Dancing Classrooms Philly
Monday, September 1, 2008
Last year I had the privilege of bearing witness to the Dancing Classrooms Philly program—of meeting those who teach and those who dance and those who make it possible. Today's two-minute vlog tells the story briefly, with but a handful of the more than 1,000 photographs that I took over the course of several days. Background music is "Caresse Sur L'Ocean," Bruno Coulais. The words are drawn from an essay I wrote to commemorate the program's launch in Philadelphia.
Thanks to Harvey Kimmel, Jane Brooks, Joyce Burd, and Leslie Swinney Kase for launching the program here in Philadelphia. Thanks to Pierre Dulaine and Yvonne Marceau for conceiving the program in the first place. Their story is brilliantly told in the documentary "Mad Hot Ballroom."
2 comments:
I've always been interested in learning to do some sort of ballroom dancing, and your post made me even more fascinated. (Well, House of Dance did, too, but it's been longer since I read that. :-) )
"Have fun with life," you (so perfectly) say, and dancing is a toward-fun path to take. It is hard, tremendously hard, but there is something to it that demands attention, something that hugely satisfies. Just the trying, with dance, can be enough, at least on a best day.
Wish I had started years ago.
Wish a lot of things.....
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