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More Ballroom Stuff
Woo hoo, my cable is up. At least for these five seconds. Quickly, before it crashes again, here are my Explore Dance articles on Columbia’s Starry Night Winter Showcase and the Dance Times Square in-house comp. Oooh, maybe I can even get my Ailey review up if I hurry…
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Yet More Slavik & Hanna (& Katusha & Arunas!)
Here’s a lovely set of Flickr photos of Columbia U.’s Starry Night Winter Showcase, taken by someone with a much superior camera to my own! Enjoy!
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Mercedes Ellington, Broadway, Dance Times Square Student Comp
So, on Saturday, because Tony Meredith and Melanie LaPatin are in Canada choreographing for Canadian So You Think You Can Dance, Mercedes Ellington took over emceeing responsibilities at the Dance Times Square student / teacher in-house competition. It was interesting seeing her emcee since she talked a lot about the various musical pieces played…
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Superstars of Dance To Premiere on NBC in January
Yet another TV dance competition show. Read about it here.
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People are going to hate me for this…
People are going to hate me for this… Originally uploaded by swan lake samba girl via mobile. T-Mobile On a scale of one to ten, Hanna is a ten, Slavik a 20000. In other words, no match. No match at all. I’m seriously depressed. Update:Â Now that I’m home, I’m re-thinking this. I just think…
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At columbia
At columbia Originally uploaded by swan lake samba girl via mobile. T-Mobile There’s a Sikh guy warming for tonight’s after-show comp. Never seen that before. College ballroom’s so different, so open. Wish it existed when I was in school.
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Crazy Weekend of Ballroom and Books
Busy busy weekend for me. Today is Dance Times Square’s student in-house competition which I’m not participating in but am covering for Explore Dance. Ditto for tonight’s Starry Night Winter Showcase, part of Columbia University’s Big Apple DanceSport Challenge, where Slavik Kryklyvyy and Hanna Karttunen will perform! Slavik is my favorite Latin dancer and I…
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Reminder: Slavik & Hanna at Columbia
Just a reminder that Slavik Kryklyvyy and Hanna Karttunen will be performing at Columbia University’s Big Apple Dancesport Challenge on December 6th! Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova will dance as well. Tickets range from $30 to $85 (for front row seating), but it looks like tkts on the cheaper end are selling out.…
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I Love Cody Linley Beyond Words…
So this week, each contestant does two dances — one Standard, one Latin — and in the Latin routine each must do a 15-second solo. Hmmm. Cody & Edyta: Cody’s still dancing with Edyta. I hope Julianne is okay. They bring his (TV?) friends on to say how hot Edyta is, how cool their routine,…
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Slavik Must Dance!
Yesterday I went to see a play about choreographer George Balanchine (which I’ll post about as soon as I have time; I have about 10,000 things to write about and that’s really not much of an exaggeration). My ballroom friend, Mika, came with me, which was wonderful because I hadn’t seen her in a…
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Val & Val Split, US 2nd in Internationals
In the ballroom world, DanceBeat reports that Valentin Chmerkovskiy and Valeryia Kozharinova, current reigning US Latin amateur champs, have split. They just competed at Internationals, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London last Thursday, placing in the semifinals in Amateur. The U.S., predictably, took home two second-place trophies in Pro: Riccardo Cocchi and Yulia…
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New National Latin, Standard & Smooth Champs
So, the results of the USDC are as I expected: Riccardo Cocchi and Yulia Zagoruychenko new Latin champions, Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova new Ballroom. Jonathan Roberts and Valentina Kostenko beat J.T. Thomas and Tomas Mielnicki in Smooth, so we have new winners there as well. And Jose DeCamps and Joanna Zacharewicz remained Rhythm…