Our ballroom class is learning a rumba routine for performance in the Madison Studio’s recital at the beginning of June. These four dancers are superstars: all adults with little or no dance or performing experience but they have agreed to get on stage just a few months from now. So we’ve gone from learning basic …
Category Archive: competitions
Oct
31
Videos are here!
Okay, YouTube has sorted itself out. Click through for videos. Feel free to play “Spot the Technique Error.”
Oct
31
Watching the Carolina Fall Classic videos
N.B.: I am uploading the videos from last weekend as we speak but getting “unknown errors” from YouTube. Video links coming as soon as I can get them working. Just finished watching a couple of heats’ worth of video of us from the Carolina Fall Classic last weekend. Good news: we do not look as …
Oct
15
Comp Diary #1: Preparations
A while back I had this idea to do a Competition Diary, hopefully illustrated with pictures, of our participation in the Carolina Fall Classic next weekend in Greensboro, NC. Then last night I was lying in bed in a sudden panic about whether we’d remember our Smooth routines, and I realized that the diary really …
Sep
25
Dance famine yielding to dance feast
After a few weeks of not much dancing, we turn over a new leaf tomorrow and head into a week–actually, more like a month–of TONS of dancing. Hooray! Here we go: Tomorrow: private lesson with Eddie and then workshop with Eddie right here in Macon at the Howard Community Club, with our 4th Sunday dance …
Aug
19
Latest videos
Got video from Greenville uploaded a couple of nights ago; video from the Carlyle Place exhibition on August 9 is still waiting on permission from one of the participants. Enjoy some views of us and our fellow dancers already fully dressed, made up, and competing before 10 a.m. Competition days are loooooooooong sometimes!
Aug
15
Dance-On
We are back from the Greenville Newcomers Challenge, where we had an excellent time and danced a lot. No, seriously: A LOT. See, pro-am competitions are different from all-amateur events in that there are a lot more categories and combinations of dances at a pro-am. We have traveled to USA Dance comps and danced only …
Jun
11
Gumbo Countdown
We set off for the Gumbo Dancesport Championships in 12 days. It must be time to start obsessing about getting ready. This will be our first time flying to a comp. It’s gonna be a major troop movement. We are dancing in some events where costumes are allowed, and some events where they aren’t, so …
May
24
Mid-Summer Bummer
We just got word yesterday that this year’s SouthernStar Mid-Summer Classic has been canceled due to “multiple factors beyond [the organizers'] control.” It’s hard not to wonder what happened, given that the date had been scheduled long ago and the organizers were already promoting the competition. We’re sad to be missing the comp this year. …
Oct
28
In Soviet Russia, dancefloor hits you!
[Will "Soviet Russia" in post title attract Russian spambots? We'll see.] We returned Sunday night from the High Point Classic Dancesport Championships. There are no pictures from this competition, for good reason: we danced very badly! Out of 6 events entered we placed in only one. Sigh. As Daniel and I discussed on the way …