How To Do Every Israeli Partner Dance Even When You Or Your Partner Do Not Know the Steps

Israeli Partner Dancing is a fun, energetic and exciting form of popular dance that incorporates dances from around the world in a uniquely Israeli Dance style.

Every Israeli Dance has its own choreography, made up by a choreography.

There are many benefits to this style of dance. However, this also leads to a number of problems, which we are trying to alleviate.

In most Israeli Partner Dance classes, we are taught the steps to a dance, but not how to dance. Typically the man and woman learn their own parts for each dance, but they do not learn how to dance with one another.

Too frequently, partners wrestle with each other on the dance floor. People get frustrated and are often unwilling to dance with all but a select few partners. Sometimes people do not even want to dance with their regular partner if one of them does not know the dance.

Dance As One

Even when both partners know a dance, rarely do you find two people dancing as one, as you might find in other social partner dancing, like Swing, Salsa or Ballroom dancing. Rather, in Israeli partner dancing, we often have two people dancing as two, both doing the correct steps in close proximity, but not moving together.

For example, suppose the next step is a simple step forward for the man and a step backward for the lady. Many women, since they know what the step is, will take their backward step before the man initiates his step. Even if the woman takes her step only a tiny fraction of a second before the man, the effect is glaringly noticeable to a social dancer, and defeats the attempt to dance as one.

In social partner dancing, ever step is lead and that is how dancing as one is accomplished. The woman does not move until she receives a signal from the man. Then she moves with the man as one unit.

Dance Every Dance and Make Every Dance A Pleasure

People can dance every Israeli Partner Dance, and make every dance a pleasure, even when one or both of you do not know the steps.

See the video demonstration of women doing advanced Israeli partner dances without any instruction. See the Workshop page for applying social partner dance skills to Israeli Partner Dancing.