American Star Ball
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reb
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ChelD - Are you competing or working?
contracheck
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During the evening session?
contracheck
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Oh, thanks, Sami. Your blessing lifts my confidence. It's comforting to know than I have more true friends than I thought.
reb
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Contracheck - with a description like this, please don't leave us hanging.
How was it?
contracheck
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I did two showdances yesterday afternoon with my coach. Showdance is a funny thing. I thought that I'd have no problem with our Bolero titled "Camelot." I linked certain words in the music to our certain moves so I could have proper expressons. My partner, however, from early on, began to make moves that did not belong to the designated words. This sudden development put me in total disarray all the way to the end. I was in tail spin throughout. Evidently, it was only me who knew that we were screwing it up in a major way. We received rave reviews from the judges and audience. The second show was Paso, in which my partner was my wife and I was a General facing 10 times larger enemy in an epic battle many yrs ago. I worry about my wife being humiliated by the enemy after I was killed in the losing battle. In our show, I rush my horse home, reach an agreement with my wife to continue our life in heaven, have a nice final love dance in tears, then, in the second highlite, I stab her heart with a dagger. In other words, I do not kill the bull but kill my wife. To me, this was a very difficult dance and I could not get it right to the last minute. Besides, I was very tired because it was the last one after a long day's of seesawing competition against competent dancers. So, when our turn came, I was terrified with the thought of my mind going blank and just standing in the middle of the floor while the music was moving on mercilessly. To my great surpirse, however, we pulled off this showdance flawlessly. My coach was happy with the outcome. The response from the audience was very good. The judges gave us generous critiques. One judge, who runs the Ohio Star Ball and who gave us the highest mark among the three judges, told me personally that the dance was dramatic and I was a good showman. Showdance is a funny busines and it's full of surprises. I was so happy when the day was over.Contracheck - with a description like this, please don't leave us hanging.
How was it?
contracheck
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IMHO, ASB has dwindled to a small competition. I don't know if it was because summer or memorial day or Blackpool. Someone said that there were more judges than spectators. Some important divisions were cancelled due to scratches. A friend of mine said that he should have received a refund because the only reason he came was to watch his coach competed in the show dance div but it was cancelled. I saw Mazan Hamza, Steve Doherty, and the tall freindly male dancer from CT with a Scandinavian name for smooth, but, perhaps due to my limited exposure to dance world, I did not recognize any pros in Interantioal dances last night. A tall good looking couple from CT (I believe) with good tan won the Standard; boy, he was good looking and powerful. There was an amateure dancer named a certain Igor whom I knew when he was 7 yrs old. He is now a young man of a fierce dancer taking the 3rd Latin position. It really disgusted me that I may have to face him on a floor someday. There was plenty of general dancing last night to fill the time. It was good for seniors like myself because it was run in slow pace, rather than the crazy usual hectic sequesnce in other competitions. It was like family environment. Judging in the affectionate way Nancy Brown, the MC, calling off the names, she seemed to know most, if not all, dancers.