Ballroom Dance Drawings With Hidden Names (Al Hirschfeld Style) — 2022 Collection
Illustrated by Georgi Kanev (co-owner of Dance A Lot Ballroom Studio)
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October 16, 2023
Broadway “Dancing Stars” Take the Stage!
Hope everyone is enjoying the dog days of summer. It is amazing how quickly the summer months pass. The clearance sales are in full swing, and believe it or not, I have already seen a back-to-school ad. An indication that summer is here is the Dance A Lot Annual Showcase — this year it had a fun
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The Perils Of Perfection
Happy Spring! Now that the winter that wasn’t (for many of us) has left and the warmer, longer days have started to arrive, I hope you are enjoying our beautiful Spring weather. It also means that I am in the home stretch (or crunch time) to perform my showcase in June at the Dance A
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Life Lessons from Ballroom Dancing — Part 2
In the second half of our two part blog, we’re exploring other life lessons that we can learn from Ballroom Dancing. “We think that extended practice builds new synaptic connectivity that leads directly to the development of new patterns of activity that enable new abilities” By Dance A Lot Ballroom Studio on March 9, 20
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Santa Was on a Diet!
by Mary Serico Happy New Year! I hope your holidays were filled with good times with family and friends. I am sure you probably had a few new year’s resolutions and may have broken one or two already. Well, Santa had a diet and exercise resolution. The only difference was that his resolution started in
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Life Lessons from Ballroom Dancing — Part 1
Improved posture, balance, and muscle tone, making new life-lasting friendships, feeling a sense of achievement, and relieving stress are all benefits of ballroom dancing. But do you know that there are also additional gains and life skills that are part of your ballroom dancing? Here, in this first portion of our two part article, we
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Dancing Through the Years — How I Started My Ballroom Dancing Journey
By Mary Serico I hope everyone enjoyed their summer and have gotten back into the swing of all the fall activities. This blog was originally scheduled for the summer, but my laptop decided to retire and take the draft of the blog with it. July always brings memories of our first dance lesson, all the
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15 Ways to Cope With Competition Anxiety for Pro/Am Students
Being knowledgeable about what is anxiety and what is its cause, is fundamental to finding a successful plan to battle it and deliver your pick performance every time. by Georgi Kanev What Is a Competition and Is It Good? Ballroom dance competitions are glamorous formal social gatherings, where dancers put their best foot forward — dresses, make-up, new choreographies,
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“Dancing Stars” 2022 Showcase Time!
If it’s June, it must be time for Dance A Lot’s big annual showcase! We’ve done this 11 times, and I and my dance teacher Georgi always prepare a special dance for each year’s showcase. We have a professional choreographer come to the studio and design the dance at least ten months before June, so
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Practice, Practice, Practice, And Then Practice Some More.
Dance lessons are an essential luxury for me, and for me to get the most out of my lessons, I need to practice every day, both scheduled and ad hoc. If I slack off between lessons, my dance teacher Georgi can tell within 5 minutes. For me, the perfect time to practice a Rumba Box
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