Dances We Teach

It’s wise to choose an activity that encourages you to express your very own creativity. Do you think you can dance? Definitely! And that’s because there’s a style available for anyone who wants to overcome the problem with their two left feet. As you glide across the expanse of the dance floor, you can now let your shine forth with a step that is truly representative of whom you are as a person. There are several styles to choose from and you need to know how each dance is unique from the other. Come enjoy the gift of dance at Arthur Murray Westlake in Austin, Texas!





Swing / East Coast Swing



















The country western Two-Step, often called the "Texas two-step" or simply the "two-step," is a country/western dance usually danced to country music in common time. In Austin, Texas, it is an especially popular dance! 

As with other country western dances, there are different versions of two step. Even the same dance may go by different names depending on the area of the United States, and even in the particular dance hall.


Argentine Tango

While ballroom tango steps have been relatively standardized, Argentine tango has been an evolving dance and musical form, with continual changes occurring every day on the social dance floor in Argentina and in major tango centers elsewhere in the world. Argentine tango dance is still based heavily on improvisation. It is danced in an embrace that can vary anywhere from very open, in which leader and follower connect at arms length, to very closed, in which the connection is chest-to-chest.






Bachata is a style of social dance from the Dominican Republic which is now danced all over the world. The authentic dance is a basic dance sequence in a full 8-count moving within a square. Dancers in the Western world much later made up a basic step going from side to side, and also copied dance elements from other couple dances of various origins, Latin and non Latin alike. The basic dance sequence consists of three steps and then a tap step or various forms of step syncopation (such as the "double step").

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Viennese Waltz
