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Black History Month Celebrated Through Dance at the White House
The Obamas kicked off 2016’s Black History Month with a dance celebration in the White House. First lady Michelle Obama lead the event that invited 51 young black women to participate in a day of dance workshops and to showcase their talents. The dancing students were chosen from the Washington ...
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Live Music in Orange County
Appreciating Live Music in Orange County Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about appreciating the arts, but I feel that it is important for there to be a supportive community for live music that includes local and non-local artists. Plus how could I be encouraging you to be doing these ...
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How to Recover from a Dancing Mistake
This past week, there has been a lot of hype about the Super bowl half time show. Coldplay was the main performer, while Beyoncé and Bruno Mars appeared as special guest. Like any performance, some people were impressed and others, not so much. I personally loved the dance battle between ...
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Do Dance Competitions Elevate or Deflate the Dance World?
Dance competitions have become more and more popular over the years and can be found for all different styles of dance. I’ve participated in my share of dance competitions including two separate dance competitions this week alone! I’ve also been a judge in dance competitions. I personally have mixed feelings ...
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Grease Live: A Musical Theater Performance
A few weeks ago I encouraged you all to go see a live performance. On January 31st, more than 17 million people viewed in to watch Grease Live on Fox and I was pleased to be one of them. That’s right, Fox put the iconic movie Grease the musical into ...
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Get the Most Out of Your Dance Lessons
Optimize Your Dance Lessons As a Bella Ballroom dance instructor, I’m thankful for the time I get to work with students every week as they make strides towards their dance ambitions. As adults, our schedules can become so full that it can be challenging to include the activities that we ...
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Inspirational Dance: Gabe Adams
This week I read an article about an inspirational boy who was born without any legs or arms. Gabe Adams, 17, expresses himself through dance and auditioned for his high school dance team as a sophomore and made it along with 28 girls last spring. Dance instructor, Kim King gave ...
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Most Romantic Dances
Most Romantic Dances Dance has always been the perfect vehicle for romance and with February 14th approaching, love is in the air. Valentines Day is the perfect time to take a look at some of the top romantic dances that have been captured on film. Ultimately people dance because it ...
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Watching A Live Performance: Appreciating Dance
One of the many things I have an appreciation for is watching a live performance of any kind. Whether it is a theatre play, musical, concert, comedy act, or dance performance, they are all magnificent to me. I personally didn’t start developing an appreciation until I started doing shows myself. ...
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Learning Empathy Through Dance
An article was released today by the online news subscription known as “The Atlantic” that caught my dancer eye. It’s title, “Learning Empathy Through Dance” spiked my curiosity and confirmed ideas I’ve had around the power of dance and it’s relationship with human connection and emotion. The article ...
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