Ballroom Dancing

Ballroom Dancing - More Than Just a Workout

Ballroom Dancing - More Than Just a Workout

Ballroom dancing is a great way to workout. It can be a good cardio workout. It helps with strength and flexibility. Dancing can also help improve both your balance and your memory. While these benefits are great, ballroom dancing can offer you so much more

Ballroom Dancing, Better Medicine than Laughing

Ballroom Dancing, Better Medicine than Laughing

We all want to be better, more effective adults, and invest time and research into finding the right activities to develop skills and strengths. From language learning to sports, to painting and drama, there are a wide variety of activities to choose from

A 'Twist' to the Dating Scene: Ballroom Dancing Classes

A 'Twist' to the Dating Scene: Ballroom Dancing Classes

Dating has become extremely impersonal with apps like Tinder and Lulu as well as websites like eHarmony and Zoosk. Meeting a potential partner through mutual friends, blind dates, or even speed dating isn't common anymore, but why should we sacrifice personal interactions for screen time?

Is There Life After "Chair Bopping?"

Is There Life After "Chair Bopping?"

It's been a typical Monday, and you're on your way home, stuck in traffic, tired and cranky. You don't think anything could improve your mood when, suddenly, "that" song comes on the radio, and it's like the outside world just disappears. The rhythm grabs you and, within seconds, you're drumming happily on the steering wheel, bouncing with the tempo, nodding along to the beat. You, my friend, are "chair bopping."

A Fun Way to Celebrate Winter's End: Quick Quick Slow's Annual Winter Ball 2018

A Fun Way to Celebrate Winter's End: Quick Quick Slow's Annual Winter Ball 2018

After New Year's bashes and Mardi Gras Galas, you might not want the string of parties to end. However, options are typically limited to Valentine's parties, and if you aren't in a relationship, they can be intimidating. Instead, why not cap off the end of winter by attending a Ball?

A Valentine's Day Gift to Bring You Closer: Ballroom Dancing Lessons 

A Valentine's Day Gift to Bring You Closer: Ballroom Dancing Lessons 

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and the struggle is on to find a unique gift you're partner will never forget. No matter how long the two of you have been together, being close is always one thing you will have to work at. Part of being each other's number one is

Three Great Reasons to Take Dance Lessons Before Your Wedding

Three Great Reasons to Take Dance Lessons Before Your Wedding

Whether your wedding is a year away or you only have a month or two to plan your wedding, you likely have a lot on your plate right now. You might be thinking that you don't have time to add anything else to your wedding preparation schedule, but there are at least three reasons why ballroom dance lessons should be a part of your wedding planning.

Dancing Your Way to Connectedness

Dancing Your Way to Connectedness

Alienation is "the state or experience of feeling isolated, detached, separated, divided, cut off", the sensation of being out of sync with the reality around us, something all of us have felt at one time or another, and increasingly so in the individualistic, ego-driven society we live in today. Now close your eyes for a moment and try to remember the last time you danced

The Escapism of Ballroom Dancing For Everyone

The Escapism of Ballroom Dancing For Everyone

Some of the benefits of ballroom dancing are very subtle in nature. Many of these benefits are purely emotional. When people start doing ballroom dancing on a regular basis, they might start to feel as if they are entering another world in the process

The Different Styles of Ballroom Dances

The Different Styles of Ballroom Dances

Many people love ballroom dancing because they enjoy the challenge of learning and improving each dance. For those of you who aren't familiar, there are actually many different types of ballroom dances to learn. Each dance has its own steps, stylization, and typical kinds of music used

"Dancing with the Stars" Season 25 - What we can learn from the final four

"Dancing with the Stars" Season 25 - What we can learn from the final four

Season 25 of Dancing with the Stars is almost over!  But, who will win?  America has voted and the answer will come soon enough.  But, until that happens let's take a quick look at the final four and what we can learn about dancing from each one.

What You Need to Know About Our Quick Start Dance Program

What You Need to Know About Our Quick Start Dance Program

If you have been considering taking ballroom lessons and live near Marlboro, New Jersey, check out the amazing Quick Start Dance Program we offer at Quick Quick Slow Ballroom Dance Studio. Our Quick Start Program is truly for anyone. Whether you have dancing experience or no experience whatsoever,

Why you, an adult man, should give Ballroom Dance a chance.

Why you, an adult man, should give Ballroom Dance a chance.

As a male, you might think that a ballroom class is the last place you would like to be. However, I encourage you to rethink this, open yourself up and give ballroom a chance. If that encouragement isn't enough for you, below I have listed three reasons why you should make ballroom a part of your routine.

Putting the golden back in your golden years with private ballroom dance lessons 

Putting the golden back in your golden years with private ballroom dance lessons 

Keeping fit in your golden years means so much more than just the many benefits for your health, fitness translates into your quality of life and independence. While this should, therefore, be a priority for you, you are not limited to lonely walks or boring silver classes

2 Unlikely Candidates for Ballroom Dancing

2 Unlikely Candidates for Ballroom Dancing

If you haven't done any ballroom dancing before, you may have a perception of the typical person that does it. But at Quick Quick Slow Ballroom Dance Studio, we see people from all walks of life taking an interest in ballroom. Whether it is someone who wants to work their way into the competition circuit or a couple looking for a way to spend quality time together, their reasons vary greatly. Here are some unlikely clients we see fall in love with ballroom.