Slow Balboa Weekend Munich

Slow Balboa (Slow Swing Dance) is a general term used for dancing in styles inspired by the original Balboa swing dancers from California who liked to dance to slow music. Modern Slow Balboa is heavily influenced by three specific historic dancers. The first two are Dean and Nancy Raftery, two original Los Angeles swing dancers who developed a specific style of slow dancing that Dean taught in the swing dance community in the mid-2000s. The third is Ray Cunningham, also a Los Angeles dancer who was highly regarded for his skill at Laminu, a form of slow dancing that was popular in Los Angeles in the 1940s through the 1950s. Slow Balboa works to a wide range of slow dance music, but it works especially well to slow swinging jazz and slow ballads.