September 28th, 2011 by soul4dance

Salsa Dance

Salsa dancing has its own twists. Many dancers put their own twist and create routines for the dance programs and competitions. The main criteria is the timing and the beats for a salsa dancer, this has to fall in line with the music and is called ’step timing’ or just ‘timing’.

The timing is the most important archive to achieve the fluid motion in the dance. Since there are many dancers, people opt for showcasing their talents in many ways. These dancers want to be different from each other and so they show their creativity in the clothes their wear or the merging of various styles into their dance.

Salsa can be danced in various styles according to the various beats in the music, as there are numerous timings popular nowadays. Check out this couple dancing!

September 27th, 2011 by soul4dance

MISCONCEPTION 1: Only Latinos and talented dancers can learn salsa

Salsa has become hugely popular internationally in countries like India, China, UK, and Australia. Many of the salsa dancers have normal jobs, you don’t need to be gifted with dance genes or born in a Latino family to learn salsa. The learning process is part of the fun. Joining a dance school is a great way to meet people and you become a part of a close community of friends who share a common interest.

MISCONCEPTION 2: I just feel the music. The music tells me what to do.

This excuse is used by people who are insecure about their lack of technique. They accuse professional dancers for being too technical and not feeling the music. The problem with this kind of thinking is that expressing yourself to the music is only one part of the salsa equation. Salsa is a partner dance not a freestyle solo dance. It’s not just about personal individual expression; it is also an act of connecting with your partner so that you express the music together. This cannot happen when one does not know how to lead/follow.

MISCONCEPTION 3: I don’t need classes; the partner should be able to lead me

Dancing is a partnership work and it should be 50/50. When one person does not know the dance and is untrained then it becomes very hard for one person to do all the work. A good follower is easy to lead and this is where everyone can benefit from classes.

MISCONCEPTION 4: He/She is an amazing dancer therefore they must also be a great instructor

Being a good dancer requires a completely different mindset than being a good instructor. The focus has to go from your own performance and technique to developing the skills of students. A good instructor also needs to be able to think like a beginner and this is very hard as they are unable to understand with students who require more time. When picking a good instructor, don’t look at their ability to dance.

MISCONCEPTION 5: I have to be really good before I can go social dancing

In 2 or 3 lessons with a good instructor is all you need for your first salsa party. It’s okay if you don’t have everything together yet. There are always beginners at every salsa party so there will be no problem to find people on the same level to dance with. The best way to improve is to take what you are learning in salsa classes and apply it on the dance floor. Relax and don’t worry so much about what other people think. Remember salsa above all is about having fun!

August 20th, 2010 by soul4dance

Dream Team launches ‘THE TALENT OF DANCE”

The dream team - Trinidad’s premier force celebration launches the production for carnival 2011

The dream team is going to start their production celebration 2011; the talent of dance tomorrow. This celebration mainly focuses on the most electrifying dances universally. Only the dream team can able to arrest the Trinidad celebration with the variety of cultural background

Director of the Troup Mr. Sumadh said that the Trinidad celebration is now becoming the leading audiences universally. Hence it is significant to highlight it because the dance being the passion of many peoples in the world,additionaly he explained that dance has been favorite for the youth of TT, because there is a completion compared to other talents

SECTION OF DANCE

• SALSA

• SOUKOUSS

• BELLY DANCE

• RIO RIO

• CARRIBEAN

• CHINA

Totally there will be twelve sections in the celebration 2011

The gang is being hosted with the luxurious costume production tomorrow at UWI social club.Mr. Sumadh said that he is more happy that 50 percent of people comes from all over from the world .so he had decided the ““level of playing field” to locate the places more suitable for all of them.

The dream team has number of people’s participation from UWI, COSTATT, UTT, the Mount Hope Medical Faculty and ROYTEC. Students from these academy are permitted to enter the event before 11pm, using their identification cards. All the previous dream team members can collect the ticket today from the section leader at the band today between 3pm to 6pm

Advance booking

Female-$80

Male-$100

So surely the dream team is going to rock tomorrow!

