What is Blues Dancing?
"Blues Dancing" is an umbrella term for the wide and diverse genre of dances done to a similarly wide and diverse genre of music with the same name. We hope to have a more complete description of individual dances (also referred to as idioms or dance styles) as well as examples up soon! But until then, please take a the Spurlock Museum's overview of Blues Dance Styles.
Blues Dance Umbrella by Laura Chieko (Dec 4, 2017), from her personal website, now defunct, but if you click the image, you'll be taken to an archived version describing the differences.
What dances go with which music?
One day, we'll have a more complete section about this over time, but in the meantime, here are some playlists you can practice dancing to (Listed by dance style, highly incomplete and not limited to):
Ballroomin' Dance Styles
Savoy Walk
Stride
Jukin' Dance Styles
Boogie
Struttin'
Texas Shuffle
Slow Drag
About Bayshore Blues
We're a group of friends who share a passion for live music, and a penchant for geeking out about dance movement and history. We strongly believe that it's important to know where we came from to better judge where to go from here.
Many of us have been dancing in the Bay Area for over a decade in addition to traveling far and wide to learn as much as we can to bring back home. We hope to share the joy of partner dancing and love of live music with as many people as we can.


