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About Warren & Babette Brown |
We are dancers because we cannot think of anything else we like to do better in life - not just our job; our whole life is working for and around dancing. It demands being focused and disciplined but also enthusiastic and passionate. About Warren Brown | About Babette Brown Our dancing life incorporates a large variety of activities; we are dancers, competitors who represent their country, demonstrators, dance instructors, competitive coaches, lecturers and adjudicators. For us, and we think for every dancer, it is important to bring their art and their skill also to the general public. Ballroom dancing has so much to offer, it is so much more than just learning some steps. We sometimes get asked if it is "boring" for us to teach beginners - what a question! If you are a good teacher you can identify yourself with your pupils, you have to have an idea of how they would feel trying something for the first time. Sometimes it is more challenging to actually teach a beginner than to work with a top competitive couple. A top competitor will understand you in a different way and their control of the body is already developed. If you work with beginners you have to carefully choose step by step how you will build up the body together with teaching the basic patterns. 
The most important thing is the enjoyment of dancing. As frustrating as it can sometimes be when you want to develop a skill, in the end, Ballroom Dancing is a story about a man and a woman dancing together and that should never be forgotten.
Our philosophy is that there are three main aspects of Ballroom Dancing: ARTS, SPORTS and SHOW. There are many opinions whether it is one or the other - we believe you have to find a good balance between all three of them in order to get to the top. But we also think that the aspect of sports, like in other forms of dance is just simply a necessity in order to create your form of art. In order to be free to perform, your body has to work for you like an instrument a well trained body means less limitations for your arts. The aspect of show we find closely related to the arts but we define it as an outside tool that can be very effective if used right. It means to use an effect which can be many things like the costume, a trick figure etc. in order to enhance your performance. The purest aspect of all of them and the one that fascinates both of us most is the arts. For us, art lies within oneself. The challenge is to get an understanding of the purpose and the meaning of each individual dance and to achieve a personal interpretation within the technical quality. We find that this aspect is a lifelong challenge. It is not only physical but also personal because you have to find out a lot about yourself and your character. The idea is not to look like but to be and to create. We see Ballroom Dancing as a form of art. Out of our own experience we know that you can only perform your art on a top level if you have trained your body and the technique, which gives you all the tools to create your dancing. "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak." ~Hopi Indian Saying WARREN & BABETTE met at a tryout at London's Bickley School of Dancing in the beginning of June 2001. It did not take long and they were seeing each other privately and in August 2008 Warren asked Babette to be his wife. Warren & Babette got married in May 2002 in Babette's home town of Salzburg, Austria in the castle of Helbrunn. The first few years of their marriage they traveled all over the world to teach, demonstrate and to compete. They have been teaching top students and competitors in the best studios in the USA, Europe and the Far East. They lived for longer periods in London, Chicago, Hong Kong and Warren’s home town of Glasgow, Scotland. In 2005 Warren & Babette got in touch with the Fred Astaire Dance Studio organization and in the end of May 2005 they moved to Jupiter, Florida, to direct the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Jupiter. Warren and Babette have been very successful, becoming South Florida’s top number one studio by the end of 2007 and belonging to one of the top studios nation wide. In the end of 2007, Warren & Babette decided together with their mentor and coach, Armando Martin, to dance the American Style Ballroom Dances. This is an exciting new venture for them and they are looking forward to grow and succeed in this for them new style of dancing. They remain to be Scotland’s Top Couple and represent Scotland at all major International Championships. View Competition Results for Warren & Babette Brown |