Balboa (dance)

The Balboa is a swing dance that originated in Southern California during the 1920s and enjoyed huge popularity during the 1930s and 1940s.

History

Balboa came from Southern California during the 1920s. Balboa is named after the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California, where the dance was invented.[1] The Balboa Pavilion, and the Rendezvous Ballroom are credited as the birthplaces of Balboa when dance floors became so crowded that dancers invented a dance to swing music that could be danced in place.[2][3] Balboa dancing continued in California throughout the twentieth century and spread around the world to the present day. [4] In 1978, two long-time Balboa dancers, Hal and Marge Takier, started a twice-a-month Balboa dance at a Bobby McGee's restaurant in Newport Beach.[5] Dancers who danced at the Bobby McGee's Balboa nights and video footage from there became highly influential in informing the Balboa dance as it is done today. Two styles of modern Balboa dance developed, "Pure Bal" is danced in close embrace, and "Bal Swing" is danced in a mix of close embrace and in open position.[6]

Alma Heaton included two pages on Balboa in his 1954 book "Ballroom Dance Rhythms",[7] and a page of instruction in "Techniques of Teaching Ballroom Dance".[8] Heaton described two Bal-Swing figures in 1967.[9]

See also

References
  1. "History". Balboapavilion.com. Archived from the original on 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
  2. Stevens, Tamara; Stevens, Erin (2011-04-07). Swing Dancing. ABC-CLIO. p. 105. ISBN 9780313375187. Retrieved 2020-05-18.CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. History: Over 100 years of history surrounds the pavilion., Balboa Manor, archived from the original on 2011-02-02, retrieved 2020-05-18
  4. Shine, Nicole (2014-01-22), Balboa: Depression-era dance halls left a footloose legacy, The Orange County Register, retrieved 2020-05-19CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. Dubin, Zan (1995-09-07), Doing the Balboa Puts a Little Swing in Brea, The Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2020-05-19CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  6. Stevens, Tamara; Stevens, Erin (2011-04-07). Swing Dancing. ABC-CLIO. p. 119,151-153. ISBN 9780313375187. Retrieved 2020-05-18.CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. Ballroom Dance Rhythms. Alma Heaton. 1954. Brigham Young University Press. pages 35, 36
  8. Techniques of Teaching Ballroom Dance. Alma Heaton. 1965. Brigham Young University Press. Third Edition. pages 161,162
  9. Ballroom Dance Rhythms. Alma Heaton. 1967. Brigham Young University Press. pages 75, 76
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