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Beauty Remained…Complex and Defiant
By: Jomba, Contemporary Dance Experience
Tags: Jomba, Dance, Jozi, Contemporary, South African

Beauty Remained…Complex and Defiant

Last night’s Legacy programme featured Robin Orlin’s Beauty remained for just a minute then returned gently to her starting position. A work that touches on many aspects of modern day living, beginning with our obsession with beauty and perfection all the way to our treatment of the planet and the exoticisation of tourism and therefore cultures.

Although this work premiered in 2012, what feels like centuries ago, it becomes an intriguing thought provoker for current times. Many have suggested that Covid-19 is Mother Nature’s way of making us stop and reflect, giving the planet a gap to catch its breath in this human waged war against it, this work seems perfectly apt for this moment of contemplation.

Costumes designed by Marianne Fassler incorporate plastic in its various forms. A beautiful gown is made of plastic woven carrier bags so prevalent in South African inner cities, where amagoduka carry them on their long travels from and to their rural homes, or venders use to carry their wares. Woven black plastic and black plastic bags are used similarly in other pieces.

Orlin and Moving into Dance Maphatong’s (MIDM) Johannesburg grit are stamped all over the performance in their use of tsotsi taal and fast footwork that you might come across at the Bree Street rank, a strong Jozification occurring. This further situates us in the inner city where many, of the European persuasion, might be afraid to go but so intrigued to see. So, our wonderful Tourguide/Auctioneer takes us on what could be just that, an expedition into the jungle that is deep dark South Africa.

The morning is marked by chickens stalking the stage in a waltz like time signature, a focus on legs and screens that creates a kaleidoscopic feeling of the morning light hitting shiny surfaces. A bossy Beauty interrupts to clean up the scene, “no chicken feathers here” as she directs the sun into just the perfect position. There is no fourth wall in this work, everyone is both audience and performer even the technical crew that is often forgotten. Soundscape and scenes are enhanced by and reliant on the audience participation that is carefully mediated and directed by our Beauty.

The expression “everything but the kitchen sink” comes to mind in this comical performance as everything from conversations with God, sex, exploitation, and even lions are thrown into the mix. A remarkable use of everyday objects, language, movement, and set is crafted to encapsulate the human desire to control what we so deeply cannot, like the setting of the sun.
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Tags: Dance

I left dance because with the kind of dance that I was involved in, I didn’t feel I could deal with the specifics and the specificity of social life and political life. I was moving toward feminist issues and issues of gender and sexuality in very specific ways, and film allowed that mainly through the dominance of language. But then film became too expensive, and I realized that I was never very comfortable, in production especially, because I was like the dog being wagged by the tail: I was at the mercy of laboratories and the complexities of managing a crew and raising money. So I returned to dance. Dancers are like material that is immediately visible; you see the results of your ideas in a much more immediate and spontaneous way. The politics of dance, though, for me, are much more about ambiguity and inference and allusion, rather than specific issues. So it’s more elusive art form. But I find myself, as a creator, much more comfortable there.

那時我離開舞蹈，是因為我感受不到可透過那種舞蹈處理社會和政治生活的種種和獨特性。我以特定方式走向女性主義議題、性別和性的議題，而電影主要透過語言的主導性容讓我如此。但後來電影變得太昂貴，而且我發現我從未對此感到非常自在，特別是在製作中，因為我就似一隻時刻搖尾的狗：受制於沖曬影片的實驗室，以及管理團隊和籌集資金的複雜性。因此我重回舞蹈。舞者如同即時可見的材料；能更即時和即興地看到想法的結果。舞蹈的政治，但是，對我來說，更多是關於曖昧和推論和引喻，而非特定議題。所以是更難以描述的藝術形式。但我覺得，作為創作者，於舞蹈中更自在。

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The benefits of taking Lower Level Ballet Classes
By: Isabelle Green
Tags: Ballet, Dance, Training, Ballet Classes

Why taking lower level ballet classes is essential to progressing in ballet

It is natural for driven dancers and their parents to wish to move up levels quickly. There is a positive and natural urge to dance in higher levels and participate in classes that are challenging. It is important to tread this line carefully, however, when it comes to ballet training. Without the correct base technique and strength, taking classes that are too challenging can become a detriment to a dancer’s progress. That is not to say that taking appropriate and higher level classes isn’t advantageous, just that it is important to continuously be honing in on base technique and strength.

