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modernjive.com Newsletter
- May 7 2009
"If the dance is right, there
shouldn't be a single superfluous movement." Fred Astaire
* New or
Moved Clubs
* New DVD: Ladies' Styling Volume 1 - from Bev
* Weekenders, Holidays & Competitions
Dubai, Cyprus, Stoke-on-Trent
* Sad News about Frankie Manning
* Dance DVDs
New: Ladies' Styling, Viktor (Style, Freestyle Moves,
Crowd-Pleaser Moves), Australian (Very) Close Moves, UK Smooth - Step
It Up!
* Information Sources
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Information
provided by event organizers - please confirm or discuss details with
them!
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Please
Help Me Keep The Maps Up To Date!
Please let me know of any errors in
the maps at http://www.modernjive.com
for
your area.
The feedback I am getting says that they are a great
way to finding new places to dance during the week.
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New or Moved Clubs
Spain:
JiveBoogie
Estepona, Marbella,
Costa del Sol
Modern Jive Dance Workshops and Personal Tuition. Check the Web site for
details.
http://www.jiveboogie.com/
Move to the Music
Calahonda
(between Marbella and Fuengirola), Costa del Sol
Freestyle dance on alternate Fridays. Check the Web site for details.
http://www.movetothemusic.net/
UK:
Added to the UK maps at http://www.modernjive.com
since
the last newsletter:
Kingswood - Simply LeRoc
Every Friday at Kingswood Village Hall, Waterhouse Lane, Kingswood,
Surrey KT20 6EB
http://www.simplyleroc.co.uk/
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New DVD: Ladies'
Styling Volume 1 - from Bev
Nail those spins, funk up your
footwork, look and feel fabulous on the dance floor.
This DVD
shows you the secrets and tips to fabulous Ladies' Styling.
Suitable for
all levels from Beginner to Advanced - you will all learn from this
fabulous teaching.
Buy this DVD
for all your girl-friends - an ideal gift for any dance addict!
Bev, the Jive Diva, has been dancing and teaching Modern Jive for 15
years. She collaborates and teaches with many independent jive
companies, including Revolution Dance, Jive Addiction and Rock Bottoms.
Bev is taking the UK by storm with her extremely popular Ladies'
Styling Workshops.
This DVD shows you the secrets and tips to fabulous Ladies' Styling.
Discover the secret to great posture and poise; vamp and strut across
the dance floor with confidence and attitude; and learn some great
styling for "spare arm syndrome". Learn how to spin without getting
dizzy, including spotting and cross jump turns, and then practise your
body isolations.
Bev teaches
you how to incorporate each new styling into your beginner moves, to
help you revamp and re-energise your dancing.
Bev's passion for dance lies in the psychology entwined with partner
dancing: the non-verbal, ménage à trois relationship
between the dancers, the music and the motion. Her background in Dance
Movement Therapy gives her teaching an explorative approach into
non-verbal movement and intention.
Remember, "A man's job: make the woman FEEL good, a woman's job: make
the man LOOK good!"
Contents:
- Warm Up
- Confidence
& Attitude
- Vamping &
Strutting
- How to Spin
- Body Isolations
- Styling the
Beginner Moves
- Freestyle &
Conclusion
Available now from modernjive.com
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Weekenders, Holidays
& Competitions
Just added to the list at modernjive.com:
DesertJive:
Mon 26 Oct to Sun 1 Nov 2009, Dubai
From the CerocArabia Team:
CerocArabia has decided to stage its first International Dance Event -
DesertJive.
Going ahead will depend on the response from dancers in the UK and we
only have 6 months to get it together, but we've decided to at go for
it and see what the interest is.
We have sourced a Flight/Hotel deal with a UK agent and can offer a
price just GBP 690 per person, based on 4 people sharing a self
catering apartment, very much as they do at Camber (although Dubai of
course will be less basic.) Dance workshops (the likes of Ceroc, Swing,
Ballroom), food and other activities will incur extra charges but this
is a great deal!
Flights: Virgin Atlantic from London departing on the evening of Sun 25
Oct arriving in Dubai on the morning of Mon 26 Oct 2009. Departure back
to London will be on Mon 2 Nov.
The unusual Monday arrival and Departure days ensures the cheapest
possible flights. Other combinations are available at additional cost
if you wish to arrive back in the UK say Sunday night.
Hotel: Golden Sands Serviced Apartments, Bur Dubai
Using a similar program to Medfest Spain, it will consist of Daily
workshops for around 2 hours, with rest of the time to yourselves. Plus
most evenings we'll have fun classes and of course freestyle around
town, with a Halloween Ball on Sat 31 October. We will of course
organise a program of optional pay as you go/in advance holiday
activities.
We are looking to do something on a small scale to start with. Our
target is for at least 20 UK Dancers to come over. We will of course
incorporate Dubai and Abu Dhabi based dancers into the event, plus we
have some interest from Australia. So we're looking for at least 100
for the whole event.
