July 15th, 2010 by soul4dance

Entrance II is about that a dream world where who lost love and friendship are recovered traveling and adventures. This dream world will motivate the audience to see the things through with there eyes of innocence and curiosity, and they would find a fantastic colorful world that is well beyond their imagination.

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At midnight, in a little girl’s room, a flight of glowing stairs emerges, which is an entrance to the wonder world. This is a world full of inconceivable fun things and unrestrained energy. However, in this apparently happy paradise, the little girl, an explorer, discovers a “Multi-Eyed Monster” who is ugly and clumsy but has a kind of heart. Unfortunately, Monster is not welcomed in the middle of elf. The harder Monster tries to gain identification of elf, the more helpless he has becomes because he simply rubs them the wrong way. As an explorer, the naive little girl follows Monster and enters a world loaded with depression and darkness, where they both experience a journey of fear and lost, and finally help each other out.

Fortunately, “Blue Cat”, the most intelligent and powerful elf, guides the little girl as a protector angel and responses gently to a series of heart-broken messages that are expressed by “Multi-Eyed Monster” out of depression. At last, under the encouragement of “Blue Cat” and the loving care of the little girl, “Multi-Eyed Monster” becomes a member of the elf group.

The three main characters are in this fantasy journey; in fact, represent three human psychological elements are-curiosity, fear, and wisdom.

Through the story of getting better lost love and friendship an adventurous fantasy journey, the dancers hope to inspire the audience to re-examine their three elements to eventually to create a wonder world of their own.

July 15th, 2010 by soul4dance

Illinois at Chicago University of researcher is conducting a pilot study to find out that if salsa dance can get better the health of aged Latinos who have a limited mobility and face elevated risks of disability. David Xavier Marquez, assistant professor of kinesiology and nutrition, has recruited 13 Latinos, and all 55 or older and who have done a little or no exercise the past year, into a 12-week dance class. Marquez will hopes that adopt this enjoyable physical activity, improving their health with along the way.

“It is a culturally suitable physical activity for Latinos.” Many grow up dancing at family gatherings and other celebrations and functions. But Marquez said that, many don’t have the opportunity to do it now.

While Marquez involved about 45 potential participants in his improve the health competition, his pilot study is limited to people who are relatively to an inactive and have limited mobility.

President and CEO of Humboldt Park-based Dance Academy of Salsa, Mr. Miguel Mendez, who has more than 18 years of teaching experienced in dance, suggested dances to use for the program, done twice a week in one-hour sessions.

All dance sessions are take place at Villa Guadalupe Social Services.

The healthiest program is called BAILAMOS-Spanish for “we dance,” but also that an acronym for “Balance and Activity in Latinos, Addressing Mobility in Older adults only.”

All Participants were tested for ability, balance, strength, gait speed, endurance, and physical activity levels to dance.

Marquez will short the participants and their teacher when the pilot study ends to learn what the improvements can go into a larger, more comprehensive study he will hopes to get funding to conduct.

While Marquez’s study focused on mainly the elderly once to the fast-growing Latino population of urban Chicago, using dance as an exercise intervention among other elderly populations, regardless of ethnicity or region, may prove to be a way to better health.

He will also hope finally to study if dance can help prevent the diabetes, fatness and reduce the risk for heart disease.

“Dance works all over for health improvement. There is nothing specific to the biology or physiology of Latinos that would be making it only works for them,” said Marquez.

July 1st, 2010 by soul4dance

Guru Munna Shukla is a happy spirit given to saying, “I am sinking in my art, and loving it!” Retired some years are ago from Kathak Kendra, where he were dedicated much of his productive life to polishing performer s of the new generation, he have been busy to running the classes in East Delhi as well as at Bharatiya Kala Kendra. His approach to Kathak is loyally bound to the school that were he was born to his grandfather was the legendary Kathak maestro Achhan Maharaj, and guru is Pandit Birju Maharaj, the current doyen of the Lucknow gharana . Munnaji’s approach to choreography has always eluded stereotyping.

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How has your approach to dance changed with age?

Now a day’s spiritual and devotional themes are attract me. Bhagwan, Ishwar and Paramatma these are not synonyms, but that it totally different in my opinion. I am also thinking a lot of about the nature. From my childhood, as I didn’t get a chance to study I engrossed myself in the theory, literature and philosophy of Dance, and this have influenced my dance and teaching.

How has this translated into your choreographic work?

Now a years I am a less attracted towards the ‘dhoom dharaka’ of fast, amazing footwork, etc. Certainly, I still do present it, but I was enjoying choreographing on the theme of nature. Even when I am working on some rhythmic element, such as a Tura, I like to introduce a nature that are related logic into it say, storm clouds gathering, etc.

How do you see the relationship between music and choreography?

It is an inextricable and slight relationship with us. Sometimes I feel that music should not even be very noisy. I like the dance to show up in my relief against the music. If the music is simple, the dance can be complicated.