Leveling in a ballet environment is extremely different from progressing from one grade to another in school. There are implications in that scenario that are not true in ballet. While it can be frustrating as a dancer or parent to hear that it’s not time to move up yet, it is always in the student’s best interest to remain at the appropriate level, as decided by their teachers and program, before jumping into more advanced classes.

For students limited on time and taking many genres of dance- perhaps without the goal of pursuing ballet professionally- it is easy to let ballet classes fall by the wayside. It is helpful to remember that progress in ballet is progress in many forms of dance, as ballet is the foundation for all types of movement.

Ballet training is a process…it is slow and requires years of repetition. It requires consistent attendance in class and being present while in class. It is not a “step” or “trick” that can be mastered over a semester or year. Yes, steps are learned and progress can be made quickly, but the end goal is different. There is no final moment of achievement in ballet technique; it is a constant work in progress, and that is what makes it so special.

Professional ballet dancers take classes regularly for their entire careers. For students and professionals alike, slower paced classes provide the opportunity to engage the correct muscles and use proper alignment. Correct muscle engagement in slower-paced classes can help ensure that the same muscles are triggered when more complicated or faster steps and choreography are introduced. Engaging the proper muscles also helps with injury prevention and sustainability.

The last thing to keep in mind is that there is always something to learn in ballet classes, even at the lowest level. Always be open to hearing corrections and improving, even if you are not in the level you might wish to be in. If you have concerns or questions, reach out to your teacher and he/she can help guide you in the right direction.
Can Dance Help Your Kid Achieve Physical Fitness? Let’s Find Out.
By: Piggy Ride
Tags: Fitness, Dance, Online, Dance Fitness

Dance is a fun source of zest, excitement, exercise and good health. For kids, no other way can be better to inculcate healthy habits among children. Rather sitting before a digital device all day long, dancing is a fabulous option of playful activity for an aim to stay fit. Dancing is not just a creative outlet but also improves a child’s coordination, develop kinaesthetic memory and provides other health benefits. Today we will give a take on how dancing can help your kid stay fit and healthy. Let’s get started!

1. Dance & Strong Muscles

Young kids are bodily fragile, and their body parts are on the verge of development. With dancing, they can develop strong and healthy muscles. It also helps in enhancing the overall well-being of a kid due to increased stamina, strength and activeness. Kids also get to know what each muscle and limb can do.

2. Better Flexibility

Dance enhances the flexibility of a kid to a great extent. It provides a safe gateway for young learners to explore themselves and push their limits to broaden the horizons of skills. In many ways, dance ensures aerobic fitness, endurance and increased muscular strength.

3. Improved Overall Balance

Dancing can make a kid feel refreshed, and it caters to the overall balance of the body. Improved balance is vital in developing skills for multitasking successfully. Kids build up the courage to experiment with the movements and to push themselves to see what they can achieve with their own bodies.

4. Improved Spatial Awareness

Spatial awareness is another significant to acquire by kids while dancing. Spatial awareness is all about being aware of object around you and the body’s position in related to those objects. For example, mental folding, rotation, lifting moves, or dancing with a promp, etc.

5. Healthy Blood Pressure

Dancing maintains a healthy blood pressure and eventually helps to maintain a healthy lifestyle. There is clinical evidence that proves the physical benefits of dancing for children. Those who spend around two hours a day on dancing sessions are comparatively healthier than those who do not.

6. Overall Physical Confidence

Dance also infuses overall physical confidence in a kid. Your little one must explore various dance styles from traditional, fusion to western for a profound benefit and vast experience. There are innumerable physical benefits of dancing for a kid, naming a few are explained in the points above.

Conclusion

The impact of creative learning on a kid is enormous, and dancing is one such creative learning activity. If you are looking for some useful and health-oriented dance fitness classes for your kid, you are on the right platform. PiggyRide provides a great range of online fitness activities in the form of comprehensive kids fitness programs. We offer various courses such as Dance fitness online classes, Kids fitness Zumba classes, and much more. So grab a course today and let your kid experience a fun way of staying healthy.
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By: Tushar Patil
Tags: Best Instagram Captions, Dance, Dance Captions, Best Captions For Ig

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There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.

Let us read, and let us dance, these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. -Hedwig (Vicki) Baum

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. -John Wain

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COUPLE DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER NEAR ME
By: Devika Dhapola
Tags: Online Classes, Choreography, Dance, Weddings, Couples

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These days Wedding Choreography getting a new trend in the market everyone prepares them to perform on their wedding or people may have to look into their performances. For getting a Dance super blast on the wedding you may contact Beats On Feet who are situating next to your door and providing door to door choreography with their batter experience.

