Dancing With Your Dog: Canine Musical Freestyle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qi4Zp6JH4o

Paws 2 Music Club Auckland – Canine Freestyle Practices
[Source: Honey the Great Dane]

Writing at All World Dance has exposed me to a wider range of dance-related activities than I expected to discover. For example, I’d never heard of Canine Musical Freestyle, also called canine freestyle and other variations, until I read about the British Columbia, Canada-based group Paws2Dance.

Canine freestyle basically takes traditional obedience routines and focuses on a more creative, interactive approach that includes music and dance. It’s a gradually growing worldwide phenomenon and you can find out more about it in Wikipedia’s Musical canine freestyle entry that includes links to various organizations at the bottom of the post.