busy updating the site with some more professional advice during September. 3-times World Professional Ballroom Champion, Hazel Newberry, has given us her commentaries on how to dance some popular Quickstep figures, and if you’re a member, you’ll find them on these pages: (don’t forget to log in!)

• Rocket variation
• Passing natural turn
• Running cross chassé to PP

To find more professional advice, just go to the contents page to see which steps have tips associated with them. Then you can log in to access them. If you’re not yet a member, you can join easily here.

To complete our first set of Tango steps, we’ve added 2 more and they are:

• Contra check
• Press lines

This brings us to 16 steps in Tango, and 84 overall! Members get 50+ videos for each step including slow motion and 9 camera angles, and if you have’t joined yet there’s 1 free sample clip for each step too. If you’d like to upgrade and beome a member, just join today!

To continue with our birthday celebrations, we’ve just added 3 more Tango steps. These often go together as a common competitive group, and they are:

• Fallaway whisk
• Pivot to lunge roll
• Stop lock

We hope you’re finding the new Tango steps useful. We’re currently working on some more, so check back for another update towards the weekend!

This weekend, Ballroom Genie has been up and running for a year! To celebrate, we’re happy to tell you that we’ve just started adding our 4th dance with 11 new Tango steps, and more to come over the next week. You can find links to the new steps here.

As usual, members get access to 50+ videos for each step (now over 4,000), including slow motion and lots of different viewing angles. If you haven’t joined yet, there’s one free sample clip for every step too.

Just working on the finishing touches to our birthday update :-)

It’s going to be Ballroom Genie’s 1st birthday at the weekend, and to celebrate, we’re preparing a big update. Keep a look out for announcements later this week!

We’re also planning some future developments, and to make the service as good as we can, we’d really like to know what you think. If there are specific steps we don’t have that you’d like to see, or any other way you feel we could improve the site, please let us know by e-mailing hello@ballroomgenie.com. We’d love to hear from you!

Today, we’ve got some new figures for you in Waltz and Quickstep:

• A sequence of natural pivots (Waltz)
• Turning lock to right, shaped left (Waltz)
• Heel pull (Quickstep)
• Rumba cross (Quickstep)
• Running right turn from rumba cross (Quickstep)

As always, our members have access to the full range of 50+ videos for each step. If you haven’t joined yet, there’s one free sample clip for each one too :-)

There are many ways a rondé twist turn can go wrong. Luckily for our members, help is at hand from 3-times World Professional Ballroom Champion, Hazel Newberry!

If you're a member, you can log in and visit this page to read Hazel’s commentary on this tricky step:

• Rondé twist turn

If you’d like access to this advice, as well as the other tips and thousands of videos in our library, simply join today.

The Ballroom Genie library has been growing again! Today’s new steps are:

• Open impetus turn (Waltz)
• Same foot lunge (Waltz)
• Hover corté (Waltz)
• Barrel roll (Quickstep)

This update takes us to 60 steps, which is twice the number of figures we had when we launched last August. Our members get full access to all of them, including slow motion and many camera angles, at no extra cost. If you’d like this too, join today!

It’s been a little while since we added new steps, but the computers have been busy and there are now plenty more on the way!

We have a little something for everyone this time, with new competitive figures including the telespin in waltz and tilt oversway in quickstep, as well as some more basic figures like the whisk and chassé. The full list is:

• Whisk (Waltz)
• Chassé from PP, commencing from whisk (Waltz)
• Natural turn 1–3, commencing outside partner (Waltz)
• Telespin (Waltz)
• Quick open reverse with reverse pivot (quick timing) (Quickstep)
• Tilt oversway (Quickstep)

This takes the number of videos members can access to over 3,000, covering 56 steps. If you’d like full access, including new steps and tips as they’re added at no extra cost, join today.

If you haven’t joined yet but you’ve visited a couple of times, you’ve probably tried Ballroom Genie out by watching some of our double reverse spin videos. We've just changed the demo figure – you can now watch the fallaway reverse and slip pivot in slow motion, from many different viewpoints and with clear views of either partner, for free! Why not take a look?

We’ve just added more expert advice for members: log in to learn from detailed commentaries on the:

• fallaway reverse and slip pivot in Waltz
• slow and quick pendulum points in Quickstep

If you’re not yet a member, you can get access to this advice, as well as over 2,500 videos covering 50 steps (with more on the way) by joining today!

We’re very happy to announce that our next Ballroom Genius expert, offering her insightful advice to accompany our videos, is 3-times World Professional Ballroom Champion, Hazel Newberry.

If you’re a member, you can now read Hazel’s comprehensive commentaries on two Waltz figures: the bounce fallaway, and the left whisk from closed position. She describes the actions for both partners in detail, and you can see her points illustrated in the videos. Try watching in slow motion with one partner semi-transparent to pick up on the detail. You can also look forward to much more advice on the way – we had to redesign parts of the site to fit everything in :-)

As always, the new advice is available to our members at no extra cost. If you’re interested in joining but would like more information first, take a look at our new FAQ page – it might have the answers you're looking for (and if not, you can always e-mail us).

You haven’t heard much from us recently, but there’s been lots of work going on behind the scenes to bring you new content!

We rolled out the first few Ballroom Genius tips to our members in January and we’ve just added another set. (As we announced earlier, Ballroom Genius is advice from some of the world’s best dancers to accompany our videos and help you improve your dancing.)

We’re very pleased to announce that our first expert contributor is Canadian Masters and UK Closed Professional Champion, Benoit Drolet. Read more about Benoit.

Ballroom Genius advice is exclusive to Ballroom Genie members, so if you’d like to learn from what our experts have to say, join now!

We’ll also shortly be adding lots more steps to the site. Watch this space (or follow us on Facebook or Twitter) to find out what’s new as it happens. If you’re a member, you’ll get access to all the new steps as they’re added (as well as all the Ballroom Genius advice) at no extra cost :-)

We’ve been asked several times recently whether a subscription to Ballroom Genie is a long-term, locked-in contract. The answer is a definite no!

To make this clear, we’ve introduced our Safe Subscription Guarantee. If you sign up on our monthly plan, you’re charged for one month at a time. If you decide it’s not for you, you can end your subscription at any time via your account page on the site, and you won’t be charged again. There’s no sneaky annual contract – we don’t like those either!

We hope you’ve all had a great start to 2014, and wish you a happy new dancing year ahead :-)

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