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Know you are alright, by dancing to Philippa’s EP, ‘Pronoia’
By: Dhinoj Dings
Tags: Music, Dance, Album Review, Entertainment, Music Review

Photo by Owen Beard on Unsplash/ Representative image

Pronoia is a word in psychology that means the opposite of paranoia. Make of that what you would but Pronoia is also the name of the EP by the deep house artist Philippa which came out at the beginning of this year.

In an year that has been horrible, socially and politically across the world it’s comforting to think that someone put out a cheerful album to usher in the new year.

(It also makes me a bit sad to think that I didn’t discover this album before so I could have had the lushly melodic tunes contained therein to tide me over the bad patches of 2019. But something tells me that the coming year, would be even more socially fraught than the one before. So, an album like this one is always gonna be handy.)

Across four tracks that take up just above 20 minutes, Philippa gives us some much needed lessons in sunny disposition.

And lessons are an apt word for the album- more so than you may imagine, for Philippa teaches electronic music production in an institute in Berlin where she is based.

Not just that, the music which wholeheartedly embraces melody- a tenet that’s not common in dance music- weaves in an out of sustained rhythms that feels like short meditative sessions which help you digest a lesson. Perhaps, the term meditative is not ideal here- the music, after all makes you dance even as it helps your mind sink into a deeper state that can be as tranquil as the sound of birdsongs.

Lessons are curious things in life. They have the incredible habit of finding you at the most unexpected moments. And they are rarely just casual visitors either- they are powerful entities, visitors that straddle the realms of both collective wisdom and the individual subconscious, with the potential to change you for good.

What makes lessons so important is that they are linked to our essential humanism. For isn’t one of the fundamental traits of humanism its compulsion to give meaningful lessons to others? So that others wouldn’t follow the wrong trail in life and end up where the sun doesn’t shine and the beauty has gone out of all melodies?

In this backdrop, Philippa’s carefully crafted tracks are brightness incarnate- they encourage you to shed the lethargy born from misapprehensions you may have about the strength in the human will to understand, to learn from mistakes- both ours and others’, to seek solutions to problems, to take a step back and objectively view a situation, so we could derive lessons from it.

This music asks you to move not just confidently but cheerfully towards the next lesson- or rather a rhythm- which could carry you like a free bird floating on cool wind, across the dance floor and across life itself.

Such a view of the EP, needless to say, is entirely subjective.

But any music that helps you dance and appreciate its melody at the same time is worthy of being called an objective lesson in pronoia.
Biome Communion
By: Will Szal
Tags: Landscape, Phenomenology, Dance, Somatic, Nature

Stephanie has shared three principles with me from which she works that I will speak to from my own perspective.

Improvisation

A conversation consists of a back and forth; one being speaks while the other listens, and then the exchange reciprocates in the other direction. Often when people improvise, we say they’re “making it up.” The kind of improvisation we’re exploring here does have an inner aspect, a connecting with our own essence. Yet it also has an outer aspect—a listening to the landscape, and responding accordingly.

Creativity

In discussions of creativity, we tend to focus on the creativity of people. What is the creativity of a place? In her book Big Magic, author Elizabeth Gilbert speaks of the autonomy of ideas; they aren’t ours. David Abrams speaks of mind as a property of a place—which is why we might enter one line of thought as we walk through the yellow aspens out in the Rockies on a crisp fall day, but might abruptly transition to a different subject once we’ve driven back down the canyon and arrive in the suburbs of the Front Range. In Stephanie’s work of dancing a place, she must first allow the creativity, the spirit of the place to enter her and co-create with her.

Body-based (internal and external) connection to landscape

Soma: Greek, meaning body. Somatic experience speaks to the experience of the body. In a way, it is bizarre that there is even a need for us to call out this mode of perception. Isn’t all experience mediated through the body? Phenomenologists would say yes. Others might find the question confusing.

I recently read a book about plant perception—Thus Spoke the Plant, by Monica Gagliano. In it, she explores some of the ways in which plants have awareness of their environment. In one experiment, she notices that one plant is able to detect the presence of another plant, even though it is on the other side of a wall. I found myself dearly hoping that she was about to describe the ways in which on being can sense the presence of another somatically. Dispirited, I read on to learn that it was simply an auditory thing (or, at least, that was the mechanism she was able to identify in her experiment).

