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This salsa band is awesome!
Pasha!
Here’s a video from SYTYCD this past week, which I didn’t have the opportunity to watch because I was out on Lincoln Center partaking of all the Slo-Mo action. I just love Pasha, though it’s hard, of course, for me to be objective about him. But lack of objectivity aside, oh how great is he!!!! Gray likes him too 🙂 And thanks to Gray for finding this video for me 🙂
"Shasta Cola"
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Was wrong; they are not alternating sequence of dancers – they should; would be far more interesting! I am really enjoying this drag queen guy, Glen Rumsey, or “Shasta Cola.”
Back for more
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Tonight they started on time – 9 pm. Are also alternating sequence of dancers for variety and surprise, tango music of midsummer night swing better accompaniment than last night’s swing.
Janie Taylor!
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It’s way too late… 12:30 a.m. to be exact. Michalek has finally emerged from his cubbyhole and is watching with the crowd. I guess not everyone in New York City Ballet is up in Saratoga for their summer season right now… Janie Taylor, Sebastien Marcovici, and Wendy Whelan are all here.
William Forsythe!
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A favorite choreographer / dancer of mine on the far right screen.
Showtime!
And now doug fox!
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Doug chatting with Tony. It’s nearly 10:00 p.m. Where is Michalek?!
Mika joins the party on the Plaza!
Wingers are ready
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Ariel Davis (a friend I met through The Winger), Tony Schultz (Winger contributor) and me on the Plaza.
Screens are up!
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Screens are up! Waiting for the show to begin.
Ugh!
Oh! Look at what I am missing! Right up my alley 🙂 Am so so SO jealous of anyone going to Jacob’s Pillow this year!
Update: thanks to my wonderful, spontaneous friend (who has not lived in NYC for so long now that she has forgotten how to operate a motor vehicle :)), we are going up after all! Will be seeing Bad Boys as well as Mimulus, a Brazilian company that fuses tango, samba, ballroom, theater, and contemporary dance — right up my alley as well! This is my first time at the Pillow. Can’t wait!