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.

February 18th, 2009 by soul4dance

“Balanchine and Bujones” was a program launched by Orlando Ballet Company on Friday with elating dance by the two B’s George Balanchine and Fernando Bujones. In spite of the change of directors and economic recession, the new director of the Orlando Ballet Robert Hill made it a HIT.
The first half showcased George Balanchine’s light and moody ballet and the second half was taken over by best of Fernando Bujones comprehensive compilation. It was tough for the audience to decide who the best was, whether it was George Balanchine the greatest choreographer of the 20th century or Fernando Bujones the magnificent dancer who restructured Orlando Ballet Company.
The show began with George Balanchine’s Valse Fantasie, a Balanchine style with flying footwork and meltingly elegant arms to the pulse of Mikhail Glinka’s music, which will make our hearts, melt. Balanchine’s grand Gershwin-suite style showcased his talent as his touch of speed and embraces the classical Russian ballet, which testifies it to be the American ballet.
Bujones Clair de Lune, a lyrical duet accompanied by Jacqueline Compton and performed with piano onstage gave the show a poignant touch.

George Balanchine the greatest choreographer of the 20th century