Also, sometimes I difference the rhythms. For example if the music is playing a rhythm of four, the dance might be set to a pattern of three. I find these are more interesting than setting the dance exactly according to the music.

July 1st, 2010 by soul4dance

Salsa Dance

Salsa was born in Cuba and it has many years ago. It was basically a mixture of many dances that were brought in by the migrants to Cuba which are mixed very well with the traditional Son dance of Cuba and something unique and innovative was born. The name Salsa means pulp but it is meant to denote the mixture of so many dances in the final products. It can also refer to the hot nature of the dance which is pretty sexual in some of the moves the dancers perform.

There are numerous versions of the dance with names like Casino, Miami Style Casino, Rueda de Casino and Cali Salsa. Even although the dancing styles have been changed, the original dance is still practiced and is a very amusing and exciting dance to do. Social dancing, under which the salsa falls, has many health benefits from matching muscles, to reducing the stress levels in a person to helping a person lose weight as well. It is said that the salsa dancing actually burns 420 calories an hour, which is also almost the same as cycling for an hour.

If more people took part in an athletic dance routine like salsa or even went to their local club and the danced for a few hours they are would feel a lot healthier for it. Maybe they should not wash away all the hard work they are just did by drinking gallons of beer.

June 24th, 2010 by soul4dance

Casual followers of ballet dance are might be forgiven for thinking that American Ballet Theater have only one Russian star in its midst, as New York this spring has been excited over Natalia Osipova, a guest from the Bolshoi Ballet. Could it have been only a few seasons ago that the city was sweep up in the arrival of another Great Russian ballerina, Diana Vishneva, who joined Ballet Theater full time in 2005 as a principal?

Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera House Ms. Vishneva ring a bell why she has inspires enduring love, when she and David Hallberg offered a ravishing performance of “Swan Lake.” The sheer beauty of their dancing surprised.

Kevin McKenzie’s production, choreographed after the Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, let’s see the beauty shine through in Act II, when Prince restless heart finds out its harbor in Odette. To watch Ms. Vishneva arch slowly back over Mr. Hallberg’s arm that was to feel time itself slow down as she sank richly into the Tchaikovsky score. Her swan princess is a tragic being, aware long before the naïve Siegfried that they cannot live happily on this earth.

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And what more can be said of the endless, perfect lines into which Mr. Hallberg’s body repeatedly reconfigures itself. And he is acting, which in the seasons past have a seemed a bit too eager, appears to be quieter and more. The classical purity of his dancing here becomes as the embodiment of his character’s morality. He is a noble through and through, if the torn between his desire to please and his desire for freedom.

He gets all his freedom in the end, paying for it with his life. The ballet’s dance final act must give us the full drama and beauty of the couple’s sacrifice, exaggerated by the swan maiden corps. But the plot’s significance is blunted by Mr. McKenzie’s theatrical decisions, which forgo substantial choreography in favor of silly chase antics among Odette, Siegfried and the evil sorcerer von Rothbart. Poor Isaac Stappas, having to throw himself about in that absurd Swamp Thing getup, which is lamely intended to reveal the sorcerer’s true nature.

June 18th, 2010 by soul4dance

The recognizable question that we will often ask ourselves. In the evenings section, many of us have rarely do more than put up our feet of way and sit around in front of the idiot box. While these may have been OK during the bleaker winter months, now the summer sun continues to signal us outdoors into the evening in the windows of the room. So, if you find yourself sitting on the couch immobilized by border.

Summer Dance 2010 in Faelledparken will soon be in the dance style as full swing. The dancing in the park runs for a month with good collection, Monday to Thursday between Monday June 21 and July 22, four every evenings a week from 19:00 to 22:00.

During this time more than a 6 couples different varieties of dance will be covered from all over the globe including all from South America salsa dance between 22 June and 20 July, Tango dance 23 June, 30 June and 21 July, samba/Brazilian on 29 June, Cuban 21 on June and ballroom dance on 19 July.

Continuing to Africa country, there is West African association 1 July and West African dance department on 8 July.

From the country India there is Bell wood dance on 24 June and 22 July and from the Middle East way there is oriental/belly dance on7 July.

The dance evenings ending with a live presentation by Anita Lerche. Anita is particularly interesting as she is a Dance and singing in Punjabis to a bhangra rhythm unrepentantly strapping out lyrics like ‘regularly you Indians have a made me dance to the hit of your beat, but tonight we white girls are going to make you dance at the beat of our hips.

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The stage for the dancing has just been modernized and is built into the stage of performances and parties, so it will might be good to know your way there for future activities. The night begins with dance classes and dance dramas or live band takes over into singing dances so the dancers can try out their new moves on their own.

The dancing is not controlled to adults also. Each and every one have a class at Thursday from 12:00–12:45 there is dancing for children upon the age of seven, and from 13:00-14:00 dancing up to the over-sevens.

