For the last 8 years, the Long Island Press has put out a list of the best Long Island has to offer. Now with over 360 categories the Best of Long Island list is bigger than ever. This year your favorite dance studio and mine, Rhythmology of Westbury, has been nominated in the Adult Dance [...]read more
For the last 8 years, the Long Island Press has put out a list of the best Long Island has to offer. Now with over 360 categories the Best of Long Island list is bigger than ever. This year your favorite dance studio and mine, Rhythmology of Westbury, has been nominated in the Adult Dance Studio category.
How does Rhythmology win the nomination of Best Adult Dance Studio on Long Island? YOU!!! Just like on Dancing with the Stars, you are the key!! You have to go and vote. So if you have had an amazing time learning, dancing and partying with the Rhythmology family, go and vote! You are allowed one voter per IP address per day per category, until voting ends on 12/15/12. That’s over a month’s worth of votes. Let’s do our part to ensure that Rhythmology is recognized as what we already know it is: Long Island’s Best!!!
Here’s the link: http://vote.longislandpress.com/engine/Welcome.aspx?contestid=71109 Vote every day!!!!
On Labor Day weekend I went to the 12th annual New York International Salsa Congress. Rhythmology, the lovely studio that sponsors this blog, had 4 awesome performances, so I watched a lot of dancing over the 3 days and 2 nights that I spent at the congress. As a result, I had some revelations about [...]read more
Do you remember your first Salsa class? Do you remember what it was that made you decide to return to the dance studio, or the night club, or the community center where that first class was held? I do. It was early in the 21st century. I had always wanted to learn Salsa. I have [...]read more
Have you ever thought about why you’re so happy when you dance or do exercise? No? Well, I’m happy to fill you in! See, hormones are the secret. If you think about it, we have rhythms going on in our body all the time. We have our heartbeat, our brainwaves, our pulse, and the millions [...]read more
During my years in the dance community, every once in a while I will hear someone complaining about counting while doing salsa. They say they personally hate to do it because it confuses them or because it doesn’t feel natural. I have also heard people say that they hate OTHER PEOPLE who count while [...]read more
Tell us why you NEED these tickets! We will pick our winner from the comments below!read more
So there’s Artistic Gymnastics, Synchonized Swimming, and Trampolining and Race Walking, but no dancing aka DanceSport in the Olympic games. Why is that exactly? Ballroom dancers begin training at the same age as gymnasts and swimmers, they work just as hard to perfect their craft. They spend years on the competitive circuit the same as [...]read more
It’s that time of year of again! Congress time on the east coast! August 9th-12th is the 4th Annual DC Bachata Congress and August 29th-September 2nd is the 12th New York International Salsa Congress. It’s time to strap on those serious dance shoes and get moving. What’s that? What is a dance congress, you ask? [...]read more
A 21 year study shows that dancing, more than any other physical or mental activity, can help prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Isn’t that something? Dancing! That’s so crazy! Yet compared with swimming, golfing, biking, reading and doing crossword puzzles, dancing reduces the risk of those mental ailments the most–by 76%! Crossword puzzles reduce the [...]read more
Did you know that in the heyday of big band Mambo (the forerunner to present-day Salsa) the musicians and singers who performed were not allowed to mingle, socialize or dance with the patrons who came to hear them? Even entertainment was segregated. Until the Palladium. The owner, Max Hyman, convinced to open his doors to [...]read more
