Every day from now until Christmas Eve, you can visit our Countdown to Christmas page to find a new free video featuring a quick tip from top international coaches, Tony and Amanda Dokman.

If you’re looking for the link, that’s all put away for this year now. See the next entry to find out how members can still access all the new tips!

Every tip is illustrated by a specially chosen video from our library, and they range from ways to avoid common technical mistakes, through dancing better as a partnership, to insights on how competitors can please adjudicators.

To benefit from these fantastic tips and improve your dancing in the run-up to Christmas, visit every day and watch the new video! To get links to every video sent to you, you can join our mailing list here. We will also be posting links on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

The Ballroom Genie Countdown to Christmas is back next week! Visit us every day from 1st to 24th December to get a free expert tip from top international coaches, Tony and Amanda Dokman, illustrated by one of our videos.

To avoid missing one, get the link delivered to your inbox every day by joining our e-mail list – you'll also hear about special offers running throughout the festive season.

We’ve just added 6 more Waltz figures, bringing us to over 200 steps. Here are the new ones:

• Hover cross from PP ending in PP
• Outside change
• Hesitation change
• Drag hesitation
• Backward lock step
• Outside spin (underturned at a corner)

Members can log in to find slow motion, 9 camera angles and individual partner views for every step, as well as suggested precedes and follows. If you’re not a member yet, you can sign up today for full access to the 10,000+ videos in our library.

We hope you enjoy the new steps!

Ballroom Genie now has 8 new basic Quickstep figures, all danced by World Professional Finalists, Alexander Zhiratkov and Irina Novozhilova.

As usual, members can log in to find over 50 videos for every step, including slow motion, 9 camera angles and individual partner views.

There’s also a free sample clip for every new step – just follow the links:

• Impetus turn (closed)
• Fishtail
• Progressive chassé moving diagonal to centre
• Cross swivel
• Outside check, forward lock step
• Running right turn
• V6 from natural spin turn
• Natural turn with hesitation

If you’re not a member yet, you can sign up today for full access to the 10,000+ videos in our library.

We’ve just added another 6 new Tango figures. As usual, members can log in to find slow motion videos, 9 camera angles and individual partner views for every step.

There’s also one free sample clip for every new step – just follow the links:

• Quarter beats
• Back open promenade
• Rock on left foot
• Rock on right foot
• Back corté
• Closed promenade

We’ve just passed the 10,000 video milestone! If you’d like to benefit from access to all of these videos covering nearly 200 steps, just sign up today.

There’s one free sample clip for every step – just follow the links below. Members can also log in to find slow motion videos, 9 camera angles and individual partner views. Here are the new steps:

• Fallaway promenade with closed finish
• Natural promenade turn
• Open promenade
• Progressive side step reverse turn

If you’re not a member yet, you can sign up today to get all of this for every step in our library of over 150 figures.

We hope you enjoy the new steps!

We’ve just added some more popular figures to brighten up your basic Quickstep! We hope you enjoy them.

• Tipple chasse to left
• Tipple chasse to right along side of room
• Tipple chasse to right at a corner
• Tipsy to left (no turn, sway to right)
• Tipsy to right (no turn, sway to left)
• Curved feather
• Six quick run

There’s one free sample clip for every step – just follow the links above. As always, members can log in for access to over 9,000 videos, including slow motion, 9 camera angles, and individual partner views. If you’re not a member yet, you can sign up today to get all of this for every step in our library of over 150 figures.

We have several more updates in the pipeline, so keep a look-out for more new steps coming soon!

We’d like to wish all our members and visitors a happy and healthy New Year!

Our Countdown to Christmas area has now been packed away and we’re ready to start 2017. Members can still find all the new tips added in December – just log in, go to the steps page, and look for the speech bubble icons. If you click on those steps, you’ll find all the relevant advice. You can now find around 150 nuggets of valuable information from our Ballroom Genius™ expert panel which includes Tony and Amanda Dokman, Jonathan Crossley, Hazel Newberry and Benoit Drolet!

If you haven’t joined yet, you can sign up today to improve your dancing with all these tips, as well as over 9,000 videos in our library.

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