When I first started social dancing, salsa in my case, I was oblivious to the idea of a dance freestyle night. I went along for a class night which was held in a dance studio and when the two classes beginner and intermediate finished there was no dancing afterwards. Everyone just headed off to the…
Broadening musical tastes in modern jive
One of the great things about modern jive is the music. Because it can be danced to any music – from golden oldie to contemporary pop, from dance to latin. While main room music tends to stick to a similar 4 count beat, within a tempo range, more and more modern jive organisations offer specialist…
Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella at the Birmingham Hippodrome
After years of ballet lessons and going to see the ballet, it has been some time since I’ve been to big ballet production. I’d managed to buy tickets for the last night of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella at the Birmingham Hippodrome and Saturday was our time to go. I quite often go to the theatre on…
The best dance ads of the last few years
While most people attempt to dance at some point in their lives, even if it’s just a shuffle round their handbags in a club, or a bit of a dad dance, there’s not enough dance on television in my opinion. This has been increasing in recent years (especially if you’ve got more than Freeview on…
3 rooms of dance heaven at Ceroc Passion Daventry
It’s not often I have friends to go along to dancing with, but for the October Daventry Blue and sparkle freestyle run by Ceroc Passion, I had 2 dancing friends in tow. Neither of them have been dancing regularly for a while, and certainly hadn’t been to a Daventry event for a long time so…
Does Ceroc music deserve its bad reputation?
The music played at any dance venue plays a big part in a person’s enjoyment of the class or event. In particular once people have been dancing a while they seem to get more discerning, helped by them quite often wanting more of a challenge. I know for me dancing to salsa music all the…
Dance blogs you should read or follow
When I started this blog, there was only one other standalone modern jive blog which launched around the same time. Ok, so some modern jive organisations have a few articles on their websites but none seemed to be regularly updated. With lots of discussions going on in Facebook groups or forums about modern jive, I…
