Social Ballroom 

Dancing in Gippsland

New Vogue - Old Time - Modern Sequence

 

ENGLISH OLD TIME

In England, around the turn of the century, sequence dances were a popular style of dancing. The technique of the steps uses balletic foot positions, with the feet turned out each by 45 degrees. These dances were brought out by English colonists. Many of these dances are still performed today in Great Britain, and at social dances in Australia. A set of 16 dances have been approved by the Australian Dancesport Federation for use in dance competition and championships in Australia:

English Old Time Dances Used in Dancesport competition

Balmoral Blues
Boston Two Step
Britannia Saunter
Fylde Waltz
Gainsborough Glide
Lilac waltz
Lola Tango
Mayfair Quickstep
Premier Two Step
Rialto Two Step
Saunter Reve
Tango Serida
Tango Solair
Camellia Tango
Valeta

03 Whistling waltz 32pm.mp3

to this website

 
The aim of this site is to supply
 
 information about dance venues, 
 
and the dates that dances are held, 
 
for any persons who lives in or is 
 
travelling through Gippsland. 

The majority of dances are Social 

Ballroom, (this includes New 

Vogue, Old Time, and Modern 

Sequence Dances.) but will 

include Rock and Roll / Swing, 

Square Dancing, Line Dancing, 

Scottish Dancing and Round 

Dancing, when we get the 

information. 

I hope you will find this website 

useful for your dancing.

Please feel free to copy any of the information regarding dance dates and venues, for personal use or for your club notice board.
(eg. highlight area, copy, 
paste to word document, and print.)
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We are sequence ballroom dancers which means that everybody on the dance floor does the same thing in the same direction (hopefully) at the same time unlike our ballroom cousins who dance every which way.

Sequence dancing is a set routine of steps (figures) danced over 16 or 32 bars of music, just like the Tangoette, Charmaine, Carousel or Swing Waltz. Each routine is danced several times over the length of the music being played.

Sequence takes in all the ballroom dance styles - Slow Foxtrot, Blues, Saunter, Quickstep, Swing, Jive, Old Time Waltz (New Vogue), Modern Waltz, Tango, Rumba, Cha Cha, Samba, Mambo, Salsa, Bossa Nova & Paso Doble'  Polka and Two step.

Many of the dances we perform originate in England, the home of ballroom dancing, and of course there are some Aussie or New Vogue style dances like the Barclay Blues, Jacober Blues, Gaiety Waltz, to name but a few.

 

New Vogue (dance)

From Wikipedia,

The New Vogue dance style is an Australian form of sequence dancing that originated in the 1930s. Since then it has become an important part in the Australian ballroom scene, holding as much importance in social and competition dancing as latin or International Standard dances.

There are a large number of New Vogue dances, although only a handful are common. All New Vogue dances are based on a sequence of dance steps which are continually repeated, usually until the music ends. They sequences are always either 16 or 32 bars long, and require music that is in turn "sequenced" (composed of verses that are either 16 or 32 bars long). Due to the nature of the dances they are much easier to pick up by beginners than, say, Latin dances (which have numerous types of steps that are combined into custom routines) and as such, beginner dancers are less likely to feel overwhelmed when learning them and can perform the dances to a respectable level within a short time of learning. New Vogue dances can be danced at different levels, with higher levels requiring more precise steps and the addition of arm and torso movement, known as "styling". This in a nutshell makes the dances easy to pick up but hard to master. New Vogue Dances are based on one of several sub categories, including Viennese Waltz Rhythm, Slow Foxtrot Rhythm, March Rhythm and Tango Rhythm.

Out of the many New Vogue Dances, fifteen are recognised by Dancesport Australia for use in Dancesport competitions. These are listed below.

Dancesport Championship Competition Dances

                    Barclay Blues

                   Carousel
                   Charmaine 
                   Evening Three Step
                   Excelsior Schottische 
                   Gypsy Tap 
                   La Bomba 
                   Lucille Waltz 
                   Merrilyn 
                    Parma Waltz
                    Swing Waltz 
                    Tangoette 
                    Tango Terrific 
                    Tracie Leigh Waltz 
                     Twilight Waltz 

 

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