Scientists are constantly discovering new human senses. We’re well beyond five at this point. I frequent a community sauna and, I’ve notice, while sitting in the quite dark of the sauna, I experience different qualities of the presence of others who join me there, even when my normal senses can’t detect them. Another place this perception is palpable is when sitting under a tree, feeling the presence of the tree.

All of this is to say—Stephanie is experimenting with what it is like to utilize all it is to be human to further her conversations with place.
Rock With You — Michael Jackson — Drum Cover
By: Andrew Desogus
Tags: Dance, I Wanna Rock With You, Drums, Michael Jackson

hey hey hey my fellow drumming lovers! How have you been? My drumming week has been full of practice and teaching and I was looking forward to the week end to finally get some well deserved rest! But not without getting ready to release some cool videos for you directly on my You Tube channel! 🙂

In today’s article I would like to share with you my latest drum cover of Rock With You by the Pop legend Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson has been a legend in the music industry and has produced an insane amount of beautiful music. If you are a Michael Jackson fan I bet you are excited to hear it…so what are we waiting for?! Let us dive right in!

You can watch the full video here below embedded directly from my You Tube channel. Hope you enjoy it!

Here you can read a few cool facts about this wonderful song directly from Wikipedia:

“Rock with You” is a song recorded by American singer Michael Jackson. It was written by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones.

It was first offered to Karen Carpenter, while she was working on her first solo album, but she turned it down. It was released on November 3, 1979, by Epic Records as the second single from Jackson’s fifth solo studio album Off the Wall (1979).

It was also the third number-one hit of the 1980s, a decade whose pop singles chart would soon be dominated by Jackson. It reached number one on both the US Billboard pop, becoming Jackson’s third #1 single and it also reached the top spot on R&B charts. On the former, “Rock with You” spent four consecutive weeks at number one starting January 19, 1980. According to Billboard, the song was the fourth biggest single of 1980. It is also considered one of the last hits of the disco era.

It was re-released as a single on February 27, 2006, as part of the Visionary: The Video Singles box set.

I hope you enjoyed reading this article and watching my video of the drum cover of Rock With You by Michael Jackson. If you did, please let me know in the comment section below and share it with a fellow drummer or musician who loves rock music and groove as much as we do!

As usual, I love to connect with you all and you can find me on all social media sites:

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Thanks a lot again for taking the time to read. I am looking forward to seeing you on the next one and until then…. HAPPY DRUMMING!
If You Ever Stumble
By: Avaaz Organisation
Tags: Dancer, Dance, Art, Kathak, Artist

Sakshi’s performance at her institute Aangikam, which was aired at DD National.

Sakshi Nautiyal, a 12th grade student of ITL Public School, who has been a Kathak dancer for 13 years now, narrates her experience with dancing and the impact of dance on various aspects of her life. She articulates how dance has always been something she can fall back on, if she stumbles.

Sakshi Writes.

“If you ever stumble , just make it a part of your dance.

So I’m not going to give some clichéd reason that I started Kathak because of it’s elegance or the way the dancer’s body moved that attracted me. Rather, I was just a 4 year old whose mother did not know what to do with her, when her elder sister had to be taken to music lessons. The more I started learning and understanding the nuances of this form, the more I fell in love with it. Recently I joined an institute to gain better professional training in Kathak from Pandit Ram Mohan Maharaj and my dance journey changed for the good.

Sakshi performing at her school’s cultural function

A lot of people my age face issues like bullying and body image issues. A very prominent one for me, was the fear of losing people, as I did lose someone too close to my heart, however then dance taught me that I am a whole.

Kathak for me has been a constant, something I know I can always fall back on in times of stress and anxiety. I’ve always faced terrible anxiety before performing but almost 13 years of performing on stage now, dancing has really helped me calm myself. It’s like everytime I’m on stage, its just me and my dance and no worries.

Being a dancer I’ve had a disciplined life. From travelling an hour to Mandi House just for practices to little things like walking straight. My parents have been always supportive of me and believed in my dance, they always took me to practices, even if it meant skipping their own work.

Her dance follows her everywhere she goes

A very low phase in my life was a period of two years where I was terribly ill. Amidst the doctor visits it felt like my life was not going return to normalcy but being a dancer has given me both mental and physical strength. Soon I started going back to my classes and little by little getting back to my old self. Kathak has given me good immunity which I really lacked years ago. Even when I got my ankle fractured, which is a nightmare for every dancer, I did not lose hope. Kathak taught me that even in such times, when you do stumble, you are strong enough to get up.

