The first Dancing Stars of Central Georgia was a huge success for the DLDancers team! We didn’t bring home all the trophies but Team Dashley crushed their fundraising goal and thereby won the People’s Choice award–Ashley raised over $100,000 all by herself, making a huge contribution to the overall total of $205,962! Everybody was amazed …
Category Archive: competitions
Feb
19
Dueling Dancing Stars
Big news from DLDancers HQ: Daniel and I found out on Friday that we have been chosen as “pros” for the Alzheimer’s Association “Dancing Stars of Central Georgia” event. Just like on Dancing with the Stars we will each be paired with a local “star” to prepare a dance routine that will be performed at …
Nov
11
America’s Funniest Comp Videos
Okay, maybe not America’s Funniest but I enjoyed watching this: the clip starts with one of our cha-cha heats. As it turned out, we were not entered for the rumba heat that followed it, but we needed a minute, and a consultation with Vince The Voice, to figure that out. We reappear around 21:15–go ahead …
Nov
06
MOAR VIDEOS PLZ
I’m hoping to post several recent videos over the next few days; here’s the first. These are the exhibition performances from last Friday at the Atlanta Dance Classic. We appear at the 12-minute mark but the whole show is worth watching. Great dancing all over the place! The Atlanta Classic was a lot of fun; …
Aug
12
Back to school/Back to getting schooled
Well, sports fans, it’s been a long, hot summer. Not much to report…or is there? At the end of July I went to Austria for an academic conference and also found out about the Vienna ball season. The Viennese waltz is called that for a reason, y’know! My dream is to attend the New Year’s …
Jul
03
To fetch a mirror-ball trophy
We went up to Atlanta last night to attend a dance at Academy Ballroom (home of our instructor Eddie and many of his talented brethren & sistren). At the dance, the hosts were putting on a Jack & Jill competition as part of their ongoing project to crown “Atlanta’s Best Social Dancer.” Jack & Jills …
Jun
28
Gumbo of Visual Media
I know, I know: I am a fascinating writer, but you really come here for the videos, right? You can admit it. My feelings won’t be hurt. (*snif*) We seem to have taken video of all of our Rhythm heats and no Smooth heats, but considering our inevitable mistakes in Smooth (I’m looking at you, …
Jun
24
Comp Diary: Total Recall
We got back to the ballroom way too early on Saturday for the Open American 6-Dance. This is becoming a pattern: I am paranoid and I like to be early, plus I tend to round our scheduled time down to the hour in my mind, so if our heat is at 1:40, I remember 1:00. …
May
26
Conservation of Dance Momentum
A body that is dancing tends to continue dancing unless acted on by an outside force. In the absence of outside forces (spring semester ended on May 6; congratulations, Class of 2011!), we have been dancing a lot and doing a lot of dance-related stuff in the last several days. Since I haven’t had to …
May
08
Comp Diary: Dancemobile Goes to Gumbo 2011
Gentle readers, this past Thursday was a milestone in my life: I bought a new car. First brand-new car ever for me; first new-to-me car since 2001 when I bought a 1997 Nissan Altima. We still have the Altima; it’s in front of the house, basking in all the glory of the 183,000 miles on …