See your frame, timing and partnership
Film a few bars on a phone and see, as an animation on your own two figures, where your frame, timing and partnership hold, where they slip, and how to fix the first thing.
This page is a preview. The ballroom reading is being built with coaches and is not available yet; the example below is a drawn couple, not real dancers. The working product today is for Argentine tango, at tango.studio.
Six bars of waltz in closed hold. The bar across the elbows is the frame, the band between the two centres is the partnership, the dot at the side is rise and fall, and a ring shows a foot that misses the count. Each stays green while it holds and turns amber at the moment it slips.
Bar 1 of 6: frame, rise and fall, timing and partnership all hold.
- Frame. In bar 2 the left side of the frame dipped below the line of the shoulders.
- Rise and fall. In bar 3 the rise began about half a beat sooner than in your other bars.
- Partnership. In bar 4 (the turn) the space between your two centres opened.
- Timing. In bar 5 one step arrived after the count of 2.
How to fix it: 3 things at most, most important first. The order is what a coach usually fixes first: the frame and the hold you share, then timing, then styling such as rise and fall. It is a rule of thumb, not a law. Also found and left for later: rise and fall · bar 3.
The cues shown here are illustrative. In the product they will come from the measurements and be written with ballroom coaches.
This couple is built into the page and read by the page: no camera, no upload, and nothing is sent.
Students
See your own progress between lessons: the same few bars, filmed again, next to last time.
Coaches
Show a student exactly where and when: the bar, the count and the part of the body, on their own figure.
Studios and pro-am
A record of improvement across a syllabus level, for each student and each partnership.
Pricing is not set. Nothing is for sale on this page.