For me, when everyone at my school knows me by the name of “the kid who dances at every event”, somewhere in my heart I believe that dance has made me the person I am , that it helped me make a place for myself.

Sakshi gracefully taking the stage with her Kathak performance

Helping others the way dance helped me is a dream come true. A dream in which this organisation, Avaaz, plays a huge role.

*In the current times, let us know if we can be of any help. If you would like to submit your writeup, kindly mail that to us at avaaz.organisation@gmail.com.
UI redesign an existing cultural website : Suresnes Cité Festival.
By: Yasmina B.
Tags: Dance, Design, UI Design

Suresnes Cité Danse is a great festival for those who like both street and contemporary / classical dances. Created in 1993, it’s organized every year in Suresnes, a Paris suburb city. Since the very first edition, the artistic director, Olivier Meyer, put promising but still unknown dancers and choregraphers into the spotlights.

The Challenge

I was part of a project where I have been asked to create the next website edition. It was open to any creativity and freedom, the only constraint was to propose responsive designs for both desktop and mobile.

Suresnes Cité Danse festival conveys strong values : transmission, gathering and virtuosity. It was important to keep them in the new visual identity.

1. Audit of the current website

I first looked at how the current website was built and organized. The site map is clear although it would need some simplification. There are lots of information related to the theater where the festival happens whereas their are not all relevant for this specific event. However, booking a ticket is easy so I kept the same process. In terms of visual identity, there made an interesting choice of colors but it’s still lack a modernity touch.

2. Moodboard and style tile

After the audit, I worked on a moodboard to determine the visual atmosphere I wanted to convey in my design. To create the moodboard, I kept the festival’s brand attributes : virtuosity, passion, gathering, meeting point, transmission, evolution, movement, vitality.

Moodboard

This moodboard helped me to create a style tile — a design deliverable where you document the choices of visual elements : palette colors, typefaces and fonts, specific icons, look and feel of the buttons…

I wanted to keep the urban look and feel with 2 primary colors : grey and a black-like. But add a moderne touch with 3 accent colors : yellow, light green and a flashy pink. These colors convey a feeling of youth, vibration, and movement. As for the typography, I kept the title typography as its part of the Festival identity, almost like a logo.

3. Prototype

Here are the final wireframes with a focus on the menu I redesigned for mobile

And the prototype.

Thank you !
I have just returned from the Grand Canyon (adjacent to Navajo land).
By: Erika Burkhalter
Tags: Nonfiction, Politics, Native Americans, Dance, Culture

I have just returned from the Grand Canyon (adjacent to Navajo land). I always stop at the small stands of Native Americans selling jewelry to buy something — both because it is exceptionally beautiful, but also to help support the local community. The government has not been kind to them. I look at the barrenness of the land they live on and the harshness of their lives, and it saddens me so much. I struck up a bit of a friendship with one of the artists last week and she was telling me what a difference it makes to the locals when tourists purchase jewelry directly from them, rather than from the fancy shops in the tourist areas. It’s the same thing for anyone going to Sedona (and I am sure for countless other areas too) — those little stands at the overlook to Oak Creek Canyon and half-way down the canyon are run by Hopis and Navajos who drive in (a long way) to set up shop with the items that they have made my hand. To me, it is so much more gratifying to buy something that has been made with love by the artist (or a family member) who has crafted it, and to know that the money is going directly to them.
Join the Fitness Workout Program in a Studio to Lose Weight
By: The Sam Studio
Tags: Workout, Dance, Fitness

Today’s lifestyle and the work schedule had led to various complications, among which obesity is the significant one. It follows with life-threatening diseases, and at times, you are a topic of conversation in the social circle. After trying your best to check the nutrition habits, you are unable to reduce your belly fat, and love handles due to which many types of apparel do not look good on you. Leaving you depressed after a severe illness, you have decided to join the best fitness workout in Vasant Kunj as prescribed from the doctor. Since you are not getting time for you at home, you would soon see that studio fitness workout is the best way to reduce weight, gain energy, and relieve stress while learning something new in a perfect environment.

The initial steps to losing weight in the fitness workout studio

Losing weight is not a sudden transformation and not possible to achieve in a day; you need to follow a balance diet, reduce high-calorie foods and follow regular exercise classes. The experts of fitness and zumba classes in Vasant Kunj explain the importance of training in a studio is far better and works decisive rather than doing the same within your comfort zone. The group gym and Zumba classes are full of fun where you are learning something new under a trained instructor with so many other students with different goals make the levels motivational and exciting too.

