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New Dance: Time To Waltz

Jennifer Choo Sue Chin | January 12, 2015

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you following my blog! I hope 2015 will bring better health, peace, joy and luck to everyone so we could enjoy more dancing. Here’s my first choreography for 2015 – TIME TO WALTZ – it’s also the first time I’m trying out a partner mixer as I find these type of dances fun and interesting to be done during parties where dancers get to mingle and dance with each other, something for a change.

The dance is choreographed to Chayanne’s beautiful music Tiempo De Vals, which means Waltz Time or Time to Waltz. The tempo is Viennese waltz (170 BPM). [I trimmedĀ the song to end at 3:10 as the tempo gets too fast after that, so please email me for the correct version of the music]. I’m always fascinated with Viennese waltz dancers twirling gracefully around the ballroom, and thought I should try to choreograph one with that concept. The steps are simple – with basic waltz steps – so dancers can concentrate more on the dynamics of changing partners instead.

The dance is a circle partner mixer line dance. That means, the steps are line dance steps, but done in a circle. You dance it with a partner and change partners after every vanilla sequence. The steps are generally the same with some variations partners A and B. Generally, A denotes the female partner as there are turning steps while B denotes the male partner. However, like many other partner mixer line dances, you don’t need to an opposite sex partner to dance with. šŸ™‚

Shadow Position

Shadow Position

A and B should be in the shadow position, with B being the ‘shadow’ (see diagram above). The right hands should be raised to the shoulder level while the left hands are held at waist level (not shown in diagram). In a circle, B’s position is at the inner circle while A’s position is at the outer circle.Ā The dance is danced in the anticlockwise direction as the line of flow. That means, the dance is in the moving in the anticlockwise direction of the circle. This is how the circle might look like (see diagram below):

Circle Positions

Circle Positions

I hope you will give this dance a try and do something different from the conventional 4 wall line dancing for a change. Here’s a video of me teaching it at Bandar Manjalara to Lily Soong’s wonderful students and at Jean Yeoh’s New Year charity dance gala at Bukit Mertajam. Have fun and lots of laughter!

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A Dazza-ling White Christmas Weekend Report

Jennifer Choo Sue Chin | January 13, 2014

The much-anticipated weekend came after a long wait but passed quickly. Time flies when you’re enjoying it!

Saturday 21 Dec 2013 – West Coast Swing Workshop with Darren Bailey & Fred Whitehouse, Tea Party & Choreography Competition

 

Group picture

Group picture

The event kick-started with Darren and Fred’s West Coast Swing workshop. About 70 people signed up for the workshop to learn some basic West Coast Swing steps as WCS is generally quite unknown here in Malaysia, but widely popular among line dancers abroad. With Darren’s expertise in breaking down dance steps, everyone on the floor managed to get the steps and able to west coast along with the music. With Fred’s fun ways, there were a lot of laughter. Basically everyone is satisfied with the workshop. We learned, the basic 6 count west coast rhythm, basic steps, the right-side-pass, and the whip with 8 count rhythm.

After the 2.5 hour workshop, we stop for a short tea break and just west coast socially, trying out the steps with different partners. A few lucky ones get to partner with Fred and Darren themselves, which was really awesome.

Then we proceeded to the much awaited for Choreography competition where contenders signed up to win the Bunga Raya Award (B.R.A.).Ā The judges were: Darren Bailey, Fred Whitehouse, Lim Sae Min, Jennifer Choo & Bunga Raya herself. The intention of the competition was to encourage, improve and promote local and regional choreography. After a hard time discussing and arguing who to win the B.R.A., the judges selected the winners:

  1. Alice Cheong: Work Hard Play Hard >Stepsheet< >Video<
  2. Soo Wong: Reach for the StarsĀ >Stepsheet< >Video<
  3. Wendee Chen: La BotellaĀ >Stepsheet< >Video<

Consolation prizes go to (in alphabetical order):

  • Adeline Cheng & Alison Johnstone: Fire StarterĀ >Stepsheet< >Video<
  • Ayu Permana (Indonesia): I Can’t BelieveĀ >Stepsheet< >Video<
  • Cat Low: Come To MeĀ >Stepsheet< >Video<
  • Jasmine Leong: FB Like (Y)Ā >Stepsheet< >Video<

Check out the dances! They are great! Everyone is a winner and I will be having these dances in my next events!

Sunday 22 Dec 2013 A Dazza-ling White Christmas Line Dance Party (11 am – 4:30 pm)

White angels, fairies, princes and princesses trickled into the Hee Lai Ton restaurant as early at 10 am with Christmas carols in the air. With almost everyone dressed to the “Dazza-ling” White Christmas theme, the restaurant turned into a myriad of white, true to the White Christmas feeling. With almost 300 guests coming from as far as USA, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore and local Malaysians (Klang Valley, Perak, Penang, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Kelantan, Johor, Melaka), it was indeed a gathering of old and new friends with the same passion, line dancing.

