“BALLROOM REINVENTED”

“Burn the Floor” continues to “wow’ audiences world wide with its new generation twist to Ballroom and Latin dancing. Critics are calling it “Electrifying” and “the new Rock’n Roll”. Jason Gilkison has devised five breathtaking new, original pieces for “Burn the Floor”. It takes the performance to a whole new level, feel and energy. Jason has paired SYTYCD winner Robbie Kmetoni with SYTYCD USA finalist Janette Manrara, in a contemporary twist, shakes up any remaining pre-conceptions, and adds a new dance dimension to the show. - Truly “Ballroom Re-invented.”

Direct from record-breaking seasons on the West End and Broadway, JASON GILKISON is bringing his global Ballroom Dancing phenomenon BURN THE FLOOR back to Australia.

Starring 18 international championship dancers including SYTYCD winner ROBBIE KMETONI, and USA SYTYCD STARS KAREN HAUER and JANETTE MANRARA.

“Heart-pounding! Splendid dance and gorgeous dancers!”

– Time Out New York

“Sizzling, steaming and scintillating – there can’t be a hotter show in town!”

 – Ok Magazine

“BURN THE FLOOR is strictly ballroom with attitude.”

– USA Today

AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES

SYDNEY Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th June  -  Enmore Theatre

MELBOURNE Thursday 14th to Saturday 30th June  - The Palms at Crown

http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?pp=QMMBR&sh=BURNFLOO12#.T7ZCS-1_hUQ

Escape the hectic pace of everyday life & indulge in dance?

A fantastic article/blog from former British and world champion Latin dancer – Ms Karen Hardy!

Now, to most of you if I said let’s ‘Escape & Indulge’ to lose these kilos and get fit, you would probably feel immediate guilt, as well as it sounding as though I don’t have a clue what I am talking about. Well read on you might be surprised.

So here is your fitness plan of action for 2012 and yes you’ve all guessed it, it’s through the huge and proven benefits of Dance.

If you haven’t already you are going to take those first tentative steps and escape into a dance studio somewhere near you. You are then going to indulge yourself in a room full of empowering, stimulating, pulsating and dare I go as far as saying… gyrating sounds of great musical rhythms. At the very same time you are going to commit to taking those first confusing even disorientating dance moves, in your huge baggy T-shirt! Yes I know most of you will be wearing that one T-shirt that once lived at the back of your draw assigned for your home decorating days, should you ever get round to it. Well the sad news is that your decorating day is not here but rather your guilt ridden moment of having to put that T-shirt on to hide that annoying additional curve that has appeared on ones torso! (and yes this applies to you too men!)

With or without that T-shirt, once the music starts and you are moving you will experience a sudden enlightening of FREEDOM. “I can do it, I’m dancing” you will hear yourself say but watch out you are about to go so appallingly wrong within three seconds of that euphoric moment. And at the switch of a light here come the excuses…“Oh well, I can’t dance, I knew I couldn’t do it, I’ve got two left feet anyway and I can’t commit to a regular lesson on Tuesdays because of Sophie’s music lesson….” Oh dear dear me, are you listening to yourself? You know yourself just how much you want to be able to dance, to show your friends or family that you have rhythm and that you have that one gift of life that so many millions crave for. Well you have just chosen to join the millions of people with two left feet!!!!

At the end of the day my wellbeing relies solely on a state of achieving a positive mind in the very first place and understanding a happy and positive mind offers a happy body.

Therefore, the first point you must clearly understand is only by completely escaping away from your outside troubling world will you begin to indulge in become the master of your own body. So when you are next at the gym and on a running machine, with your earphones plugged in listening to the latest Gaga iTunes download you received for Christmas, reflect that whilst running you are also planning; when the children will get to their after school clubs, what budget you may or may not have hit, pondering over the staffing issues of why Sally just can’t get on with Harry at work and has now created an enormous low morale within your team. Now ask yourself do you really need that when you are supposed to be developing a happy mind?

So let’s take a look at that Zumba class that has just opened up down the road for you to escape to. That leaflet that keeps getting dropped through your door saying “come and join Zumba today and have lots of fun” or that poster that is up in your local newsagent every time you pop in to pick up your bar of Cadburys chocolate. Yes that Zumba message is everywhere and you know you want to escape and do it but the incredible excuses just seem to keep creeping in….

