The second piece on the program was "Club Havana," a stylized ballroom work created last year by one of the company's principal dancers, Pedro Ruiz.
Tomorrow, the New World Jazz Orchestra presents "Norfolk Ballroom," with works by Gershwin, Porter, Piazzolla and others.
There, he began instruction in ballet, tap and ballroom dance, working with Mr. Cole and others.
On Saturday at 8 p.m., the program features "The Neighborhood Ballroom," a work by Edward Villella that explores ballroom dance styles over the last 50 years.
Outside the ballroom, Tim Crowley, who works in "hazardous materials" and had a salt-and-pepper goatee, explained why Bush was quintessentially Texan: "We're tough, we're resilient, and we're focussed".
That the lives of these two artists would intersect in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan is testament to the quirky character of the residence, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this weekend with an art show, "Chelsea Hotel Through the Eyes of Photographers," in the hotel's ballroom, including the works of Mr. Bassett and Ms. Grossman.
It was Garçon, a self-described gatekeeper of the kiki ballroom scene who works at the LGBTQ youth homelessness organization True Colors Fund, and Chi Chi Mizrahi, a beloved ballroom community member, who first approached her about collaborating on a project centered on these politically active and artistically ambitious teenagers.
As opposed to other work, ballroom dance style classification is carried out first, and significantly boosts performance of tempo detection.
Inside the ballroom, Officer Steve Smaldon, who works with the Police Department's K-9 unit, fed a few spoonfuls of mashed potatoes to Hansen, a police dog who wore a Federal Emergency Management Agency photo ID on his collar.
I talk to my people at work about ballroom dance, about how to be connected, and to be aware of musicality.
