Bachata Database
(2234 Moves)

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The Ultimate Bachata Database
with 2234+ Moves!

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Future plans:

• EMAIL-NOTIFICATIONS: Option for email-notification if for example 10 new moves are added
• MUSICALITY: A subpage helping to understand and improve musicality (work in progress)
• MORE STYLES: More dance-styles (like Zouk, HipHop, etc.) are planned
• TIMESTAMPS: Adding Timestamps to Source-video-links to find the specific move easier in a long video

Changelog:

v7 -- since 2025 november

v7.1 (2026 august)

• BACHATA INFLUENCE: New category for Bachata-moves: "Bachata Influence"
• ACROBATICS: New category for Bachata-moves: "Acrobatics". It contains just moves which are often done in socials
• IMPROVED FILTER: The filter has been improved to allow for more precise searching and sorting of moves.
• IMPROVED UPLOADER: Fixed a few bugs in the video uploader feature, and improved the user experience (more improvements coming soon)

v7.0 (2025 november)

• SOUND FOR MOVES: From now on newly uploaded move-videos keep their audio (usually counting, instructions, music). This was one of the most-requested features.
• BACHAZOUK: New category for Bachata-moves: "BachaZouk"
• NEW LOGIN: From now on login is handled via Google - this way users can register/login with their Gmail-account password-less, or do it with the usual email+password combo. Other login-methods (like Facebook or Apple) might be added later.
• NO GUEST-VISITING: The website makes just sense when used with an account - therefore from now on guests can visit the website just for a few minutes without signing up or logging in.

v6 -- since 2024 june

v6.0

• MULTI-TOPIC: So far just Bachata-moves were allowed on the site. Version 6 is multi-topic, which means there are pre-set topics (for example: Bachata, Salsa, Kizomba, Fitness) which all have a "dedicated" page with moves/exercises/etc.. Your registered account works for every topic, however many things (like uploads, moves-lists, categories, etc.) are of course different.
  The goal is to make a huge, Reddit-like website - but with moves/exercises/etc. instead of posts.
  If you have a topic-idea or -wish, let me know and I will consider it :)
  Sooner or later bigger topics (which have like 100+ moves/exercises) will get an own web-domain (but his won't change anything regarding usability/functionality of the site)
• MULTI-KEYWORD SEARCH: So far the search-feature was very limited, as it allowed searching just for 1 word (like "pretzel" OR "headroll") - searching for multiple keywords (like "pretzel headroll") resulted always in 0 found moves. From now on however, you can finally search for multiple keywords!
• RESET PASSWORD: Finally you are able to reset your password, if you forgot it

v5 -- since 2024 march

v5.1

• VIP-MEMBERSHIP: Without donations BachataSteps.com wouldn't be possible. So from now on users who donate at least $20/$40 get a VIP-upgrade as gift, which has many-many advantages. For more information please click here now
• EDITING/DELETING OWN MOVES: Finally users (VIP-members) can delete or edit their own uploaded moves. At the moment following data of a move can be modified: Move's Name, Dancer's Name. The following data can be changed soon: Visibility, Source-Link, Type (Combo, Step etc.)
• PROFILE & SETTINGS: Finally users have a profile-page, where they can see a few information about their account, and set some settings (more settings coming soon!). Here is your "Profile & Settings" page
• VIP-UPGRADE VIA INVITATIONS: From now on, users (who are not lifetime-VIP-members yet) can invite other users and get a free VIP-upgrade for it! More infos here!

v5.0

• REDESIGN: The site got a complete redesign to make it more professional and user-friendly
• PASSWORD: User-accounts are now protected via a password, to make them more secure
• LADY-STYLE: 2 new categories arrived: Lady-Solo and Lady-Couple. You can find all Lady-Style moves here
• IMPROVED UPLOADER: The video-uploader to publish new moves got some improvements - examples:
  • Filled out fields (move's name, dancers' name, etc.) get saved if an upload fails. When you retry the failed upload, the fields get prepupulated automatically with the saved data
  • 4 new buttons help you to move the green start-marker and orange end-marker in the video-editor, which makes trimming videos (especially on mobile) much easier
  • The "Source-Link" and "Dancers' Name" fields show you suggestions to type less

v4 -- since 2023 december

v4.1

• VIDEO INSTEAD OF GIF: From now on, all moves are shown as video (.mp4) instead of an animated image (.gif). This has multiple advantages:
  • The website got 85% smaller (so the mp4-files are approx 85% smaller, than the .gif-files used to be)
  • Higher quality (despite much smaller filesize)
  • Higher resolution (despite much smaller filesize)
  • Videos can be paused (GIF-s can't)
  • Videos can be slowed down (GIF-s can't)

