Business Best Practices

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Business Best Practices

AIRBORNE - Circus Aerials and Dance Show

An extension of Ruby Karen Project's Holiday on Air , AIRBORNE, brings a new meaning to the world of circus aerial arts. Combining the most simplistic form with a variety of performing arts discipline, Artistic Director, Ruby Karen presents another aerial dance show that showcases 6 basic aerial apparatus with ballet, modern, jazz, cabaret, adagio partnering, aerial acrobatics, breakdance and a newly introduced circus form, the CYR Wheel. The casting comprises of its main aerialists from the Orange County Aerial Arts as well as the Apprentice Corp de Aerial Arts of the Ruby Karen Project's school. The show will also be graced by the Brockus Project Dance Company, Lux Aeterna Dance Company, and the Montage Ballet. Come and witness this one of a kind show that will take your breath away. Audience Rating: General Patronage
Performance Date and Time: April 17, 2010 @ 8pm
Address: 1140 N. Tustin Street, City of Orange, CA 92867
Telephone: (714) 744 -4263
Ticket Price: Preferred Seating: $30.00 Click here to choose your seat/s.
General Seating: $25.00

Senior and Group (15 of more) Discount: $22.00
Service Fee using Paypal or any major credit cards: $2.00 - $5.00
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"Dancing On Air" - COAST Magazine:features Ruby Karen ..... "our motto is to introduce people to the world of aerial arts ... I add dance as an element to the program - a no-stress class customized to the individual." Read more



UPCOMING EVENTS:
April 4 (Sunday): Easter Aerial Demonstration featuring an Airborne excerpt
Village Theater 10:00 AM, 1140 N. Tustin Street, City of Orange, CA 92867
April 15 (Thursday): Special Event @ the Museum of Latin American Arts, 9pm, Entrance: Free
628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802
Aerial Silk Duo by Ruby Karen and Enrique Escajeda of the Orange County Aerial Arts
April 17 (Saturday) 8pm: Airborne - Orange County Aerial Arts' second seasonal concert featuring
six (6) aerial discipline and various dance forms; Village Theater in Orange

Spring Dance Classes starting in April - Register early

Spring Dance Classes starting in April - Register early

Summer Day & Dance Camps for 2010. Childcare, Summer activities, Things to do.

Summer Day & Dance Camps for 2010. Childcare, Summer activities, Things to do.

Salsa Intocable presents Underground Rythm

Doors Open & the Ultimate Salsa Workshop with Salsa Intocable begins!


5:00 PM
Fun & Easy Intro to Salsa Class w/Alex Montilla
Cool Int/Adv Salsa Patterns & Styling w/Matt Blanchette & Laura Luu


6:00 PM
Turn Techniques for Sharper Spins & Spin Patterns w/Matt & Laura
Smooth Cha Cha Cha w/Gonzalo Ruelas


7:00 PM
Sexy Ladies’ Styling w/Laura Luu
Flashy Mens' Footwork & Shines w/Gonzalo Ruelas


8:00 PM
Steamy Bachata Patterns Club Style w/Alex Montilla
Intricate Adv Salsa Patterns & Dips Plus Ladies’ Styling w/Gonzalo & Laura


9:00 PM
Doors Open for SOCIAL dancing!
OPEN BAR for the FIRST HOUR (White & Red wine served)


First come, first served!


Dancing to the best Salsa, Mambo & Bachata!


In the house will be:
DJ Frank (LA’s favorite DJ)
ASTRO (SalsaInLongBeach)
DJ AyaPod (LA’s premier female DJ spinning the best mambo)


Special Dance Performances by:
Mambo INC
Angeleno Funk (Mayan team championship) featuring Rodrigo Guzman & Jose Valencia
LA Dance Company by Liz Lira
Bachata Caliente
Los Inquietos Dance Company by William Carpenter
Salsa Intocable Dance Company
Special Appearances by: Cal State Northridge, USC & Cal State Long Beach dance teams!


LOCATION: The Los Angeles Dance Center
342 ½ N. Ford Boulevard, Los Angeles California
Free parking available

Click Here to Register

Belly Dancing Classes!!

