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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 as a cure Dance has been used as a valuable tool to cure various brain disorders. When we are passionate about something, often our brain skips over the part that’s not working right and focuses. Music, when it is music we love, can have a healing effect of it’s own. When music and […]
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If you’ve been to my website, you know know my vision statement has to do with people dancing spontaneously in inappropriate places. Last week I wrote about hip hop crews on subways. This week I want to bring your attention to a different kind of subway dancing. Starting Dance Parties on Trains In […]
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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 think this might be my favorite example yet of using dance to save people from themselves. In the spirit of using fun to get people to change negative behavior, (and what can be more fun than dancing?) the dancing traffic light was an idea to see if people would resist the temptation to […]
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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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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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Dance teachers in my present I wrote a post a while ago about dance teachers in my past who influenced me. I’d like to write now about teachers who are influencing me now. Yes, dance teachers do still study. It never ends! Brazilian Samba I am lucky enough to be able to study Brazilian […]
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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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Can Dancing Bridge a Gap Between Police and the Inner City? I live in Oakland where there are neighborhoods the police won’t even go to. To say the least, there is a huge cultural gap between the inner city and the police. Mistrust flies rampant in both directions. Dancing Pigs The police are called pigs […]
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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 […]
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To Dance With Abandon! On the heels of my Dance Walking posts, I couldn’t resist commenting on this wonderful video. People with Down Syndrome can teach us a lot about dancing with abandon. Dance: The Embodiment of Joy I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: dance is the embodiment of joy. If I […]
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