My friend, Jack I learned just recently of the passing of a dear friend, Jack Duddy. I feel bad or at least sad that I had not learned of his death earlier. He went to big floor February 25, 2010 at the young age of 80. It is in many ways indicative of much of […]
Now that Dancing with the Stars has started, it is a good time to look back and see what has happened with So You Think You Can Dance and how that might relate. As I occasionally travel and speak to dancers, teachers, and professionals in studios and at competitions there is no doubt that Dancing […]
The success of Dancing With the Stars, the start of another season of So You Think You Can Dance continue to help the dance industry as a whole. Watching Kristi Yamaguchi get 90 out of 90 won’t help, but Steve Gutenberg telling you its great fun certainly does. The fact is many people still stay […]
A large part of my career in the dance industry has always involved teaching. Though many people may say they still teach, there is considerable difference between teaching Mary and Joe Average Student or Teacher who have limited means and opportunity and being the Coach du Jour providing valuable insight to a competing couple who […]
A few things remain apparent as the Dancing With the Stars season ended. The show does in fact continue to draw bigger and bigger stars. In size as with Pen Jillette and Jason Taylor, in pure face recognition as with Priscilla Presley and Steve Guttenberg and with pinnacle achievements as with Kristi Yamaguchi and Monica […]
It is certainly been my privilege to be able to speak to and work with many dance instructors and professionals over the years, and through all the years I have met so many people; most of them regular folk. Some were introduced to this business through family, others simply because they were looking for a […]
Season 5 of Dancing With the Stars is over. Helio Castronevos, of Indy 500 racing fame with team mate Julianne Hough danced past the very “spicy” Melanie Brown and her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Certainly another athlete winning offers support for those that consider ballroom dancing a sport and not art. The physical strength, dexterity and […]
In today’s age where we have a resurgence in the popularity of dancing and where stars are again dancing on TV as they did on the Arthur Murray Dance Party show in the 50’s, it seems a bit sad that the passing of one of the industry’s leaders, George B Theiss, did not bring more […]
This year’s United States National Latin Dance Championships were held at the Royal Pacific Resort and Ballroom at Universal Studios, Orlando. Twenty-seven couples were vying for their chance to win, place or just show up for the title of United States Champion. This is not to say that there are only twenty-seven couples qualified to […]
I will start by saying that I am not old enough to have been in the business when lifetime courses were sold. I was, as a young teacher however, in a market where a number of lifetime students were still around. I taught quite a few of those students and was duly impressed that these […]
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