Bachata online course curriculum

This Men Style class builds a full Bachata footwork flow in layers, starting from the basic steps and counts and adding turns and styling on top. You'll learn how to make simple footwork look sharp and intentional, with the attitude and groove that give your dancing personality on the floor.

Included in: Solo & Musicality, Full Access

These mini footwork combinations are perfect for adding flavor to your solo dancing. Across four lessons you'll play with rhythm and taps, groove and wave rotation, fast taps with direction changes and musicality, and stationary styling with diagonal taps and hip ochos. Keep them small, controlled and musical, and drop them into your dance whenever the song calls for it.

Included in: Solo & Musicality, Full Access

These footwork challenges put your skills to the test against real Bachata tracks like "R.I.P." by Romeo Santos and "Pa' Que Me Perdones" by Torito. Each challenge combines quick footwork, body waves, shoulder and hip accents, rotations and direction changes, taught in a breakdown class and then performed in a full music demo. Use them to build speed, musicality and confidence while you practice.

Included in: Solo & Musicality, Full Access

Improvisation is controlled freedom: taking the movements you already know and combining them in new ways and moments, in conversation with the music, your partner, and the story of the song. This course builds that toolbox step by step: two levels of basic steps, four rhythm-change patterns using the “and” counts, music-demo practice, and improvisation drills that break the 8-count into 4-count blocks where every tap becomes a crossroads. By the end you'll be able to create variations on the spot instead of relying on fixed combos.

Included in: Solo & Musicality, Full Access

Musicality is what turns steps into dancing. This course is built around the musicality triangle: rhythm, energy and instruments. You'll sharpen your timing and counting, learn to feel and express a song's energy and its changes, train your ear to recognize each Bachata instrument, and tell the difference between traditional Bachata and modern fusion sections, so you know how to respond to each. The result is dancing that listens and connects to the song.

Included in: Solo & Musicality, Full Access

Learn a complete Lady Style choreography to VOLAR. You start with the full sequence of steps, body directions and weight transfers so the flow feels natural, then layer in advanced arm styling, energy changes and musical interpretation. A counted run through locks in your timing, and a final music practice brings the steps, styling and expression together into one continuous performance. Every part is broken down slowly so you can build clean technique before dancing it full speed.

Included in: Lady Style, Full Access

Take your Lady Styling onto the floor with complete combinations that flow your technique into one piece. This first combo strings together a stationary basic, diagonal steps, twists and swivels, crosses and waves, passé, a switch turn, and shoulder and head styling into one groovy sequence you can practice and perform. More combos will be added as the course grows.

Included in: Lady Style, Full Access

This first season of Lady Style teaches the essentials that make your Bachata look elegant, fluid and confident. You'll work on dancer posture, rolling feet and hip movement, soft and natural hand styling, controlled forward, backward and upward body waves, and stable, focused turns. The final lesson opens up musicality and playful footwork variations. Every lesson is broken down slowly so you can build clean technique and real expression.

Included in: Lady Style, Full Access

Start here. This fundamentals course builds your Bachata from the very first step: timing, posture, the basic, open position and frame tension. From there you'll add box steps, the V step, zigzags and rotations for solo movement, plus two-hand turns, hand tosses, pressure turns, and cuddle and shadow positions for partnerwork. The final lessons explore leading taps and creative tap variations. By the end you'll have clean technique and a real groove to dance socially with confidence.

Included in: Partners, Full Access

This short, friendly class gives you everything you need to take your first Bachata steps. You'll learn the side-to-side basic step, how to hold your timing, and the essentials of connecting with a partner. It's the ideal starting point before diving into the rest of the courses.

Included in: Partners, Full Access

This collection of eight intermediate mini-combos gives you a steady stream of new partnerwork to bring to the social floor. You'll learn open turns and frame control, cuddle position with wave connections and hand-throw exits, ganchos and shadow entries, right-to-right grips, double ganchos, and weight-shift turns. Each short combination is broken down clearly so you can master the connection, grips and timing one piece at a time.

Included in: Partners, Full Access

This advanced season takes your partnerwork to the next level with nine detailed combinations built from window and pressure turns, gentleman's passes, arm locks, shadow and counter-shadow positions, sensual body movement, and the course's first dip. Each lesson breaks the sequence down step by step (grip changes, frame, tension and timing) so you can lead or follow it cleanly. By the end you'll have a toolbox of signature moves and fluid transitions ready for the social floor.

Included in: Partners, Full Access

Season 2 of our advanced combinations takes your partnerwork further. Learn a combination built on pressure turns, contra turns and playful connection, then a sequence that upgrades simple moves into advanced execution with hammerlock, shadow position and spicy details. Two music-practice lessons help you dance it all to real songs. Best once you're comfortable with the fundamentals and Season 1.

Included in: Partners, Full Access

Short but demanding, these four advanced mini-combos challenge experienced dancers with intricate partnerwork: Ola Bebe entries and tap leads, shadow waves with contact leads, diagonal steps with double fake turns and close-position groove, and under-arm turns into counterbalance waves. Each combo is broken down with the grip changes, tension and timing you need to lead and follow it cleanly.

Included in: Partners, Full Access

This partner-work challenge teaches a complete couple choreography to the song "Otra Vez," from the opening pose to the final counterbalance. The routine is broken down across three detailed sections (entrances, footwork and partner splits, and shadow work into the ending), then reinforced with a full counts practice, a two-angle music demo, and a pro-tips lesson on angles, tension and stage quality. Dance it together and take it from steps to a polished performance.

Included in: Partners, Full Access

Great partnerwork starts before any move: with how you stand, how you hold tension, and how you connect. This short technique course breaks down the essentials: activating “dancer mode” posture, understanding 3D tension (connection in three directions), and the “Spidey grip” for fluid, continuous connection. Build these and every combination you dance becomes cleaner, softer, and easier to lead and follow.

Included in: Partners, Full Access

Move better before you dance. This course gives you short routines that prepare your body for Bachata: a solo basic-step flow with music to get moving, full-body mobility and stretching for before or after class, a body-movement warmup to clean up your isolations, waves and range, and a hip-movement technique warmup to loosen up and find your groove. Do them before practice or social dancing to move looser, safer and more expressively.

Included in: Lady Style, Partners, Solo & Musicality, Full Access

The Triangle of Connections is about the heart of social dancing: connecting to yourself, to the music, and to your partner. You'll explore self-awareness and authentic expression, deep listening and letting the music guide you, and physical and non-verbal connection through frame, tension and eye contact. The final lessons combine all three with real dance-floor situations and practical tools you can use the next time you go social dancing.

Included in: Partners, Solo & Musicality, Full Access