Terry Roseborough Is Coming to Pensacola for Kick It Old School
For the first time, Terry “T-Rose” Roseborough is coming to Pensacola, Florida.
And for us, this one is personal.
Terry isn't simply another professional we've hired to teach a weekend. He's a friend, a respected part of the West Coast Swing community, and exactly the kind of dancer and teacher we wanted involved when we started building Kick It Old School.
August 28–30, Terry will join us at Ragon Hall in Pensacola for a weekend centered around something that has always mattered to him—and to us:
Great dancing is about more than patterns. It's about movement, connection, partnership, musicality, and what happens between two people on the dance floor.
Meet Terry Roseborough
Terry's dance story goes back more than four decades.
According to Terry's official website, he began dancing at 17, learning Two-Step while still in high school. He joined the Tulsa Swing Dance Club in 1986 and quickly turned his attention toward West Coast Swing.
In 1988, Terry won his first West Coast Swing competition at the Buddy Austin Invitational in Oklahoma City. By 1992, he had turned professional.
Since then, Terry has spent decades competing, teaching, judging, headlining events, traveling, and sharing West Coast Swing with dancers around the world.
Today he is also a WSDC Certified Platinum Judge, bringing decades of experience to both the classroom and the competition floor.
But accomplishments only tell part of the story.
It's the Way Terry Thinks About Dancing
One reason Terry fits Kick It Old School so well is his approach to West Coast Swing.
His teaching emphasizes the mechanics behind movement, musicality, connection, and the kind of smooth, efficient dancing that feels natural rather than forced.
Terry even has a word for part of that philosophy:
Smoothment.
It's the idea of developing enough understanding, control, and freedom in your movement that dancing can become spontaneous, smooth, and connected instead of simply executing memorized patterns.
You can learn more about Terry, his teaching, private lessons, judging, and upcoming events directly at TerryRoseborough.com.
Why Terry Belongs at Kick It Old School
When we created Kick It Old School, we didn't want to build another weekend centered entirely around competition results.
We wanted to bring dancers back to the things that make West Coast Swing great.
Partnership.
Connection.
Communication.
Movement.
Musicality.
Social dancing.
And the ability to meet someone you've never danced with before and create something together.
That's also why we're bringing together professionals with decades of knowledge and very different experiences in West Coast Swing.
Terry brings a perspective that can't be recreated by simply watching a video or learning another pattern.
You get the opportunity to learn from someone who has lived through decades of the dance's development and continues to teach, judge, social dance, and contribute to the community today.
Terry's Workshops in Pensacola
Terry will teach two open-level workshops during Kick It Old School:
Body Flight
Explore how your body creates and carries movement through West Coast Swing.
Rather than thinking only about where your feet go, this workshop looks deeper into how movement travels through the body and how that movement affects your partner, your connection, and the quality of your dancing.
One Dance, Two Rhythms, One Groove
West Coast Swing gives us enormous musical freedom.
This workshop explores rhythm, groove, and how dancers can create different rhythmic ideas while still sharing the same dance and the same partnership.
Both workshops are included as part of the 12 open-level workshops offered during the weekend.
See the full weekend concept, staff, competitions, social dancing, beach activities, Q&A and more on our Kick It Old School page.
More Than a Workshop Weekend
Kick It Old School is August 28–30 at Ragon Hall, but the weekend isn't designed to feel like you're sitting in classes all day waiting for the next lesson.
We're building time to learn, dance, talk, ask questions and actually spend time together as a community.
The weekend includes:
12 open-level workshops
Limited intensives
Leveled Strictly Swing competitions with written feedback
Late-night social dancing
Staff Q&A and story time
Friday beach activities
Social events throughout the weekend
And no, you do not need a partner.
In fact, one of the ideas behind the entire weekend is learning how to create a great dance with the person standing in front of you—not only with someone you've practiced with for months.
That's West Coast Swing.
Welcome to Pensacola, T-Rose
We're excited that Pensacola dancers will finally have an opportunity to experience Terry here at home.
We're even more excited to spend the weekend dancing with a friend.
If you haven't met Terry before, this is your chance.
If you've learned from him somewhere else around the country, come help us welcome him to Pensacola for the first time.
And if you're newer to West Coast Swing, don't let four decades of experience intimidate you. Terry's own teaching philosophy is built around taking complicated ideas and making them understandable, usable, and natural.
That's exactly what a training weekend should be about.
Terry Roseborough. Pensacola, Florida. August 28–30.
It's about time.
Learn more about Terry at TerryRoseborough.com.
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Great dancing comes from great partnership.