August 16th, 2010 by soul4dance

HAPPY NEWS TO ALL DANCE LOVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baxter’s dance festival has arrived - Europe’s leading dance film carnival.

This month is going to be the cheerful month of all passion dancers, our favourite baxter’s festival is going to start and this year it’s something special -the international flavor has been added .The festival starts from 18 August and it ends up on 21 August 2010.After the screening process the dance festival will be staged after a week.

The baxter dance has organized by cinedans, seems to give many awards for the top choreographers and directors. Nicolette Moses producer of this festival has decided to screen the simple movies from the festival programmes. As in the past the Baxter has specially made a new work to be premiered at the Festival but this year the honor has been given to choreographer Carolyn Holden .The British council have planned to give some sequence of short films which describe about the variety of British dance. It is the first time that an overseas company will appear for the festival and will speak about the baxters dance festival.

Moses said Tanztraume follows the run through process undertaken by legendary fashionable choreographer, Pina Bausch who died a year ago. “Tanztraume serves as an enduring honor to Bausch’s inspired brilliance”and in the last interview of the baush’s gives an incredible and creative process.

Passion - Last Stop Kinshasa chronicle

Moses explains the film not only contains scenes of breath-taking existing dance, but also focuses on the primitive reactions of the viewers. “Finally the film demonstrates the dance as language and culture”.

Tickets-R30

Films-golden arrow studio

August -18-20 - 19h30

August-21 -14h and 19h30

The third week of August sees a different line-up of dance companies each night, the most important evening performance will be performed by Manamela.

The dance lovers can watch some of the South Africa’s finest dancers in action at the carnival. The Festival gives rising for the traditional dance companies and choreographers a professional stage to present their work.

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.

diabolo-the-stage-dance

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.

Dance

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.

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.

Dancing approximately the world in 20 darks

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.

February 4th, 2010 by soul4dance

Vaudevillian Dance Show
For Valentine’s weekend, a show to make the heart pulse, Vaude, a Vaudevillian Dance Show from Hart Pulse Dance Company takes the stage with work from guest choreographers Samantha Giron (Samantha Giron Dance Project) and Rachel Pace plus company choreographers Amanda Hart, Sophie Olson and Holly Fletcher. This dance show is to be held daily from  Feb 12 and February 13, 8:00pm,  February 14, 1:00pm and 6:00pm. 

HPDC: Dance for the heart and soul
Hart Pulse Dance Company is a nonprofit organization currently performing in the Los Angeles areas. Through Contemporary movement,HPDC is eager to bring real dance performed to live music in an uplifting and diverse environment to the masses. By providing affordable tickets and workshops, Hart Pulse Dance Company wants everyone to experience the joy and excitement of movement.
They want all styles of dance, Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Lyrical, Tap, Contemporary and more to be just as popular in Southern California as Hip Hop is! They see a change in taste and want to put our own push forward for these goals.

Location:
The Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90403

Tickets: $17.00
Contact: (661) 755-2182

November 14th, 2009 by Jessy

A small crowd of people got a sneak peek yesterday as part of the Tarerer Festival, which commences today in Killarney.

The Kenbi Dancers, who have traveled from the Top End for the occasion, gave a quick performance to a group of enthralled onlookers at Harris Street Reserve yesterday that involved them hunting a buffalo and even searching between audience members’ legs looking for mud crabs.

The in-demand dance group subsists in a small community of about 175 people at Belyuen, 18 kilometres across the harbour from Darwin.

According to their manager Steve Brown, the dancers love sharing their culture.
“Our big thing is involving the audience and bringing them into dance with us, so everyone is in together, as one,” Mr Brown said.

The Kenbi Dancers are Larrakia people and Mr Brown said their culture was very much active.
“Their language is very strong,” he said. “In their community they have about 10 different languages . . . even among these nine dancers, they might be all from the same family, but they still have two or three different languages.”

“It’s good they can come down (here) to a place where the culture has been broken down over the years and bring their culture, which is really strong, and it may help them to build it up here again.”
The Kenbi Dancers, and many other performers, will perform at the Tarerer Festival today and tomorrow at the Killarney Recreation Reserve.