About DanceManual

DanceManual answers the questions a dance studio rarely answers, because they cannot be sold as a class: how to count the music, which of two dances to learn first, what to wear, and what really separates one style from another. It covers partner and social dance, ballroom, swing, Latin, country, ballet and dance as exercise.

The site is organized in 5 hubs: Styles, Learn, Music, Gear and Fitness. Its data pages, such as the tempo chart, are built from published rulebooks and references, with the source printed next to each figure.

This is not a studio, a school or a booking service. There are no lessons for sale, no studio listings and no "near me" search. Text cannot replace a teacher for footwork, and the pages say so where it matters.

The publisher is the site itself, as an organization. It is anonymous: there are no named authors, no photos, no biographies and no claimed credentials. Rather than ask you to trust a name, every page shows you the source, so you can check the fact yourself.

Each page starts from a question readers actually ask. We read what is already published on it, then go to primary and institutional sources: dance rulebooks, encyclopedias, peer-reviewed studies and manufacturers' specifications. Facts are cited in the paragraph that uses them, and every cited link is checked to load before the page goes live. The full rules are on the methodology page.

Articles on this site are written with AI assistance and fact-checked against the sources they cite.

Write to [email protected]. The same address takes corrections: tell us the page and the fact, and include a source if you have one. How we handle a correction is described on the methodology page.

No sponsor, studio or brand pays for anything on this site, and no page carries affiliate links. Brands are named only for editorial reasons. The details are on the disclosure page.