Several people asked us for details about our participation in the Atlanta Dance Classic competition next weekend. The venue is the Westin Peachtree Plaza, 210 Peachtree Street, Atlanta 30303. We are dancing several American Smooth heats Friday morning in the 11:00 hour, then we will do our rumba exhibition number during the evening session. There’s …
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Jul
09
Special events this month (and week, and year)
I’ve just updated the “Local Dance Opportunities” page with 3 special events happening this month, the date for this year’s Stars Over Macon in October, and a “weekly events” section. Seriously, if you’re not finding enough times and places to dance around town, maybe you are not trying hard enough. Or not spending enough time …
Apr
26
Represent, Represent!
Our class is learning the cha-cha–and also learning how hard it can be to do the steps accurately AND up to tempo. (If they’re anything like me, it’s usually one or the other…) Last night I downloaded my favorite slow/practice cha-cha song. Click and enjoy! In other news, it became known in class last night …
Apr
07
Kirstie falls, Daniel snorts, I elbow Daniel in the face
First of all, let me say thank you once again to everybody who came out to our monthly-dance-turned-Daniel’s-birthday-party last night. It was a ton of fun, Daniel was delighted, and we will be eating the leftover snacks for days! Extra shout-outs to one couple (you know who you are) for bravely attending your first social …
Mar
31
Video Explosion, Part the Second!
Click through to see our Rhythm heats at last weekend’s Garden City Dance Challenge and our first-ever solo showcase performance. Thanks once again to Mom, the videographer on crack the crack videographer!
Mar
30
Garden City Dance Challenge Video Explosion (Part 1!)
Okay, fans, click through for video of our Smooth heats at this past Saturday’s Garden City Dance Challenge in Augusta. Tomorrow I’ll post the Rhythm heats and our solo showcase! Huge thanks to my mom for being our videographer. Next time we will teach you how to use the zoom and maybe even give you …
Feb
26
The Peter Principle
From Wikipedia: “The Peter Principle is a special case of a ubiquitous observation: anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails.” See also: my ability to dance the rumba. I fear that up until recently I may have been coasting on my previous dance experience plus Daniel’s savant-like ability …
Feb
07
Beauty vs. Athleticism
The walls of my childhood ballet studio were decorated with several posters by Harvey Edwards, including one close-up of a man doing a détiré en avant, sweat beaded on his face and hair. The caption: “Dance is work.” Eddie Ares’s studio offers this quotation on its website: “Dancers are the athletes of God.” Even for …
Jan
09
Equally true for ballroom dancing
For “hockey” read “dancing”; for “bowling” read “all activities other than dancing”: “Ovi” creeps me out even when his head is firmly attached to his body but I love this commercial.
Dec
12
Video stars, YA RLY
Everybody remembers this, right? No? Okay, to recap: back in late September we were asked to take part in a video shoot that would become part of a big promotional effort for the city of Macon. We spent a jolly few hours feeling like movie stars but then we had no proof that the whole …