Category Archives: in other news
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What we’re up to this week
Posted on January 21, 2016 by lauraet in Friday Night Dance Parties, in other news, social dancing.Tweet (you can see I’m trying to make “What we’re up to this week” a Regular Feature of this here Internet Website.) Our monthly dance is tomorrow! Don’t forget the time change: 8:30 to 11:00. Come and give us a good send-off to our competition next weekend. Sunday we have a lesson; one last chance […]
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Ballroom dance shoe information!
Posted on January 19, 2015 by lauraet in behind the curtain, in other news, Linktastic.Tweet We are often asked about shoes for dancing. It’s kind of a big subject, and everyone has their own preferences. But for those interested in being appropriately shod for dance occasions, here are some Shoe Basics: Dancing in street shoes: You can do perfectly well attending lessons and dances in street shoes for a good […]
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Get your snarky t-shirts here!
Posted on August 24, 2014 by lauraet in in other news, Linktastic, Uncategorized.Tweet If you’ve ever wanted to tell your partner to pipe down and get on with the business of dancing, we’ve got the t-shirts for you. Order your shirt before September 3; Teespring requires a minimum order of 10 shirts (for each design) but if the minimum isn’t reached, you won’t be charged. What do […]
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What does a professor look like?
Posted on February 26, 2014 by lauraet in in other news, Linktastic.Tweet Emily Friedman, a graduate student in English at University of Missouri, has started this great Tumblr called “What a Professor Looks Like.” It examines public perceptions of the professorial image and contrasts them with photos of actual professors, mostly in our after-hours clothing. Let’s just say that most of the professoriate is NOT walking […]
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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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My mom has great taste in videos
Posted on December 11, 2012 by lauraet in friends & family, in other news.Tweet On the rare occasion that my mother sends me a forward or a link, you know it’s gonna be good. Check it: Click through to the “About” to see a rundown of all the dancers/movie clips. So cool! And I’ll just be over here buying that song from iTunes.
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Dresses in; dresses out
Posted on October 27, 2012 by lauraet in behind the curtain, in other news, Linktastic.Tweet “Laura,” I hear readers asking, “how can I be more like you? I’ve already signed up for dance lessons and gotten a rockin’ haircut, but how do I take it to the next level?” Well, young padawan, for the next 7 days you have a rare opportunity to own a piece of DLDancers history. […]
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What I Did on my Summer Vacation
Posted on August 5, 2012 by lauraet in in other news, Uncategorized.Tweet Greetings from DLDancers HQ where I have returned after 5 weeks in Columbia, Missouri at the National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar “Jane Austen and her Contemporaries.” I went expecting a dance-free summer: I did not even take any dance shoes or dance clothes, planning to focus on fitness and conditioning (read “go […]
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The effect of a dance studio on a Regular Person
Posted on May 29, 2012 by lauraet in behind the curtain, in other news.Tweet Since working on Dancing Stars I’ve started to notice something interesting about the way “regular people” (non-dancers or non-habitual dancers) react to being in a dance studio space. For as long as I can remember, I have regarded a dance studio as one tiny step–at most–below a sacred space. In fact, in the Afro-Haitian […]
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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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