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Last week I posted on Appalachian dancing dolls and promised a follow up post on Dancing puppets. Making a marionette look real is a real and fascinating art. The dolls themselves are amazing works of art and the puppet masters are true masters of illusion. When a puppet dances, does that mean a dancer […]
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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 […]
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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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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 […]
Continue readingHere is a guest post from Pamela Hudson in Runcon. Next time you’re in England, check out her school if you have kids! Are you desirous of reaching out to after school activities for your kid? Consider their enrollment for dance classes. Along with making new friends, increasing co-ordination levels and socializing, your child will also […]
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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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Warning: another animal dance video. If you don’t like to see people dancing with animals, skip this one. This video did go viral, so you may have seen it already. Some animals really do have a sense of rhythm and actually choose to dance when motivated by music, just like humans. See https://www.stepsontoes.com/2013/04/319/. Sometimes the […]
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Back leading is a term for the habit of some follows to lead themselves through dance moves the leader has nothing to do with. If the leader has any skill, this is the kind of behavior that causes him to mark that follower off his list for future dances, or hire a dance teacher for […]
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You’ve seen me write about rhythm in nature and dancing animals, but what about inanimate objects? Anyone who has seen the dancing water in Las Vegas knows that humans are more than capable of using technology to make anything dance. If cartoon characters can dance, why not light or water? This video is about a […]
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After you watch these guys competing against the world’s best break dancers, you may never again be able to say there is anything you “can’t” do. They are not just proving that people with disabilities can dance. They are proving they can dance as well, or better than, the best able bodied dancers in the […]
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