Venues for Social Hustle Dancing in San Diego
1. 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the Month
Pattie Wells' Dancetime Center
1255 West Morena Blvd, San Diego
2. 2nd Saturdays of the Month
Dance North County
535 Encinitas Blvd.
Current Classes
Pattie Wells Dancetime Center - Ongoing Beginning and Intermediate Progressive Hustle courses designed to introduce and perfect socially leadable patterns as well technique and styling applicable to modern day Hustle. Please visit www.dancetime.com for more information on Hustle or contact me at (858) 531 8436.
Lessons are also available before the dances listed below at the Social Hustle Dancing Venues before the start of the dances.
My Class:
Tuesdays @ 6pm Hustle Beginning
Tuesdays @ 7pm Hustle Intermediate
If you are new to Hustle and would like to get started straight away, please contact me at (858) 531 8436 and when we get a cohort of students, we can start a class immediately.
Video Notebooks for Hustle
Current Year 2011:
Apr - May 2011 Hustle Material (MP4)
Recommended Player - VLC Media Player Available online for free.
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Favorite Contemporary Hustle Top 5 Songs
1. Because of You - Ne Yo
2. All the Way - Craig David
3. How You Make Me Feel - Ruban Studdard
4. Spotlight - Jennifer Hudson
5. No Looking Back - Damita
Favorite Classic Hustle Top 5 Songs
1. Out of the Storm - Drizzivone
2. San Francisco Hustle - Silver Convention
3. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead
4. I Knew You Were Waiting - A. Franklin
5. Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
The couple dance form of hustle is usually called New York Hustle or Latin Hustle. It has some resemblance to, and steps in common with, swing and salsa dancing. As in the Latin dances, couples tend to move within a "spot" on the dance floor, as opposed to following a line of dance as in foxtrot, or as opposed to tracking within a slot as in West Coast Swing or LA Hustle.
One similarity between hustle and swing is that the lead takes the rock step on his left foot; however, if the dance is taught by counting, the rock step happens at the beginning of the count – "and-one, two, three" rather than at the end of the count as in swing – "left, right, rock-step". This can confuse beginner leads who are used to triple-step swing, because the lead rock-steps on the right side of his "track" in the swing basic but on the left side in the hustle basic.