{"id":548,"date":"2017-03-29T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2017-03-29T18:37:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:37:43","slug":"dancing-the-bolero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/548","title":{"rendered":"Dancing The Bolero&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bolero is\u00a0arguably one of the more beautiful and sensual of the ball room dances. One of my former dance instructors described it this way, <em>the Bolero is\u00a0the closest\u00a0there is to making love on the dance floor. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballroomdanceacademy.com\/the-dances\/descriptions-of-dances\/bolero-2\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #001ba0; font-family: Segoe UI Semibold;\">Ballroom Dance<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #001ba0;\"> Academy <\/span><\/a>describes like this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bolero is a slow dance characterized by smooth, gliding movement, dramatic arm styling and a romantic feel. Bolero is a mixture of 3 dances: Tango (contra body movement), Waltz (body rise and fall) and Rumba (Cuban motion and slow Latin music).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video is also an advertisement for Arthur Murray Studios. This site has no affiliation with Arthur Murray, either in the past or present.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Enjoy!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AnFSq5PU5_M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bolero is\u00a0arguably one of the more beautiful and sensual of the ball room dances. One of my former dance instructors described it this way, the Bolero is\u00a0the closest\u00a0there is to making love on the dance floor. The Ballroom Dance Academy describes like this. Bolero is a slow dance characterized by smooth, gliding movement, dramatic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dancing The Bolero&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-dance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-8Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":279,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/279","url_meta":{"origin":548,"position":0},"title":"Anyone For Dancing?&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"February 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"For those who love dance here are arguably 10 of the best dance scenes ever in non dance movies. 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