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Dancing in Your Wildest Imagination I can’t stop thinking about the Dance Walk Guru’s story. Can you image how it would feel to be so at peace with yourself that you choose to dance down the street with abandon for the pure joy of it, without a worry about what people might think of the […]
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A Dance Movement After All! Well it seems I spoke too soon when I qualified in my last post that Dance Walking was not really a movement but I hoped it would catch on. Apparently it has indeed become a movement and is gathering momentum all over the world as we speak. What fabulous […]
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How to start a dance craze Well, OK, not exactly a craze yet, but I’d love to see this catch on. The really amazing thing about it is that instead of avoiding a guy doing something weird in public, people are joining in. Lots of them. And it looks like the ones who aren’t are […]
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Out Door Dancing Around the World For the past 16 years I’ve been spending my Sundays dancing Lindy Hop in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Ours was the first regular outdoor Lindy event , and over the years many other versions have popped up in other parts of the county and around the world. […]
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Dance and music, in my opinion, go hand in hand. Not everyone agrees, you might be surprised to learn. There are forms of dance that don’t have a connection to music, and I usually don’t like those kinds of dance. I think of dance as making a musical instrument of your body and jamming with […]
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Dance and music are intrinsically linked. My favorite dances are the ones that arise organically from the music, street dances like Lindy Hop and Hip Hop. There is something special about a dance that makes a dancer out of someone who fell in love with the music, as opposed to a dance with rigid rules […]
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My dance studio is in Oakland and I live in Oakland. Our city gets a lot of bad press but we Oaklanders love our city. Yes, we have crime, on the streets and in our government, but we also have great food, great dancing, outstanding architecture, the Art Murmur, cultural diversity, and amazing kids. The […]
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How fun to see my StepsOnToes dancing vision statement in action again. When you start looking for things, they sometimes start happening. I have a rare blood type so I’m constantly being called upon to give it up every other month or so, which I’m happy to do. Today the sound system was tuned […]
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If you’ve been to my home page, you know that I have a dance vision of the future that has people dancing spontaneously in public places. Every once in awhile I see people embodying this idea in their own unique and creative way. Few people have more fun with the concept than the wonderful […]
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Here in San Francisco we are about to celebrate our 17th year of dancing outdoors in Golden Gate Park on Sunday mornings. New Yorkers have us beat though. They are celebrating 25 years of Midsummer Night Swing, a 3 week annual tradition of nightly dancing to live music on a portable wooden dance floor. Despite […]
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