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Inside this month:

There’s something about Sofia

Sofia Boutella talks to Nicola Rayner about working with Madonna, moving like Michael Jackson and bringing salsa to the street in StreetDance 2 3D

The dance promoters

 Increasing costs, greater bureaucracy and fewer ballrooms, why would anyone be a dance promoter? Alison Gallagher-Hughes finds out

Here’s looking at you

 Get your eye contact right and you’ll achieve maximum communication on the dancefloor, get it wrong and you could sabotage an otherwise great performance. Rachel Holland investigates

Love on the dancefloor

 As Valentine’s Day approaches, Carole Edrich advises how to find the perfect partner

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Welcome to Dance Today

Welcome to our new-look website! At our grand old age – we are 100 this month – we thought it was an apt time for a bit of a nip and tuck, so as well as redesigning the magazine, we have updated our web look too. We are just in time for “Strictly Come Dancing” season, so stay up to the minute here with Marianka Swain’s new blog, Strictly speaking, complete with our sequin-o-meter rating the dances!

For more “Strictly” news, see our October issue (out on October 6) where Marianka meets new professionals Artem Chigvintsev and Jared Murillo. Elsewhere in the issue, we have some lovely, nostalgic features by Mary Clarke on Dance Today’s history and Zoë Anderson (How the Charleston changed the world). We hope you enjoy browsing through the website and magazine and, as we celebrate our centenary, we would like to thank our contributors, our advertisers and you, our readers, who have made reaching our 100th birthday possible. Here’s to the next century.

Strangely enough we have not one, but two, Star Championship reports in this month’s issue, with Iris Findlay reporting on this year’s Star and Jack Reavely remembering the same competition in 1952, when Wally Fryer and Violet Barnes won the Star Professional Ballroom. On the subject of nostalgia, Blanche Ingle-Bateman has also shared some wonderful photographs of Butlin’s. If you, too, have memories and pictures you would like to share, do get in touch with us. Other articles I have particularly enjoyed in this month’s issue are Alison Gallagher-Hughes’ in-depth look at the world of dance promoters and Zoë Anderson’s piece on how flamenco can improve your Latin, and perhaps even your ballroom, dance. If it’s Latin fire you’re after on a cold evening, why not enter our competition to hear Cuban band Los Van Van in action?

Nicola Rayner, Editor

New DVD out

Just Jhoom!
just-jhoomJust Jhoom! – which translates as “Just Dance!” – is a charming dance-fitness DVD that captures some of the magic of Bollywood. One of the pitfalls of making dance DVDs can be the tricky business of the music: problems with permission can all too often leave the dancer at home salsa-ing in silence or boogying to the blandest of library music.
However, Freehand, the company that produced and distributed Just Jhoom!, secured the rights to seven stonking tracks from Indian film production company Yash Raj Films, marking the first time that music from blockbuster Bollywood movies has been used on a UK fitness DVD – and what a difference good tunes make! There are many other things to like about Just Jhoom!, which offers seven segments on its menu: two warm-ups, four dance routines and a cool-down.
We have FREE copies of Just Jhoom! to give away to new subscribers, courtesy of Shalini Bhalla. Simply subscribe here, and call us on 020 7250 3006 to let us know and we will pop a copy of the DVD in the post to you

 


 

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