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Ballroom Dance links
(I am working on it right now, not all links work yet!)
News & articles
Video
Show & Competitions calendar & results
Organizations, clubs, studios
Helpful links
3363 NE 163rd St, North Miami Beach, FL 33160
Call to schedule a FREE Lesson 305-308-5256, email: alexk1000@msn.com
3363 NE 163rd St, North Miami Beach, FL 33160
305-308-5256, email: alexk1000@msn.com
Miami
Dance
Place
World Class Instructors
- Ballroom Dance Competitions Calendars
- Ballroom Dance Competitions important for those who live in Florida
Date Name Place City Day www
Name Place City Day www- 05/20/2010 Crown Jewel (3ple Crown), Eden Roc Resort, S.Beach, Thu-Sun, crownjewelofdancesport.com
- 06/17/2010Yankee Clasic (10th), Boston, Thu-Sun, theyankeeclassic@aol.com
- 07/22/2010Millenium, Renaissance Vinoy Resort, St Petersburg, FL, Tue-Sun, m2dance.com
- 08/03/2010Florida State (3ple Crown), Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota, Tue-Sun, flstatedance.com
- 08/19/2010Nevada Star Ball, Green Valley Ranch Resort, Las Vegas, Thu-Sun, nevadastarball.com
- 09/07/2010USDC, Loews Royal Pacific Resrt, Orlando, Tue-Sat, unitedstatesdancechampionships.com
- 09/19/2010Majestic Dance Sport, Mariott, Delray Beach, Sat
- 09/24/2010Sunshine State Dancesport, Hilton Foutainebleau, South Beach, Fri-Sun
- 09/30/2010First Coast Classic (World Masters), St Augustine, FL, Thu-Sat, firstcoastclassic.com
Coming events:
- 11/04/2010Grand National (40th), Ritz-Carlton, Key Biscayne, Thu-Sun,grandnationalchampionship.com
- 11/16/2010 Ohio Star Ball (World Pro Smooth,Rhythm), Colambus, OH, Tue-Sun, ohiostarball.com
- 12/01/2010SouthEastern States/3ple Crown, Renaissance@Sea World, Orlando, Tue-Sasestatedance.com
- 12/05/2010Killick Klassik, Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Sun, paulkillick.me
- 12/08/2010Holiday Dance Classic, Luxor, Las Vegas, Wed-Sun, holidaydanceclassic.com
- 12/18/2010 The Nutcracker, American Ballet & Kirova Ballet at The Jackie Gleason Theater
- 03/01/2011Heritage Classic, Grove Park Inn Resort, Asheville, NC, Tue-Sat, theheritageclassic.com
- 04/19/2011 Southern States (3ple Crown), J.W. Mariott, New Orleans, LA, Tue-Sun, sostatesdance.com
- New York Times articles about ballroom dance
Children line up for dancing school at the Barclay Classes on the Upper East Side, a tradition upheld by a small number of families from the upper, and now upper-middle, echelons of New York.
Ms. Palin was more diplomat than politician on the ABC reality competition " Dancing With the Stars," taking care not to put her thumb on the ...ArtsBeat
ELENA GRINENKO, a Russian ballroom dance champion, left her home in Moscow in 1998 to go to America. In September, she and her boyfriend ...December 30, 2001 - By PATRICIA VOWINKEL - New Jersey Weekly Desk
BALLROOM dancing, which flourished during the Depression, World War II and, briefly, the 1970's oil crisis and then went into eclipse, ...December 6, 1992 - By ELISABETH GINSBURG
The genre known as ballroom dance has grown unrecognizable in recent decades.August 13, 2009 - By ALASTAIR MACAULAY - Arts / Dance
A 1992 romantic comedy inspired by Mr. Luhrmann's ballroom dance classes while growing up in Australia, “Strictly Ballroom” emerged as an ...ArtsBeat
''In the beginning, the man must be dominant,'' says Lee Wakefield, who sounds to me like Future Coach. ''The man leads.May 3, 1998 - By ROBERT LIPSYTE - Sports Desk
Well it made ballroom dancing more popular in this country which is a good thing . But really that isn't ballroom dancing. ...November 30, 2007 - Mediadecoder Blog
Rodney Lopez quit a job in public relations to follow his first passion, ballroom dance. He is a teacher at P.S. 115. ...April 21, 2005 - By LESLIE KAUFMAN - Movies
Eight celebrities train with professional dancers and compete in a live ballroom dance competition. Winner will be determined by a panel of judges as well ... Overview | Cast, Credits & Awards | Readers' Reviews
HIGH diving or broad jumping it is not, but ballroom dancing is athletic. So say proponents of the pursuit, observing that, ...July 21, 1996 - By LYNNE AMES - Westchester Weekly Desk
Mr. Spencer's passion is ballroom dancing. He dances every day. He eats most of his meals at delis and snack shops near dance studios. ...June 26, 2005 - By JENNIFER WEISS
So what's with all the ballroom dancing? From reality television ("Dancing With the Stars," which has all America, or 15.09 million of it, ...June 15, 2005 - By JOHN ROCKWELL - Arts / Dance
Inside the bright, brassy confines of an Australian dance palace, ... "Strictly Ballroom," one of the only films to emerge from this year's ...September 26, 1992 - By JANET MASLIN
What was former Senator Rene Saguisag doing on the dance floor at the Inter- Continental Hotel, twirling a woman who is not his wife through ...November 14, 1996 - By SETH MYDANS - Foreign Desk
An overview of Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School, including cast and credit details, a review summary, and more. Overview | Cast, Credits & Awards | Readers' Reviews | Trailers | DVD
The two were babies, the children of dancers at a time when it seemed that ballroom dancing was on its last legs. ...July 29, 2009 - By FELICIA R. LEE - Theater
Four acts of ballroom dancing, sewn together on fairly tenuous premises, is probably not everyone's idea of a great night at the theater. ...April 27, 1989 - By JENNIFER DUNNING
The dance floor never clears in the bustling nightclub of “Come Fly Away ... performers to heighten the theatrical allure of ballroom dance, ...
