Competencies
What mastery looks like at each level.
- Advanced Casino Competency: Circular Redirection and Role-Safe PartnerworkAn advanced casino dancer sustains circular motion, clear role communication, safe axis management, and musical timing while navigating complex partnerwork without force or loss of social connection.Casino
- Advanced Forró Competency: Adaptive Close-Embrace ConnectionAn advanced forró dancer sustains a clear, consensual partner connection while adapting timing, embrace, rotation, and travel to the music and the social floor.Forró
- Advanced Kompa Close-Embrace Connection and Musical PhrasingAn advanced kompa dancer maintains a comfortable close-embrace connection, marks the music with controlled weight changes and body texture, and keeps both partners balanced, safe, and responsive.Kompa
- Argentine Tango Beginner Competency: Connected Walk and Weight ChangesA beginner demonstrates social readiness by walking with a partner in time, changing weight clearly, and maintaining a safe, comfortable embrace.Tango
- Argentine Tango: Advanced Ronda NavigationAn advanced tango couple protects the shared floor while improvising musically, using compact choices, clear role communication, and immediate adaptation to traffic.Tango
- Argentine Tango: Ronda-Aware Connected WalkingAn improver dancer maintains a stable embrace, walks clearly with collection and pauses, and respects the ronda without pulling, pushing, or disrupting nearby couples.Tango
- Axis-Safe Body Movement ChainsAdvanced dancers manage sensual body movement as a consent-aware, self-supported chain: clear preparation, controlled articulation, protected neck and axis, and musical exits.Bachata Sensual
- Bachata Advanced Competency: Musical Body-Movement PartnershipAn advanced bachata dancer can shape body movement to the music while keeping the partnership clear, safe, and recoverable.Bachata
- Bachata Improver Competency: Timed Partner Connection in Basic Turn PatternsAn improver bachata dancer keeps the 1-2-3-tap / 5-6-7-tap structure while leading or following basic turns with clear frame, independent balance, and safe partner care.Bachata
- Bachata Intermediate: Connected Timing Through Turn PatternsAn intermediate bachata dancer maintains the basic pulse and partner connection through turns, wraps, direction changes, and simple accents without pulling, rushing, or compromising either partner's axis.Bachata
- Basic Bachata Timing and Partner ConnectionA beginner bachata dancer keeps the common step-step-step-tap timing while maintaining a light, safe partner connection in simple social patterns.Bachata
- Beginner Pachanga Pulse and Weight TransferA beginner pachanga dancer shows a steady bent-knee pulse, clear weight changes, and relaxed upper-body response without hopping, forcing speed, or losing the music.Pachanga
- Bolero Beginner Competency: Slow-Quick-Quick Weight TransferA beginner bolero dancer can keep the slow-quick-quick rhythm, transfer weight fully, and maintain a steady shared frame without pulling a partner off axis.Bolero
- Bolero Improver Competency: Slow-Quick-Quick Weight TransferAn improver bolero dancer keeps slow-quick-quick timing while completing each weight transfer, sustaining a calm frame, and adapting the basic action to a partner without pulling, rushing, or collapsing posture.Bolero
- Bolero Intermediate Competency: Sustained Timing, Settling, and Elastic ConnectionAn intermediate bolero dancer keeps slow-quick-quick timing, completes clear weight changes, settles through the standing leg, and maintains responsive lead-follow connection without pulling or rushing.Bolero
- Bolero: Advanced Slow-Count Control and Partnered ShapingAdvanced bolero shows controlled slow-count travel, clear Cuban motion, elastic partner connection, and safe shaping without rushing, collapsing, or forcing the partner's axis.Bolero
- Brazilian Zouk Advanced Competency: Safe Head Movement and Axis ControlAdvanced zouk dancers demonstrate safe head movement by preparing through the body, preserving each partner's axis, adapting range in real time, and treating consent and neck safety as non-negotiable.Zouk
- Brazilian Zouk Beginner Competency: Safe Basic Connection and Weight TransferA beginner demonstrates this competency by staying on the shared basic rhythm, transferring weight clearly, maintaining their own axis, and using a safe, elastic partner connection without pulling, collapsing, or introducing head movement.Zouk
- Brazilian Zouk Improver Competency: Neck-Safe Axis in Basic Head-Movement PreparationAn improver demonstrates readiness for Brazilian Zouk head-movement work by keeping personal balance, using torso-led preparation, and never using the neck as a steering point.Zouk
- Casino Intermediate Competency: Circular Flow and Role-Responsive RedirectionAn intermediate casino dancer can keep the partnership moving in a controlled circular pathway while using clear redirections, stable timing, and role-appropriate responses through figures such as dile que no, enchufla, and vacilala-style turns.Casino
- Cha-cha-chá Improver Competency: Stable 2-3-4&1 TimingAn improver cha-cha-chá dancer keeps the break step and cha-cha-chá triple step clear, controlled, and partner-readable through basic turns and changes of hold.Cha-Cha-Chá
- Cha-cha-chá Intermediate Competency: Timing-Stable Partner BasicsAn intermediate cha-cha-chá dancer keeps the 2-3-cha-cha-chá rhythm stable while using compact weight changes, grounded hip action, and clear partner communication.Cha-Cha-Chá
- Clave-Aware On2 Timing ControlAn advanced Salsa On2 dancer maintains clean mambo timing while adapting movement quality, pauses, and partnerwork to the clave, tumbao, and phrase changes without disturbing the partner connection.Salsa On2
- Clave-Grounded Rumba DialogueAn improver keeps rumba movement grounded in the clave and participates in the danced conversation without losing timing, spacing, or consent boundaries.Rumba