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Kettlebell Classes with a Celebrity Trainer Malibu, CA
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www.MisfitLA.com Missy B is a celebrity trainer in Malibu, CA who teaches kettlebell classes. Learn kettlebell lifting and other kettlebell exercises with a kettlebell class in Malibu, CA.
Duration : 2 min 33 sec
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Soundcheck spends a day on campus with indie rockers Gym Class Heroes and some very lucky coeds on the Loyola Marymount campus. We ask the boys about their new tour, working with Dr. Dre, and the Pete Wentz connection. Plus, stick around for an amazing performance featuring
tracks from their highly-anticipated new album, 'The Quilt.' Check it out at soundcheck.walmart.com
Duration : 47 sec
Chinese cuisine class – food ingredients
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Quick review on a few Chinese food ingredients taught by our master chef for some of his student chefs. Get a feel of atmosphere and class room experience in at a professional culinary chef school.
Duration : 5 min 9 sec
Pink Ballet Class Pillow
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Dancing Kokopelli Tall Floor Vase
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My name is Juan Ruiz. I learnt Bachata in the USA, many years ago, almost a decade ago. The Bachata I learnt was influenced by the Dominicans, Puertoricans, Mexicans and other Latinos living in Chicago, USA. As it probably happened to you as well, I felt in love with the music and I felt in love with the dance right away.
Listening to Aventuraâs song âObsessionâ or Monchy y Alexandraâs âDos locosâ in the nightclub made me want to grab the first available lady and start dancing close Bachata with her. I learnt the close Bachata movements, I learnt the dips, I learnt the turn combinations, I really thought that I learnt everything that there was to Bachata (Now I know I learnt what is known as Bachata Traditional).
But then it happened that all Bachata dances started to look the same, all the Bachata dances started to feel the same. Lucky me, I wasnât alone on this, other people were experiencing the same dilemmas:
- Bachata is very simple, I donât need to take classes anymore (or start taking classes)
- I know my Bachata step, therefore I donât need to learn new things
- Is there anything else to Bachata?
I watched the salsa dancers get crazy on the dance floor with new combinations, new set of shines, body movements, and I always wondered, why canât I do this with my Bachata? It is then, than on my quest to improve my Bachata skills, I came across dancers/instructors that experienced the same thing that I did, and that have started pushing the boundaries of Bachata.
So I ventured on my journey to improve my Bachata skills. On my trip to the Malaysia Salsa Festival 2008, I met Inaki Fernandez, a Bachata/salsa instructor from Spain. Even though I didnât take his workshop, I observed the way he danced. He did the Bachata traditional step, but then he started adding crosses on different counts of the Bachata beat, I knew then that there was more to Bachata traditional!
It is then that I started working on the Bachata Moderna style with my dance partner back in Sydney, Australia. We didnât focus on styling, we focused on learning the new fundamentals – For a new style to become a style, it has to have a set of fundamentals that can be used on any turn pattern or combination and should be lead-able.
Just by adding the Bachata Moderna fundamentals on my Bachata traditional have made so much difference. Now that I know Bachata Moderna, and I know how to incorporate the Cross on1, Cross on2, Cross on3, Cross Over, the about turn, and other fundamentals, I can enjoy my Bachata dance once again. Bachata is no longer a side to side step with the same type of turn patterns; now I can lead my partner on different directions, I can surprised her with turns, and I can do new things during the song, I can move freely on the dance floor.
As people say âchange is the only constant in the universeâ, Bachata dancing is changing, itâs evolving, and I invite you to try new styles of Bachata, new variations. I thank all the instructors that are pushing the boundaries of Bachata (Inaki, Jorge Elizondo, Tony Lara, Rodney Aquino, Carlos Cinta, to name a few). Thanks to them, Bachata has become a world-known dance style. Now we can enjoy Bachata Tango, Bachata Urbana and other variations, as well as the well known Bachata Traditional and Bachata Dominican style.
Now, I hope to see you dancing more Bachata in the clubs!
Juan Ruiz
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/more-than-just-bachata-a-bachata-dances-instructor-journey-1161291.html
Fairfield, CT Kids Activities
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Things for Fairfield CT kids to do
There are so many wonderful things for Fairfield CT kids to do in their spare time, from library story times and visiting authors to visiting museums and aquariums. Parents in Fairfield CT are very fortunate indeed. This article will highlight just a few of the great options that kids in Fairfield CT have for some fun times.