v4.0

• AJAX-LOADER: In Version3 of the site all moves loaded at once, which made the site extremely slow. Version4 works now in a much smarter way, as it loads always just a handful of moves via AJAX
• OWN USER-UPLOADS (for selected user): From now on, users can upload own videos/moves. Via the simple video-editor on the site, it's even possible to cut and crop the video. Users can also choose if their upload should be private, unlisted or public. Public uploads appear on "User-Uploads"

v3 -- since 2022 march

v3.7 -- 2023 november

• OWN NOTES: Now users can write own, private notes to every move

v3.6

• MOST IMPORTANT MOVES: The website contains almost 600 steps - because of this, you find now a "Start here! 🚀"-button in the top navigation bar. This list contains just the most important steps, which every leader absolutely must know! (categorized based on difficulty)
• FILTER: If at least 2 moves are shown on a page, you can filter them - and show just those, which are for example "Difficulty: 3" or "Mylevel: Moderately"
• VIDEO-VERSION: Starting with Move#578, all new moves will have a "Video🎥"-link pointing to a video-version (.mp4) - this video-file can be downloaded, slowed down, looped, etc. (and it has a higher quality, than the GIF)
• TEMP. RANDOMIZE MOVES-SORTING: Clicking the button in the right bottom corner of the page sorts the moves on that page/list randomly (just as long as the page is not reloaded)
• TEMP. REMOVE TEXTS/BUTTONS: Clicking the button in the right bottom corner removes the texts/buttons from the moves to focus just on the images (just as long as the page is not reloaded)

v3.5

• MYLEVEL-TRACKING: You can now mark moves based on how well you know them already: "New", "A bit", "Moderately", "Totally", "Too difficult", "Don't like it'. Plus a MyLevel page, where you can see the moves categorized based on those 6 categories
• RANDOM MOVE: Clicking the button in the bttom right corner of the page shows a random move from that page/list
• ALL I KNOW: If you categorize the moves with the MyLevel-Tracker, on the "All I know"-page you get a list of moves you categorized as "I know it totally" or "I know it moderately"
• FIX MOVE: Clicking the "Fix 📌"-button for a move gives it an orange background-color and bringst it to the very beginning of every list where this particular move is being shown. Plus, at the top of the page (in the navigation) you find a "Fixed 📌"-button which lists all fixed moves

v3.4

• 2 CUSTOM LIST: You can now mark a move with one of the 2 "MyListXY"-buttons to be shown on the new "MyListXY" subpages. You can even rename these 2 lists. NOTE: If 2 custom lists aren't enough for you, contact me to get more.
• SHARING LISTS: You can now share any own lists with other people (they can see the moves you saved in that particular list, but not edit/change/remove them)
• FULL-SIZE ALL GIFS: Clicking the new button "Full-Size Gifs" (or the icon in top right corner) makes ALL move-gifs as big/wide as your screen, so you can easily scroll through all gifs like on Instragram. This feature works best on mobile (portrai view).
• TOP10: Clicking the button "Top10" in the navigation at the top shows the 10 most popular moves on the page (based on how many users saved them into their own lists)

v3.3

• PARTY: Feature to mark moves as "Party"
• DOMAIN: This website finally got a dedicated domain (BachataSteps.com)
• CHANGELOG to see what has been done on the website and what new features are planned

v3.2

• REGISTER: New visitors can register a username themselves
• SEARCH: Visitors can now find gif's which contain a specific move (like Hammerlock, Shadow, HipRoll, etc.) easily

v3.1

• Other users can use the website too, but just if I create a username for them
• SAVING MOVES: Feature to mark moves as "Practice Now", "Practice Next" and "Favorite"
• LAZYLOAD for images, so just those moves load which are already on the screen

v3.0

• SQL-DATABASE: 3rd version, made as a new website, which uses an SQL-database for storing the moves

v2 -- 2022 january

v2.0

• 2nd version, just for myself, made as a website which contains the moves inside the page as a JavaScript code
• DIFFICULTY: Moves are sorted based on their difficulty (1-6)
• INTRO: Seeing all moves which can be used in the Intro of a song
• SPECTACULAR: Seeing moves I personally find spectacular/fancy looking

v1 -- 2021 october

v1.0

• 1st version, made with Notion, just for myself