And who can kick-off a dance party better then the Queen of Funk?
Louis Van Amstel, a "DWTS" regular and champion competitive dancer, kicks off a class called Dance Blast at Crunch in L.A. later this month, teaching men and women such dances as the cha-cha, salsa and jive to an eclectic and high-energy mix of music.
Each night will kick off with a dance lesson for all levels at 6 30 p.m. with many of the city's best dance instructors, followed by live music and dancing from 7 30 to 10 p.m. Tickets (individual evenings are $17) and multi-night passes (four nights of Latin dance or four nights of swing dancing for $60) are on sale now.
The series will kick off with a dance performance by cast members from the American Repertory Theater's (A.R.T). production of the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway disco musical "The Donkey Show". This feature of the Common Spaces initiative responds to recommendations from the Arts Task Force Report to encourage more arts programming across Harvard.
For some states, the passage of a voter ID law kicks off a prolonged dance with courts.
I can remember watching a production of Hamlet - which I admit to quite liking - in which the gravedigger scene kicked off with a dance to Russ Abbott's Atmosphere.
An organizational dinner in 2001 for a visiting Ghanaian monarch, King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, was kicked off with a dance by barefoot women, whose images were reflected countless time in the marble lobby's cut-glass and mirrors.
This year, the theme for Ideas City is "Invisible City," and no better way to kick off a night of poetry, performance, dance and art than inside of Barcelona-based artist Jordi Enrich Jorba's Wind Igloo, a magical space made from a repurposed hot air balloon.
According to a press release from the French Institute's Alliance Françiase, the documentary will kick off a month long celebration of French dance music in cinema called EDM Anthems: French Touch on Film.
These solos will kick off the "Dance of Darkness," which the curators Bradley Eros and M.M. Serra describe as a showing of Artaud- and Butoh-inspired films.
When Tom Cruise slides across the floor in an oxford shirt and gym socks in "Risky Business," he kicks off a song-and-dance number that's a carefree celebration of how good it feels to move to the music.
