seriously & smilingly come dancing
o, i'm very tired, but i'm also very excited about the pink jukebox same-sex dance competition i spectated today *grin*
i went primarily to watch my friend kutykuruty dance, with his dance-partner zsolt... and o it was fine! a very fabulous event and day *grin*
the venue - the rivoli ballroom - is a rather splendid and plush and sparkly place *grin* and it was fascinating to see and feel the day, and the competition, and the dancers' moods and moves (and costume changes!), progress *smile*
the dances i watched were the women's latin and men's ballroom rounds (women's ballroom had just begun as i left, and men's latin was starting a little time later). and so much shininess and poise and seriousness and fun *grin*
mymouse had lent me her camera, and was wanting pictures and videos, and i did my best[0], and here are a few[1]...
i'm not sure who the women-in-white couple were, but i think they look rather slinky in these two photos.
couple-number-19 were very popular amongst some of those close by me in the hall, they were from london. they were mostly/very pink. they look a bit spookily (even-the-eyes! *winky smile*) pink here, and their pinkness is also obvious here... but the photos don't really show their dancing... but this video[2] does *smile* they were good, i think, but i didn't get much of a feel for them - like, technically good, but lacking character/vitality *shrug* the video also shows a little of one of my favourite couples, number 26 *grin* (bottom-right, in black-with-little-handkerchiefs-of-orange)
and you can see a very short video of couple 26 (from stockholm) doing the dance where one of them is the bullfighter, and the other the-bullfighter's-cloak... they were so clear cut and present.
another[3] favourite were couple number 37 (from berlin) who you can just make out in this photograph - you can maybe gauge their poise from the way their fingers are held *winky smile* they were super good and a delight to watch - very fluid and precise in their moves, and also very together in the way they moved, and in the eye contact and rapport between them. you can see them[4] towards the end of this video (the former part of which features much more prominently a happy-looking couple-28(a uk-austria pairing apparently[5])-in-orange).
i found myself looking a lot for how the dancers interacted, and the overall feel to their dance[6]. another couple which had obvious rapport and seemed to be having fun, both with each other and in dancing, were couple number 7 (from frankfurt) - you can see a couple of photos of them.
there was also something about couple-number-12 (from düsseldorf) that i liked, and their costumes caught the eye, while being relativley subdued. here they are... and then, o, there they are! *grin*
o, and here's a photograph of the couple that contained one of the organisers, jacky appleton, who was super helpful in discovering access (and holding me a ticket when they were near gone) *smile*
hmmm, lots of pictures of the women's latin... but what of the men's ballroom? i don't have so many photographs... in part cos the men/ballroom dances seemed a bit harder to photograph (??), and in part cos i spent quite a bit of the time focussing on watching gábor and zsolt *smile*
a couple of couples in white[7] *smile*
and probably one of the best[8] of my photographs of the men's ballroom, is of couple-68-from-orlando,USA dancing the tango. and, o, he wore an amazing orange[9] a-bit-flowy costume later!
i did make an audio-visual record of the men's ballroom finals for the class gábor and zsolt were competing in 'though *smile* and here is a video of their waltz (couple number 50 *winky smile*). i think the waltz was/is the dance of theirs i liked best - i like the way they move in it, it seems very fluid to me, and yeilding. and o, i found watching men-men couples waltzing moving! something caught me about it in the early classification rounds (and onwards). a little later talking with kutykuruty he mentioned that waltz done well moved him, and i felt somehow reassured/vindicated by this.
[0] the lighting was not entirely conducive to this
[1] mostly of lightly/brightly costumed dancers who stood out a bit more in the photographs i took...
[2] this is where one needs to point out that the uploaded version is not as sharp as the one saved on the computer here... of the original on the camera... which was kinda dark... (you get the drift, i think)
[3] the other, my other, the/my... favourite
[4] well, you can if you look really carefully/know where to look - far right...
[5] yes, i have a programme.
[6] being that i lack any technical knowledge/experience...
[7] yes, still showing up the best in the relative dark!
