Recent content by Bailamosdance

Pro is a financial designation; Senior is age related. ALL dancers become Senior dancers; "Senior" dancers like Mirko and Edita and Katusha and Arunas win world championships. The quality of dance is sometimes age related. Senior bodies often have so many years of training that they can...

Call me crazy to be suspicious, but after ONE lesson, your 'pro' tells you to sign up for competition? Guess meeting his sales quota is more important than recommending you take, say, a few more lessons, before you spend $$$$s on 'competition'?

Yes. He claimed ISTD credentials but he had never taken any sort of ISTD exams, ever. Additionally he claimed that he won a blackpool event as a junior, which was easily proven false.

Where the credentials allegedly come from. In the last USA Dance election, it was discovered that a candidate running for president had lied about his credentials - they were a long list of certifications that, upon checking, were fraudulent. FYI he was taken off the ballot (but curiously...

Does anyone else get the feeling you’re being trolled here? Somebody comes on and says things like “ Music is just soothing noise” about an artform that clearly interacts with the world of music, Watch some videos and decide that the people making the video can somehow be judged by this absolute...

NYC and North Jersey, BTW, is the unofficial 'capitol' of the Ballroom dance world - it is filled with top coaches (and dancers). Katusha Demidova (10x Blackpool Champion) is at Rogers Dancesport in Fairfield, NJ, for instance; so is Diana McDonald (World 10 dance Champion). do they have enough...

This is a demonstration at a workshop - the crowd is clapping on the beat, probably on the behest of the instreuctor as part of the demonstration - and the looks on their faces is the look of students watching and internalizing what they are seeing from the world class dancers who they have paid...

I no longer compete, but based on the chaos currently happening there, I would never recommend a USAD event over a college or NDCA event. Politics have taken over, the org never communicates with the dance world at large, and people routinely quit after only a short time 'in office'. You...

Here is the email. Current numbers are seen if you are a member, on their website. RE: USA Dance National COVID-19 Guidance to Chapters Chapters have requested guidance on when they should resume holding in person events in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic. As I'm sure you are aware the...

With social dances run by Chapters not possible and ordered not to happen by an email sent to all Chapters today from the President, there are zero incentives for social dancers to rejoin USA Dance. Two months ago, the President emailed the membership that there will also be no 'magazine', even...

A ‘dancer for hire’ only has to be as good as the person who hires them, and rotating dance after dance is a matter of stamina not quality. In fact, social dancing endlessly is a certain recipe for mediocrity - there’s an old cliché the social dancers basically know four or five simple...

Thanks, bocelli, for the info. I had no idea that i was not supposed to be dancing to jazz music, me being a ballroom dancer and all. I'll make sure to stop that today.

"the black people"... really? :(

Many dance communities thrive and expect couples to only dance with each other - competitive dance for example, or performance. Why does it bother you that they are out enjoying dance 'their way'?

Once again the entire executive Council of this organization is populated by people who’ve been appointed by each other, there are no elected officials in the leadership.