Let’s dance, as in the movie “Step up”

Step up“Step up”. Girls and boys, for all lovers, or for those who are yet to be, for you dance school “5LIFE” opens a new, totally unique group “Step up”. Beautiful girl dances, rhythmically moving their feet guy. It is graceful in their movements, but he radiates masculinity… It turns captivating and ingenious, as his defiant and expressiveness. And they seem to be independent of one another, but only in one dance, he and she, ascending and descending, like waves, creating mutual harmony. Read the rest of this entry »

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5 LIFE PREMIUM on Novy Arbat - opening in September!

5 LIFE PREMIUM on Novy Arbat - opening in September! Our school dance - this club, open only for true connoisseurs of his free time. In “5 LIFE PREMIUM” has everything for full, enriching soul rest: elite location - in the cultural and business center of the capital, at the intersection of two famous streets: Garden Ring and Novy Arbat, a wide range of the best dance directions, aesthetic interior skillfully executed by leading designers , Provides all the comforts of club guests, talent teachers, and all the fun from the world of music. Classes are held in the morning, afternoon (lunch) and evening.
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Joaquin was born in Cordoba, and is pure blood gitano.

born in CordobaAt twelve years went to study in Madrid in order to learn to dance. He entered to be part of the Spanish National Ballet and at the age of fifteen years had already become the first dancer. Thus began to go on tour worldwide performing well at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and the Kremlin’s Congress Palace in Moscow. After he left the National Ballet and joined a gala consists of great artists including Maya Plisetskaya, Silvie Guillen, Pere Schauffus, Marie-Claude Pietragalla and Julio Bocca.
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THE CAPOEIRA NELL’ATTUALITA ‘

CAPOEIRA NELLVery different is the situation now stands capoerista and capoeira. We need to get to 1930, when the capoeira was liberalised and joined the national folklore. Today it’s easy to meet athletes-disciples of all ages and social classes, there are also women who practice. The capoerista is no longer a provocateur but as a sport. The capoerista must be calm, quiet and calculators, capoeira requires for its part a certain mysticism, loyalty with peers in the game and absolute obedience to the rules.
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How born Capoeira?

CapoeiraWhen arrived in Brazil in 1500, the Portuguese had not the slightest idea of how vast the territory discovered. The plantations were enormous and the need for labour was a fact. For this reason, they decided the import and schiavizzazione of African blacks. Two were large groups of African tribes arrived in Brazil; strain identified for language they are: Sudanese (Gulf of Guinea) and bantu (Congo, Angola and Mozambique).
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The African dance knows many forms

The African danceThe African dance knows many forms. In addition to the energetic movements of dances of Africa, gives importance to gentle movements ondulatori departing from the basin and spread along the spine to the neck, arms and hands. The dancers and dancers become aware of their blocks and their tensions, make their bodies more flexible and can riequilibrarlo. The dance African dance barefoot. The plants feet tastano the ground and beat him in immediate contact. The hip ammortizzano the weight of the body,
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The African dance has different styles for every occurrence of life.

African danceA pace to invoke the rain, to celebrate a marriage, another to remember the deceased who is accompanied in the trip. The African dance has different styles for every occurrence of life. The African continent has always had a very close relationship with music and dance, and they do not mean only fun and want to move, but have a deeper meaning: the songs and dances accompanying the daily life, in every moment, happy or sad that is.
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Tango: dancing!

Tango: dancing!Up to half of the twentieth century was indiscriminately danced in cabarets luxury in milonghe in clubs and neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. This original style was then called for precisely Milonghera; dancers are very close to each other and dancing very attached. The environment of tango began to acquire the character of a community because of its language and its peculiar. Thanks to this internationally renowned dance began to be represented in shows around the world and idearono more daring choreography, with figures taken from ballet and figure ginniche that soppiantarono improvised character that had until then.
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Tango Music

Tango MusicMusically the tango can be considered a relative dell’habanera Cuban son and therefore the merchant bustle between the ports of Spanish dell’Havana and Buenos Aires. Initially it was interpreted by groups that have only flute, violin and guitar (when there was no chance we were using the removal of a comb that is transformed into a wind instrument, using a map from tobacco and a “blower “Expert). The mythical “bandoneòn” arrived later, in 1900 or so, with immigrants Germans, taking little by little the place of the flute.
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“TANGO” Origin of name

Origin of nameThe origin of the tango, a cultural phenomenon that includes dance, music, song and poetry, is as fascinating as legendary. Just as uncertain is its origin, is also the legendary origin of the name. Among the various hypotheses seems that the term indicates the port of Africa where slaves gathered traffickers, others are traced back to the deformation of the term “tambor” (drum) by the blacks that pronunciavano “tangò.”
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