The various workout plans have a positive impact on your body

As you start the workout classes, instructors initially introduce you to the spinning or the cycling class, which starts shedding fat from the very first day. You would allow taking part in the various race, going on the road, long-distance and uphill too that would take out more of your sweat and increase the heart rate. Moreover, the best fitness workout in Vasant Kunj strengthens the hamstrings, hip muscles and glutes, thus making it easier to burn fat. It also increases the growth of hormone that further helps in enhancing the lean muscles following by burning of fat. The short sprint workouts help in boosting metabolism when the process of burning fat continues for a long time. Dancers benefit a lot from the exercises as they feel light, toned and muscles become strong, thus displaying movements with ease.

The fun and adventurous workout is the latest trend in the studio

The fitness and zumba classes in Vasant Kunj had recently acquired a lot of fame that requires you to dance following the instructor with the Latin music. Since the music is fast, your moves shall be at the same pace, which involves so much fun as you do not need to be a perfectionist in the dance. You have to swing your hips, move your body and enjoy the music. Nevertheless, Zumba helps in burning calories, tone your muscles, provide a cardio workout and keep you energetic the whole day.

Admittedly, the best thing about the fitness classes is to have fun, lose weight by burning calories and remain fit. So enjoy the courses at Vasant Kunj and add them into your routine.
LODATO — Home (Official Aftermovie Music Video)
By: Rive Video
Tags: Official Music Video, Dance, Home, Lodato, Pop

LODATO — Home is OUT NOW on Overdrive! Download or add it to your favorite Spotify/Apple Music playlist by clicking HERE: https://overdrive.ffm.to/lodatohome

Lodato Shares Electronic Pop Club Rocker visuals for #1 Charting Dance Track “Home” New York-based DJ/producer Lodato (full name Salvatore Lodato) lifts to his first unaccompanied appearance on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart (dated Aug. 31), as “Home” debuts at №22. Lodato lands his second chart hit, following “Doomsday,” with Vassy (№14, October 2018). “Home” is Lodato’s follow up to his PolyAnna collaboration, “Sober,” which he released earlier in 2019.

If tracks fit for festival main stages are what you’re after, Lodato has got just the song for you. “Home” sees the NYC DJ/producer at his melodic best as its invigorating motif evokes mental imagery of packed crowds, fireworks and cryo cannons. With main stage energy, ‘Home’ is a solid moment of clarity from the hot and rising producer from the east coast.

Lodato tells Billboard, “I think ‘Home’ is a great concept. In many long-term ‘friendships,’ at least one of the two fantasizes about a hook-up or something more with the other person, but no one says anything because things get tricky when the lines start to get blurred. I wanted to capture the anticipation and then the ecstasy of, finally, the impossible.”

Lodato is an American DJ, Producer, and Remixer from New York. Over the past year Lodato has accumulated millions of Spotify streams and topped the Billboard Dance Charts with multiple #1’s. You can hear Lodato’s frequent remixes for artists on the Atlantic Records roster, on Top 40 Radio across the United States & Europe. His records continue to receive support from DJs like Tiesto, David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike,Timmy Trumpet, Cash Cash & Mike Williams to name a few. Lodato’s 2019 original single “HOME”, landed it self at #1 on the U.S. Dance Radio Chart for Three Consecutive weeks and #1 on BPM’s “Top 20 Count Down” (Sirius XM) for Four consecutive weeks.

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Top 5 Belly Dancers and Dance Troupes in India
By: Shivam Rastogi
Tags: Belly Dance, Music, Dance, Entertainment, India

Belly dance is an Arabic dance form originated in Egypt and includes movements of the torso. This Egyptian dance form is popular all over the world. There are many Belly Dancers in India who perform in India as well as in other countries. Some of them also run their own schools where they teach various dance forms like Salsa, Contemporary, Indian classical, etc. Now, let’s see some of the renowned belly dancers in India-

1. Ritambhara Sahni- Ritambhara is a performer choreographer, dance instructor, and belly dancer in Mumbai. She opened an RSIPA (Ritambhara Sahni’s Institute for the Performing Arts) in 1996 and teaches many dance forms like Urban Hip-Hop, Contemporary, Tap Dance, etc. Then in 2005, she started BDIMRS (Belly Dance Institute Mumbai by Ritambhara Sahni) to teach belly dance. Ritambahara has been teaching belly dance for 11 years and now she knows almost all forms of this dance. Due to her specialty in belly dancing, she is one of the most experienced professional belly dancers in Mumbai.

