MEDIA PACK www.dance-today.co.uk [email protected] LETTERS NOTES FROM THE DANCEFLOOR NOTES FROM THE DANCEFLOOR REVIEWS highlight of this year’s arm above my head. It doesn’t the precise use of muscles. YOUR DANCE BY OUR ALL THE LATEST DANCE Sport Relief will really go above shoulder height, Her partner, Gary, describes NEWS AND VIEWS Notes from the ROVING Centre, Western Dance impress the judges RELEASES AND SHOWS A be a Strictly Come because of damage to my shoulder the process as “interpreting the REPORTERS STRICTLY AIR Centre, Heart and the following weeks of Dancing special starring four joint. But I can throw it above my music, looking at the fi gures that LETTERS DANCEFLOOR Brentwood Centre. We training in preparation REVIEWS of the Paralympic athletes who head – fl inging my arm over, if the standing couples would do. It AMBULANCE look forward to returning for the competition. competed at London 2012. movement doesn’t need to be very really is just having an open mind next year with another They each performed As with other Strictly specials, precise. Otherwise, it has to be about how you can recreate that, reunite with any former Kapral, dancing for Libman, from Israel, he ever-popular a fantastic night, which outstanding show!” two routines, a ballroom Stefani. Sexy Moves the celebrities will be paired done with my left arm, or my dance looking at the rhythms. In samba, STAR LETTER and then crutches, We have an ever- dancers and musicians THE CRYSTAL Poland. Ivan Novikov came third. In fourth Strictly Air wowed the 800-strong Six contestants and Latin dance of their FIRST STEPS is divided into fi ve with professional dancers partner needs to assist me, by you’re not using your feet, so Dear Editor and now a walking increasing ageing who can come and and Margarita Klimenko, place were Konstantin T Ambulance audience with some battled it out on the choice. Congratulations sections: Sexy Moves from the regular series. gently lifting my arm up. It’s about you can’t get the bounce action I might have been stick, I embarked population, so I help celebrate. Former PALACE CUP from Kazakhstan, came Gorodilov and Dominika starring Kevin Clifton fantastic dancing dancefl oor to try and to Sarah Cotton and Nicola Rayner tries out three For Beginners; Awaken Footballer David Clarke, looking at what parts of your body through your feet – but you can forgiven for having a on a gruelling rehab wonder if perhaps members, or anyone fourth; fi fth were Dmitri Bergmanova, from and Karen Hauer, and entertainment. her partner Petar DVDs from Learn Club Dance Your Hips; Flirty Booty wheelchair racer Hannah work, and how they work, then recreate it with the top of your wry smile at Channel session. Wayne Sleep could who would like to join, he Crystal Palace befi tted the reputations Kolabov and Signe Estonia; Malthe Brinch celebrity professional “The standard of Pavlovic, who were Moves; Transitions; Cockroft, javelin thrower Nathan putting that into the choreography.” body. If you’ve got the ability in 4’s Big Ballet, The exercises formulate a ballet can email bagman@ Cup registered of the competitors. Busk, dancing for Rohde and Sandra dancers on Strictly dance from both our crowned Strictly Air or those in need and a Bonus Sexy Stephens and sitting volleyball That also means making sure your top half, you can create presented by Wayne included some t’ai programme for ebormorris.org.uk T another The winners of the Denmark; and Pasquale Sorensen, from Come Dancing, came professional dancers Ambulance champions of a confi dence Moves Workout. player Martine Wright, who all that the dancer is secure and safe. almost the wave movement of the Sleep, except for the chi and basic ballet prime-timers? Not Anyone who would outstanding success World Open Standard Farina and Sofi e Koborg, Denmark, came fi fth; to the Brentwood and the contestants 2014! Runners-up F boost on the Though the competed for ParalympicsGB “If someone has spasticity in their bounce coming up through your fact I was halfway – and I can vouch for only would it be like further information this year. Held as usual event, in which there again dancing for and Evgeny Vinokurov Centre on March 7 for this year was truly were Debbie Ledwell dancefl oor, Learn Club instruction again was at the London 2012 games, will lower legs, you have to make sure body. That’s what judges will be through a 14-week the immense value of great for improving about Ebor Morris, or at the ILEC Conference were 38 entries, were Denmark, came sixth. and Christina Luft, from a breathtaking show. amazing; the bar has and her partner Ben Dance offers a host of clear and slow-paced, take on a group dance challenge, looking