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Dancing for Seniors

Connecting Socially , dance videos , dancing for joy , dancing in the golden years , dancing with physical challenges , inspirational dancing , Learning dance , social dancing

Let’s Dance A short article in United Health Care’s Magazine Renew entitled “Let’s Dance” reminded me to take up this subject again. There has been much research on the subject of the best exercise for aging bodies, and dance keeps coming up number one. Dance if it brings you joy Of course, I still […]

What is Your Learning Style in Dance Class?

about LaurieAnn , Learning dance , teaching dance

If you know how you learn, you’ll know what kind of dance teacher can teach you. Some teachers do know about learning styles, but most teach the way they learn, so the easiest way to pick a teacher is to observe until you find one who teaches the way you learn. If you know your […]

Dancing In Inappropriate Places

Connecting Socially , dance videos , dancing for joy , dancing in the streets , Hip Hop , inspirational dancing , Outdoor Dancing , performance dance

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. […]

Why Do Dance Teachers Take Dance Lessons?

about LaurieAnn , Brazilian Samba , dancing for joy , inspirational dancing , Learning dance , performance dance , rhythm , teaching dance

My last two posts were about two amazing dance teachers who are influencing me now. More than one person has asked me, since I’ve been teaching for more than three decades, am I still taking lessons. There are so many aspects to that question that I thought I’d address some of them here. Dance […]

Fusion in Performance Dance

Classical Dance , Dance History , dance videos , fusion , Hip Hop , inspirational dancing , Lindy Hop , performance dance

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 […]

Go Viral Learning to Dance in a Year!

dance videos , dancing in the streets , inspirational dancing , Learning dance , performance dance

There is a great video going around about a young woman who learned to dance (really well) in just a year. There is also a website encouraging people to accomplish any dream by focusing on it for 100 days. If you go there, you’ll see lots of people taking a video of their progress on […]

Using Music and Dance to Save Lives

dance videos , inspirational dancing , music for dance , performance dance

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 […]

Dancing with Strangers: a Way to Intimacy

about LaurieAnn , Connecting Socially , inspirational dancing , leading and following , social dancing , teaching dance

Intimacy without dance I was at a conference a few weeks ago run by Bill Baron in which I participated in a very interesting process. We split into groups of 5. We each commented on whatever our intuitive hits were about each other. We learned a lot by what we heard each other say as […]

Hoola Hoop Dancing: It’s Not Just for Kids Anymore!

dance videos , inspirational dancing , Outdoor Dancing , sport dancing

A creative dance idea There are so many creative ways to make dance even more fun. One of my favorites is the hoola hoop fad. Like many kids, I played with one in my youth but I don’t remember doing it to music. Hard to believe we didn’t because it’s such a natural fit. A […]

Favorite Dance Teachers From My Past

about LaurieAnn , Connecting Socially , cutting in , dance videos , inspirational dancing , leading and following , Lindy Hop , performance dance , same sex dancing , social dancing , teaching dance , west coast swing

The wonderful video at the end of this post from 1995 inspired me to write about these dancers because they were both a huge influence in my early dancing years. Sylvia Sykes was my teacher for the first six years I studied Lindy Hop and she, along with her partner Jonathan Bixby, also introduced […]

How Can You Tell One Swing Dance from Another?

dance videos , Lindy Hop , social dancing , west coast swing

Swing is a broad category that includes many different dances. If you’re a novice, it’s hard enough telling completely different genres apart let alone the variations in one category. And as if that wasn’t confusing enough, there are different styles within the same dance! I’m going to keep it relatively simple in this post, […]

How Most Dancers Age

Connecting Socially , dancing in the golden years , dancing with physical challenges , inspirational dancing , social dancing , teaching dance

Now that you’ve read about Jean Veloz and other inspirational dancers who are still dancing in the final years of their lives, I’d like to take a look at how most dancers deal with the aging process. I addressed this earlier in Nov 12 post about the great tap dancer Fayard Nicolas When Aging […]

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