Fairfield Library Activities
The first of the events listed here is a set of programs sponsored by the Fairfield Library for school aged special needs children there is the Skippers Club that helps build self confidence, fun with other children and learn new skills. On Saturdays the library has Drop in Story Time and at the childrenâs library there is story time and pajama story time. The website for the Childrenâs Library is located at fairfieldpubliclibrary.org.
Fun Factor
If your children are about to have a party then why not think about Clark Horse Farm or Safari Rides and Special Events. There is also Fun Factor which is an indoor activity center that offers kids adventure on an ultimate scale. They have party packages, promotional specials and even outdoor rentals. This would be a great place to take the kids on a just because day as well. Visit the Fun Factor Website at funfactorusa.com for more information.
Crystal Theater
Another great event for Fairfield CT kids is the Crystal Theater this summer has a program running called Be a Star! These are camps that give the kids a multi arts experience. This program is located at the Ben Franklin Theater in Norwalk CT.
Lakeside Pottery and Ceramic School
If your child is arts and crafts lover, then the Lakeside Pottery and Ceramic School is the place to take them so they can let their inner artist out. The childrenâs pottery program is intended to teach the children the art of pottery in a professional studio. The kids will get to work with clay using a real potterâs wheel, as well as being taught hand building techniques. Each class is taught by ceramic artists who give quality learning with lots of fun. Lakeside Potteries website is located at lakesidepottery.com.
New Canaan Dance Academy
If you are a parent of Fairfield CT kids and your child loves to dance then the New Canaan Dance Academy is the place to take them. They offer classes from beginner to the advanced dancer. They teach tap, ballet, Jazz, and even Hip Hop. They teach the children dance form as well as helping them to develop their coordination and rhythmic skills. New Canaan Dance Academy Website is found at ncdacademy.com.
These are just a small listing of the m any fun and exciting programs located in Fairfield CT. Kids w ho live in the Fairfield CT local are always able to explore, do and have fun.
Joanne Castillo
http://www.articlesbase.com/babies-articles/fairfield-ct-kids-activities-958312.html
La classe de danse (The Dancing class) Poster
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La classe de danse (The Dancing class) Poster Degas Ballet Studio Poster Created by Tinkerbella87. Keywords: degas, ballet, studio, poster, ballet posters, la, classe, de, danse, dancing, class
The Ballerina’s Handbook
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The Ballerina’s Handbook – The Ballerina’s Handbook:Join Flora Twinkletoes as she flutters from a first dance class to the final curtain call. Learn about key movements audition advice and classic stories while former English Royal Ballet dancer Kate Ca
The History of Salsa Dancing
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Salsa is a internationally popular dance style that has it’s roots in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and North America. The Word Salsa translates as the world for sauce and also can-notes a spicy flavor hence the sensual aesthetic of the dance.
The origins of salsa start in cuba when African rhythms came to the new world through slave trade in the form of the rumba. The sounds of these ancient times were used to call forth various Gods. Slaves were forced to convert to Christianity but managed to preserve their heritage by using code words to refer to their own Gods. In Cuba, African drum rhythms blended with the cuban official music and dance of Danzon. A style known as the Cuban son emerged and we now start to hear the claves play a central part of afro-cuban music.
Radio Broadcasting came to Cuba in 1922 along with Americans seeking to escape prohibition laws. This exposed a large population of westerners to cuban son and for the first time, afro-carribean music became popular in america. Renamed the Rumba, the music and dancing begin to appear in American salons in the 1930s and is still a popular style today among ballroom dancers. The rumba in many ways looks like a slower version of salsa. It’s got some of the footwork elements, the cuban hip motion, and arm styling.
Even with the Danzon (which has its origins in English social dancing), you can see the beginnings of the basic back and forward break of the basic time step.
In the early 1900s a cuban composer named Orestes Lopez wrote a Danzon piece called Mambo. In 1943, a famous band leader and a friend of Lopez named Perez Prado began to call his own brand of music “Mambo” meaning “conversation with the Gods”. The African influence is clear from the name. Perez’s Mambo was a more upbeat version of the Cuban music that contained big brass and drum sound to it. The story goes that he came up with a dance to go with his Mambo music and introduced the Mambo dance at La Tropicana night-club in Havana in the year 1943. Prado Perez took tour in the United states in 1951 and Mambo became a craze and Perez became known as the famed Mambo King.
