Category Archives: dancing in the media
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Introducing Team Deanra
Posted on February 21, 2014 by lauraet in dancing in the media, Dancing Stars of Central Georgia, faaaaaaaame!.Tweet Last night was the cast party for the 2014 edition of Dancing Stars of Central Georgia, the Alzheimer’s Association fundraiser that Daniel and I first participated in back in 2012. This year I was asked to rejoin the cast at the special request of one of the stars. We all convened at the Blacksmith […]
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Opportunity for Dance & Stardom
Posted on January 18, 2014 by lauraet in dance events, dancing in the media, faaaaaaaame!.Tweet Looking for a chance to show off your swing moves, help promote Macon tourism, and become a video star? The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame brings us this news: On Friday, January 24 the Macon-Bibb Convention and Visitors Bureau is shooting a new video for use in their Visitors’ Center and looking for dancers […]
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Bishops have shuddered!
Posted on January 5, 2014 by lauraet in dancing in the media, in other news, social dancing.Tweet Stumbled across this great piece from 100 years ago in the International Herald Tribune (until recently the international version of the New York Times). Seeing the scandalous reputation of the tango in its early days of popularity is always fun, especially since the tango dancers I know are some of the most morally upright people you’ll […]
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“Translocal”?
Posted on May 19, 2012 by lauraet in dancing in the media, in other news, MSDC.Tweet Jonathan Marion, whom I can pretend to know because he is a frequent flyer on Dance Forums, published this interesting article about “the translocal culture of competitive ballroom dance” in Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement. The article does a nice job explaining that competitive dancers not only take the extensive travel […]
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Who takes the lead?
Posted on May 15, 2012 by lauraet in dancing in the media, in other news.Tweet My Twitter-mate Caitlin Doran posted a link earlier today to this article in Canada’s National Post. The article reports an incident in which a woman was asked to leave a jive class after trying to switch to the leader’s role and “lead her male partner.” The instructor contends that the student was asked to […]
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We haz famus partners!
Posted on April 23, 2012 by lauraet in dancing in the media, Dancing Stars of Central Georgia, faaaaaaaame!.Tweet Check out NewsCentral’s profile of Ashley Copelan (1/2 of our own Team Dashley) and a member of the competition, Steve Welsh and Pilar Wilder: Also, in an awesome coincidence, this afternoon we got an email from the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame soliciting extras for a movie about Jackie Robinson that will be shooting […]
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I R FAMUS PROF
Posted on April 19, 2012 by lauraet in dancing in the media, Dancing Stars of Central Georgia, faaaaaaaame!.Tweet Not really. Because there is no such thing as a famous English professor. But the External Affairs department at Macon State was kind enough to put a story about my participation in Dancing Stars of Central Georgia on the College’s homepage today. Now, in addition to “I saw you on TV!” I am hearing […]
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I R FAMUS BALLROOM DANCER
Posted on April 4, 2012 by lauraet in dancing in the media, Dancing Stars of Central Georgia, faaaaaaaame!, Uncategorized.Tweet Not really. (Do you see a pattern developing here?) But it turns out that Team LaJack is prominently (albeit facelessly) featured in the TV ad for Dancing Stars of Central Georgia! Finally I understand why the DWTS pros go to the trouble of dressing cute and putting makeup on for rehearsals. Our friend Sheree’ saw […]
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Instrument Petting Zoo!
Posted on March 11, 2012 by lauraet in dance events, dancing in the media, Dancing Stars of Central Georgia, exhibitions & performances, MSDC, Uncategorized.Tweet Daniel and I had to stay busy between meeting our Dancing Stars partners and finding out the dances we’d been assigned, so last Sunday we spent the afternoon at the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences’ “Instrument Petting Zoo” event. The event is an annual collaboration between the Museum and the Mercer/Macon Youth Orchestra […]
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Dancing Stars partnerships revealed!
Posted on March 2, 2012 by lauraet in dancing in the media, Dancing Stars of Central Georgia.Tweet We are so excited to have met our new partners, Ashley and Jackson! I’m working on cheesy team names à la DWTS: Team Dashley and Team LaJack? What do you think? Click here for the story on NewsCentral Georgia plus video of our appearance on their newscast!
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