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SO, okay, this is how this goes. Last year I was really annoying and I always did things I’m really embarassed of. Like once I sang this really stupid song in front of everyone because they told me and I thought they would think I was funny. Anyway I was a big, stupid annoying loser last year. My old school that I went to last year is having a dance tonight and I kinda was thinking of going to see people and this guy who goes to this other school is going and I kinda like him and he said he would dance with me which I kinda want. I’m worried if I go I won’t have anyone to hang out with, or his friends who go to my old school will tell him what an annoying loser I was or say stuff to me. I don’t really have that many friends so I don’t have like a group of friends I could go with and I’m worried I’ll be alone I’m also worried someone will say dumb sht about last year. I’m worried people will tell him he’s dumb for liking me because he’s friends with some of the people last year and he won’t anymore also.
YES he kinda likes me…or at least he told me I was hot and "beautiful" but he doesn’t really know me that well and I can’t hang out with him all night. Also I am worried I’ll get hurt feelings if I see him dancing with other girls. I’m kinda sensitive.

Yes!!! You should go! Im goin to a dance 2 nite to and I was kinda a loser last year too!! Just put that stuff you did behind you and start over. If anyone says stuff about what happened, say you dont want to talk about it or just change the subject. Call some of your friends and ask if they are going, and if they are not, talk to someone you dont knoe that well. maybe you can get to know them and then youll yet another friend!
hope this helps! have fun!!
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Are you planning to learn tap dance? If your answer is yes then the DVD series having tap dance lessons is the perfect means available to learn to tap dance in a time saving manner. The most alluring feature of the tap dance DVD series is that it gives practical guidance to beginners in the tap dance. By opting to the tap dance DVD, one can learn the traditional dance steps of America from the very comforts of personal room.

The DVD series featuring tap dance video give a step by step guidance of how to get started and progress in the tap dance. The tap dance DVD series include exclusive features such as on-screen musical counts which allow the users to learn to tap dance at an extremely fast face. With the inclusion of feature such as split screen camera angles, this DVD series allow the users to check dance poses of instructor from all the sides.

The tap dance DVD series is perfect alternative for busy people having passion for tap dance but cannot attend tap dance classes due to lack of time. With the all new tap dance DVD series, the users can learn the tap dance whenever they get free time in office or at home. Tap dance DVD series serves the purpose of a fitness video by helping in maintaining the body weight of the users who are practicing tap dance via this DVD series.

The most alluring feature of the tap dance DVD Series is that the dance steps in it are narrated step by step by an instructor having sound expertise and skills in making the tap dance learning process easier for the users of the DVD. The tap dance video teaches tap dance in different levels such as basic level, intermediate level and level-3. Basic level is for beginners and intermediate level is for those who have some experience of tap dance. Level-3 of DVD series includes teaching the most famous tap dance steps to the users.

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* The tap dance DVD series features tap dance steps in a clear and slow manner so that the users can recognize how to practice that particular step in tap dance
* The dance movements of the instructor in the tap dance DVD series can be viewed from varied angles i.e. from back and side so as to get into depth of how the instructor is performing the tap dance steps.
* The dance steps in the tap dance DVD series are repeated several times so as to make the user follow properly the moves in a particular tap dance step.
* The dance video in the tap dance DVD series includes “music-only” feature thereby excluding background noise which can distract the users mind.
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The tap dance DVD series is exclusively made of state of the art technology so as to provide an excellent source of learning tap dance to the tap dance lovers. The manufacturers of the tap dance DVD series have made use of ProTools so as to provide advanced teaching methodology of tap dance to all its users. The tap dance DVD series is based on a region free format i.e. it can be provide assistance to both local and foreign audience in tap dance lessons. So, tap dance DVD series is an affordable alternative to tap dance schools so as to learn tap dance with an ease.

Eli Newsom
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In the brothels and slums of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, a fusion of Spanish, Uruguayan, and African dance and music styles created the tango, the famous and sensual dance of Argentina.

It was a social dance, based heavily on improvisation and formed around close, almost intimate interaction; the communication between partners must be impeccable, because the dance has no set patterns and no “basic step” from which to build. However, it was not necessarily a sensual or sexual expression; there were men-only tango clubs.

