October 4th, 2011 by soul4dance

Best Dance Act and Best Dance Choreographer Announced

The shortlist for the best dance act and best dance choreographers for the BEFFTA awards were announced earlier this week.

The annual Black Entertainment Film Fashion Television and Arts (BEFFTA) awards are to celebrate the achievements of the black and ethnic personalities in the entertainment, film, fashion, television and arts.

Flawless were the voted winners for 2009.

Boy Blue Entertainment bagged the awards in 2010.

The founder of BEFFTA “Pauline Long” said: ‘the nomination process is usually a lengthy and involves intense research but it’s all worth it. You only have to look at the individuals nominated to see that we are a community of very talented and creative people. a lot of the people that have been nominated work very hard behind the scenes and are very talented, these people need recognition for their contribution in the industry and that what BEFFTA is all about.’

The BEFFTA Awards 2011 will happen on the 22^nd of October at the Light House.

Best Dance Act Nominations:

Akai, Boy Blue Entertainment, Dan-Kira, Diversity, Definitives, Flawless, Rhimes Lecointe.

Best Dance Choreographer Nominations:

Anthony Kaye, Glenn Hudson, Johnson (Kid Royal), Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy, Douggie Dan-Kira, Kwame Kight, Tony Adigun.

October 18th, 2010 by soul4dance

This popular and well established event takes place annually during the February half term. Performers from local Midlands’s dance schools compete in a range of categories from Ballet solos to Cabaret groups, over 1000 entries are received for entry to the various categories.

Wyre Forest Dance Festival starts on Sunday 20th February and finishes on Saturday 26th February. It starts at 9.00am and finishes approx. 8.00pm most evenings.

Spectators are invited to come and watch competitors at a charge of £2.50 per person for adults and £1.50 for children and senior Citizens.

Programmes are now available from the Kidderminster Hub at Kidderminster Town Hall or at Stourport Civic Centre for £2 a copy or call 01562 732928.

The festival will come to an end with the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Championships at the end of the week. This is when the adjudicator chooses the best of the competition to enter these championships, with the winner and the runners up receiving trophies.

For more information regarding this event please Amy Smith on 01562 732975.

August 18th, 2010 by soul4dance

Autumn is regarded as one of the best times to hang out Beijing’s park festival, and this autumn is something special .

The 5th Beijing Park Festival started at the biggest royal garden palace today, which skin texture the majestic precincts. Beijing is worthy in its cultural heritage, among its entire culture Beijing stands only for its city culture this was the main reason the royal garden was chosen this year specially said city official Niu Youcheng.

He said during the three-month occasion, a extensive collection of actions will take place in this park festival, including cultural exchange activities. The festival is mainly aimed to wider the culture

OPENING CEREMONY

The executive committee member of the International Relics Council Angela Rojas said, “narration of precincts show us that, even when misunderstanding and horrible aggressions have been occurred, we can take into explanation fine influences and interchanges among diverse cultures.”

A glorious peeking opera dace talented by folk music was staged at the openinng ceremony. Following this opera dance the costume exhibition were conducted.

The citizen and outside members can take part in the various cultural activities while enjoying the autumn throughout the month of October.

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.

Amazing Deligh

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.

December 23rd, 2009 by Jessy

Leaning her body off a steep ledge, a lady dived towards the ground and landed facedown over a blue foam carpet. Running at high speed, a guy evaded a swinging cement cinder block while jumping into the air. This type of dangerous dance is very rare, but STREB is not a normal dance company.

Daredevil is the name of this dangerous dance troupe and the founder of this gang is Elizabeth Streb. While studying dance in university, Elizabeth Streb felt that traditional dance styles didn’t push her body and mind much.

In 1975, Streb started a dance company, later she got a passion of learning a lot about the effect of movement on matter, and so she studied math, physics and philosophy at New York University. Using the utmost physical limits as her canvas, she started to increase her dance routine to farther extreme, using large-scale industrial prop and meticulous, more dangerous, steps. She says, in this way she has a great attraction for the achievements of Olympic athletes.

Their future performance in Vancouver will be the troupe’s first performance on Canada’s west coast. According to Streb, local viewers will never have seen a dance like it before, “This will be a great bold new form of entertainment”

December 12th, 2009 by Jessy

Salsa dancing: Paddy Jones, a 75 years old British grandmother is the winner of Spanish ‘got talent’ show, which is equivalent of “Britain’s Got Talent” show. She won with an amazing gymnastic salsa routines. She stunned audience and judges with her flips, leaps, shimmies, spin and slide, regardless of age.

Jones, who stays in Spain, was originally from Stourbridge in the West Midlands. Actually Jones is a grandmother of seven and she learned salsa dancing five years ago, after the death of her husband.

She came with Nico, 40 years junior dance instructor and performed with a dark and tight dress.The judges were shocked as she blew the crowd away. The pair won $15,000 for their victory.

Jones said to the London Times, “I feel I’m very lucky for what I do and I will continue as long as I can and I’m the living proof to prove that age is not a barrier”.

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.

November 6th, 2009 by soul4dance

Paying respect to late actor Patrick Swayze, dancers in New York City honored him with a posthumous honour for his contribution to the industry. The star, who lost his battle with cancer earlier this year (Sept09), skilled as a ballet dancer before he began his career on Broadway with roles in hit musicals ‘Grease’ and ‘Chicago’.

His fancy footwork helped him to land his breakthrough film role in 1987 movie ‘Dirty Dancing’, reports The Daily Express. Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi, was present at the annual fundraiser for Career Transition for Dancers— a aid organization which helps dancers whose careers have been cut short by injury.

She went to the stage to collect the Rolex Dance Award on Swayze’s behalf. And in a tearful acceptance speech, she said that her husband is now “dancing with the angels.”

November 3rd, 2009 by soul4dance

Doesn’t this sound strange?

The members of the Diamond Dance Company aren’t dancing for money or honor.

They don’t charge for performances, except for a little now and then to help manage their expenses. The rewards come in the forms of applause and tears when they have touched the hearts of the audiences.

These Mormon women are dancing for their God and for themselves, because they have a talent that demands to be shared.

The present 15 members of the dance company come from all over northern Utah County and Heber. They vary in age from 30 to 40 and have more than 50 children between them. They include soccer moms, church leaders, busy wives and community members who have two things in common: firm testimonies of the gospel of Jesus Christ and a love of dance.

It’s like oxygen for them.

“To me, it edifies and grounds the rest of my life,” Marlo Andersen said. “It lets me focus on my Savior as a mother in Zion and a woman in the church.”

Most of the dancers are graduates of BYU’s dance program. After marriage and childbearing, many found themselves starving for the emotional, physical and spiritual fulfillment dancing brings to their lives.

That’s where Diamond Dance comes in.