Social Dances taught by Richard Powers


S W I N G


Contemporary Forms

  • Lindy Hop

  • East Coast Swing

  • West Coast Swing

  • Swing Rueda

  • Hustle

  • Nightclub Two-Step


    Historic Swing

  • 1910 Texas Tommy

  • 1920s Charleston variations

  • Collegiate Charleston

  • 1928 Savoy Lindy Hop

  • 1930s Lindy Hop

  • 1930s Savoy Walk

  • Shim Sham Shimmy

  • 1936 Shag (sometimes called Collegiate Shag today)

  • 1937 Big Apple

  • 1950s Rock'n'Roll swing

  • 1970s Disco Hustle



     T A N G O


    Contemporary Forms

  • Freestyle Social Tango, sometimes called American Tango

  • Tango Argentino
    Richard founded and directed the world's first tango weeks, at Stanford, from 1991 through 1997.  He brought in both Argentine and American masters, including Juan Carlos Copes, Eduardo Arquimbeau, Raul & Nora Dinzelbacher, Pablo Veron, Nito & Elba, Graciela Gonzales, Esther & Pablo Pugliese, Lampazo, Juan Bruno, Danel & Maria, Fabian Salas, Michael Walker & Luren Bellucci, Daniel Trenner, Rebecca Shulman and Marivaldo Pereira.


    Historic Tango

  • 1912 Buenos Aires Tango

  • 1914 Parisian Tango

  • American One-Step Tango

  • Early Tango improvisation

  • Joan Sawyer's 1913 Persian Gardens Tango

  • Skaters Tango

  • Viper Tango

  • 1922 Royal Empress Tango

  • 1924 Square Tango

  • 1930s Hollywood Rio Tango

  • Tango Mixer



     L A T I N    D A N C E S


    Contemporary Forms

  • Salsa

  • Cha Cha

  • Rumba

  • Merengue

  • Samba

  • Cumbia


    Historic Latin

  • 1912 Maxixe

  • 1923 Samba

  • 1920s Paso Doble

  • 1920s Milonga

  • 1957 Chalypso (teen rock'n'roll cha cha)