Dear Dr. McMains, I recently read your book Glamour Addiction. It took me all of a few paragraphs for my eyebrows to go up, and all of five pages to grab a pencil, defacing the margins with comments like “YAASSS” and “yes this!” Allow me to explain. We have similar back-stories, Dr. McMains. I started [...]
Tag: dance culture
Hovering in the Wings
Good morning Readers, and welcome back to my dancing life. This weekend was another flurry of events--though no flurries of snow, thankfully. Let's dive right in, shall we? Friday night I DJ-ed another dance, this time the Winter Ball for the SU Ballroom Club. Lead-up to the event had been plagued with issues, and so [...]
Teaching and Culture: Ballroom vs. Ballet
Hello all! Good day and welcome back to my life. I've been thinking a lot recently about the culture differences between ballet and ballroom. As I gear up to teach another 'season', if you will, of the SU ballroom team, I reflect on what I've done in the past, as well as what bits I [...]
Teaching, Training, & Technique: Bows in Ballroom and Ballet
There are many differences, subtle and overt, between ballet and ballroom dance. As a student of both styles, I get to pick and choose which parts I like better. To me, one of the more irksome disparities is that of the manner in which people bow. Ballet, as an art, developed for the audience. In [...]
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