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The Bee gees “Stayin Alive” is a great dance tune, but did you know it’s also the perfect beat for CPR compressions? The Chattanooga fire department produced this wonderfully entertaining video to illustrate the crucial points of emergency CPR with the clever use of music and dance. Dance and public awareness I love it when dance […]
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I’ve shown this video in a previous blog, but It so perfectly illustrates my point that just have to show it again: [embedplusvideo height=”388″ width=”640″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/Ibg9gM” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/to7uIG8KYhg?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=to7uIG8KYhg&width=640&height=388&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep5172″ /] Rhythm and Dance are our Birthright I believe that human beings are born with an innate sense of rhythm. I believe that as we […]
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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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Most musicians don’t dance. Have you noticed that? It’s so common that we really notice when they do. Maybe it’s because they’re always on stage when everyone else is dancing, but that doesn’t explain the ones who do. Cab Calloway not only danced while playing but also was a trend setter who’s style has […]
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Of all the fusion dances, Bal/Lindy is probably the most natural. Almost everyone who knows both dances has done them together on occasion if not regularly. Pure balboa is done in a close hold that never breaks, but almost everyone does Bal-swing and calls it Balboa. This isn’t fusion, but rather a street dance that […]
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Before I was a dance teacher, I taufht self-defense to people with physical disabilities. I was inspired to study American Sign Language when I had a deaf student in one of my classes and a deaf friend in my Jujitsu dojo. I hung out with the deaf community (who thought I had recently lost […]
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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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The term fusion is used to mean a mix of music as well as dance. In this post I’m focusing on dance fusion. By that I mean two different dances or dance styles fused into one dance. This is a surprisingly controversial thing to do, given that it pretty much mostly happens with street dances […]
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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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This post is about rhythm and dance as innate natural abilities and how they get lost in “civilized” societies. Before I say anything else, I have to credit Jon Carroll for naming the syndrome in one of his columns. I love the name, even though I’ve met women as well as people of other races […]
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Blues dancing has been around for decades in one form or another. It’s one of my favorite dances because it is so open to interpretation that it can look drastically different from one dancer to another. As long as the character of the dance remains intimate and, well, bluesy, you can trade on pretty much […]
Continue readingUnless you’re a dance DJ, you might say this is a no brainer. Of course everyone prefers live music to dance to. It’s not always the case, however. I’ve been to dances where the live music was either awful or just inappropriate for the dance. The floor was empty during the sets and packed for […]
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