Dance

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi Seamos realistas y hagamos lo imposible (Let’s be realistic and accomplish the impossible) says the Argentinian-born revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. While our dance quests are not nearly as difficult as leading the guerrillas in South America, the journey of becoming a truly great performer does sometimes require BELIEVING IN THE IMPOSSIBLE. What […]

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi What’s it like to be a dancer and never enter a competition or a battle? It feels a little unnatural only to think about it, doesn’t it? I think it is in our blood to compete with our fellow dancers and not just to show off, but as a means of

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi What is the most colorful, energetic and extroverted dance style in the world? If I were to ask you that question, I am willing to bet that one of the most common answers I‘d get would be “Bollywood”. And I tend to agree. Our Top Pick: What To Look For  Sangeet

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi Tap Dance traces its origins in the United States and it was born as a result of the mixture of the African, Irish and English cultures at the beginning of the 19th century. Our Top Pick: How To Choose The Best Tap Dance Movies Tap Dance traces its origins in the

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi La Vida Es Un Carnaval says Celia Cruz and any Latin dancer takes her word for it. And it is great that they do because it is from that mind frame that the zestful choreographies they perform come from. Our Top Pick: Whenever I see someone dancing Salsa, it feels like I

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi The signature dance of the elite social classes, ballroom dance, used to belong to royalty and aristocracy. The earliest record of European ballroom dates back to 1588 in Jehan Tabourot’s dance study – Orchesographie. This style traces its roots in the highest strata of society, but it, fortunately, did not remain

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi When you have such a culturally rich era like the ‘20s and the ‘30s, tracing back the origin of famous dance styles is not too difficult. Lots of them were developed at that time. Our Top Pick: Back then, New York’s Harlem district was home to a new dance craze –

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi Great dancers usually start out their professional career when they are young, so it is important to have the right influences at the right time in order to get yourself inspired to pursue your path. Dancing is a tough career that takes up most of YOUR TIME, ENERGY and SOUL, so

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi During the Great Migration, African-Americans flocked to Chicago from the South and brought with them age-old jazz and blues… …The genre became more and more popular and soon Chicago turned into the home of a legendary jazz scene. With names like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong regularly performing

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi The 1970s came with their fair share of weird dance trends such as The Robot, The Bump, YMCA Dance, Funky Chicken Dance and of course, The Disco Finger.  Our Top Pick: These will always be remembered and occasionally re-enacted at nostalgic house parties. Apart from these funky flashbacks, as an era

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi Just like Hip-Hop, Breakdance is WILD and FUNKY, meant to make a statement and send a powerful message to the audience whenever performed. There is a never-ending discussion about the difference between these two styles, with lots of misunderstandings about both of them. Our Top Pick: Most myths will include radical

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi Hip-Hop dance is part of a culture that started off as an underground movement on the streets of the East and West American Coasts. With the rise of the Internet and especially with the rise of platforms like YouTube, Hip Hop dance turned from an extra part in music videos into

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi With the rise of streaming services such as Netflix, we are given a chance to become the next generation of cinephiles from the comfort of our own homes. Our Top Pick: This also means that watching a dance movie and dancing in front of the TV along with the characters is

Your Guide Alexandra Romanmi Cinematographic masterpieces will always be up there on a pedestal, waiting for us to get to them, to admire them, to talk about them. But never to move them from the PLACE THEY’VE EARNED in the film industry. Our Top Pick: How To Choose Best Dance Movie Of All Time Masterpieces will

Everybody loves gifts. It doesn’t really matter if you make a gift for someone you love or you receive one. The simple act in itself brings happiness to both sides all the time. But who started it? When did we begin thinking of giving someone something without expecting anything in return? Well, you may be

Strength, grace, femininity, sensuality and crazy acrobatics – this is what comes to MY MIND when I think of pole dancing (Please use coupon code “sportsgratitude” for 10% discount.). There is SO MUCH MORE to pole dancing than the usual associations we make between this style of dance and the nightclub industry. Your Guide  

Guess who made to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List? Tango DID. And it’s NO WONDER this wonderful style was included in the prestigious list. Tango is not just a dance or a MUSIC STYLE, it is a FEELING, it is history in MOTION. Your Guide    Alexandra Romanmi Recommendation For You: Born from a

Ballet dancers have Bolshoi theatre, contemporary dancers have Martha Graham Dance Company, Cabaret dancers have Moulin Rouge, Tap dancers have Broadway.. ..but what do Irish dancers have? They have The Lord of the Dance and Michael Flatley. Your Guide    Alexandra Romanmi Recommendation For You: Each and every dancer, regardless of the style they practice,

Born in the ‘20s, especially popular in the 1930s, DORMANT FOR FOUR DECADES, then revived in the 1980s, Lindy Hop seems to come from another planet. Its energy and crazy aerials, together with the vintage clothes and hairstyles, transport the audience a century back in time. And YES, we all want to go back to

We’ve all seen those famous dancing ballerina music boxes in movies. It somehow FEELS LIKE every little girl in American dramas has one. Your Guide    Alexandra Romanmi Recommendation For You: Well, I was a little girl once and a ballerina, but I never OWNED such a thing. I remember WISHING for one, but for