Happy
birthday wishes to Dorin Delnevo, Louis
DelPrete, Bonnie Rowe, Andy Sessa,
Mary
Piazza, Diane K
Nardone, Patty McConnell,
Dave
Muzzi, Kathy
Austin, Maria Torres, Debra Hampton,
John
Russomanno, Susan Riccio, Ted Kauffman, Harris
Sulken
and Cat Tito.
Our heart felt condolences go out to Karen Pomager and her family. Her
mother
passed away
this past week.
Please keep
them in your
thoughts and prayers.
Dance organizer/DJ/ Singer, birthday boy Louis Del Prete, will
be
in the LA studio audience for this weeks
"Dancing With
The
Stars".He is a personal guest of the beautiful dance star Karina
Smirnoff. Speaking of DWTS,
rumor
is that Olympic
athlete
Misty May-Treanor will be quitting the show. The
beach
volleyball player has an injury to her Achilles tendon.
Pictures from Audrey Rigsbee's birthday dance, courtesy of Scott
Michielli,
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Performing to Walk This Way, New Jersey's own, Brian Fortuna and his
partners continue to energize Englands version of DWTS
called "Strictly
Come Dancing". Here is a
video of
Brian with Kristina & Haley, performed on the
results
show in the U.K. last week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF_mk0SGgG0
Every Monday night in October, it's DJ Nelson "Paradise" Roman at
Dancesport in NYC. The ultimate hot spot for hustle
dancing.
Located at
22 West 34th St. East Entrance
4th Fl
between 5th & 6th avenues. http://www.dancesport.com
The 2008 Holiday Spectacular is Saturday night December 6th at the
Stardust Ballroom in Bellmawr NJ.. Get ready for the biggest
one night
gathering and the annual dance contest when we crown the King &
Queen of hustle-plus many surprises. DJ Mark will
be spinning
the
tunes. Save The Date.
So much to see at the Hustle Hall Of fame. Lots
of new
videos, pictures and biographies of the hustle legends and the new
stars.
Go to http://www.hustlehalloffame.com
November 29th, Saturday night, is the launch of a new monthly dance
social hosted by hustle specialist Donna DeSimone at
DanceSport
in NYC. Hustle, Swing, Latin and more with DJ Johnny "O".
More
details coming soon.
Great images from Celie's birthday celebration at Michael's Cafe,
courtesy of Fred,
http://whatsnew.fredf.fotki.com/
This weeks edition of DanceTalk is sponsored by the Tampa Bay Classic
Swing Dance Championships.
See all the
details at http://www.tampabayclassic.com/
Make it a great week,
Ron
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Dance Trivia
* US Professional Latin American Champions Corky & Shirley
Ballas
held the title for four years in a row from 1986 to 1990.
Corky is now
rocking on "Dancing With The Stars".
* In 1982, the hustle preliminary's for the New York Harvest
Moonball were held at Roseland. The 12 semi finalists moved
onto the
finals in Madison Square Garden. First place winners
were
Kenny Gonzales & Laudes Jones, 2) Arte
Philips
& Maria
Torres,
3) Stevie Mitchell
& Lisa Ciao,
4) Ron Bess & Lisa Zimmerman.
* Since Tony Dovolani retired undefeated in the Pro American Style
Rhythm division, (consumed with Dancing With The Stars),
the new
reigning champs are Jose DeCamps & Joanna Zacharewicz
from
New York.
* The Electric Circus discotheque opened in New York
City in
1967. It was one of the first clubs to have a
DJ. Downstairs from
the Electric
Circus
was club "La Dom". It was run by world renown artist,
Andy
Warhol.
* Napoleon & Tabitha D'Umo (So You Think You Can
Dance)
have chalked up television & film
credits
including "Zoey 101," "
The Grammy's,"
"Billboard Music
Awards,"
"Soul Train" & "Legally Blonde."
They choreography
for the Chicago Bulls, Orlando
Magic, Dallas
Cowboys and
the Denver Broncos
* In 1975, Van McCoy staged a disco show at New York's Avery
Fisher Hall with a complete orchestra, string
section, dancers
and
all. This followed the release of his number one song, "The hustle,"
which later earned him a Grammy.
* Rufus Dustin could do it all. He won the Professional Theatrical
title in 1975 with Donna Van Camp then returned to win
again, two
years
in a row, 1979 and 1980 with Marianne Nicole. Rufus is
still active in the dance world and resides in
Florida.
* The motion picture "Saturday Night Fever" grossed over $32 million in
ticket sales in just the first 26 weeks in 1977. The
movie was
rated R when first released and was banned in Malaysia. In 1978 an
edited version of the movie was released, rated
PG-13.
* Pierre Dulaine introduced his "Dancing Classrooms" to the New York
School district. His life was featured in the motion picture
"Take The
Lead". The program today is in 233 NY City Public Schools reaching over
30,000 children and in 7 other cities
around
the
country. In
January 2009, they will be adding 6 more
cities.
