The pieces' lack of dance precision was part of their point, as was the way they seemed to flaunt a kind of unfocused and unrigorous intensity that in almost any academic-dance classroom would be considered bad style.
Saturday July 14 MNS hosts a Free Dance Lesson for Kids from 3 to 4 p.m. Dancing Classroom's Rodney Lopez, as seen in the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, presents a 90-minute lesson for kids aged six to 10 to learn the basics of swing, merengue, tango and more.
The event, for 350 guests, took place at the Roosevelt Hotel and benefited Dancing Classrooms, an outreach program of the company that supports ballroom dancing in New York's public schools.
I've gotten back into dancing since escorting my mother to a gala fund-raiser for the nonprofit Dancing Classrooms, when my stepfather was out of town several years ago.
The kids came to attention at a call from Pierre Dulaine, the illustrious show dancer who, in 1994, started the Dancing Classrooms outreach educational program.
It was the eighth in a series of 20 ballroom dancing lessons offered by the North Babylon Union Free School District this spring as part of a nonprofit program called Dancing Classrooms, developed by American Ballroom Theater Company in Manhattan.
After appearing with his partner, Yvonne Marceau, on Broadway in the 1989 production of "Grand Hotel," he started teaching children at a performing arts school in Manhattan in 1994, which led to the development of Dancing Classrooms.
In this installment of Kids' Day at Midsummer Night Swing, Rodney Lopez, a teacher from Dancing Classrooms, the organization featured in the "Mad Hot" documentary, will teach children (and parents who want to join in) the basics of ballroom, tango and swing.
In this children's program at Midsummer Night Swing, Rodney Lopez, a teacher from Dancing Classrooms, the organization featured in the "Mad Hot" documentary, will teach children ages 6 to 10 (and parents who want to join in) the basics of styles like ballroom, tango, salsa, meringue and swing.
The mission of Dancing Classrooms is to cultivate essential life skills in children through the practice of social dance.
Dancing Classrooms is a social development in school program that takes place in over 200 NYC schools and reaches over 25,000 children each year.
