The News Review:
- Spring Break: Remembering the good ol’ days (see PHT GALLERIES …
- Dancing With The Stars: Getting Down to Business
- Want to learn guitar? Mandarin? Just click
- The boy who broke from tradition
- Roma Downey Makes TV Comeback In “Come Dance At My Wedding”
- Dancing after midnight
Spring Break: Remembering the good ol’ days (see PHT GALLERIES …
The News Herald
Dale Clark met his wife while she was baby-sitting her younger siblings at the beach. The couple has been married for 41 years. “Back in the old days we would dance when we met” Dale Clark said. “There were a lot of places to dance. There appears to a loss of innocence and a lot more aggression on the beach he said. “No one can drink anymore” Dale Clark said. “They have to get drunk.
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Dancing With The Stars: Getting Down to Business
TVGrapevine.com
Lawrence quips that his golf buddies want lap dances if he loses. Score: 20 (677)Tom says the ABC people are thinking ‘Lap Dances With Lawrence’ could be a new TV show. After a commercial break reminding us that Hannah Montana is coming out with a new movie Shawn and Mark take the stage. (Mark if you are reading this THANK YU to you Corky Joanna Alexis and everyone who helped with that video you made for my sister. It means more to us than you will ever know. ) Mark is helping her work on her turns which she has trouble with. She is determined to make a comeback though.
Want to learn guitar? Mandarin? Just click
MiamiHerald.com
Solomon and Grace Lee of Little Neck Queens had no idea their 13-year-old son Solomon Jr. was practicing dance moves like the pop and lock and the moonwalk in his room. Inspired by classmates who practiced break dancing tricks in a nearby park two years ago and later by the shock-and-awe dance moves in movies like Step It Up 2: The Streets Solomon logged onto YouTube and his bedroom became his dance studio. Solomon said he and several of his friends all learned how to break dance solely from the Internet. ”There was nothing else that I could use to learn how to break dance” said Solomon. Some teenagers are going from being the student to being the teacher. Will Liu 18 a senior in Ann Arbor Mich.
The boy who broke from tradition
Livemint
Despite his diminutive size and boyish features Amit Rokade is clearly the leader and takes the floor several times during the evening with a broad smile for a solo break dance performance. Cheering him on wildly and applauding every move are his elder brother Abhishek and a core of childhood friends each with their own distinctive hairdos who make up the remainder of the group. Born at the JJ Hospital in Mumbai on 26 June 1990?about a year before India set off on an accelerated path of economic liberalization?to Arun Rokade a clerk and Nanda Rokade a day worker in a creche Amit is representative of a generation of Indians who have benefited from an era of breakthrough reforms including the introduction of policies to open up international trade and investment deregulate the economy and privatize industries.
Roma Downey Makes TV Comeback In “Come Dance At My Wedding”
AHN
Best known for her role in the faith-based series “Touched By an Angel” Downey was pulled back into acting by the “Wedding” script which she declares “had such a real sweetness to it”. Since “Angel” ended its 9-year run in 2003 Roma has been busy fulfilling the role of mother of three and wife to reality show producer Mark Burnett. The break from acting allowed her to establish a full slower-paced lifestyle in Malibu. A juggler of masters degree courses painting and parenting she jokes about her domestic duties proclaiming herself as “queen of the carpool”. The Northern Ireland native with the recognizable lilt re-united with “Angel” alum John Schneider to film “Wedding” in Vancouver. Downey plays the part of Laura Williams a lawyer and friend who helps Schneider’s character Tanner Grey handle a legal snafu regarding a dance studio deed he shares with his estranged daughter Cyd (Brooke Nevin). Downey applies the friendly yet firm manner of intercession she acquired on “Angel” to this tale of strained relationships mended in the midst of trying times.
Dancing after midnight
Greensboro News Record
Instructor Youssouf Koumbassa from the Republic of Guinea in West Africa begins with little more than a nod to the 20 or so dancers. The initial routine is reminiscent of an intense aerobics class and the dancers all robed in saris — they’re like skirts — start to break a sweat. Koumbassa picks up the pace. He starts with large sweeping motions to the beat of drummers banging in sync. The dancers mimic his increasingly complex movements. And more people crowd into the room.