Everyone knows that exercise is essential for health and wellbeing but many women find it difficult to get excited about working out. Bellydancing offers an enchanting escape from the monotony of stair steppers, life cycles and treadmills. This ancient art form will benefit you in a wide variety of ways and on multiple levels.

Everyone knows that exercise is essential for health and wellbeing but many women find it difficult to get excited about working out. Bellydancing offers an enchanting escape from the monotony of stair steppers, life cycles and treadmills. This ancient art form will benefit you in a wide variety of ways and on multiple levels.

Bellydancing will improve your overall mental health. As the hypnotic music of the dance combines with smooth repetitive motions, you will experience true relaxation and stress relief. Since the movements of belly dancing were designed expecially for women, you will also enjoy a sense of enhanced feminity and creativity through self-expression. As you learn to move more gracefully and sensually, you may even feel more joyful and energetic.
Besides making you feel more attractive and artistic, bellydancing has many important physical benefits. For example, it tones and strengthens abdominal and core muscles surrounding the vertebae and hips. This means it can prevent back problems and improve balance. The low-impact movements also utilize muscles groups surrounding the neck and shoulders, promoting good posture. Extensive stretching and isolation movements, which are the fundamental focus of this type of dance, increase production of fluid in the joints and greatly increase flexibiltiy.
Bellydaning has countless other benefits as well. Like other types of exercise, it burns a lot of calories. Experts have estimated that belly dancing can burn between 300 to 400 calories per hour; of course, it depends on which movements you are doing. It also increases cardiovascular capacity and endurance, just as it decreases your chances of developing osteoporosis. However, there are many other benefits you may not have expected. For instance, undulations of the torso while bellydancing aids in digestion.
As you can see, bellydancing offers a wealth of benefits, many of which haven't even been mentiononed. It will break the dull routine of a boring exercise program and bring balance to mind, body, and soul.

Bellydancing will improve your overall mental health. As the hypnotic music of the dance combines with smooth repetitive motions, you will experience true relaxation and stress relief. Since the movements of belly dancing were designed expecially for women, you will also enjoy a sense of enhanced feminity and creativity through self-expression. As you learn to move more gracefully and sensually, you may even feel more joyful and energetic.

 

Besides making you feel more attractive and artistic, bellydancing has many important physical benefits. For example, it tones and strengthens abdominal and core muscles surrounding the vertebae and hips. This means it can prevent back problems and improve balance. The low-impact movements also utilize muscles groups surrounding the neck and shoulders, promoting good posture. Extensive stretching and isolation movements, which are the fundamental focus of this type of dance, increase production of fluid in the joints and greatly increase flexibiltiy.

Bellydaning has countless other benefits as well. Like other types of exercise, it burns a lot of calories. Experts have estimated that belly dancing can burn between 300 to 400 calories per hour; of course, it depends on which movements you are doing. It also increases cardiovascular capacity and endurance, just as it decreases your chances of developing osteoporosis. However, there are many other benefits you may not have expected. For instance, undulations of the torso while bellydancing aids in digestion.

 

As you can see, bellydancing offers a wealth of benefits, many of which haven't even been mentiononed. It will break the dull routine of a boring exercise program and bring balance to mind, body, and soul.

Learn Some Cool Hip Hop Moves at The Bea Hive - Garden Grove - Music - Theatre - Dance Classes

Learn Some Cool Hip Hop Moves at The Bea Hive - Garden Grove - Music - Theatre - Dance Classes

2nd Annual Masquerade Ball at The Bea Hive

2nd Annual Masquerade Ball at The Bea Hive

Bachata Is The Newest Craze in Dance Styles

Bachata music emerged in the early 1960s as a romantic tune, which is different from guitar music to dance to. With time, Bachata’s rhythm was accelerated and a new dance step was started and Bachata began to be classified as dance music.


Bachata musicians got inspiration from a variety of music genres. The most influential was the Cuban bolero.  Also from Mexican rancheros and corridos, Dominican merengue, Cuban son, guaracha and guajira, Colombian-Ecuadorian vals campesino and pasillo, and Puerto Rican plena and jibaro.

