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This is another excellent collection of music from rejected1 on Youtube.

Here are two video clips of the Victory, a show dance by Maxim Kozhevnikov and Yulia Zagoryuchenko. The Victory is a song by Bond, a British classical/pop fusion band. The second clip is a music video of the song. Whenever I see Yulia dance, my eyes are glued to the screen. She has a rare [...]

I know I’ve posted my favorite songs before but this interface from Amazon is much nicer, so I’ll try to use this from now on. “Bamboleo” by Julio Iglesias is my recent good find. I was watching Slavik and Karina’s World Super Stars Dance Festival (WSSDF) video the other day, and bought the song, which [...]

I am sure a lot of you are watching Dancing with the Stars (DWTS). I am not as enthusiastic about DWTS as I am about So You Think You Can Dance, but I’ve been watching DWTS anyways. This week’s dances were Foxtrot and Samba. Samba is a difficult dance with distinct hip movements and lots [...]

I found this excellent video clip done by Max and Yulia. They show samba variations and explain the man’s and woman’s part. This clip is very useful and joyful to watch. I know I’ll never be able to dance like Yulia but I like to think anything is possible…. Enjoy!

Here are some more video clips of Samba. The first one shows whisks and voltas with clear explanations. The second one shows bronze-level voltas and bota fogos. First, whisks and voltas by Monika. Notice how fluid her movements are and how steady her upperbody is. Samba Whisks and Voltas Here’s a clip of bota fogos [...]

One of Samba’s characteristics is its bouncing actions; however, its bounce is not vertical – we don’t jump up and down to create samba bounce. Rather, its bounce mostly comes from knees and feet. In addition, a dancer’s hip action paired with lower abdominal contraction and release will create very unique body actions. We also [...]