Dance Category Competitions Sunday, February 25, 2007
This dance competition took place right across the street from where I live, so I had to go and check it out. Also this gave me a chance to check out Roseland Ballroom to which I have not been before. Thanks to Bill, into whom I bumped into when walking back home, for reminding me about the event.
This was a two-day event taking place on both Saturday and Sunday. Today they had amateur, pro-am and professional international Latin championships in both youth and adult categories as well as one round of professional American ballroom. It was so cute to see the pro-am youth division competitors like this. I was very impressed by the youth amateur division. They were so good, pretty much as good as the adult professionals!
Out of all competitors that evening the only one that I knew was Mica. I've known her for years but it was my first time to see her dance at a competition and wow, now I can see how good she is! I took a bunch of photos of her starting from this one. Unfortunately a bunch of photos in semifinals were taken at 640x480 resolution. Somehow I switched my camera to that mode by mistake. The final round was shot at 8 MP though. Click on the photo to see the rest of them. Saturday, February 4, 2006 
Well the size of this blog entry has exceeded the maximum allowed by the Fotki blog feature, so I created a separate blog dedicated to Dancing With The Stars. The blog has a separate entry for each eposode so you can leave comments just for that episode.
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The videos from the Dance Off have been posted here. Scroll down to Dance Off section.
October 1 Update: Added professional performances from the Results Show. Saturday, September 3, 2005
During the Labor Day weekend was the annual New York Salsa Congress which was held at the Hilton Hotel. The format of the event was similar to last year - every night there was a salsa show and general dancing. One difference was that the shows took place in the main ballroom instead of in a separate smaller room. Although there was no social dancing at the same time as the shows took place, the good thing was that there were plenty of seats for everyone to see the show and the view of the stage was much better than last year. After the shows were over at around 11 PM, they cleared all the chairs and made the giant ballroom available for social dancing to the sounds of live bands. Here are some photos that I took during the show on Friday. Some people who wanted special attention danced on the carpet in the foyer of the ballroom. They were surrounded by the crowed of people with camcorders. Here are my video clips:
Here is a cute Salsa Pas De Trois:
The other good thing about the shows being held in the main ballroom is that the room that was used for the show last year served a different purpose this year. It was used for the first annual New York Hustle Congress. It was great to be able to go back and forth between the Salsa and Hustle. I am also glad that Hustle was being exposed to the Salsa crowd who may have never heard about it. The Hustle Congress consisted of general dancing, shows and competitions.
Here is the video of the winners of the Theater Arts division - Kelvin Roche and Lori Ann Greenhouse:
The second place was taken by Louie and Ann Rosa. Here is the video:
Friday, January 14, 2005
Official MAC 2005 postcard designed by Elaine Tin Nyo
In photo: Inna and Pasha from MAC 2004 by Igor Ofenbakh.
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Manhattan Amature Classic (MAC) is an annual ballroom dance competition held in (you guessed it) Manhattan. This year is the 15th anniversary of this competition. It was held at Lerner Hall at Columbia University. It is a three-day event. I went to the first two - on Friday and Saturday.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Tuesday, April 6, 2004
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I had a fabulous time at the 5th Annual International Hustle and Salsa Competition held in Deauville Resort Hotel in Miami, Florida. I arrived on Thursday, April 1st and stayed there until April 5th. Every day except for the last I was dancing. I was competing on Friday and did social dancing on other days. I have never danced so much before. I really think my dancing improved a lot just from such an intense practice. The weather was beautiful compared to New York City. While taking a break from dancing I enjoyed my time in the hotel's pool and jacuzzi as well as swimming in the ocean and relaxing on the beach.
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Professional Hustle
Professional Hustle Jack and Jill
Cabaret Division
Salsa
Amature Jack & Jill
Social Dancing
Scores Saturday, November 1, 2003 Friday, October 10, 2003 One more dance competition today. This time Stepping Out Studios invited all of their past 1st place Jack and Jill winners of 2003 to compete with each other at the Jack and Jill Grand Slam. Jack and Jill competitions are where you don't know in advance what partner you are going to dance with. The names of the partners are pulled out from the hat right before dancing starts. This time, not even the partner was unknown until the event, but so were the dances. Three random dances were chosen from the hat and they turned out to be Swing, Cha cha and Rumba. Me and my random partner ended up taking the first place.
I guess now that I got the total scholarship of $150 from the studio, I'll take some classes there. Saturday, October 4, 2003 
On October 4 Stepping Out Dance Studios held it's 2nd Collegiate Big Apple Octoberfest. I did not plan to compete and just came there to watch. But before the competition started I was approached by one of the teachers there and she asked me to dance with this girl I have never seen before. Ofcourse I agreed and danced couple of practice dances. She was pretty good and we competed in Bronze Cha Cha and Rumba. The funny thing is that we ended up taking 1st place out of 4 couples.
Well, some things are best done on a spur of a moment!
Here are some photos and videos at the comp that I took with my camera. There was someone else taking pictures. I hope to get a hold of this guy and ask him to give me copies so I can see what I looked like.
Saturday, April 26, 2003
Well, believing or not, I did it! For years I have been avoiding dance
competitions, but finally I participated at the
Rutgers University Dancesport Competition held on April 26. Me and my
partner from the NYU ballroom team Katherine Herink did pretty well,
considering we have not been practicing that much. We got the 7th place in
International Waltz, 6th places in International Tango and Quickstep, and
the 2nd place in Mango which is a fun dance a combination of Mambo and
Tango where they switched the music from one to another and you had to make
smooth transitions from one to the other. Katherine and I competed in Bronze
level. We did all dance types: American Smooth, American Rhythm,
International Standard, and International Latin. The competition went from
8:30 in the morning until 9:30 at night! That was a lot of dancing! As much
as I like social dancing, I have to say that dance competitions are fun as
well. They give you a chance to really show off and look your best!
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DCDI is the annual collegiate dancesport competition held at the University Of Maryland. This year it was a two-day event with plenty of dancing. Me and my partner Jaime got placed in 3rd through 6th place depending on the dance.