If we want to think of learning a new dance for next period, it is a good place to do your at research and if we have a shy about dancing, here we can find a style to costume your nature. If we want, you can go everyday night and becomes a specialist in world movement, and why not to Summer Dance 2010 is completely free for YOUR’ s.

June 10th, 2010 by soul4dance

Who will win the game of Mirror Ball trophy held on New York, Nicole Scherzinger, Erin Andrews or Evan Evan Lysacek? Many will sees a tight competition of between Nicole Scherzinger and Evan Lysacek in the Dancing with the Stars 2010 ending the show by next week.

Nicole Scherzinger

If you can choose the winner of Dance with the Stars who is your bet? Intended for me is Nicole Scherzinger and please this is my first personal favorite message regarding the three celebrities in the Dancing with the Stars ending on the date.

Nicole Scherzinger was really a dancer gives an entertaining performance of dance in his dance of every time and she dance and adds the point that she is not a professional dancer like Evan.

If ever Erin Andrews might win this one and then this is the biggest upset in Dancing with the Stars history.

June 10th, 2010 by soul4dance

BALLET dancer Alexander Campbell have a lit up of stages across the United Kingdom, but it take seven years to get him home for a spell at the Sydney Opera House.

Campbell, 23, a Birmingham Royal Ballet with first vocalist, was in Australia to present in a guest role as the Prince in The Australian Ballet’s Coppélia.

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It was a magnificent opportunity for my family and friends in Australia country to come and see me and some had not seen me dance before, he supposed.

Campbell, who was in Australia from April 24 to May 15, was born to start to dance.

His caring of grandparents, who were both ballet dancers, enthuse his desire to be a dancer.

I don’t feel I was pushed into Ballet dance, I believe that I had a genuine interest in ballet dance Campbell said. “My grandmother, Valma Briggs, and grandfather, Mario Desva, were both in Ballet Rambert in London in the 1950s.

But it was his grandmother who begins Campbell to Academy Ballet at Randwick. Ms Briggs was a Royal Academy of Dance teacher and examiner for ballet dance, and worked at Academy Ballet where she oversee her grandson’s career, who won the McDonald Scholarship and was a finalist in the Prix de Lausanne when he was 15.

I skilled at Academy Ballet from the age of five until that I went to the Royal Ballet School in London at the age of 16 at18 I joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Campbell said the reality TV dance shows and that spin-off rebirth in dance was a good thing.

There have been big revivals across all dance formats, Campbell said. That “People now have more of an understanding of what we perform as dancers.

The reality stars must have a master different dance genres and the real world of dance was similarly demanding, Campbell said.

Ballet dancers have to be skillful at doing a lot of different styles. Many of my performances have been included in elements of gymnastics and contemporary dance, and when I go back to Birmingham I have to valve myself. You have to be an adaptable. Mind you, I certainly could not break-dance.

Campbell encouraged all fans of dance to “just try it”. In life of a professional dancer was not easy but the rewards were great that was he said.

It is a wonderful way to get onto the stage, to get on different characters and perform on stage, he said that. I get a real buzz from being on stage of performance on the movement, the dancing, and the performance. I absolutely love it.

May 31st, 2010 by soul4dance

Big Dance London
Big Dance event takes place from 3rd July till 11th July, 2010. A week full of dance events and activities will take place in London. These events will be organized at various locations across London and it ends at the Trafalgar Square with a world dance extravaganza.

Big Dance London

People of all ages can join in this fun filled event with workshops which will be happening throughout London. There will be plenty of activities which will keep you moving whether its ballroom, ballet, tango or tap dance. People from London can get in to the dance floor at various places like schools, theatres, cinemas and community centers. This will be a useful event for Londoners to make themselves fit during summer. It’s organized by the Mayor of London along with the Arts Council and the BBC. Various organizations like Sport England, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Department of Health, and The British Heart Foundation provide support for this event.

The highlight of this event will be a mass choreographed dance for 10,000 people. Fans can also view contemporary and classical performances on London streets and its iconic landmarks. Most of the events are completely free to take part. This event will end with a massive finale in Trafalgar Square at 10th July. The previous event has set new world records for the largest number of dancers performed for one track of music. In 2010, the excitement will be more as dancers perform their stunning routine!

May 24th, 2010 by soul4dance

Vail International Dance Festival
The Vail Valley Foundation began to explore and expand its programming concepts in 1989. A four week summer academy named the Bolshoi academy was introduced in 1990 for the American students. Once the course is completed, four American students were allowed to study for a semester at the Bolshoi Academy, Moscow. In 1992, Katherine Kersten was engage a dance professional to direct and develop the project.

In 1993, the first International Evenings of Dance was created which featured couples representing international dance companies. Some of the world’s most popular dancers started performing in this event. Vail International Dance Festival was introduced in 1994. The 2010 Vail International Dance Festival will be held from July 27th till August 10th.

Vail International Dance Festival

Venues:
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater
The Arrabelle at Vail Square, Lionshead Village

Performances: