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| Well August is here, just do not know where
the year is going... Guess it will soon be summer. Saturday August 15th Dance
Rhythms will be
running a Summer Ball complete with a top dance Ballroom demonstration. Click
here to be kept up to date about the ball. |
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If your thinking of going to Bicester Village
to buy all those latest fashions then you could pop along if you
have any time or money left to the Rover Sports and Social Club
in Roman Way Cowley on a Tuesday, or The Oxford Town Hall on a
Wednesday, or the Regal in Cowley on a Thursday. For more information
go to the Dance
Diary Dancing Diary has been updated with a number
of venues in Yorkshire. also a number of locations around the West
Midlands have been provided by Brian
green To see the full list of known dances visit
the DANCE
DIARY here you will find venues up and down the country.The
most recent dance venues added were from Lancashire, Leicestershire
and Wiltshire. |
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August |
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A list by month of all the
known competitions around the country for those organiser who wish
to promote their competitions then email the dancing diary To view
September competitions -
click here |
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2009 Britain's Best Grand Finals at the Pavilion Ballroom - Bournemouth If you know of friends who would like to receive
this news letter then |
Jackie
Conway saw her Willenhall promotion
stage the Shropshire championships and what a fabulous competition
it was culminating in the final of the Shropshire Amateur Open
Ballroom Championship which saw a standing ovation for the Quickstep
of the eventual winners Richard Still and Morgan Hemphill pictured
right taken by Norman Large. More photos can viewed at | Change of Venue |
| The competition to be held at Winsford on
20th September 2009,
has we understand has had to be cancelled. Nigel Horrocks has kindly offered to include these three EADA competitions in the Yorkshire Open Ballroom and Latin American Dance Festival, which were due to be held at Winsford: Juvenile Ballroom, Junior Latin and Youth Latin The Yorkshire Open Ballroom and Latin American Dance Festival, is to be held in Sheffield on Saturday 19th September 2009. |
Strictly Come Dancing |
Katya Virshilas, is the latest signing for Strictly Come Dancing according to the Daily Mail. The foxy 25-year-old Lithuanian will be joining the other professional ballroom dancers when the hit BBC show begins this autumn. Katya is to replace professional dancer Camilla Dallerup, who has announced she will not be returning Blonde bombshell Katya has already appeared in a Hollywood movie with Antonio Banderas. She performed the tango with the 48-year-old in the 2006 movie Take The Lead. |
Strictly starts in just over a months time in September and rumors are rife... According to some reports Sharon Osbourne and Richard Madeley have reportedly in some quarters pulled out because of a dispute over pay. The BBC are are reported as the couple never signed to take part in the series and fees were never discussed. Twiggy has vowed never to appear on Strictly
Come Dancing. The M&S model says she's been approached several
times by show bosses.‘Every year they ask me to do that programme,’
Twiggy, 59, according to the Daily Telegraph.
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| And back to poor "old" Arlene
Phillips!!! she will
continue to cast her judgments on those who are performing only this
time it will be for rival broadcaster ITV according to the Daily
Mail
Arlene is in talks for a lucrative transfer to front a new GMTV talent show. The 66-year-old popular choreographer, who was removed from Strictly to make way for Alesha Dixon, 30, is being lined up as head judge on the project. The new GMTV series called The No. 1 Family which will air in the autumn will see the broadcaster look for Britain's most talented singing family. She is expected to lead the judging panel on the show which will run for about a month on the popular breakfast broadcaster's daily slot. |