European immigrant communities in Argentina in the 1890s picked up on the music, which was initially just one of many styles that went by the name “tango.” It swiftly became the fad of the underclass, who danced in crowded halls, leading to a close-contact and casual dance style. The tango music became the most popular in Argentina, comprising more than a third of all the gramophone records and sheet music sold between 1902 and 1920.

By 1912, the music and dance had begun to spread from the barrios to the middle-class and even upper-class dancing establishments and nightclubs across Argentina. From there the craze spread swiftly to Paris, London, and Berlin, where they were danced with less intimate contact between the partners. In Finland, the dance found a new home and expression, played in minor keys and performed in flowing, horizontal patterns, now known as Finnish Tango; it grew to the height of its popularity in the 1950s. In English Tango the dance evolved into a competitive ballroom style, heavily structured and with strict codes that introduce a more staccato movement not seen in Argentina, as well as the head-snap movement often seen in film. New York tango performers modified the dance to a wider embrace as well.

Meanwhile in Argentina, the dance became heavily associated with Carlos Gardel’s Mi Noche Triste, a song of tragic love. The music in the 1920s was taken up by classical musicians who gave it a more complex and elegant flavor, and slowed the tempo. Then it fell out of favor during the 1930s and 1940s, only to revive again along with the nationalist fervor of Argentina’s Perón years. Rock and Roll music, along with economic struggles in Argentina, dealt it another blow, and it steadily declined in popularity until finally enjoying a resurgence in the 1980s.

In the 1990s, the emergence of electronic and world music gave the tango a new twist. Combining jazz elements with popular music from artists such as Gotan Project, Tom Waits, and Portishead, Tango Neuvo has appealed to an entirely new generation of dancers. This style was the result of a structured analysis of the physics and kinesiology of tango, which emphasized the axis of turn and directional changes. Practitioners of this style, as well as the more traditional forms, have brought the dance from Argentina to new dance hubs such as San Francisco and Chicago. Today in Buenos Aires, there are dance competitions that host Argentine Tango performers from all over the world.

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John Parks
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My friends had a sweet sixteen party and like no one showed up or danced. How do I make sure that doesn’t happen to me? And any ideas???

My neice hired bands from the local town and invited all her friends (about 15 people) told them to bring someone with them. We had food, pics (they paid 5 dollars for a print out) and had to get the sound. If you can get the band and the sounds, I think everyone will make it. Have FUN!!!

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Bali is the home for unique culture and tradition.
Bali is the home for unique culture and tradition, where here the most magnificent culture and tradition are born and keeping well. Balinese people are very creative person in every thing in their daily life activities. The people know with their talent in art like painting, sculpture, gambelan Instrument, drama, kakawin, dances wayang, and many other that if we explained that lot of thing that we can find about the art in Bali.

Dances are one of them where in Bali there are lots of dances which we can find. Basically dance is created by people who inspirited to the nature and legend of god where their implemented in the form of dance, but some of the sacral dance is created automatically came when they doing the tradition ceremonial like upakara and spontaneity having a trances and dance followed the Gambelan instrumental. Balinese dances can divide in two kind the first one is the dance which including to the sacral dance where this dances are only performance and has religious connection to traditional ceremonial day like in a temple, and the second one is the Wali Dances where this dance is including to the entertainment performance dance which the function to entertainment.

Legong dance.
Legong dance is one of Wali dance which function to performance entertainment, historically this dance is develop in Keraton-keraton in Bali at 19 century the idea of this dance is starting when a prince from Sukawati ubud (gianyar regency) that had the illness hard dream and see two beautiful girls dancing with the graceful accompanied by the beautiful Gambelan. When the prince recovered from the illness, the dreams that he had are set in the repertory dance complete with the gamelan. The legong dance basically is a dance which has complicate structure in body, eyes movement. Legong came from the word “leg” which means the complicate movement from body, foot, hand and eyes. And gong means gambelan so legong is a dance in complicate movement body from the dancer which followed with the instrumental Gambelan which calls Gambelan Semar Pegulingan. At the beginning this dance are dancing with two girl which is had not menstruation yet, virgin and dancing in the yard of Keraton down in the moon light and bring out Kipas (fan) and in the development it had a additional dance which call condong the other structure of this dance are papeson, pangawak, pengecet, dan pakaad.