The mambo dance first appeared in the United States in New York’s Park Plaza Ballroom – a favorite hangout of enthusiastic dancers from Spanish Harlem. However, the real breakthrough for the Mambo came when it gained its excitement in 1947 at the Palladium which was located in downtown Manhattan. The Palladium opened its doors as a club for whites only. However business was poor and so a Spanish music promoter named Federico Purgani was able to persuade the club owner to book latin music. He agreed but for Sunday matinees only. It opened its doors to Puerto Ricans and Cubans and became a rare spot where whites, blacks, and latinos could come together. From the doors of the palladium, the music and dance style known as the Mambo took America by storm. The palladium era were the glory days of Mambo and the nights were filled with the rhythms of the three Mambo Kings Tito Rodriguez, Tito Puete and Machito. Both of the Tito’s brought a Puerto Rican influence to mambo music and also their fusion of jazz into the Afro-Cuban sound added another wonderful layer of complexity paving the way for a new flavor of latin music that would be later called “Salsa”.
Palladium Mambo and cha-cha was the progenitor of Salsa but is still quite different. It had a lot more open work and the dancers dance on all different beats. There was no dancing on1 or on2 and there was no formalized technique. Dancers of different backgrounds such as ballroom, tap, jazz and swing all danced the mambo a their own way.
May 1966 marked the end of the palladium era as the nightclub closed its doors and the big 3 found their new home inside The Corso. Mambo music was played almost every night of week and it was here that a young Puerto Rican man named Eddie Torres learned how to dance the mambo by watching the dancers in the club. By this time, The mambo had already evolved into a slot dance and the cross body lead was there.
The 1970s gave rise to merengae, early forms of hip hop, disco and the hustle. Which was cool, okay kind of, well, i guess it’s not as bad as boy bands.
Among other aficionados, Eddie Torres kept mambo alive by teaching the dance and standardizing the break step on the 2 and the 6. Torres began to dance on 2 when June Laberta explained music theory to him. Tito Puente Also confirmed to Torres that dancing on 2 was a marriage with the music because the break step synchronizes with the accented slap of the conga drum.
1973 A Puerto Rican named Izzy Sanabria launched a TV show called “Salsa” along with Latin NY Magazine and in 1975, Latin NY Magazine hosted it’s first ever Salsa Awards. Coverage of this event by the N.Y. Times, News-week and Time magazine generated worldwide interest in what seemed to be a new form of music. Some musicians protested the term “salsa” complaining that Izzy was merely putting a new label on Cuban music but in many ways, it was new and had evolved to something unique in its own right.
What was originally of African Cuban origin had found a home in America and adopted by the Latino community of New York. Innovations made by Puerto Rican musicians such as Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe transformed Afro-Cuban based music to a unique New York Latin Music. Modern salsa is something that was evolved here through the fusion of different cultural influences making what some might consider a home grown American phenomenon.
In the 1980s Eddie Torres began to formalize mambo 0n2 and made it something professional dancers could learn by standardizing the basic time step and teaching a repertoire of moves that had names to them. We now call the dance salsa since the term salsa has become internationally accepted to refer to music of African-Cuban origin as well as New York’s Latin music and their dances. Moving salsa education out of the street and into the studio made it much easier for students of the dance to learn spins and as result, the salsa today emphasizes more partner-work and closed position dancing. This is also attributed to the popularity of the hustle in the latino community during and their incorporation the partner-work into salsa, so I guess some good did come out of the disco days after all. Formalizing salsa made the dance much more marketable because it meant it could be taught in a class. Now Studios all around the world offer salsa classes and has become one the most popular social dance styles. There are people dancing salsa in London, Taiwan, Korea, India, even japan.
So in a nutshell, africans were brought over to cuba as a result of the slave trade. Their music blended with that of the cubans and a marriage between the clave and african drums was now formed. Mambo came along much thanks to Perez Parado who took it to america, he introduced the big band sound by adding brass instruments and Americans loved it and so began the glory days of mambo, innovation by New York’s puerto rican musicians added a element of jazz and the sound of the pianos. The music was transformed into what Izzy Sanabria labeled as salsa.
Pereze Parado spiced up Danzon and taught a new more energetic dance called the mambo. The mambo came to the U.S. and incorporated elements of ballroom, swing, jazz, and tap while preserving it’s latin steps. In the 70s, the influence of the partner-work aspect of the hustle left it’s mark on the mambo and was brought off the street and into the studio in the 1980s by Eddie Torres and was now called the salsa.
The history tells a story of a style of dance that is really a fusion of many different cultures and the dance continues to evolve this way today, with the newer generation mixing in components of hip-hop, belly dancing, and adding lifts and aerial moves from ballroom and swing. So now that you know the awesome rich kick ass history of salsa dancing, you’ll be able to go out and dance as a informed individual but more than just filling your head with knowledge and turning you into a salsa brainiac, I hope that this short article has help you gain a new appreciation of our awesome spicy saucy dance known as salsa! Thanks for reading
Todd
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