Bachata has been through a series of phases since its evolution.  The Bachata style of music was mostly played by rural musicians and this made people relate it with low class; the musicians and the listeners were kind of frowned upon and began to be referred as Bachatero. Bachata's reputation got worse over time. The worsening conditions of the Bachateros further degraded Bachata’s reputation.  The tempo of the music accelerated and the lyrics started including drinking and womanizing. Consequently, Bachata became associated with unacceptable social elements like alcohol, violence, sex and the like.

Over the past 40 years the Bachata music as made several changes and has redefined itself.  Jose Manuel Calderon has been credited with the recording of the first Bachata single - Borracho de amor. This song is very romantic. After the electric guitar it was much easier to get to Bachata.  Bolero remains the most significant influence although the two genres are quite distinguishable. Some of the Bachata phases are listed here:

Bachata Bolero:  Alow tempo, emotional style and romantic words.

Cabaret Bachata:  This kind of music was essentially rough and performed in cabarets.

Sexual Double Entendre Bachata: During the 80s, the Bachata music began to include songs and lyrics that implied sexual meanings.
Tecno Bachata: Certain liberal middle-class musicians showed interest in Bachata and manipulated it such that their songs reflected more of Bolero than Bachata. Juan Luis Guerra is a musician of this time who became increasingly popular in Latin America as well as the United States and Europe.

Frontier Bachata: Luis Vargas, Anthony Santos and Raulin Rodriguez conquered Bachata in the early 1990s; they included as much Merengue as Bachata in their collection.
Romantic Bachata: Anthony Santos pioneered this form of Bachata where there began to be a transformation into simpler and more romantic Bachata. Joe Veras was another popular Bachatero who increased Bachata’s pace towards romanticism.
Vallenato and Bachata: In the late 1990s, Bachata began to involve more middle-class musicians who attended school and studied other genres formally. Martires de León introduced the strategy of recording Colombian Vallenatos as Bachatas; Luis Vargas followed this style. This made Bachata acceptable to a wider audience.
The New York School: Aventura, a Dominican group, uses sound effects along with R&B influenced vocals which has attracted international audiences far and wide.
Bachata dance consists of certain simple steps that create a back and forth as well as a sideway motion. The dance starts with the right foot and similar steps are repeated with the left foot; Bachata can be distinguished by the distinctive and sensuous body movements. Salsa and Merengue are dance styles that have been known to be similar to Bachata but the three are quite different. Salsa is an informal dance style from the Caribbean which requires a partner. It incorporates different steps, patterns, timings, movement on dance floor, attitude, dress codes, preference of turns and moves etc. Merengue originates from the Dominican Republic in which partners hold each other in a closed position. In perfect Merengue, the hips of the two partners move in the same direction. Circular and sideway motions are possible; and there can be variation in choreography. The dance patterns of Salsa, Merengue and Bachata are alike but there are slight moves and patterns which differentiate the three.

Bachata is now the new craze for many latin dancers.  Bachata classes, lessons and even congresses have emerged over the last year.  Bachata is a very sexy, sensuous dance and for those that want to give it a try, look for good salsa teachers that have added bachata to their repetoir.

There is a great place in Orange County to check it out. The Bea Hive Dance Center

They are having a special workshop before a fun Masquerade Ball Dance with dinner and show on
March 13th.  Check it out.

Even Obama Listens to Hip Hop for Dance and Fitness Time

Did you know that Barack Obama likes to play expletive-laden songs while exercising in the gym?Our American President had his latest album Blueprint 3 playing during a recent telephone conversation.
    Says Jay-Z, husband of Beyonce.
Jay-Z, 40,  said: "Barack loves hip-hop, when I called him he was playing Blueprint in the gym."


If our president is listening to hip music while working out, it can't be all bad.  Truth is, dance and fitness go hand in hand.  I personally and happy to know that Obama takes an active part in keeping fit and staying healthy.

Dancing for fitness is fun, and not expensive.  There is a cool place in Garden Grove that has "$5.00 Freestyle Wednesdays" and they have several freestyle dance and fitness classes and only charge 5 bucks a class.  It really doesn't get any cheaper and it's lots of fun. 

Lots of teen/adults show up to take these fun classes and they all revolve around fitness.  If you're local, come by and try it once.  There is no commitment, no monthly dues, no registration fees.  Just show up, pay your 5 dollars and have fun.