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Foxtrot

Smooth, elegant, and timelessly classy. The Foxtrot glides across the floor with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm that makes it one of the most versatile and deeply satisfying ballroom dances you'll ever learn.

About the Style

What is Foxtrot?

Foxtrot is one of the most elegant and versatile dances in the ballroom repertoire. It emerged in the United States around 1914, named, by popular legend, after the vaudeville performer Harry Fox. Its smooth, gliding quality and consistent tempo make it one of the most useful dances a social dancer can have in their toolkit.

At DFW Young & Social Club, we teach American-style Foxtrot, smooth, progressive, and built for real social dancing. The basic walking movements feel natural almost immediately, and the style works with an incredibly wide range of music, from big band to contemporary pop.

Foxtrot is often called the most practical ballroom dance to know. Once you have it, you'll use it at weddings, galas, dinner dances, and anywhere else music is playing and there's room to move. It's the dance that never goes out of style.

What to expect in class
  • No partner or prior experience needed
  • We rotate partners throughout every class
  • Footwork, timing, and connection fundamentals
  • Casual, welcoming atmosphere, no dress code

Schedule

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DFW Young & Social Club lead instructor

Your Instructor

Meet Alexi,
your dance instructor.

Alexi is our lead instructor, trained in more than 25 dance styles, with Master Instructor credentials in many of them and Grand Master status in several. She has been teaching professionally since 2016 and has taught thousands of people. Whatever your level, she teaches to how you learn rather than to a syllabus, and she is at her best with people who have never danced before.

Meet Alexi

All the styles we teach.

32 styles across Latin, Swing, Ballroom, Country, and Social / Club.

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Cha Cha
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Latin
Merengue
Often called the easiest Latin dance to learn. Great for total beginners.
Latin
Mambo
Bold, rhythmic, and full of fire. The precursor to Salsa with its own distinct energy.
Latin
Rumba
Slow, hip-driven, full of connection. The dance of love.
Latin
Samba
Brazil's national dance. Upbeat, celebratory, unmistakable.
Latin
Bolero
The slowest of the Latin dances. Romantic, close, and deeply expressive.

Ready to try Foxtrot?

No partner, no experience, no problem. Just show up ready to move.