Connecting Socially , Outdoor Dancing
Last week I blogged about New York’s wonderful Midsummer Night Swing rivaling our own Lindy in the Park in SF. Now I’m writing about Seattle’s Dancing ‘Til Dusk. Like NY, it encompasses many different styles of dance, and takes place over a specific time frame. It’s longer than New York’s event, which is every […]
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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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Whenever I get a new dance student, they often say “Swing, that’s the dance where they swing you up in the air, right?” The reason people equate air steps with swing dancing is because that’s what they see in the movies. Air steps are fun to watch, so any movie with swing dance scenes will […]
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I teach a lot of freestyle dance because it’s the one kind of dancing you need as a basic social skill. It will never go out of fashion because it requires no skill except the very rare and useful attribute of not caring what other people think of the way you dance. The people who […]
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Studies have shown (I love that phrase) that dancing is one of the best things you can do to exercise the brain and seniors especially are encouraged to take up dancing to keep those gray cells active and challenged. Somehow I don’t think it does much for those of us who have been doing it […]
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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 […]
Continue readingMy students rarely ask if they should wait until after their dance to start drinking at their wedding, but they should. Everyone reacts differently to alcohol but hardly anyone is a good judge of their own character when they are drinking. Whether they ask or not, I always give this advice. It’s for […]
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Engineering students at Northwestern University are learning to swing dance for a very specific reason. They’re taking a for-credit class called Whole Body Thinking, according to the Associated Press. The idea is to help future engineers break outside their comfort zones. The course is led by Northwestern University professor of dance (yes, such a position […]
Continue readingHere is a guest blog from a dance studio in England! It’s important to get kids involved in physical activity from a young age. Not only is it good for their health, but it helps them to learn vital life skills. They get to play with other kids, learn to share and how to work […]
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Tao Porchon-Lynch is a 94 year old yoga teacher who started dancing in her eighties. A perfect example of “It’s never too late to start”, Tao hit the ground running when she decided to take on ballroom dance. It wasn’t long before she began winning competitions. Unlike a lot of my favorite examples […]
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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 […]
Continue reading[embedplusvideo height=”388″ width=”640″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/pfxB5ut-KTs?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=pfxB5ut-KTs&width=640&height=388&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep1803″ /] More dancing babies! I couldn’t resist. I do promise this is the last Evian ad blog (unless they come up with somethingelse equally worthy), but surely this is one of the most delightful use of dancing in an ad to date! Following up on the Roller Baby […]
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