for, that you’re interpreting rehab session after these ballet exercises. fi tness, but it could dance-outs, including Centre in Earl’s Court, reigning champions Maxim Stepanov and Germany, were sixth. This fantastic evening certainly been raised Milan-Vega, and in third DVDs promising to whip the style of Sexy partnered by Karen Hauer, Pasha the rhythm of the music with the Dancing with an accident in which I I am now able to walk be big business in the York Traditional London, the event was Simone Segatori and Emma-Leena Koger, The championship of world-class dancing for 2015! It has been a place were Antonia you into shape. Of most Moves For The Kovalev, Iveta Lukosiute and parts of your body that work.” sustained two broken unaided, whereas at the future. It’s over Dance Festival on masterminded by Nick Annette Sudol, from dancing for Germany, saw 42 entries from and entertainment, pleasure to work with Price and her partner likely interest to Dance Club felt slightly Ian Waite. The judges will be “The body is The sport is divided into two ankles and cracked the start I couldn’t even to you, Wayne. September 6–7, Kremichenski and Germany; second, were triumphed in the World 20 countries. sponsored by Medical Chelmsford Dance Phillip Skinner from the Today readers is Dance dated – and, maybe Strictly’s Len Goodman, Bruno only a part of main categories. In duo dancing, disabilities ribs. After weeks and stand without holding Kenneth Lee, please email or visit Olga Komarova, whose Vaidotas Lacitis and Open Latin; Guillem The esteemed Aviation Services, was Western Dance Centre. the Night Away, which it’s a bit British and way of dancing is the Tonioli and Darcey Bussell, plus a dancer, you two wheelchair-users dance months on a Zimmer, on with both hands. Hove the website (www. meticulous attention to Veronika Golodneva, Pascual and Rosa adjudicators for the a huge success and The audience was is aimed at couples and a choreographed old-fashioned of me, most natural – to let ten-time Paralympic dressage together. In combi dancing, ebormorris.org.uk). detail always ensures a from Lithuania; and Carne, from Spain, came Crystal Palace Cup raised substantial treated to two show- taking their fi rst steps routine for weddings I didn’t feel entirely go and just have fun? champion Lee Pearson. have to look a wheelchair-user dances This year’s Sport Relief will The star letter in this issue wins a year’s subscription to Dance Paul Sanderson, fi rst-class presentation. third were Giuseppe second; and Jenya included Barbara funds for Essex stopping routines on to the dancefl oor – and special occasions. comfortable with the I fared better with The Paralympians are visiting at the whole with a standing partner. That feature a Strictly special, with Today and a copy of the book Sadler’s Wells: Dance House Ebor Morris A superb venue, Longarini and Katarzyna Suvorov and Jenya Nagode Ambroz Air Ambulance. from special guests “Partner dancing 101 The DVD is fi lmed forced sexiness of the Hip Hop: Basics and the world of dance, but there personality” decided, “We dance Latin Paralympians competing for Ebor Morris’s fi rst dance-out combined with a list of (Slovenia), Jurate Su Harrison from Kevin and Karen, plus, for beginners”, as it in what looks like a project – all the body- Beyond, a two-disc set are already plenty of dancers and ballroom, exactly as you Zoë in Upper Poppleton, May 1974 top WDSF adjudicators Norvaisha (Lithuania), Heart breakfast a stunning “samba describes itself. The New York bar and the stroking and booty- presented by Henninger, with disabilities out there, would in the standing world.” the glitterball trophy. Dear Editor May 1 this year, after original dancers) and terrifi c support from Harry Koerner hosted the show, with show” performance idea behind it is to teach instruction, which was shaking moves, even in assisted by a male and from competitive ballroom and Wheelchair dance beginners Anderson investigates dancing Forty years ago on 40 enjoyable years will dance at the many of the world’s (Germany), Svetlana the judging panel with Ben Milan-Vega novices easy, practical clear and steady in the privacy of my own a female dancer, who Latin wheelchair dancing to that their legs are strapped down,” dance three dances, the English for people with disabilities May 1, 1974, the newly dancing Cotswold and Lord Collingwood leading competitors, Tverianovich (Russian comprising Smoke and Kerry Dennehy. moves, which they can pace, would be suitable living room. I haven’t fi rst takes the building contemporary dance. Paula says Paula, ‘because the last thing waltz, quickstep and samba. “So formed Ebor Morris Yorkshire Longsword again from 8pm.