2. Gaby- Gaby is a foreign belly dancer who came from Columbia, South America and currently lives in Delhi. She started to dance at 17. Initially, she learned folklore from Columbia like Cumbia Currulao, Mapale, and other dance forms. Then she joined classes of Samra and Yulitza belly dance forms and meanwhile started to teach belly dance in Egypt, Brazil, and Argentina. Later she joined a Bollywood dance group Abhinaya and traveled India to learn other dance forms. If your party or event is approaching, Gaby is a good option to book a belly dancer in Delhi for your event.

3. Leena Viie- Leena Viie also known as Leena Vaswani is a talented and famous belly dancer in Mumbai. She learned to dance from some of the most renowned belly dancers in Egypt, the UK, and the USA. Leena has performed on many international stages like New York, London, Boston, etc. Leena left her 9–5 job to follow her passion to become a belly dancer. She also teaches dance in Delhi and Mumbai in India.

4. XF Dance Studio- This is a professional dance group in Pune formed in 2010. This group has many talented dancers and choreographers. XF Dance Studio has some of the best belly dancers in Pune who are always appreciated for their performance in every event. Apart from belly dance, this dance studio also teaches and performs other dance forms like Bollywood, Contemporary, Salsa, Hip-Hop, etc.

5. Arun Bhardwaj- Arun Bhardwaj is known as the first male belly dancer in India who decided to learn dance at 16. He started his training in belly dance from Banjara School of Dance in Delhi and soon started to perform in festivals and events. Arun specializes in Tribal Fusion belly dancing and also started his own dance school called the Indian Tribal School.
Dancing Compass
By: Darya Mead
Tags: Dance, Discipline, Yoga, Practice, Movement

How movement and practice can be a life anchor and north star.

Dancing queens 1970’s in the Hamptons

This morning, changing into work clothes after teaching my weekly preschool yoga class, I had one of those film-like cascade deja vus, you know, like a spinning rolodex of memories. I took my first dance class at 6 with Miss Evelyn, who gave us mallomar cookies after class. Following a post Olga Korbut gymnastics obsession, I returned to the studio in about 6th grade devoting myself to ballet for the next half decade. I loved every aspect of the ballet world except the crazy potential eating disorders. I did my time avoiding fries and sharing a head of iceberg lettuce with a pal as a snack, but luckily avoided worse scenarios — I like my mallomar equivalents too much. I wonder now, as a 53 year-old mom of teen boys, why I feel like I had few awkward times as a tween/ teen. Sure, I had my share of insecurities and dramas, but somehow my passion for dance and the grounding and identity it gave me seemed like an inoculation. I danced on pointe but would never be a prima ballerina. I never had a waifey enough figure or exceptional enough feet, but I spent my college years and early twenties modern, jazz, hip hop and club dancing… I performed, was in a music video in the 80’s and was lucky to frequent many infamous discos and clubs of the era. I swore I would never stop dancing, it was who I was and helped create structure, discipline and plenty of joy in my life. I remember seeing a pregnant woman twirl in a class once and — way before thought of kids — I promised myself I would never stop dancing.

I lived in Europe and took classes in Paris and London and would always return to my favorite studios in New York. In the late 80’s, dancers started discovering yoga and quickly many technique classes were replaced by asana practice. Well, life takes you in directions you don’t expect. I moved to San Francisco — then the yoga mecca outside of India — in the early 90’s. The only time I have not danced or practiced yoga were my two postpartum periods and a few weeks following pneumonia recovery; but then I still did some restorative poses. Movement, and a keen sense of body awareness has guided much of my life, and now in middle age, I feel all the benefits and harm a life of constant movement provides. I am a bit of a princess and the pea and predictably have some foot and old injury flare ups, but I wouldn’t change a thing. Slipping on my tights today, I realized the profound nature of having a practice, skill or art can have on one’s life. I tried to interest my boys in dance, it was a hard sell as they love soccer. I just hope they can find a similar sense of ‘home’ in their bodies, a sort of north star, sense of self that can help give structure to a day, their own kind of dancing compass.
Are You a Crowd Pleaser?
By: Joe Brown
Tags: Dance, Choreography, Teaching

After a few days of landing back in LA, I finally have this moment to write about my recent travels to the big ole state of Texas. I spent a total of four days traveling to three cities: Dallas, San Antonio, and Galveston. I taught a master class in dance and leadership at the Crowd Pleasers Dance (CPD) convention. Now I had the pleasure of teaching at this convention a couple of years ago, pre-pandemic of course, but this go-round would involve a bit more guided attention to developing future dance leaders.