In beginning of 20 century this dance had lost it popularity because there is new dance creation which made. So there is some effort done to awakenings this dance for the example dug all the ancient documents which typing about the Legong dance, find senior Legong dancer to learn and practice, doing performance in important places such as art center, hotels, villas and even thought to all over the globe word so this dance knowing and survival. Our company offering you some luxary villas and boutiqe hotel for a place while staying in Bali and having long holiday and enjoyed all the Balinese dances including the Legong dance. 

Kinds of legong dance.
There are many kind of legong dance which these dance take some theme which presented in dance here some kind of legong dance:
•    Legong Lasem (Kraton)
•    Legong Jobog
•    Legong Legod Bawa
•    Legong Kuntul
•    Legong Smaradahana
•    Legong Sudarsana
Each of those dance are has the own characteristic like legong lasem it tell about the stories from prabu lasem which kidnap the princess from Daha, legong jobog it tell about the stories from Sugriwa and Subali from Ramayana epos, Legong legod bawa it tell about the stories from competition Dewa Dewa Brahma and Vishnu when searching for the secret commemorative Dewa Syiwa, Legong Kuntul narrate a pair of heron, which occupied sociality, and Legong Sudarsana tok the stories about Calonarang.

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Just Dance is a great new single by Lady GaGa and is currently one of the most popular songs in North America. It is getting lots of radio airplay and is one of the top downloads on iTunes. The music video is also very popular and can be seen on MTV or YouTube. The Just Dance Ringtone by Lady GaGa is one of the hottest ringtones in the world right now and is an awesome choice for your cell phone. The Just Dance Realtone is one of the top ringtones in the world right now according to the Billboard Hot RingMasters Chart. The song has also performed well on the Billboard Hot 100 and is also rising up music charts around the world such as the Canadian Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart.

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Jim McEwan
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World Dance Champion, successful Winner of Come Dancing (in the eighties) and winner of strictly come dancing are their advertising quotes. We have proved successfully that last one was an out and out lie. The links below also do not list the teacher. So any other search suggestions would help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Ballroom_Dance_Champions; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Latin_Dance_Champions; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_10_Dance_Champions

At one time some dance forms (and sports) were split strictly into professional and amateur, both with their own championships. Any professional activity or sponsorship lost you your amateur status – which was a very serious matter as you couldn’t compete in the normal championships and competitions.

I know someone who can claim quite legitimately that she was fourth in the world ice dance championships, in the 70s – but this was the professional championships with very few competitors, very little publicity, and not a lot of respect outside the small world involved.

Perhaps it is something like that. However if you know they have lied over one thing, you may well be right over the others.

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Copyright (c) 2007 Jess Harley

If the only time you dance is at weddings, you have no idea what you are missing out on. First of all not only is dancing fun, it is also exercise! Think about your moving your feet, your arms, your twisting away and giving yourself a full body workout. Ever noticed how sometimes the day after a wedding, your body is a little sore, especially if you do not workout before hand? Celebrities, who take part in Dancing with The Stars, have reported an increase in weight loss. The most traditional way of getting a good dancing workout is to turn on some music and let yourself go and boogie down. It is also an excellent way to incorporate some bonding time with your kids too if you included them. There are days when Ill turn on the radio and me and my daughter will just dance our feet off.

There might be some of you, who are looking for something a little more structured and instruction. Not to worry there is something for you also. Gyms all around the world are starting to offer dancing classes. Starting off there is Cardio Salsa. This class if offered at The Crunch gyms nationwide or you can look for it on DVD. It is a low impact high intensity workout that combines the hottest Latin dances such as the cha-cha, mambo, samba and more with traditional dance steps such as the grapevine, lunges and arm raises. What women are loving about this workout is that they can take what they learn on the videos or classes and take it to a night club if they want to!