Having a Ball” teaches ballroom dancing to fifth-graders in Chicago Public Schools, but money for the program is imperiled.
Dove rhapsodizes about that wriggle -- from a bawdy uncle's ''high-butt shenanigans'' to the glorious moment a ballroom-dancing pair ...November 21, 2004 - By EMILY NUSSBAUM - Books / Sunday Book Review
The Russian dominance of ballroom dancing stems from an influx in the last decade of exquisitely trained dancers from the former Soviet ...June 11, 2003 - By JOSEPH BERGER - Metropolitan Desk
The night Frankie Manning flipped Frieda Washington over his back in a heels- over-the-head maneuver on the dance floor of the Savoy Ballroom ...March 12, 2006 - By MANNY FERNANDEZ - New York Region
But the deeper appeal of “Dancing With the Stars” is simpler. Dancing, particularly ballroom dancing, is a lost art that everyone has a ...March 21, 2007 - By ALESSANDRA STANLEY - Arts / Television
Still, the ravages of a late-blooming ballroom-dance career are beginning to show. She looks tired, perhaps a sign that the two and a half ...October 20, 2008 - By EDWARD WYATT - Arts / Television
The Paramount was not the city's only ballroom. At the peak of the dancing craze , in the late 1930s, there were at least 200 of them. ...October 3, 2007 - By HOWARD W. FRENCH - International / Asia Pacific
Freds and Gingers they were not. But in an age of rap and grunge, the 10-year- olds dancing waltzes, fox trots and merengues the other night ...February 21, 1998 - By JOSEPH BERGER - Metropolitan Desk
IN THE BALLROOM. The first thing which impressed one was that there were no boxes. If there was tropical luxuriance without, here was orthern SDrlgtlme ...January 3, 1890
The couple, one of 24 teams dancing in the preliminary round of a ballroom dancing contest at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...July 14, 2004 - By ERIC MARX - The Arts/Cultural Desk
Jennifer Lopez, in full sizzle, is the dedicated instructor who teaches him that ballroom dancing, as she puts it, is "a vertical expression ... Overview | Cast, Credits & Awards | Readers' Reviews | Trailers | DVD
23 — When Cheryl Burke traded in her ballet slippers for a ballroom dancing outfit at age 11, it was not because she anticipated performing ...September 24, 2007 - By EDWARD WYATT - Arts / Television
At the start of ''Shall We Dance?,'' a Japanese businessman goes to a ballroom dancing school so furtively he might be visiting a bordello. ...April 5, 1997 - By JANET MASLIN
Dance News
Dance Life USA magazine
Dancesportmagazine.com magazine $48 for 6/year
Interesting articles & interviews to read about Ballroom Dancing
Mirko Gozzoli and Edita Daniute: Interview Ballroom World Pro Champion
Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova: Interview current Ballroom World Pro Champions
Riccardo Cocchi and Yulia Zagorouitchenko: (Interview 12/2009 after they won the WDC Pro Latin
Dancing is the only known way to delay Alzhaimer (Hopkins University)
Wikipedia about ballroom dance
Russian Ballroom Dance and other russian language websites
Dancing With The Stars Video
World Best dancers videos
YouTube: Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova (World #1 in 2009 & 2010)
YouTube: Mirko Gozzoli and Edita Daniute (World #2 in 2010)
Competitions Results
- Where to go for Social/Party dancing
Grand Ballroom -Delray Beach, FL
Yuca Club (Salsa Club at South Beach) Yuca Lounge, 501 Lincoln Rd., South Beach, FL 33139
US ballroom dance studios
http://www.grandballroomdancesportusa.com wish every studio look like this
College Ballroom Dance Clubs
Ballroom Dance Organizations
Dance Wear
Find a Partner on-line
Partner in Russia (russian language)
Ballroom Dance Step Lists