Of course, life wouldn’t be complete without some kind of obstacle or monkey wrench in the plans. I booked a job choreographing an upcoming national commercial — but dates overlapped with CPD. Fortunately, this was not necessarily a bad thing but I now faced scheduling conflicts with the convention. Yikes — welcome to the industry! Now I am super thankful for both opportunities but there are times you have to sacrifice one job in favor of the other! But I did not want to cancel either for reasons previously stated. This time though, the “scheduling gods” were in my favor. Due to awesome agents (@msaagency) and the wonderful staff at CPD, I was able to work out both, but with a little less downtime of course. Now we are talking a 3-day tour, multiple flights in a day, all while teaching each day of travel. Whoa! But after I wrapped the commercial shoot, I muscled up, packed my duffel bag, and hit the skies en route to Texas!

Each city that I traveled to brought its charm as a city but also the people — the dancers! For a guy like me who loves spontaneity and meeting new people, this multi-city schedule gave me the excitement and fuel needed to bring full energy and attention to these amazing dancers. It was also helpful that CPD staff welcomed me with bright smiles and spirits; not to mention a fancy Britney Spears-style head mic that sparked the entertainer in me to really bring it!

Oh was that same energy returned! These students were superbly hyped when I hit the stage to teach them a class chock full of movement, history/culture in styles of stepping, dancehall, hip hop, and also advice and leadership development reared by these handy and well-designed journals to help students start goal-planning.

Every smile, every shout, every laugh, every cheer was verification that one of my callings is to educate. But the overwhelming response was beyond the dance, but rather the interaction and ability to pour into these students’ lives in a major way. The social media tags and messages I received during and after were met with my signature 100-watt smile of gratitude and pure elation. A trip I thought would prove quite possibly too exhausting, did exactly the opposite and I am so grateful for the experience.

Teaching is truly a gift that keeps on giving and I truly value the importance of it even while I continue making strides in my Hollywood career and beyond. Without a doubt, I must allow appropriate time to continue educating to help inspire dancers from all backgrounds and solidify my impact and legacy for future generations to come.
The Daily Breakfast: Mini frittatas and a mental health safety plan
By: Alexander Hardy
Tags: Daily Breakfast Situation, Cooking, Dance, Wellness, Mental Health

Mini frittatas/egg muffins/crustless quiche (image credit: IWashYouDry.com)

Welcome to the Daily Breakfast Situation, your morning check-in with recipe ideas, joy-flavored stories, and wellness tools to help you start the day with your spirit moisturized. Here is what you missed.

Breakfast doesn’t have to be decadent to be wonderful. Some days are about convenience. That’s why Saint Damita Jo invented mini frittatas, also known as egg muffins, also known as crustless quiches. Because she loves me.

What’s not to love about a mini frittata moment?

They’re portable.

They’re stackable.

They’re hard to mess up.

Each one is a new adventure.

They work as guilt-free snacks.

You get most of the quiche experience.

They’re as phat as big frittatas, but fun-sized.

You can cater to multiple tastes with one dish.

Tis yet another vehicle for smoked gouda consumption.

They can feed you for three to four mornings if refrigerated.

Everybody wins.

Once you have your eggs, spices, and muffin pan, in terms of magical outcomes, the limit does not exist. Experiment a little. Or stick to the spinach and the cheese that you’re used to.

It’s your world.

I Wash You Dry has three versions to get you started on your frittata journey.

Sweet Peas and Saffron has seven more flavor combinations.

Get more ideas on my AlexGottaEat Pinterest situation, which now has a breakfast board. Taddow.

A few things to moisturize your spirit:

First, dancing babies make everything better.

Visiting the Black People Dancing page will increase joy by 19.24%.

image by Meredith Digital Digital Design for Food & Wine

Shoutout to plantain.

Navigating life during the Rona is stressful as hell. Queering Psychology has a comprehensive rundown of things to consider for developing your Pandemic Mental Health Safety Plan.

Watch what had happened when these grandmothers tried each other’s grits:

Have you registered for our third Literary Therapy session this Sunday? Well, come on down. We’re exploring pleasure and playtime. And: ¡workbooks!

Don’t be a shitbag today, okay? Okay.

See you tomorrow.