To top it off, the stage was immaculately decorated (Thanks! Benedict E) with a fire-place with flickering flames, a 8 feet high Christmas tree (Thanks Ivy Low) decorated in silver and white ornaments and plenty of gifts wrapped and arranged under the tree and all around the stage. Thanks to my friends who put up the decorations in approximately 3 hours!!

Ben, Philip, Goot and Jeannie putting the backdrop up

Ben, Philip, Goot and Jeannie putting the backdrop up

Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree, Fireplace and Backdrop

In between the 70 lined up current and classic line dances, Darren taught the crowd 2 of his recent choreography. The first one LOVE REALLY HURTS was a simple jive to an upbeat music by Billy Ocean, Love Really Hurts Without You. It’s 32 count 4 wall and has multiple restarts to phrased to the music. Later on, Darren taught a dance which was just choreographed with Fred, YOU, ME AND THE MUSIC to Lemar’s song of the same title. This is a funky 2 wall high intermediate line dance but the crowd absolutely love this one.

Love Really Hurts

Me, You and the Music

Rebecca Lee, the well-known line dancer turned hip hop star in Malaysia, pulled off a superb high energetic performance with her students, which included dances like Mr Saxobeat and Darren & Fred’s own Trespassing, much to their enjoyment. The finale of the performance was topped off with the appearance of Rebecca’s hip hop friend doing a flip.

Darren and Fred were also requested to do a dance demo of Darren’s dance co-choreographed with Roy Verdonk, Roy Hadisubroto, Raymond Sarlemijn, and Pim van Grootel. It’s a really beautiful dance and with Darren’s and Fred’s superb dance technique, the demo became more like a performance!

Christmas is a season of giving. More than 150 lucky draw and Ā 250 table draw prizes were given away to lucky winners. Sponsors include Yu Yu Dance Shoes of Cheras and Mary Kay cosmetics who sponsored the main draw prizes. Everyone went home with more than a Christmas gift! There were also pop quizzes being asked on the FB event page to set excitement before the event and some of the quick-witted winners were: Leong Mei Ling, Soo Wong, Jessie Cheong, Debbie Lem, Lee Ros and Andrea. The final live quiz asked was why was the theme of the party chosen to be “Dazza-ling White Christmas” – Leong Mei Ling hits the bulls-eye with the answer, “Dazza is Darren’s nickname, while White comes from Fred’s surname, Whitehouse”.

When the clock stroke 4.30pm, many line dancers were reluctant to leave. Many still took the opportunity to pose for photographs with each other and of course with the special guests Darren and Fred. Many wonder if they’ll get to see them again. Well, let’s make that a 2014 Christmas wishlist… til the next event!

 

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Baby I’m So Sorry (Demo by Ivy Low and Me)

Jennifer Choo Sue Chin | August 10, 2012

Ivy and I finally got together to make a demo video of our dance! We put in some simple styling so if you would like to add more flavour to the dance, you can use ours as an example. Enjoy!

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Viva Latino! Line Dance Party & Latin Techniques Workshop

Jennifer Choo Sue Chin | November 23, 2011

Time to get sizzling HOT & SEXY in your Latin outfit!! My 3rd annual party’s theme is VIVA LATINO!

VIVA LATINO! Line Dance Party

Date: 4 March 2012

Time: 10 am – 4 pm (Note the TIME CHANGE!)

Venue: Hee Lai Ton Puchong

Theme: Viva Latino!

Ticket: RM55 Selling Out!

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In conjunction with this sexy and fiery theme, Connie Tan & Aaron Then, one of the top Latin Dance couple from Singapore will be here to give a Latin Techniques Workshop specially for line dancers. Learn how to cha cha and samba the correct way, and put more seduction and character into your dancing! A bonus session on how to characterize your dance during performance/competition will be thrown in too! A session you should not miss out on… Space is limited. Book your place early to avoid disappointment.

LATIN TECHNIQUES WORKSHOP

Date: 3 March 2012

Time: 1 – 3 pm (Session 1) SOLD OUT! or 4 – 6 pm (Session 2) SOLD OUT!

Venue: Twinkle Dance Academy, 21-1 Jalan 4/109F, Taman Danau Desa, Kuala Lumpur

Ticket: RM50/pax/session

Good news for dancers who are attending both the workshop & the party, instead of RM105, you pay only RM100!

**Note: This Latin Dance couple will be performing at the Viva Latino! Party on Sunday.

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