Win with Basics

Product Description

Augusto Schiavo and Caterina Arzenton demonstrate how basic Standard steps can form complete dance programmes in Win with Basics. The recording covers Waltz, Tango, Slow Foxtrot, Viennese Waltz and Quickstep, with one choreography programme for each dance. The original catalogue describes the steps as suitable for beginners through advanced competitors, making the material relevant to dancers revisiting fundamentals at different stages of training.

Each dance is presented in three forms: danced together to music, danced together to counting alone, and danced with counting and music together. These versions give viewers a direct way to compare the sequence and its timing while returning to the same choreography. The final section is a full demonstration of all five dances with lighting and costume changes. It offers a performance view of the material after the more focused presentations used for study.

Counting alone and counting with music serve different viewing purposes. The first makes the count the main reference; the combined version lets dancers follow it alongside the accompaniment. Because the choreography remains the subject of all three presentations, viewers can return to the form that helps them examine a particular passage. The final staged demonstration adds lighting and costume changes to the five-dance presentation. It is a show section within a programme otherwise organised around basic choreography, rather than a replacement for the counted study versions. The approximately 60-minute selection retains all five Standard dances in their original order.

Course Contents

• Waltz — complete choreography programme
• Tango — complete choreography programme
• Slow Foxtrot — complete choreography programme
• Viennese Waltz — complete choreography programme
• Quickstep — complete choreography programme

Presentation of Each Dance

• Dancing together to the music
• Dancing together to the count only
• Dancing together to the count and music together

Final Demonstration

• Full demonstration of all five dances with lighting and costume changes