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Ballroom Shoes and Dancewear Shoes

With many sports, footwear is chosen for the comfort but also to aid the sportsperson in their activity and none more so than dancing. Footwork is the main discipline in dance. Many dance steps are highly intricate requiring maximum skill, balance and rhythm. Dance shoes aid all these disciplines and most importantly, give the dancer the comfort and as much safety as possible.

As with dance costumes and clothing, dancewear shoes are specially made for comfort but also style to complement each dance. Latin shoes are light, have open toes and slim heels. They always match the dance costume with the three most popular colours being tan, black and silver. Ballroom shoes are more conservative to complement this more traditional dance style. Again, they are designed and manufactured specifically for ballroom dancing. Most ballroom shoes have covered toes and a slightly lower heel than the Latin shoes.

They are designed to be unrestrictive and enhance the dancer’s routine whilst incorporating special soles, stitching and either leather or satin that can stand up to the rigorous dance steps. On the feet, they look like a normal shoe.

Dance is such a visual sport that even shoes play a huge role and they also help the dancer get into the role within the routine. Dancers carrying out multiple dance styles should have separate pairs of shoes for each style. A dancer will never wear the same pair of shoes used for the Rumba as the Waltz.

From a technical aspect, dancewear shoes and ballroom shoes play more of a role than many people think. A Latin shoe for example allows the foot to move in such a way that the hips move which is one of the most important and distinctive factors of the Latin dances. Ballroom shoes create gracefulness and enable the dancer to produce the fast steps in dances such as the quick step.

Colour plays a huge role in the look of the costumes which then, in turn, can portray a different image of the dance. A classic and beautiful waltz costume would suit a pastel shade whereas for a fiery tango, it would be red or black for example, most definitely not a pastel shade. It is rare to see a dance costume made fully in a patterned fabric. A patterned fabric can distort the body and in competitive dance, it can hinder dancers as the judge cannot correctly see the alignment of the body.

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The correct ballroom shoes and dancewear shoes are imperative to a dance routine.

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