Editorial Policy

The standard we hold ourselves to

Publishing about dance and rhythm games without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.

How a page gets written

1. Draft from experience, not from a page of search results.
2. Underline every claim that rests on memory rather than a source.
3. Support it or lose it. Each underline is backed by something we can name, or it comes out.
4. A cold read by a second person catches the confident guesses the writer stopped seeing.

Things you will not find here

• Guarantees. Nobody in this field can honestly offer one.
• Filler written to occupy a topic rather than to answer it.
• Anything we would be embarrassed to defend in person.

The names on the work

Nothing is published anonymously. A name on a page means somebody can be asked about it later, and that is the only accountability a small site has.

Tamsin Rourke, Editor. Tamsin taught hip hop and jazz funk at a community studio for eleven years before trading the mirror for a screen. She edits the blog and still counts every song in eights.

Kenji Morales, Rhythm games writer. Kenji has played arcade rhythm games since Dance Dance Revolution machines filled mall arcades. He writes about timing windows, charts and the habits that separate a clean run from a messy one.

Lucia Ferrante, Dance fitness writer. Lucia teaches dance fitness classes and uses dance games with beginners who are nervous in a studio. She writes about effort, recovery and keeping it fun enough to come back.

Where topics come from

What gets written is decided by demand, not by a schedule. A question that keeps arriving, from readers or from our own work, becomes a page. A clever keyword with no real question behind it does not.

Commercial links

Some links on this site are commercial. They never buy a rewrite of the surrounding paragraph.

Nobody has ever bought the removal of a fair criticism here, and the ones who try mostly hand us the material for the next article.

Publication dates

The date you see is real. A tidy up of wording leaves it alone; only a change to what the piece recommends moves the modified date, along with a note saying so.

Corrections

Write to [email protected] with the page address and what is wrong. Factual errors are fixed quickly. If the correction changes the conclusion of a piece, we add a short note at the foot of the page rather than quietly editing it.