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A relatively new dance venue for the Swing crowd has opened in SF. It’s in a Market Street bar called “Local Edition. Only half a block from BART, it’s easy to get to from Oakland, and the music starts at 8:00 on Tuesday nights. I can dance for a couple of hours, leave at 10, […]
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Dance has all kinds of functions, from exercise to art, to connection, to just plain fun. As an art form, it’s one of the best ways to express emotion. My sister, whom I love more than just about anyone else in my life, sent me this beautiful video of another set of sisters […]
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The other day on BART, three young hip hop dancers looking like street thugs started dancing and passing a hat. They weren’t great, but they weren’t bad either. And they were doing something joyful that took skill and not a little hard work and practice, for the pleasure of onlookers. For money, yes, but […]
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I’ve written a few past posts about fat dancers and was inspired to write again on the subject by a show in Australia featuring a cast of obese dancers. What caught my interest, aside from the obvious fact of how unusual this is, was the director’s comment that such a show shouldn’t be, but is, […]
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Dance can be a powerful motivator. It’s energetic and engaging and keeps people’s attention. I’ve talked about how much I enjoy the creative use of dance in advertising, but it’s also used to make people think, to inform, and to combat apathy. One of my favorite examples is Rock the Vote. These guys make […]
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Dancing makes people smile. My vision statement has to do with a world in which people break into spontaneous dance in unexpected places and occasionally I like to blog about occasions where that happens already. Great examples of inappropriate dance Nothing makes me happier than seeing evidence of people dancing with abandon in “inappropriate” places. […]
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Last week I wrote about my Samba teacher Jacqui Barnes. Today I’ll introduce you to my latin rhythms teacher, Yismari Ramos. Like Jacqui, Yismari is passionate about the music of her culture (Cuban) and the the way the dance feels. Her classes consist of complicated choreography that incompasses the various rhythms of Cuban dance. […]
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In this charming video a group of swing dancers gather around a street orchestra to perform a charleston routine. It’s a simple routine that repeats, they do it well, and they are enjoying themselves immensely. It’s a great choice for a flash mob because for swing dancers it wouldn’t take long to learn. They know […]
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On my way to a dance last week in bumper to bumper traffic, I stopped to let a car change lanes in front of me. It was stuck in a left turn lane and evidently had been having considerable trouble getting anyone to let it in. As the car moved into my lane, a flurry […]
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In a perfect world, dance lessons would be ten minutes long. You’d go home and practice and then come back to learn the next step after you’ve mastered what came first. In the real world, you work on the first thing until you’re doing it right most of the time and understand it well enough […]
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I’ve written before about partner dancers combining styles, but performance dancers do it too. Some years ago I spent 8 Julys in Sweden studying the European partner jazz dance Boogie Woogie My favorite teacher, Christer Isberg, was the best all around dancer I’d ever seen. It seemed he could do anything. His background included classical […]
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Controversial dance This surprising controversy in the dance community popped up when this video started going viral: [embedplusvideo height=”390″ width=”640″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1oaNfNp” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XAh9zYWfJiY?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=XAh9zYWfJiY&width=640&height=390&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep7038″ /] But is it really dance? Some people commented that is isn’t really dance because it’s really just a bunch of aerials and really qualifies as acrobatics rather than dance. If […]
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