Word: tango
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...dance-floor as soon as “Mac the Knife” began to play, by my party-loving mother who taught us each how to fox-trot at an early age, or by my grandparents, Kathryn and Arthur Murray, who spawned a generation of jitter-bugging, tango-lovin’ dancers during the Depression. The Murrays built a successful franchise of teaching studios and later brought ballroom to the masses through television, erasing the class signifiers that had accompanied certain dance steps. At the beginning of their program, immediately following a live advertisement for Newports, Alkaseltzer...
...track could be a B-side from “The Breakfast Club” soundtrack; Shakira’s whispered lines sound appropriately like ’80s movie dialogue. This corny breakdown should have taken a cue from 2001’s “Objection (The Tango),” in which Shakira’s words served to improve the song, not to make it ridiculous.Carlos Santana slows things down in his duet wounded lover’s anthem with Shakira, “Illegal.” The sensuality practically oozes from Santana?...
...York, and Los Angeles, practiced a lot, and decided that I would go for it. Last Monday, I officially became a professional ballroom dancer by logging onto the NDCA website, paying $70, and stating that I would compete professionally from now on.Now practicing their international standard waltz or tango for two hours a day, six days a week, Mariko and Peter plan on dancing professionally for awhile yet. With plans to teach at the Waltham dance studio where she currently practices, Mariko hopes to split her post-graduate time between teaching and competion.While I think I’ll eventually...
...Archie recalls another youth hoops game, when Peyton told his coach, "The reason we lost this game tonight is because you don't know what you're doing." Then there was the time he dressed in a red ruffled shirt and tight black pants to tango in an eighth-grade play. "He was dead serious about it," says Archie. "Everybody was kind of like, 'My God.' He did it at 110 m.p.h...
...threat in “Rent.” Her singing voice is far and away the strongest of the cast, her dancing is expert, and her acting is measured and effective—all of these talents are on display in her showcase number, “The Tango Maureen.”Dawson also acquits herself nicely. Her singing voice is slight but adequate to the demands. Dawson’s real talent is dance: her turn as a stripper during the “Take Me Out” number strikes the perfect balance between playfulness...