Descriptive, not prescriptive — a learning aid built by dancers, not a source of truth about West Coast Swing. Read more
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The moves of West Coast Swing, documented by the people dancing them.

Every move with its names and its aliases. Every description backed by timestamped video of real dancers at real events. Every page editable, wiki-style, by anyone in the community.

26 moves18 video clips10 dancers2 curricula

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Learning paths

  • WCS Foundations

    The standard first-months path: the core patterns nearly every beginner class teaches, in a common teaching order. Work through it top to bottom — by the end you can survive (and enjoy) any social floor. *Order is a suggestion, not a law. Different teachers sequence differently, and that's fine.*

  • Intermediate Patterns & Turns

    For dancers comfortable with the foundations who want vocabulary: traveling turns, the whip family, wraps, and the beginnings of musicality tools. Roughly ordered by how most intermediate curricula sequence them.

A map, not the territory

This wiki is descriptive, not prescriptive: it records how the community dances and names moves. It's a learning aid — not a source of truth about West Coast Swing. Read the whole disclaimer.