[8] and that is, i think, down to the flash from another camera user going off at the same time as i took it *smile*
[9] orange does seem very popular...
i went primarily to watch my friend kutykuruty dance, with his dance-partner zsolt... and o it was fine! a very fabulous event and day *grin*
the venue - the rivoli ballroom - is a rather splendid and plush and sparkly place *grin* and it was fascinating to see and feel the day, and the competition, and the dancers' moods and moves (and costume changes!), progress *smile*
the dances i watched were the women's latin and men's ballroom rounds (women's ballroom had just begun as i left, and men's latin was starting a little time later). and so much shininess and poise and seriousness and fun *grin*
mymouse had lent me her camera, and was wanting pictures and videos, and i did my best[0], and here are a few[1]...
i'm not sure who the women-in-white couple were, but i think they look rather slinky in these two photos.
couple-number-19 were very popular amongst some of those close by me in the hall, they were from london. they were mostly/very pink. they look a bit spookily (even-the-eyes! *winky smile*) pink here, and their pinkness is also obvious here... but the photos don't really show their dancing... but this video[2] does *smile* they were good, i think, but i didn't get much of a feel for them - like, technically good, but lacking character/vitality *shrug* the video also shows a little of one of my favourite couples, number 26 *grin* (bottom-right, in black-with-little-handkerchiefs-of-orange)
and you can see a very short video of couple 26 (from stockholm) doing the dance where one of them is the bullfighter, and the other the-bullfighter's-cloak... they were so clear cut and present.
another[3] favourite were couple number 37 (from berlin) who you can just make out in this photograph - you can maybe gauge their poise from the way their fingers are held *winky smile* they were super good and a delight to watch - very fluid and precise in their moves, and also very together in the way they moved, and in the eye contact and rapport between them. you can see them[4] towards the end of this video (the former part of which features much more prominently a happy-looking couple-28(a uk-austria pairing apparently[5])-in-orange).
i found myself looking a lot for how the dancers interacted, and the overall feel to their dance[6]. another couple which had obvious rapport and seemed to be having fun, both with each other and in dancing, were couple number 7 (from frankfurt) - you can see a couple of photos of them.
there was also something about couple-number-12 (from düsseldorf) that i liked, and their costumes caught the eye, while being relativley subdued. here they are... and then, o, there they are! *grin*
o, and here's a photograph of the couple that contained one of the organisers, jacky appleton, who was super helpful in discovering access (and holding me a ticket when they were near gone) *smile*
hmmm, lots of pictures of the women's latin... but what of the men's ballroom? i don't have so many photographs... in part cos the men/ballroom dances seemed a bit harder to photograph (??), and in part cos i spent quite a bit of the time focussing on watching gábor and zsolt *smile*
a couple of couples in white[7] *smile*
and probably one of the best[8] of my photographs of the men's ballroom, is of couple-68-from-orlando,USA dancing the tango. and, o, he wore an amazing orange[9] a-bit-flowy costume later!
![orange[9] a-bit-flowy costume](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/earwigmc/pink%20jukebox%202007/_pinkjukebox2007028.jpg){kind=link}
i did make an audio-visual record of the men's ballroom finals for the class gábor and zsolt were competing in 'though *smile* and here is a video of their waltz (couple number 50 *winky smile*). i think the waltz was/is the dance of theirs i liked best - i like the way they move in it, it seems very fluid to me, and yeilding. and o, i found watching men-men couples waltzing moving! something caught me about it in the early classification rounds (and onwards). a little later talking with kutykuruty he mentioned that waltz done well moved him, and i felt somehow reassured/vindicated by this.
[0] the lighting was not entirely conducive to this
[1] mostly of lightly/brightly costumed dancers who stood out a bit more in the photographs i took...
[2] this is where one needs to point out that the uploaded version is not as sharp as the one saved on the computer here... of the original on the camera... which was kinda dark... (you get the drift, i think)
[3] the other, my other, the/my... favourite
[4] well, you can if you look really carefully/know where to look - far right...
[5] yes, i have a programme.
[6] being that i lack any technical knowledge/experience...
[7] yes, still showing up the best in the relative dark!
[8] and that is, i think, down to the flash from another camera user going off at the same time as i took it *smile*
[9] orange does seem very popular...