Now, I could take you through the wellbeing advantages of Ballroom dancing but I think that has proven itself time and time again on your TV, every Saturday night during the Strictly Come Dancing season. You’ve also probably created the most amazing excuses for not having called to book those Ballroom Dance lessons that you want so much and they are probably a variation on “I don’t have a partner” and the second has to be “I’ve got two left feet!” Are you listening to yourself? So strong is your mind that you have actually convinced yourself that you have two left feet so ask yourself this, when you next go to buy your pair of La Boutines are you going to ask for two left shoes!!!

Taking a simple dance style Zumba class will get you inspired by some amazing music, be fulfilled that you have actually learnt some dance steps, be rewarding that you’ve had an hour of fun, be stimulating that all your troubles were left outside for that one hour and you can now take the world on once again and finally be reassured that when you looked down you didn’t actually have two left feet.

I completely understand the fast-paced lifestyles we all live in today, with fitness dvd’s even trying to help you by creating quick 20 minute work outs at home but I would personally like to say, that once in a dance class you will be shocked just how fulfilling, enlightening, empowering and of course the greatest of ‘fun time’ you can allow yourself to indulge in… oh and don’t forget it’s guilt free as all you can think about is dancing. And probably the real reason for doing the 20 minute ‘squat reps’ was not because of the fast lives we live but rather the dread of having to do the squat reps and worry about your day to day demanding lifestyles at the same time when you could simply allow yourself to escape for an hours indulgence in a dance class.

Well I’m now going to throw away the four empty chocolate wrappers I have next to my PC whilst writing this for you and then I am off to pay the delivery boy to stop him posting those darn Zumba class flyers but before I do that go ‘Escape & Indulge in Dance” and in the great words of the wonderful Sir Bruce Forsythe and Tess Daly, may I say….Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep Dancing!

If your in the London area, you must visit Karen Hardy Studio’s in Chelsea Harbour. A luxurious studio space set in newly established area of Imperial Wharf 15 minutes from central london with friendly instructors and a warm inviting atmosphere. Website here – http://www.karenhardystudios.com/

A message circulating on facebook from Hip Hop originators in NYC

The same thing could be said for most other dance styles.

Latin Hip Hop comes to mind…

You just can’t zumba-fy every dance style to appeal to a mass audience without staying true to that style.

Some good points have been made.

‘Fusing’ dances together is so 2009 anyway…

Let’s move forward.

So many familiar faces this season and the Australians are bringing it!!!

http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars

MONDAY KRUMP SESSION

A raw style of Hip Hop

That expresses your true self

Through a form of dance.

STARTS – MONDAY 16TH APRIL

With VLAD TRIP AKHCHIN (Hit’M Fam – Mute Crew – Rewind Dance Crew)

7:30PM

ALL LEVELS WELCOME

$15 per person & $5 for members

[Video by; Dean Winter Productions. Music; Alphabex - "Truth to be told"]

Amazing.

ENTERING the upstairs room of Fitzroy’s Copacabana Restaurant on a Tuesday night is like taking a trip back through the decades, to a time when women behaved like ladies and men behaved like … well, men.

Under the low lights, a chap in high-waisted pants and a waistcoat lounges against the wall, while a woman with a neat hair roll, bright red lipstick and a cotton dress taps her toe to the scratchy beat of a Louis Armstrong record. Another couple glide, bop and leap around the dance floor, skirts twirling, legs and arms flying. The only thing missing from this scene of vintage opulence are the plumes of blue cigarette smoke. Are we on the set of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries? No, but with the current trend for all things retro, it’s not surprising that old-fashioned swing dancing is enjoying a comeback.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/dance/vintage-dance-craze-in-full-swing-20120320-1vhpb.html#ixzz1plOeGF8q

We’ve had so many enquiries for Swing & Rock n Roll in the last few weeks! So why the sudden rise in popularity of this vintage 1950′s style? Just watch these video’s to get the buzz -

And here it is…

Nice work Giancarlo on the choreography!

Directed & Edited by Dean Winter