Left Feet Made Rightsm
    American social dance instruction utilizing
    the evolving Universal Unit System     tm

    Taught in sequential levels by Gregory Parmerton, certified teacher with the
    Golden State Dance Teachers Association.


    Teacher training with Peter DiFalco 1990 - 2000.
    Teacher training with Skippy Blair  1994 - 2003
    Left Feet Made Right registered business in 1995.
    My basic approach to teaching:
    "If the student didn't learn the material; it's not their fault, it's the teacher's."
    "Everyday I teach, I learn as much from my students as they do from me."

    I am an independent teacher (not in the employment of a dance studio) and teach out of Dance NY on 54th Street and Dance Manhattan on 19th Street in Manhattan. I book my own lessons directly so call me rather than the studio. To contact me email or telephone (631) 875-3764 for an appointment. Private lessons may be arranged in your home (providing space allows) and small group classes (four students minimum) can be arranged as well at various venues.
    A quick example of a teaching concept:
    Stand up and take an ordinary rubber ball (ie: tennis ball) and listen to a piece of music. Count out the mini phrases of eight. Try to make the ball contact the floor on the musical count of "1" on each mini phrase. As you gain a little accuracy you will notice an interesting effect:
    You must prepare your drop of the ball with a movement prior to the count of one.

    Now try this count "+a1+a2+a3+a4+a5+a6+a7+a8" and notice how your timing accuracy is increased and the preparation occurs on the +a PRIOR to the count of one. Now visualize an Orchestra Conductor lifting their arm PRIOR to starting the piece of music, that IS valid metered timing. To teach someone how to move into a space on the desired count you must explain the prior (preparation) movements as well. All movement starts from your "Center" in a controlled manner.

    Consider the part of your body that forms a continuous band, front and back, between the bottom of your rib cage and the line across your hipbones, this is your "center" (physically speaking). Correct technique in dancing requires you to maintain control through a strong, stretched and supple center. The benefits of this training are a trimmer waist and flatter belly; it means better posture and a more regal carriage. A properly developed center supports all movement and will mean less fatigue and will lower your incidence of back pain and injury in everyday duties away from dance.

    Concentration, control, centering, economical flowing movement, precision and breathing are the cornerstones of good technique. Dance "figures" and "patterns" are just suggestions, good technique creates creative dancing from your soul in any dance.