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Dance Times Square Outing to Latin Quarter
Last night I went with Dance Times Square on their holiday party outing to the Latin Quarter, a salsa nightclub in midtown on the east side, near Grand Central. It was fun — I haven’t social danced in a really long time! Do think I might have hurt my knee though. How, I have…
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Christmas is Coming…
…and it’s getting cold! Which I hate. Cold makes me think of death. Although, I was just skimming my newish Complete New Yorker (which I won by taking one of those New Yorker marketing surveys — people actually do win those!) and I ran across a review from 1988 by Arlene Croce of Edward…
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Dance Times Square Showcase, Etc.
I meant to write about this yesterday but took the day off from writing when I got a pleasantly unexpected invitation from Lucky Broadway Girl to see a play! Imagine that: words, actual words spoken on a stage! Hehe, I used to go to plays all the time but kind of stopped when I…
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Dance Times Square Showcase
Dance times square showcase Originally uploaded by swan lake samba girl via mobile. T-Mobile Theatre is totally packed. Was never like this when i danced!
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Hustling With the Stars (Updated)
Can you guys believe I just now watched last week’s Monday night episode? Too busy… I’m now four posts behind (have play, opera, San Fran Ballet, and reading to blog about, and after tonight, DWTS, and Broadway thingy); I have no life outside of dance… I had to watch the tape so that I could…
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Hula class in fall for dance lounge
Hula class in fall for dance lounge Originally uploaded by swan lake samba girl via mobile. T-Mobile You need rhythm to do this dance! It’s kind of samba-y. And, as the class went on, I realized it was kind of Hip Hop-py as well. Not what I was expecting. Fun but hard.
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NY in the Summer
The other night, despite my headache, I went out to Lincoln Center to see Midsummer Night Swing — not to participate, just to check out its new location at Damrosch Park (it’s usually held on the Lincoln Center Plaza but with all the construction, they relocated it for this summer). I think it’s actually a…
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Dancing With the Stars Finale and Dance Times Square Showcase
I don’t have a lot of time to write since I have a bizillion and a half things to do before Blackpool (which I leave for in two days!), so I’ll be brief. I thought DWTS’s season finale was the best ever. The remaining three are all really good, far better than prior contestants, and…
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Step it up and … Finally … Dance!
Finally, for the first time last night, I liked the new Bravo show “Step It Up and Dance.” I felt like it was finally about dance. The camera actually showed me the dancers’ bodies, not just their faces as they made angry or odd expressions or ranted against someone. It’s probably the hip hop —…
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Ballroom Dance Schools
I’ve received several emails lately from people asking me which ballroom dance schools I’d recommend in the New York area (and one person asked me about California, but unfortunately, I’ve no idea what the best schools out there might be). So, I figured I’d just write a post about it, and if anyone has other…
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Happy Fiftieth Birthday to the Greatest Dance Company in the World!
Today marked the beginning of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 18-month-long fiftieth anniversary celebration. I was unable to go to the performance since I was at the trial, but fortunately for me — for all of us! — they have events happening throughout the next year and a half, both in NY and…
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Carnival in Tribeca!
I didn’t get around to going to the real Carnival this year, so this weekend I went with a couple of friends, Kathy and Alyssa, down to the Lafayette Bar & Grill in Tribeca for a little end-of-Carnival Samba party. It was hosted by a Samba meet-up group I joined a while ago but…