Dancing isn't everything.....
....but it's well ahead of whatever is in second place.
There is so much happening for people with a passion for dance in New Zealand at the moment.
Dancing with the Stars and Plunket
Last night a glittering fundraising evening for Plunket http://www.plunket.org.nz/ organised by http://www.internationalevents.co.nz/ featured celebrities and professional dancers involved with 'Dancing with the Stars'. Although I couldn't be there, I was delighted that International Events allowed me to provide flyers promoting Dance Tours to each of the 350 guests. If you are reading this after being at the evening last night, why not let the rest of us know how it was for you? Why not share the fun you had and make a comment at the end of this blog.
Tempo
Also last night, the two week dance programme organised by Mary-Jane Reilly http://www.tempo.co.nz/ was launched at the Auckland Town Hall with Robert Hylton's Urban Classicism. There is a huge range of dance events to suit everyone who is passionate or even just mildly interested in dance. Watch out, as mild interest is only a quick-quick step away from passion.
Salsa
Tempo will also include the NZ 14th Annual Salsa Latin dance competition on 14th October at Auckland Town Hall presented by QuePasa Entertainment and Kantuta http://www.kantuta.co.nz/html/2006_latindance_comp.html If this year's is anything like the last two years that I have attended it will be one hot night.
Salsa Fever Festival
The Hispanic Club http://www.hispanicclub.co.nz/events/salsa_fever_2006.htm will keep you dancing 'til you drop on the same weekend of 14-15 October. The photo on this site features yours truly in the dark yellow shirt. If you could see my smile, you would see it is even bigger than the smile on the face of the salsera I was dancng with at the time.
Aerolineas Argentinas International Tango Congress of New Zealand 2006
As if this is not enough dancing for any normal person, the wonderful and passionate Cecile Bale http://www.tangoenz.co.nz/intro.html is organising this event over Labour Weekend 21-23 October.
Are you normal?
If I may interrupt myself here for a moment, if you are worried that you are normal, you are not alone and help is at hand with that classic British sense of humour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eH4HeZrg48&mode=related&search=
.....but back to the dancing...
Swing
If swing is more your style, on Labour Weekend Michelle and Shane http://jitterbugs.co.nz have a great long weekend planned too.
www.dancetours.co.nz will feature links to all sorts of dance events but Kay at www.wheretodance.co.nz has a very comprehensive list of what is going on too.
This enough to keep you going for a while?
Chris
www.dancetours.co.nz
It truely was a night full of dancing and entertainment. The night kicked off with a very festive performance by Salsamba and was followed by two beautiful performances by the Dancing with the Stars favourites: Shane & Nerida, Norm & Carol-Ann, Beatrice & Brian and Lorraine & Aaron. It was wonderful to get to see their talent in the flesh.
The night was topped off by the energetic and pitch-perfect performances by The Mermaids who managed to get practically all of the 350 guests up off their seats and onto the dancefloor - which was what the night was all about. (Comment this)