September 2011
31 posts
Beautiful Dance Created by Paolo Santos for His...
The DANCER - Caroline Sicard by Paolo A. Santos
This is a dance reel I created for my wife Caroline Sicard. She is a professional classically trained dancer. She worked with Les Grands Ballet Canadiens in Montreal and she was part of the original cast that performed till the very end with Celine Dion and Franco Dragone’s ” A New Day” show in Las Vegas. Currently she works...
August 2011
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3 Keys to Dealing With Life's Curveballs:Trust,...
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Being Patient through Transformation: Trust, Change, Believe
Editor’s Note: This is a contribution by Andrea Johnson
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” ~Charles R. Swindoll
Ever noticed a chrysalis hidden within its cocoon? The final few moments before it emerges as a butterfly compose what science terms...
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Leaps and Bounds: Improving Dance Jumps
Leaps are one of the greatest thrills in dance. Professional dancers appear to defy gravity as they soar through the air. Some people seem to have a natural ability for jumping, whereas some have to work at it a little harder. Most leaps in dance require tremendous strength and coordination to execute correctly. However, practice makes perfect. Following are some tips to help you improve your...
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Michael Stylianos, Latin Dancer & '80's Advisor to...
Michael and Lorna Stylianos have been full time professionals since 1965. Together they enjoyed a fruitful competitive career. Never dancing as amateurs and during the short span of eleven years, they won and successfully defended all major professional Latin American Titles. After their competitive retirement they continued to appear in cabaret and were much in demand worldwide. They have...
Technology and Kids: The Good and Bad Effects on...
Over the last two decades technology has grown at a tremendously fast rate and continues to progress rapidly. Today’s children are presented with technology at a young age; they essentially do not know a world that is not electronically connected or without digital gadgets.
Children today will be the leaders of tomorrow and technology provides the foundation to plan and progress. Using...
Find Where Your Friends are Sitting with...
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WatchAnna Pavlova - The Dying Swan
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Spring Waters - Very beautiful lifts and choreography.
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Lyudmila Bogomolova & Stanislav Vlasov Music: Sergei Rachmaninov Choreography: Asaf Messerer
dancers pictures
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Decorating for Autumn →
The children are back in school and the leaves are changing colors- it must be autumn. This is the perfect time to welcome the season with some new decor ideas. Enjoy the crisp air and take…
Edinburgh festival 2011: National Ballet of...
The centrepiece of the international festival’s opening weekend has been the National Ballet of China, performing a sumptuous adaptation of The Peony Pavilion, a classic Chinese tale of love lost, then mystically regained.
Adaptor and director Li Liuyi, choreographer Fei Bo and producer Zhao Ruheng talk to Andrew Dickson about the piece and the company’s tumultuous history, and...
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IF FIRE WERE WATER
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this is far too mesmerizing not to reblog
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Fred or Gene? For Them There was No Contest
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly were two of the greatest dancers in history and the debate over who was the better dancer continues.
In reality there was never any serious competition between the two Masters. They were very good friends, and often had to bear much nonsense concerning their so-called rivalry. They always insisted they were different as chalk and cheese, and Cyd Charisse, when asked...
Could Dance Be an Olympic Sport? →
At Right - Meryl Davis and Charlie White
My favorite event in the Winter Olympics is figure skating. And since figure skating is probably the closest Olympic sport to dancing, it holds…
Ballet in Film: Australian Series "Dance Academy"
Posted on August 8, 2011 by ClassicalBalletTeacher
If you liked Center Stage, you’ll love the Australian series Dance Academy, which follows heroine Tara Webster (Xenia Goodwin) from her rural home to the fictional National Academy of Dance in Sydney. In each episode, Tara faces (mostly) believable challenges as she pursues her dream of becoming a principal ballet dancer. A former big fish in a...
Warming Up and Cooling Down: Important Part of Any... →
Whatever type of dance class you take, warming up and cooling down are as important as the dance class itself. Sometimes warming up and cooling down are left up to the individual dancer, and…
Which Dance School is Right For Your Child? Some... →
When you have planned for your child to enroll him/her in a dance class, the choice of dance studio may be a bit taxing for you. Choosing a dance studio best for child can sometimes become…
Alphabet of Happiness
Authur Unknown
A—Accept
Accept others for who they are and for the choices they’ve made even if you have difficulty understanding their beliefs, motives, or actions. B—Break Away Break away from everything that stands in the way of what you hope to accomplish with your life. C—Create Create a family of friends whom you can share your hopes, dreams, sorrows, and...
The Best International Dance Schools
At Right - One of The Royal Ballet School Studios
There are thousands of dance schools and repertoires that offer dance styles from ballroom to ballet, from the Royal Ballet School in London to the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet that feeds the Mariinsky Ballet Company and the famed Bolshoi. Other notable names include the Paris Opera Ballet School and the Royal Danish Ballet School.
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Highlights from The Vail International Dance Fest
Nel Shelby Productions of International Evenings of Dance at The Vail International Dance Festival(@vaildance) Website
Maintaining a "Ballet for Figure Skaters Program"
By Annette T. Thomas
Coaches and ballet instructors from all over the world have asked numerous questions on how to start and maintain a ballet program at their rinks. This is a compilation of suggestions and ideas which I have used over the years in helping others to form a viable ballet program for figure skaters. Of course every skating club is run differently and some of the issues and...
Fanny Brice: The Original Funny Girl
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn’t get serious with people. They don’t expect it from you, and they don’t want to see it. You’re not entitled to be serious, you’re a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.” — Fanny Brice
A Funny Girl remake was supposed to debut in early 2012, but was put on indefinite hold. Lauren Ambrose had won the...
From Gangs to Ballroom: The Apache Dance
Created by a street gang just before 1900, the Apache was a brutal dance. Stylized into a ballroom exhibition dance, it influenced modern performing arts. At the turn of the century, the Montmartre district of Paris was home to a very dangerous street gang. After a horrific fight between three gangmembers, a French journalist referred to the gang as “Apaches,” believing that the Native American...
WatchGreat Video Showing the Similarity of Ballet and Figure Skating
WatchVia The Huffington Post
New Yorkers often say that nothing surprises them. But we’re willing to bet that even the most hardened city dwellers were downright amazed by this impromptu performance by an MTA construction worker who’s a dead ringer for Frank Sinatra — all the way down to his crinkled blue eyes. “Forget all the noise, traffic and the impact of the 2nd Ave....
Searching for Happiness? Look Within
Happiness. The one thing everybody regardless of race, religion and level of wealth seems to be striving for - but only the few achieve. It is easy to envy people who seem to have been dealt a better hand in life, however you can almost certainly guarantee that those seemingly fortunate people envy others who they perceive to be having a better time. The people who are being envied are in turn...
