Ballet is not the only style of dance I wanted to explore. I was very much interested to try out different styles of dancing. For example, I've exposed myself to latin/ballroom dancing; R&B/ hip hop dancing; flamingco (spanish dancing); and contemporary dancing. I hope to experience more of the latin dances like Salsa!
During my Uni days, I was a free lance dance cheoreographer for the Singapore Students' Association (S.S.A.) and the Korean students' Association (K.S.A.). I used to perform in events like the Mambo night, Raffles ball, and other social events. It was mostly the effort of many thinking/ creative minds put together and copied and paste dance moves from MTV. It was the best time of my Uni days hey!
COME VIEW MY WORLD OF DANCING...........
I attend a ballet school in Perth called Dance Venture. Every year, the school will hold a Christmas/ end of year concert. In year 2004, our theme was "Swan Lake". Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures for that concert.
However in year 2005, I had pictures of the christmas concert entitled "Sleeping beauty". They'll be coming up after this...........
In year 2006 christmas concert, I was silly enough not to take pictures. The theme was "Alice in Wonderland". I wasn't in that act.....however, I was previllaged enough to work with Pippa (ex-student of dance venture who taught in Hamburg, Germany dance academy). I was in her dances called "Requiem", "Wrong note rag" (both were contemporary dances) and we did a scene from "West side story" we were the "Bernstein dancers". In addition, I was in a latin/R&B dance item with 4 other dancers (song by R Kelly "Burn it up").
Here are the pictures for the 2004 "Sleeping beauty" concert.........
From what I remember, I was the pink fairy (pink costume) and a snow flake (white costume).
And here are my fans for that year.............
My very close colleague at work, Margaret (She's my teacher assistant at school)............
Auntie Margaret and her son, Kristos; my parents.......
And last but not least my bubs was my BIGGEST fan!
Besides participating in the year end ballet concerts, I also danced in a benefit concert on the 8th of July 2006. This was held in the dance venture studio.
This is Kate and I rehearsing before the real thing.......
My mum and my bubs came to watch.
Once a year, Dance Venture will participate in fun fairs to promote our ballet school. Here is a latin/R&B dance we performed. Of course my bubs was there to support me. I was pleased to see some of my students from East Kenwick Primary School coming to watch too!
Moving onto my latin/ballroom dancing.......I started learning about 5 or 6 years ago. I was with Fantasia dance studio in Claremont. Ian and Leonie Evans (husband and wife) were my teachers.........very strong, passionate and capable couple. They guided me through all my medals. In between those medal, I've participated in the Medal days at the Embassy ballroom where you compete with dancers from other dance schools.
Not many pictures to show though....mainly I've got movie clips. As I've mentioned before, hope I'll be able to put them onto my blog in the near future.These are the dances I've learnt-
- Modern- Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Quickstep.
- Latin- Cuban rumba, Samba, Cha cha, Jive, Pasa Doble.
- New Vogue- Parma Waltz, Merrilyn, Evening 3 step, Pride of Erin, Tangoette, Gypsy Tap, Lucille Waltz, Charmaine, Tracie Leigh Waltz, La Bomba, Carousel, Swing Waltz, Barclay Blues and Twlight Waltz.
- Modern- Bronze, Bronze cross, Silver, Silver cross and Gold.
- Latin- Bronze, Bronze star, Silver, Silver star, Gold and Gold Star.
- New Vogue- Bronze, Bronze bar, Silver, Silver bar, Gold, Gold bar and Gold star
During this medal examination, I was marked by the president of the D.M.I.A. How nerve wrecking!!!! In the end, I got to take a picture with her and she kindly gave me distinction for all my dances. Hooray!!!!
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dats really informative & interesting !!
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