HEALTH: Dancing strengthens your cardiovascular system and improves weight control and overall fitness through calorie burn off. The constant movement and muscle extension during dance sessions creates a gentle stretching and toning. Even otherwise athletic students find their lessons can be a workout! A number of recent medical studies have focused on the benefits of ballroom and latin dancing. In addition to the many mental and physical benefits highlighted, one study concluded that social dancing can even delay the onset of Alzheimer's by up to 75%.

Here's what our students have to say:
--"I lost over 60 lbs. by eating sensibly and taking up ballroom dancing. It's a fun way to exercise, more so than lifting weights or using aerobic machines. Seeing my body and my dancing improve is the best motivation I could want to avoid grabbing a bag of chips and slipping back into my old couch potato habits."  -- Ed Soltis
--"I have more energy since I started dancing! The pounds come off easier than with other forms of exercise because dancing tones my entire body at once, not just arms or legs. And it's so fun I want to do it more than other kinds of workouts."   -- Cindy Grant

FUN: Although your commitment to learn to dance will demand concentration, dedication and time, you will be constantly surrounded by artistic, cheerful people who will make the time you spend at Fred Astaire Dance Studio a pleasurable and rewarding experience.

FRIENDSHIPS: Beyond instruction, dance opens a wide spectrum of social settings in which friendships are forged. Scheduled Fred Astaire Dance Studio group and practice lessons, local, regional and national competitions, trips and fun nights out on the town provide dancers with a full social calendar.

CONFIDENCE: Dancers possess an aura of self-confidence and an ability to enjoy themselves more in public settings. This often carries over into professional settings as well. Their entire mental outlook takes on a renewed sense of creativity, motivation and energy.

CREATIVITY: Dance provides an emotional outlet in which a person can reflect his or her inner feelings through body movement. The ability to dance is present in everyone, it only needs to be cultivated through sound instructional methods. Then you're on your own, expressing yourself with passion and flair!

THE JOY OF DANCE
Fred Astaire Dance Studios invites you to share in the magic of social dance and rediscover the beauty and grace of this enchanting art form. As you embark on your journey through our unique dance curriculum, personally developed by the Master of Dance himself, Mr. Fred Astaire, you will quickly come to realize the many mental, physical and social benefits that our dance world provides.

Dancing has become more than a social necessity in today's complex, stressful society. It provides a creative release, a bold, fascinating program of self-improvement and genuine fun. As you progress through the Fred Astaire Trophy levels, from the Social Foundation Program to the Gold Trophy Program, and all levels in between, you are guaranteed to learn to dance through our unique Conceptual Teaching Method employed by our talented certified instructors.

YOUR FIRST STEP
In the very first lesson you will learn the basic elements on which all dance patterns are based. Within hours, you will be ready to go out dancing at a nightclub, wedding reception or any social function. Here you can begin to practice what you have already learned during your first few sessions of instruction.

The key to learning is RELAXATION. Let the magic take its natural course as your qualified instructors bring out the best in you. In a matter of months you will make more progress in dancing and social settings than you have made in years of haphazard searching. Just be patient and let the miracles happen.