About Israeli Partner Dancing.com

Israeli Partner Dancing.com is here to help you improve your partner dancing skills and help your group have more sociable partner dance sessions.

Products

There are three products on this website to help you and your group. Only the first, the workshop is currently available. The other two are in production.

1. Workshop - you can schedule a Partnership Skills workshop for your location. This could be a separate workshop or part of a camp.
   
   
2. Book - the book Israeli Partnership Dancing, the ABCDs of Dancing With a Partner explains in detail how to dance with a partner.
   
   
3. Online Course - explanations and videos, with examples and exercises for dancing with a partner.
   
   

Background

In 2005, I moved back to Gainesville and took over our tiny Israeli Dancing group. Though we had a small group, people were eager to learn and we danced twice a week for a few hours each evening.

We love Israeli Partner Dances and have included them from the beginning.

In our group, we teach the women to follow and the men to lead.

We have a precise system for how to dance with a partner and everyone learns exactly what each signal means, where to go and where to be.

One day, a young lady asked me to tell her what the steps of a dance were. That made me smile, because through body language, I was telling every step of the dance as we did it, if only she knew how to listen.

The Partnership Dancing Method works perfectly for Israeli Dancing.

Recently, we had a woman move here from another group. She was skeptical until she saw me dance Rina with a lady in our group, who did every step exactly, without ever having seen the dance before and without any instruction. She has embraced our method and can now do all the partner dances.

We rotate partners and do every dance twice, if we need to. Everyone dances with everybody, and everyone gets to do every dance if they want to.

Often we have ladies that will dance the man's part and sometimes vice versa.

There is no wrestling, pushing or pulling, or test of wills.

Everyone knows the rules. We may not get all the steps right, but every dance is smooth and comfortable, without any conflict. Everyone has a good time with every dance, whether or not they or their partner knows the steps.