Big Apple Dancesport Challenge @ Columbia 2008, NYC

Congratulations to everyone who went to the competition at Columbia on December 7th. Highlights included the ridiculously fabulous show by Hanna & Slavik, and Arunas & Katusha, bubble tea, and the convenience of being in NYC. Thanks to the Columbia team for housing and running a nice comp in a comfortable venue.

Results available here.

Photos here.

OSB team videos

Sam posted PLBD team videos from syllabus, team match and one of the fun dances from the collegiate part of the Ohio Star Ball competition. I appreciate that the video comes out like a super "skinny" mirror.

http://www.youtube.com/user/happyasparagus

Thanks Sam!

Ohio Star Ball 2008

Congratulations to everyone who made the trek out to Columbus, OH for this year's collegiate nationals. Thanks to everyone for supporting each other and I hope you had a good time during the comp and at the pro comps at night. A special congrats goes out to Inna and Evgeny who retired from competing at Ohio.

Photos linked here.

Results posted here.

some more standard covered 2 weeks ago

bronze tango
walks, promenade link
reverse turn
link, walks
natural twist turn

silver tango
corte
2nd half of a reverse turn
four step
promenade link
another half of a reverse turn
outside swivel
brush step

gold waltz
reverse turn to something not quite a spin turn but it's a bronze figure
u-turn/pivot
double reverse

DCDI 2008

I hope everyone who went to DCDI had a fun time regardless of where you placed and how much sleep you got. Many thanks go out to Ballroom at Maryland (BAM) who hosted DC Dance Inferno 2008 and housed most of us, as well as had great organization for the gigantico sized heats (~120ish for bronze, 6 heats for first round). Special congratulations go out to Linda and Nga for winning this year's same sex sort of rumba.

Smallish batch of photos here.

Youtube video search for DCDI 2008 here. I highly approve of their use of an acronym to ID their comp as it makes searches quite specific.

Results and scoresheets posted here on 11/4/08.

The event photographer's photos will eventually show up here.

"Tango is a stupid dance" --Wendi

standard 10/23/08

with Wendi.

silver tango

corte

back half of a reverse turn

four step (qqqq)

bronze tango

2 walks

progressive link

closed promenade

(we may have covered reverse turn)

NC quickstep

quarter turns

forward/back lock step

NYU syllabus competition 2008

Congratulations to everyone who went to the NYU syllabus competition. It was a nice warm up competition for the newcomers and hopefully everyone had a lot of fun. NYU did a great job of running this comp for the first time- yay to Joel, all of the competition committee and Meaghan, the best deck captain ever. (I am so sorry that we have problems lining up in numerical order.)

Scoresheets were posted here. 

bronze mambo

basic
underarm turn
guy's turn R into self hammerlock
guy's break R as they duck under their own L arm
cross body lead
open break (two or one hand hold)
natural top (closed hold)
open out (change to two hand hold)
swivels as guy steps back
break fwd/basic

A short note on bolero:
- international rumba steps with bent leg and hip action and rise and fall and small break steps
- girls can do a layout on their back break keeping their hips forward

pseudo silver mambo

Thanks Christy!

Silverish mambo
basic *234
underarm turn
open break
natural top
underarm turn
rope spin
back break x2
crossover
paseo hold the last 23, step 4 step 2 step 4
cross body lead

if you get invigilated for the italicized part substitute crossover, underarm turn, cross body lead

salsa lesson at Harnwell, food by Tacqueria Veracruzana

A house sponsored social w/ beginner salsa lesson by Leonore and Yau. Also Vercruzana rocks. Thanks Harnwell.

Some routines thus far

Routines

Latin (email me the bronze routines that have been covered and I'll post those too):

Silver cha (girl's part)

open break

hip twist, fan

split cuban breaks, 2and3, 4and1

hip switch 2 fwd lock, 34and1

alemana, rope spin

opening out

swivels L R small fwd lock

opening out

aida 3/4 turn spiral to the left on R foot, ending facing opposite direction as guy, R hand connected to guy and

fwd walk L R, 2 3 (guy is walking back)

1/2 turn L, and back lock, 4and1

and 2 LR 1/4 turn R to face partner

hip twist chasse 34and1

cuban breaks w/ guapacha timing 2and3, 4and1

syncopated NYers 2and3, 4and1,

NYer, 23 ronde chasse

times step x2

Silver rumba (girl's part)

open break finishing w/ spiral

fan, hip switch

alemana into rope spin

opening out

aida

spot turn

side together side

cucurachas not connected

spot turn?

at some point cucurachas girl travelling from side to side, ending w/ spiral into fan and the bronze routine

bronze rumba

fan hockey, after the break, side by side cucurachas x3 w/ guy's hand on girl's hip??, break then girl's forward walks to natural top, opening out, ??? NYers, spot turns, hand to hand sequence, alemana to finish

Silver samba (girl's part)

whisk x2 underarm turn R turn back L to shadow position facing wall

botofogos x 4 (guys change hold to waist after 2)

2 voltas to the left, volta turn to L to face partner, R turn, L turn to end w/ arms crossed

rolling off the arm = spin out to R (L hand is connected), spin back changing hold to normal closed, facing opposite line of dance

left turn, back open rocks, left turn w/ spin

corta jaca

back botofogos starting R foot x3, change of place 7and8 (2 hand hold)

fwd botofogos starting R foot x3, change of place ending facing center (guy facing wall)

stationary samba walks x2 (only 1 hand connected at the end), criss cross botofogos x2

voltas down LOD x4, maypole ending facing LOD

plait 123and4, 567and8

fwd ?rocks? 12and, 34and, 56and reverse turn finish to volta position

circular voltas to L w/ R foot in front, spot voltas x2, circular voltas opposite direction, spot voltas x2

Silver jive (girl's part, kbc = kick ball change)

*** actually take out the toe heel swivels-- dcdi lists as gold

basic

R turn slightly underturned

simple spin x2

American spin to promenade (guy opens 1/4 turn to L?)

kick sequence (mooch): rock step, fwd kick outside, inside, back outside kbc, chasse facing partner to opposite side back kbc outside

fwd kick outside, inside, outside kbc, chasse back kbc

triple walks x2 single walks x4

fallaway throwaway, fwd kbc, hip bump, back kbc
underarm turn to closed 2 hand hold

toe heel swivels (lock finish) x2

toe heel swivels (closed finish) x3
spanish arms
stop & go

step outside partner 23 or 34

american spin

Rolling off arm??: R to R connection, girl spins 1.5x to L (1ah2) ending w/ right hands on girl's R hip and left hand out for guy to catch, girl walks back L R (34), girl spins out

Silver paso (girl's part)

just kidding- we haven't done paso yet

S/S
Silver Viennese Waltz
Natural turn x7
Change Step
Reverse turn x7
Change Step

Silver standard waltz
natural
open impetus
weave
outside change
wing
chasse
back lock (guys)
outside spin (w/ pivot), has a lilting rise, 1 2 3 down up down
natural to diagonal (short wall LOD)

Bronze quickstep
1/4 turn, 1/4 turn
lock x2
tipple chasse (3pm, 5:15pm, together)
natural
spin turn
progressive chasse

At the initial information session

Welcome.

This blog is to keep track of stuff that happened with the University of Pennsylvania's Latin and Ballroom Dance group. For current/future events, scheduling and news, please see PLBD's website here  and contact the team board if you have any questions.

A warm welcome to all who attended the initial information session.