Cardio Capoeira is also becoming another popular dance workout. It was featured briefly on the cool down segments of the hit exercise video Turbo Jam, but has come out on its own as a great workout. In fact for fans of the hit Movie Oceans 12 might remember it being featured as the Night Fox dodges the lasers to get to the goods, or you might remember Catherine Zeta-Jones using a similar dance in the movie Entrapment. Cardio Capoeira is a basically a form of martial arts that is disguised as dancing. It was used to train Brazilian slaves martial arts without letting their captors know. It requires a lot of kicking, spinning and even cartwheels. What makes this workout so powerful especially on your buttocks and quads is the move the ginga which links one movement to the next so you will find yourself doing this often.

Cardio Striptease is another dance workout that is sweeping the nation. There are a number of DVDs out that offer a cardio striptease workout. This routine is part burlesque, part yoga, and part gymnastics. There are no concise steps and the whole point of the routine is to allow you to move freely and beautifully and learn to express yourself. You never have to worry about holding any sort of poses but move from one move to another by using slow moving hip and butt circles. The aim of this workout is to tone the hips, buttocks, thighs calves and abs.

Of course you can always go the more traditional route and sign up for ballroom dancing classes which will still give you a great workout. Which ever one of these you choose, you will burning fat and calories while having a great time. You wont even know you are exercising, thats how much fun you will have.

Jess Harley
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/dance-your-way-fit-257716.html

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hi..

i dun need any ryt nw !!

bt it wud be nad anywyas !!

good day..

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New York is not the only home to entertainment in the form of theatre, Hong Kong is fast becoming the major Asian theatrical hot spot. And glitzy Broadway musicals are the rave for many.

For those who can only dream of watching a musical on Broadway, Hong Kong offers high class performances of some of the most famous Broadway hits. Those include Andrew Lloyd Webber show stoppers such as ‘Phantom of the Opera’, and CATS a musical seen by over 60 million people world wide.

Other big theatre crowd pullers include musicals that have won the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning stage plays. The famous ‘Sound of Music’ musical recently celebrated 45 years in Hong Kong theatre. Saturday Night Fever as well as the musical Mamma Mia based on the hits by the Bee Gees, have all made their debut on this Asian stage.

Apart from the musicals, Hong Kong also has a cultural side to its performances. This is mainly embodied in its offering of Chinese Opera. This art form which is thousands of years old still lives on in a variety of performances. The old has now been fused together with drama as well as dance, which exude with rich Chinese legends and their hidden symbolic meaning.

For tourists the Chinese Opera is a great introduction into oriental Chinese culture.

Dance is another art form in Hong Kong that takes on many different representations. For new comers to Hong Kong and especially lovers of Asian dance and drums, the city offers something for everyone. Travelers could choose from attending classical ballet or try out some contemporary entertainment in the form of modern Chinese Dance. Hong Kong is the Asian hub of entertainment, and while it hosts many troupes from the West and other parts of Asia, it is also home to many talented local dance groups.

An event that should not be missed when in Hong Kong is the city’s salsa festival. The festival stretches across a week from morning till evening, and caters to the interests of absolute beginners to experts in the dance form. It is often said that just a visit to the festival is enough to want to want to engage in salsa for life. Tourists could learn from experts how to salsa, which always heightens the experience of the festival. It’s a virtual non stop party for a week comprising of dance workshops, parties at clubs, as well as the staging of the Asian Salsa Open Championships.

With all the excitement that Hong Kong has to offer, it also has some amazing accommodation for travelers of any budget.  A bit of pampering at a hotel Hong Kong is just the thing to add the perfect touch to an interesting day. The Langham Hong Kong is a luxury hotel with exquisite grandeur that is the envy of the rest. The luxury Hong Kong hotel rooms here are decorated in a simple colonial style and overlook landscaped gardens or the city’s famous sky scrapers that glisten from a distance on a clear night, making for a perfect view.

Naveen Marasinghe
http://www.articlesbase.com/exotic-locations-articles/theatre-and-dance-in-hong-kong-an-art-form-waiting-to-be-discovered-1281608.html

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