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See Other Sites in the Live2Dance Group CLUB NEWS How many
types of Line Dancing are there? When we
started Linedance Krazy 13 years ago we never knew how much it would
evolve. We have seen the Country and
Western era where we all danced to Country and Western music; the dances were
all relatively easy in comparison to what we dance today at an intermediate
level. Then there was the Modern Line
where the dances were choreographed to pop music, even Latin and Irish music
and many other genres too. This brought new styling to the dance floor as
Ballroom and Latin moves were used in the choreography In fact this is how the World Champion Line
Dancers were judged. The Judges used the Ballroom and Latin Technique to
identify our World Champions. Along with
the pop music came more creative choreography, dances were written to specific
tracks involving phrased routines that fit the music like a glove with their
tags and bridges. Recently we
have seen the birth of the New Line where dances have been choreographed to
Funk, pop and even rap music. This has
brought a new generation of young dancers into the Line Dance Community. It also brought in moves from hip hop, street
dance, and the routines are more energetic and funky. Having
taught line dance for a number of years I soon realised that a lot of our
dancers would love to learn Salsa so I choreographed a dance called “Opening
Doors” This was the first ever
completely authentic Salsa line dance many of
our members had ever danced. After comments about this dance form our dancers it made me
realise that there were a number of people who would love to dance Salsa and had
joined our line dance club as they enjoyed the freedom of dancing solo. After many months of research I created dance
routines that I called Salsa Solo.
Having
taught many Latin style Solo dances I came across a new form of Fitness and
Dance called Zumba. I fell in love with
Zumba immediately as there was a fun element to this keep fit craze and it used
all the Latin dances that I loved. Not
only did the routines include Salsa, Merengue, Samba, Bachata but they also use Reggaeton,
Cumbia, Flamenco, Belly dance and others too.
I felt like Forest Gump when he said “Life was like a box of
Chocolates”. This led me
to create yet another web site for Zumba. With
work commitments at the Crawley Computer Centre it was difficult to maintain so
many sites. What we really needed was
one site with all the different styles of dance under one umberella. Line dance Krazy did not fit well with Salsa
dancers and the Latin experience did not best describe Line dancing. So we came up with a name that says it
all. “Live 2 Dance”. In other words we don’t mind what music we
dance to or what style of dance we do as we just Live 2 Dance. Our club
news letter for all our dance activities will be on our new website at Live 2
Dance. We have not only created a new
web site it is a membership site, where our dancers can post their favourite
pictures or video clips and review their favourite dances. Now this site is very much in its infancy so
we need you to be patient as it is going to take a while to build this site so
not all pages are complete with content and not all links are working yet. However there is a lot to see on the site so
far.
There is no
limit to what we can do with this site, so go and submit your photo/vidoe or
write in our guest book about what you think of the site so far. Help us build
a bigger and better dance community, but contributing to the site. Tell us what you would like to see on the
site. Please be
patient while it is still being built.
We are trying hard to get the auto-responder working to let you know
when new things have been added for you to look at. At the moment this is our biggest challenge. Meanwhile go and see
if anyone has uploaded a picture of you yet Karen & Barry "The Islands In The Stream Team “
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