In the foreground my daughter Michelle-Lucrecia with the 1st Bollywood Dance Troupe in Greece 'GANESHA' of which she is the founder.

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Colorado

A new one from a fall trip to Colorado with Kevin Benedict, Sky Matthews Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of it!

The Vanity Ballroom in Detroit was originally designed by Charles Agree and opened in 1929. It is an Art Deco building with an Aztec Theme and was used primarily for Big Bands until the 1960's. It had a 5,000 foot maple dance floor that was built on springs to support the many dancers that would be there. Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, and Duke Ellington, among others, frequented here during its heyday. It originally closed in 1958, reopened as a concert venue in 1964 and later was used to host concerts by Detroit acts such as the MC5. There used to be stores all along the front, including Cunningham Drugs Store, which was a big chain of stores in Detroit.

These are my old and faithful dance shoes, about the only ones left that I can dance in.

Getting ready for the stage

Back to the coast, I had planned

on going to Corfe castle this morning as the weather forecast predicted a strong chance of mist but as I got closer to my destination I could see no mist. Plan B was to go to a place I had been to once during the summer in the middle of the day. Climbing down on to Dancing Ledge while it was still dark was going to be a bit of a challenge.

The mating ritual of monarch butterflies involves flying, hanging, and resting while staying connected for extended periods. One of my favorite photos of the monarch butterflies.

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Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin

Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the end of love

Oh, let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone

Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on

Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long

We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above

Dance me to the end of love

♫♪♫

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This is my personal favourite of the series from a dance shoot experimenting with rear curtain shutter.

Flower courtesy of Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Pansiera from Unsplash.

Textures courtesy of CJM, Foxey Grunge, and MW of Photoshop Artistry.

Entered in TMI ITSO challenge September 2017, IN The Style of the Dance.

#rva #skyline #dancer #movement #motion #ballerina #clouds

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

- Laurieann Gibson

Polonaise

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

- Twyla Tharp

I heard a bull frog behind me in the culvert. Turned around and there was not one, but two!! At first I thought they were mating, but then somebody got very annoyed and they just went at each other. Standing on their legs in the water, wrapping their arms around each other and swaying back and forth as if they were dancing. Never saw anything like it. They probably danced for thirty seconds. In the end one disappeared never to be seen again.

Betawi dance performance, during opening ceremony of Festival Jalan Jaksa (Jaksa Street Festival), July 10th 2009.

Jaksa street is well-known for backpacker and tourist destination in the heart of Jakarta city. A small street with plenty of cheap accommodations or hotels, restaurant, bar or cafe and also discotheque along the way. It attracts tourist especially foreigner to hang out here and find the exotic of non-glamorous Jakarta's night..

Every year, Jaksa Street Festival celebrated with many of attractions involved, such as live music, local Betawi art exhibitions, culinary festival, handicraft stalls, etc. This event starts at July 10th and will be ended on Sunday, July 12th.

Be there, Jakartans!

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forgot to bring my handy SB-400 flash, so I set the ISO into 1600. better get a noisy photos rather than blurry one. besides, I think the noise adds classic feeling to the image.. :D

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Early morning moves.

Park Square, Leeds, 2022.

Lake Erie has been dancing to her own music of late, as the autumn winds kick up some pretty sweet water. I often write poems/songs about dancing, which is rather ironic, considering I have two left feet, and I would make Elaine Benes look like she belonged on DWTS. lol I call this, simply, Dance, and is about using dance (whatever that may look like for you) as a way to make your problems disappear.

Dance

Dance, like tomorrow never comes

Dance, like when your heart was young

And you can keep on dancing

Even when the music’s done

Dance the night away until you dance into the sun

You can dance

You can dance

You can dance like tomorrow never comes

Dance like yesterday’s come and gone

Dance like all the sorrow and your pain is in the past

Don’t worry about the things that you can’t change

Dance into tomorrow don’t let sorrow hold you back

Dance the night away, hold out for the best

You can dance

You can dance

Even if tomorrow never comes, you can dance.

Celebrating the morning

Dancing trees...

This morning, the landscape once again draped itself in a beautiful Dancing trees...

This morning, the landscape once again draped itself in a beautiful blanket of Dancing trees...

This morning, the landscape once again draped itself in a beautiful blanket of mist...

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

- Rosie Perez

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Lesser Flamingo - dancing

Doing dance studio this week finally got to break free from backdrop today and go outside! killer sun but felt good

Went to the ballet and watched the Butler Ballet, from Butler University, perform Balanchine highlighting Serenade. It was lovely. The lighting wasn't the best for my camera, still I managed a few shots that captured the moments. I'm especially fond of this shot! It shows the richness of this piece where the color and their dance movements to the music was absolutely breathtaking.

One of my most favorite photos I've ever taken. Have a print framed in my home!

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Dance is a great way to express yourself.

- Darcey Bussell

The Sandhill Cranes are the birds that "sparked" our interest in birding. They hang out in our area in Central California during the winter. The dancing ritual is great fun to watch. The bird in the air was one of the highest jumpers I have seen, making it look really easy to go straight up. I think the bird on the ground was pretty impressed also.

Just shooting the breeze ;))

Thats What were doing alone in da house

When the children dance the kolattam gets honoured

This Grizzly Bear cub was learning to hunt salmon for himself and had a habit of standing on his hind legs to look around for food. As he twisted to scan around he really looked like he was dancing, perhaps doing "The Floss"? Most cubs less than a year old rely on their mother to catch fish but this one was managing it all by himself.

And does anyone remember the song "Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear"? It was in my head every time I saw this cub dancing. The song was written by Randy Newman but was a top ten hit for the Allan Price Set in 1967. John Cleese chose this as one of his Desert Island Discs in 1971

Excotic Dance,

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Tokyo Japan

Dance performance “Care” by Helena Krinal & United Dancers of Zuga.

The dance performance “Care” focuses on how difficult, easy, depressing, and uplifting it is to care for someone else.

The collaboration between Zuga and Helena Krinal, which started by chance, turned out to be so interesting and enriching for both parties that they have now been researching and creating together for six years and have reached their third performance – “Care”. Previously, they created “Noise” (2019) and “Shame” (2021). “Noise” was nominated for the Estonian Theatre Award in the dance performance category in 2020.

Led by the Estonian Dance Agency and local cultural organizers, TantsuMENÜÜ brings dance performances all over Estonia.