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Its only 5 weeks away. Time to relax in Tampa at the annual Tampa Bay
Classic Swing Dance Championships. It all takes place November
13
- 16th, at the Biltmore Hotel & Resort. 4 days of
dancing with
over 35 hours of social dancing, competitions in Jack & Jill,
Pro/Ams, Classic divisions, Rising
Star, Pro
Strictly Swing, Invitational Jack & Jill Tournament
and Exhibitions. $108.00 per night - 1-800-237-8947The
Biltmore
Hotel is Sold Out, The Hampton Hotel is the overflow hotel:
1-727-585-3333. It is 7 minutes away and
they offer shuttle service. Event director Phil Dorroll
invites
you for an unforgettable weekend of dance fun, including
the Newcomer Boot Camp, Saturday afternoon at the
Pool
with volleyball, contests and a cookout. A volleyball
Challenge II
(Pros vs Ams) and mixed Bag Jack & Jill (Late Night - 1:00
AM), and a Golf Tournament on Monday morning! Check out the
talented staff: Robert & Nicola Royston (Robert
-Emcee), Jordan Frisbee & Tatiana Mollmann, Parker
Dearborn
& Jessica Cox, Robert Cordoba & Deborah Szekely, Beata
Howe
(Chief Judge) , Christopher Hussey & Katrina Branson , Terry
Roseborough,
Jason Miklic & Sophy Kdep, Michael Kielbasa & Jen
DeLuca ,
Kevin Fitzhugh & Tammy Brown, Fred & Tina Price, Johnny
Permar
& Lisa Marion, Shawn Swaithes & Donna Bonham
Steinfeld,
Keith Gussoni & Celeste Pfefferle , Robin Smith , Mike Topel
(Emcee), Doug Rousar, Danielle Blouin, Rick Weston,
Teddy
Kern (Judge) , Paul Stewart (Judge), Bill Cameron, Ramiro Gonzales,
Brennar Goree & Torri Smith .
Top National DJ's include: Victor Loveira, Ray
Coker, Earl
Yeomans, April Prince, Bobby Caudill, Fred
Price
and Kelly Faust
Get out of the cold and into the heat at Tampabay Classic for all the
details visit the website.
http://www.tampabayclassic.com/
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Letters to the Editor
(our goal is to post readers letters twice a month,
unfortunately due to space limitations we can not publish them all)
Good morning Ron,
I have been reading your dance report for ever. I wanted to
tell
you that I checked out the website for Lisa Nunziella and was
excited. I didn't know that is who she is. Let me
explain. Over the years that I read dancetalk I would see her
name
pop up. But just figured she was some dancer from California. No big
deal. Then I watched that video and said, I can't believe it, that is
the girl from Alexis dance studio. I knew her first name as Lisa but
didn't realize it was the same person. Very cool. She use to dance with
many of my friends and was the smallest girl out there-I also knew
one of her dance partners Danny. He was a great person, it is
very
sad that he is know longer with us. It is great to see that
she
has accomplished so much.
thanks,
Rosie
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Hi Ron,
That was a nice piece on the discotheques. It brought
back some old memories and a club that I had gone to
that you
did not mention. Plato's Retreat was a crazy club. It was a membership
adult club for swingers, not dancers but real swingers. Some of the
things that went on there-and too graphic to
write about. I worked for a beverage distributor and we delivered there
on weekend mornings. The management was very nice and would
give
us free ViP passes. This place had the most incredible music
and
sound system. My ears would be ringing for the next week. They
also had dancers on Saturday nights do
shows. When you
talk about wild clubs like Studio 54, they were quite tame compare
to this place-was unbelievable.
Regards,
Vinci Togley
--
Hi friends-a big thank you to all for celebrating my birthday
last week! Special thanks to my good friend Alan for the
planning, (and the cake was yummy!)-to Mark for making sure the
timing and the music was perfect-to Jen for her thoughtfulness,
(cute napkins!)-to Scott for capturing my joy in
pictures-to Ron Bess who keeps us all in the know-and to
all the guys and gal who made my birthday dance so much fun!
Susan Edelstein
--
HELLO RON
I ENJOY YOUR DANCETALK, THANK YOU FOR SENDING IT TO ME. I ATTENDED A
GREEK FESTIVAL LAST WEEKEND, DIVISION OF NEW YORK HUNTER
COLLEGE. THERE WERE MANY YOUNG COLLEGE DANCERS DOING THE
HUSTLE
DANCE. THEY WERE REALLY HAVING FUN THE ONLY THING WAS - NOT AS
MANY BOY DANCERS TO LEAD THE GIRLS. THE KIDS IN THE FRATERNITIES LOVE
TO HOLD PARTIES AND DANCE. I AM A JUNIOR AND IT WOULD BE NICE FOR THEM
TO LEARN MORE DANCE STEPS AT SCHOOL.
KEEP UP GOOD WORK,
ELAINE ZHANG
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