Monica. When you become a good dancer you will find that the slow foxtrot is the easiest dance and the waltz the hardest and most tiring. John

Another vote for the merengue as the easiest of the ballroom dances to learn. At least for us it was. I also agree with the person who said the waltz was the most draining, if you are doing rise/fall and big steps, it really wears out your legs.

So many variables! Do you mean from the point of view of a competitor, or of a social dancer, or of a complete novice?

Each dance requires steps and technique. Which are the easiest steps? Which the easiest technique?

The waltz, it can be argues, requires the fewest steps to be learned. But it needs a lot of technique.

The merengue does require Latin hip motion, so I doubt that a complete novice would find it the easiest. Same goes for chacha, mambo, rhumba, etc....

East Coast Swing requires you to learn a fair number of steps, but very little technique (at least at first), so I think I would suggest ECS for a complete novice.

My 2cents worth.
Jerry

hi kimberly,
dance can be easy or hard depending how easy or hard you want it to be.
with out the technique every dance is easy
the more technique , the more harder.
keeping that in mind.
the hardest is the slow foxtrot and samba technically

hope this helps