Glossary 📚

No more vague definitions or circular explanations. This is the definitive guide for what terms actually mean.

📚 Decoding the Language of Ballroom

This isn’t your grandmother’s glossary. Here we call out the vague, the mystical, and the misused.


Terms You Thought You Knew

  • Technique: What exactly is it? Not a feeling.
  • Rise & Fall: Not magic — it’s physics.
  • Connection: Often abused. We have a scale.

What's Coming

  • Side-by-side: Traditional definitions vs biomechanical truth.
  • Crowd-sourced examples of bad instruction.
  • Real-world definitions dancers can actually use.
  • Includes:

  • Historical definitions vs modern use
  • Clarifications with biomechanics
  • Commonly misunderstood terms
The last glossary you'll ever need.