Archive for January, 2010
January 31st, 2010 | 
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This is ONE MOVE, not something you do for a prolonged period, in reality you might do it for a couple repetitions, not for minutes at a time.
Add it to your dance vocabulary and mix it up with other moves.
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Chi is an international Club Dance, Hip Hop, GoGo, and Salsa Instructor. He has danced with Asia’s top pop artists Jay Chou and Lee Hom Wang.
With over 8000 Hours of Clubbing in North America, Europe and Asia, and 10 years of dance training with groups such as CADC, Culture Shock, Kaba Modern, Majesty in Motion, Amicitia Dance Co, and Team Boogiezone.com Breed; Chi “Groove” Szeto teaches you popular, fun moves step by step in these instructional videos.
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Duration : 0:9:11
the latin dance contest semi finals
Posted in latin ballroom dancing | 
Tags: contest, dance, Dancing, diego, Dirty, garai, havana, hopelives217, latin, luna, nights, romola | 
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A seventh season Facts Of Life episode from 1985. Jo decides to take a change and take Ballroom dancing classes.
Duration : 0:5:27
Cha Cha Dance Lessons, Mohawk Ballroom Dance Club, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Teacher Trish Beahan, June 20,2008.
Duration : 0:2:35
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Tags: Ballroom, Canada, cha, dance, Dancing, Dancinglist, Hamilton, Hornick, lessons, Mohawk, Ontario, Tony |
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James Brown Teaches you to Dance – Some description of dance steps
To know the song go to http://www.seeonlyme.com
Duration : 0:1:39
2005 USABDA Nationals
August 13, 2005
Championship Latin
Dance-On of the 7 Finalists
Duration : 0:7:16
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Tags: 2006, dance, dancesport, latin, Nationals, prufrock1974, usabda |
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Tanja & Nery from Fort Myers tearing up the dance floor… Born to Salsa social, Canadian Club, Hallandale, FL…
Duration : 0:3:37
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Tags: Elegant, MySalsaTV, Rumberos, salsa, Salsafix |
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Duration : 0:9:59
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Tags: Bachata, Ballroom dance lessons Chicago, Illinois, salsa, swing |
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I recently tried a locally based dance lesson to learn how to dance in latin american styles (cumbia, salsa etc). I discovered I have no rhythm whatsover and the dance studio struggled with me as well. My wife is Ecuadorian and I want to impress her in about 9 months for our wedding aniversary (she is in Ecuador now and can’t teach me, plus the suprise would be nice). I thought about getting a dance mat for rhythm training but don’t know what to look for with the right music (don’t advise any night club type music please). Is there also any good DVD’s out there so I can at least get the basics before I go back to another dance studio? Any help would be great….
step 1: buy a playstation (1 or 2 or 3 or 4 etc)
step 2: get a dance dance revolution cd (ANY 1 of em that is compatible with your playstation)
step 3: get a compatible dancing pad
step 4: play XD
my fav ddr is 4th mix: "do it all night" and "in the heat of the night"
Isn’t it strange that in competitive Latin American Ballroom dance it consists of Rumba, Cha Cha, Samba, Paso and Jive. Jive isnt Latin, it is swing. Also why isn’t Salsa or Mambo or Lambada there as they are Latin? How can a competitive Latin American dancer not do Salsa as one of the dances. It seems strange.
I think it was greatly influenced by the decisions of Blackpool organizing commeette, the oldest and most prestigious competition in the world. Originally, only Standard category existed, and the dances were different from what they are now. It was Slowfox, Waltz and Two Step. It wasn’t even a category, it was all single dance events. Latin category was danced at Blackpool for the first time in 1962, and I’m pretty sure the dances were different than they are now. Eventually, some Ballroom organizations had formed, and rules were written. 10 dances as we know them now are danced according to IDSF rules, but other less known organizations could have a different set of rules and different set of dances for all I know.
I think, and it is only a speculation, the dances that happened to emerge Latin Ballroom are the ones that were extremely popular at the time when competitive Ballroom dancing was forming. Swing, for example, was so popular it simply couldn’t have been left out. They had to put it in Latin category because it doesn’t into Standard at all. Samba was popularized by Fred Astire and Ginger Rogers. Naturally, if Fred and Ginger were dancing it, everyone else had to attempt the same.
Here is a couple of articles that still don’t quite answer your question, but at least give you some idea:
http://blackpooldancefestival.com/blackpool_dance_festival_website.htm
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~don/pubs/latin.html
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