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Ballroom Dancing

Putting A New Twist On Date Night Was Harder Than I Thought

Lisa K. Friedman | Posted 10.28.2012 | Fifty
Lisa K. Friedman

Finding something new to do every month is not as easy as it sounds. Unless of course you're willing to hang from a wire with a trapeze harness wrapped around and between your legs.

Marfa '12, A Trip to the Moon: A Weekend of Aliens and Astronauts

Alexander Adler | Posted 08.06.2012 | Arts
Alexander Adler

Over Memorial Day weekend, a select few eschewed beaches and mountains traversing through a barren wasteland to a Mecca in West Texas known as Ballr...

Dancing With Regular People: Boomers Love Ballroom

The Miami Herald | ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ | Posted 03.05.2012 | Fifty

Want to cut down on stress? Need to lose weight? Could use a little cheer and a firm touch as you enter the last decades of your life? Try ballroom da...

Fancy Footwork (Competition Isn't Everything)

George Heymont | Posted 09.07.2011 | Arts
George Heymont

Three new films screened at Frameline's recent San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival depict gay men and women who must not only learn how to think on their feet, but depend on their feet to run on auto pilot in an emergency.

Dancing Lessons: An Education On and Off the Dance Floor

Jim Moret | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Jim Moret

What can a 26-year-old dancer teach us about life? It turns out, plenty, as is illustrated in two-time Dancing With the Stars champion Cheryl Burke's new autobiography.

Jet to Vegas for a Retro Weekend of Hip History

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Lisa Derrick

Next weekend, October 22 to 24th Las Vegas revives, revitalizes and celebrates the style pioneered in desert resort's glory days when glamour ruled ...

Interview with Corky Ballas, 'Father' of Dancing With The Stars

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Holly Cara Price

As he was gearing up for the intensive rehearsal schedule that Dancing With The Stars demands with new celebrity partner Florence Henderson, Corky Bal...

Improv Group Waltzes Through Supermarket (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

It's feels like it's been forever since we've seen some quality supermarket ballroom dancing. GueriLA, a west coast counterpart to Improv Everywhere, ...

Real Ballroom Dancing for Regular People

Janet Carlson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Janet Carlson

It's hard for a novice to step into the ballroom studio -- those suave, glamorous, sexy, elegant pros in the studios and on TV these days can be so intimidating

Popular Mechanics: A Modern Woman's Heartthrob

Janet Carlson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Janet Carlson

Being a self-reliant woman surely doesn't mean I have to get good at everything. That would be no fun at all.

Dancing With the Stars Finale: Audiences Value Good Solid Dance Skill Over Fame and Big Personality

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Tonya Plank

Personally, I love that Brooke Burke won. Overall she had by far the best technique of all of the contestants, yet she has no known movement background.

Poor Rocco DiSpirito: Food and Dance Just Don't Mix

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Tonya Plank

It's so true though: the lives of food gourmet and dancer are just diametrically opposed; they're two different pleasures that don't go together.

So You Think You Can Dance Final Four

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Tonya Plank

This show really outdoes itself each week. I think this week was the best ever choreographically.

So You Think You Can Dance Top Eight, and Desmond Richardson!

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Tonya Plank

This show outdoes itself each week. I was in a blissful state of shock Wednesday to see the breathtaking Desmond Richardson helping to choreograph.

So You Think You Can Dance Top 10, Alvin Ailey, and Bollywood

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Tonya Plank

Wow, what a week -- I agree with Nigel: "brilliant job."

Green Nightclubs Harness Sustainable Power Of Dance

Treehugger | Bonnie Alter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Are you ready for it--the first eco-nightclub in the UK is about to hit town. While the idea of clubbing may seem alien to some, doing it environ...

Though it's Hard to See Her as the Underdog Breaking a Curse, Kristi Yamaguchi Justly Won Dancing With the Stars

Tonya Plank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Tonya Plank

I said at the beginning of the season that Kristi Yamaguchi was the best contestant ever to be on the Dancing With the Stars, and last night she rightly won.