Life is a State of Mind » Dance

This is the tango I want to do

snolan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:32:37 +0000

Tim and Pam introduced me to it, and it looks amazing:

For those who cannot see the embedding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZnkyjqaBo

Enrique De Fazio & Guillermo De Fazio are amazing, and fun!

Dressed up all in black

snolan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:21:50 +0000

My half-hearted attempt to be a beatnik for tonight’s sock-hop and 1950s party at the Tyson’s Corners’ Dance Studio. Black pants (could not find black jeans), black turtle neck, black button down over it, gelled hair. I don’t own any birth control glasses (military issue like Elvis Costello wears) anymore, or I’d switch to those today.

Could not find Johnny Cash’s “Man in Black” on Ruckus, so I am listening to The Doors to get my beatnik mind on.

It is raining heavily which helps a lot, perhaps I can recite some poetry later.

Who comes up with these costume party ideas anyway?

Weekend Update

snolan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:18:51 +0000

It was a pretty spectacular weekend. Friday night after work I hit The Ballroom Studio for one last practice for showcase routines with Michele and Cassandra and attended the dance party. Saturday, Erci and I hit practices with our different formation teams, and I snagged lunch with Pranu; then Saturday night was the big showcase event at The Ballroom Studio where Dave amazed us all with his “Big Spender” routine and the ladies stole the show with their “Candyman” diva (all-girl) routine. I had trouble with timing my West Coast patterns with “Give Me One Reason” by Tracy Chapman and was so excited I did not really hear any music at all in my Mambo to “Ran Kan Kan” by Tito Puente.

Drunken ribeye and Malbec were an awesome way to end the evening talking to dancers and Eve about her upcoming trip to Japan. Mentioned to her the trip we did in 2005, documented here in detail.

Sunday we spent skimming leaves out of the pool, raking leaves out of the heater/air-conditioner mechanicals, and doing yard work preparing for the changing seasons, then ran a few errands we needed to get done. We curled up to catch up a little on TrueBlood episodes.

Freestyles Photos

snolan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:43:03 +0000

I danced this past weekend at Arthur Murray Fall Freestyles and took a few photos with my partner’s excellent Canon Rebel XTi. Pictures are up at my MobileMe Gallery. I have not had time to edit them much or write about the weekend, but it was fun.