Let me tell you that "Burn The Floor" will come to Champaign on November
8 at the Assembly Hall. I was the first to see the "Burn The Floor"
showbills that were posted at the Illini Union.
I won't have time to see the show live but I highly suggest you see the
show. This ballroom extravaganza will literally blow you away. I
describe the show as "Lord of the Dance--Ballroom Style." ("Lord Of
The Dance" was the Irish formation dance spectaular featuring Micheal
Flatley.)
Obviously I won't give the whole show away, despite the fact that on
Friday night, I watched my personal copy of the VHS tape of the show.
I watched it from beginning to end. Some of the Dancing Illini students
got a preview of that show's finale, thanks, of course, to Holly Hutber,
where dancers danced a fast version of the samba to a mambo number,
"Do You Want To Dance With Me?", at the Freer Gym, just as Holly and
Adrian were about to rap up the Latin Technique sessions.
I can give away, however, some of the things you will see in the show...
In the swing dance scene, the swing dancing will focus on the Lindy Hop
and certain themes from the swing era in the 1940s. Of course, jive will
be danced, too. Two very famous swing songs from World War II will be
played.
The paso doble scene emphasizes very much on flamenco and uses some
of the dramatic Bizet music from his opera "Carmen." If you may or may
not know, Carmen was a tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish soldier who
gets jealous at the title role, whose Bohemian law dictates her right
whether to love a man or not. Bizet gave us some very memorable numbers
from the opera, like the "Habanera" and the "Overture", which is still
played in TV commercials even up to now.
-------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Oct 14 2001 - 16:02:02 CDT