I really want to learn Charleston, Lindyhop, Swing, Jitterbug and American Style Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot and Tango.

Hi Patman,

While we always recommend private lessons as the best way to learn dancing, the videos on this website are a great tool to supplement those lessons. We do have Lindy Hop (including some Charleston patterns), East and West Coast Swing, and all of the American Smooth dances you mentioned. Take a look and see if they help!

Lindy: https://www.ballroomdancers.com/Dances/syllabus.asp?Dance=LH
EC Swing: https://www.ballroomdancers.com/Dances/syllabus.asp?Dance=ECS
WC Swing: https://www.ballroomdancers.com/Dances/syllabus.asp?Dance=WCS

Amer. Waltz: https://www.ballroomdancers.com/Dances/syllabus.asp?Dance=AWA
Amer. Foxtrot: https://www.ballroomdancers.com/Dances/syllabus.asp?Dance=AFX
Amer. Tango:: https://www.ballroomdancers.com/Dances/syllabus.asp?Dance=ATA
Amer. Viennese: : https://www.ballroomdancers.com/Dances/syllabus.asp?Dance=AVW

Regards,
Jonathan Atkinson
www.ballroomdancers.com

Oh thank you so much for the info!!! This is so helpful. Thanks again for the information

Another thing that I want to say is, do you have Jitterbug or know where I can find it?

Jonathan Atkinson is right. Instructional videos can be very helpful—you can watch a figure be danced correctly 100 times in a row, if you need to. But a video can't tell you "You're not doing that quite right; do B instead of A."

When I was first learning to dance, often I could pick up a new figure and do it reasonably well during the lesson, but far too often I couldn't remember it the next day. So I started writing everything down right away. I have several thick notebooks with the details of dance patterns. That's where a video can be really helpful, taking the place of notes (which may not be quite right, anyway).

You used to be able to buy Jitterbug on VHS from DanceVision. I don't know if you still cam but I would imagine so. The jitterbug was pretty easy to learn...it isn't as structured or detail oriented as ballroom