Archive for the ‘Ballroom Dance’ Category
Monday, March 17th, 2008
The 9th March was our debut ballroom competition in Perth. We have only did ballroom and New Vogue - latin lessons start in a few weeks. We have to dance in "street" dress in Level 1 (E Grade) here which is a bit of a pain - ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
The HubLove Contest has proved strangley compelling the daily topics are varied but they seem to put all the one's I'm interested in on the days I work 12 hours and then do dance practice! So initally I struggled with "football" and "Chicago", "health" was better - but then ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
For those of you who need to do a bit of dancing to get over the holiday season over indulgences check out these articles:
Competitive Ballroom Dancing - Dancesport
Preparing for a Dance Competition - Step by Step
Competitive Wheelchair Dancing
Some excellent videos in all of these - unfortunately if you are on ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Well we've decided to get back into competition in ballroom dancing aka Dancesport. We danced our last competition in February 2007 a the Masters Games in Wanganui, New Zealand. Officially we quit because we were going overseas, but as far as I was concerned we quit because we ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
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Well we spent all day and night on Sunday watching the WA Open - which is their biggest competition of the year. Very slick operation - lots of sponsorship - they even get $12k a year from the WA government! Hardly surprisingly the standard was very high especially in the ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Well OK we only watched, but it was an interesting trip which did get us both thinking about getting into competition again. The location was a function centre which seemed to have a resident studio and came complete with a bar, parquet floor, and a glitter ball (in order ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Well the short answer is that you can do a social Rock&Roll, Swing Latin Ballroom, Swing New Vogue dance very weekend in Perth. We went to a local bowling club and in about 2 hours learnt the rockabilly, the El Paso, Shadow Salsa and a line dance waltz ...
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
We arrived in Mildura and headed to the Visitors Information Centre - to pick up the generally excellent local maps and info they all hand out for free. Under the "local attractins" stand I found a flyer for Old Time Friday Night Dance, checked with Paul's sophisticated watch and ...
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
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This is one of my favourite dresses and I have never actually got a photo of it - so thought I better before we go away and I loose lots of weight and have to get a new one made - damme!
We are dancing the NZ Masters Games in ...
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
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We competed in the local Wellington Capital City dance competition yesterday. This was the 1st competition we competed in when we started dancing together - 9 years ago ! There were quite a few beginners at their first competition - but they all seemed a lot more confident than ...
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