{"id":3746,"date":"2018-06-08T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:40:02","slug":"ballroom-dancing-shoes-professionals-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/blog\/dance-lessons\/ballroom-dancing-shoes-professionals-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballroom Dancing Shoes: The Professionals\u2019 Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like other sports, professional ballroom dancers swear to their favorite shoe brand with a fiery passion. Some brands boast comfort, while other brands boast floor connection and better dancing. Working through the floor is always important, so if there\u2019s a clunky barrier between you and the floor it can be a bad thing. <\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we\u2019ve compiled this list of our favorite ballroom shoe brands! Never buy a sub-par product again because of a lack of knowledge. Our entire team here at Fred Astaire St.Pete Central is comprised of professionals who work in these shoes all day. Therefore they\u2019ll only accept the best. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here they are in no particular order.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Aida<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. American Classic<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Crown Dance Shoes<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Dance Naturals<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Ray Rose<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Showtime<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. SupaDance<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Werner Kern<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Our team tends to prefer Supadance, Ray Aose, and Aida; however these are all premium style shoes.<\/span><\/p>\n

    If you\u2019re looking for budget-friendly shoes, any of \u00a0these are good for beginners:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Bloch<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Capezio<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Diamant<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Freed of London<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. Gogo<\/span><\/li>\n
    6. Rotate Dance UK<\/span><\/li>\n
    7. Stephanie<\/span><\/li>\n
    8. Topline<\/span><\/li>\n
    9. Very Fine<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Like other sports, professional ballroom dancers swear to their favorite shoe brand with a fiery passion. Some brands boast comfort, while other brands boast floor connection and better dancing. Working through the floor is always important, so if there\u2019s a clunky barrier between you and the floor it can be a bad thing. That\u2019s why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-info-news-trends","category-dance-lessons","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/st-petersburg-pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}