We require a Deposit of GBP 100 to secure a place. To guarantee the
prices we've sourced this is due within the next 2 weeks (20 May) but
definitely by the end of May. The balance is due 8 weeks prior to
departure. i.e. by the end of August.
Are you interested? Respond NOW to info@cerocarabia.com
or cerocarabia@gmail.com - we need to know by the end of May.
CerocArabia Team http://www.cerocarabia.com/
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Dance
Holiday: 11-18 October 2009, Cyprus
Jive Addiction
http://www.jiveaddiction.com/
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Midlands
Ceroc Champs IV 2009: 21 November 2009, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Ceroc Midlands
http://www.cerocmidlands.co.uk/midlandschamps.htm
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2009
Dates
Whether you want
sunshine, skiing or cruising, or just lots of dancing, you will find
plenty of choice, all over the world.
Over 50 events now listed for
2009! Check modernjive.com for the details.
Note to
organisers:
Is your event listed at modernjive.com?
If not, please send me the details (with up to 500 characters
of description).
(But please check first at modernjive.com - you may be
listed already!)
We do not list
individual workshops or freestyles - they are listed well at lots
of other sites (see the bottom of this note for a list).
Events in this list are Competitions, Dance
Holidays, and major Weekend Events: ones with multiple workshops from
multiple
teachers, together with an evening dance.
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Sad News about Frankie Manning
You probably wouldn't be dancing Modern Jive/LeRoc/Ceroc today if it
hadn't been for people like Frankie Manning. He was there in the
1930s in Harlem when Lindy Hop was being developed! See http://www.frankie95.com/history.php
and http://www.modernjive.com/history/history2.html
for lots more background information.
Frankie Manning passed away Monday morning, April 27, in New York
surrounded by his family and friends.
Frankie made it clear that if he didn't make it to his birthday
festival, he wanted everyone to celebrate his life rather than mourn
his passing.
At the Frankie 95 Birthday Festival, May 21-25 2009 in New York, they
will be honoring Lindy Hop's greatest ambassador. The Festival
will allow the swing dance community to come together in Frankie's
hometown, the birthplace of Lindy Hop, to grieve, to heal and to
celebrate his life in a way that will pay tribute to this extraordinary
man.
So that anyone who wants to be a part of this momentous occasion should
be allowed the opportunity, they are reopening registration and
encouraging everyone to make the journey to New York City for the
greatest celebration of Frankie and the gift of his life.
Details at http://frankie95.com/registration.php
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Dance
DVDs
Choose from over
50 DVD titles,
covering Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Dips & Drops, Close
Moves, Hot Moves, Lifts & Aerials, Style & Musicality, Ladies'
Styling, Jango,
Latin for Jivers, Double
Trouble and Weekenders.
Details
of all these great DVDs are at http://www.modernjive.com
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New DVDs
Click
on the images to get these great DVDs - buy online from modernjive.com
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Club
Organisers: Price reduction:
Please note that the packs of 10 Beginner DVDs (for only £74) and
10
Modern Jive Toolkits (for only £104) can be purchased on the
Web
site - down at the bottom of the list of DVDs.
Note:
You can pay online
(credit card/debit card/PayPal)
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Modern Jive Freestyle
and Workshop Information
Sources
Worldwide:
Lists of Dance Weekends, Dance
Holidays, Modern Jive Clubs across the UK and around the world at http://www.modernjive.com
UK Jive: Jon White's site at http://www.uk-jive.co.uk
has
class and event listing for the whole
of the UK. The information is
provided by the
dance organizations - if you run one make sure you have your
information on the site!
Bristol
(and surrounding area): http://www.leroc-in-bristol.co.uk/
Kent,
Surry & Sussex: Jive Hive - http://www.jivehive.co.uk
Kingdom of
Dance: As well as a great
selection of
shoes, the site also has a dance diary at http://www.kingdomofdance.co.uk/
London
& the South Coast: Lynda's
List - http://www.lyndaslist.com/
Midlands: contact Wes on Wes@jivestyle.co.uk
or 07973 254195 for a monthly listing of what's on
SalsaJive: http://www.salsajive.co.uk/
has a
goal to bring comprehensive, up-to-date and independent listings of
clubs/classes, special events, news and more, for the UK. The site is
free to use and is run by dancers, for dancers.
South Wales & surrounding area:
http://www.planetleroc.biz for
information and events
South West: http://www.southwestswing.org.uk/
Southern UK Jivers Calendar: http://www.southernjive.co.uk
Forums:
Ceroc Scotland Forum
LeRoc in Bristol Forum
UK Jive Forum
Are there any more Modern Jive
information sources that I should list here?
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Happy dancing,
John
John Sweeney, Dancer
john@modernjive.com
http://www.modernjive.com