Muevelo dance contest

On May 26 2010, TVN channel 2 will show the second season of Muévelo. This is the dance contest in which 10 Panamanian schools will show their choreographic skills.

Muévelo means move it and these teams will definitely be showing off their best dance moves.  A relentless panel will be judging them by discipline and dancing skills to know who will be the next champion of the Intercolegial de Coreografías.

Most of the evaluation will depend on the judges, and they’ll focus most likely on the team’s discipline.  The public will have also the opportunity to participate by voting on TVN’s website for their favorite dance team. The two schools with fewer amounts of votes will have to face a challenge against each other. The panel will then decide who is the one that continues in the competition.

Muévelo 2009 judges were:

• Yael Bern: Professional Dancer and choreographer, founder of Tempo Dance Academy.
• Edwin Cedeno: Artistic, scenic and corporative  projection adviser.
• Moyra Brunette: Professional Dancer and choreographer, she belonged to the Venevision International Great Ballet in Caracas Venezuela.

The three finalist schools of Muévelo 2009 were, in third place taking home B/5000 “Bilingue La Academia”, in second place “El Instituto America” and the great champion “San Judas Tadeo,” who took home B/12000 and other awards. The final score was a very close call; the third and second place had a punctuation of 72.10 and 73.40; the first place got a final punctuation of 76.30.

The students should be aware that to participate in Muévelo they cannot have low grades. One of the requirements is that each participant should have an average grade point of 3.5/5 and also be between 15 to 18 years old.  That is why before entering to the contest each student needs to give producers last year’s grades and their birth certificate.

Each team’s choreography should be innovative, original, and talented, and as a team they will pass for many challenges.

Muévelo is a great production that shows the dancing skills of the Panamanian youth. The auditions started on April, and we will know the 10 participant schools soon.

San Judas Tadeo School

The jerkin’ dance is gaining popularity in Panama as it’s often mixed with passa passa and break dancing. In Panama, like in other parts of the world it’s still not widespread, but if you’d like a sample, simply attend discos where dance hall and passa passa music is played, you are bound to see a few dancers swinging their legs or jerkin’. Even popular dance crews in Panama have already started adding jerkin’ moves into their choreographies. The movement also has a few dedicated artists; one example is the duo “New Boyz” who with their hit “You are a Jerk” has boosted the popularity of the movement. Such is the buzz about this brand new type of dance that major recording labels like Arista have signed various groups and are looking seriously at many other jerk groups.

http://www.faepanama.org/calendario2010.html

Tickets for the IV Festival Internacional de Artes Escénicas will be on sale at boletospanama.com, or you may call at 360-2350. Prices start at $5 for the gallery, $10 for the II stage, $15 for the 1st box, $20 for the balcony, and $25 for the orchestra. For access to all the functions or a full pass, prices start at $60 for the 2nd box, $90 for the 1st box, $120 for the balcony, and $150 for the orchestra. The rest of the events are free! We will be waiting for you at the IV Festival Internacional de Artes Escénicas in Panama!

Finding a nice place to eat and dance is never easy, but luckily Panama has a number of places you can definitely enjoy. If you’re visiting the country for the first time, you might want to try the local music and food in one single place, Al Tambor de la Alegria offers all that and more. Located in the heart of Amador, Flamenco Island, you’ll find the restaurant facing the parking lot towards the ocean, it’s very easy to find. If you want to enjoy the main dancing event, I suggest you head on over there 4 PM.

The show starts off with some Panamanian dances and shows while you enjoy the best of Panama’s dishes. Some of the Panamanian dance you’ll be enjoying are the “El Punto”, and the “Tamborito”, which is a popular folk dance performed by men and women in costumes. One of the most popular shows at the Al Tambor de la Alegria would be the Congo dance, popular among the black communities and loved by all. It originated in Colon and has since been a show many tourists can’t miss.

At the end of the night visitors of the restaurant are invited to dance along with the performers after finishing their dinner. Feel free to ask one of the waiters for a CD filled with Panamanian folk music, that shouldn’t cost you more than 10 USD. Don’t worry about not having much dancing skills or even knowing anything about the dances performed, all you need to do is follow along with the performers and you’ll do fine.

Al Tambor de la Alegria is a great place to bring the entire family for some fun dancing and great food. You shouldn’t have trouble finding the place if you know where the Causeway is, so go get your dance on and enjoy the food.

Learning how to Latin dance from a dancing academy allows you to get to know your partner while having fun. I say this because a lot of tourists that arrive in Panama don’t speak Spanish. So when they meet a person from Panama, it is difficult to find out what that person likes to do for fun. Well, one thing you must know about Panamanians is that they love to dance. So taking that someone from Panama to a night club is a good idea! But if you don’t know which dancing academy to go to learn to Latin dance, then don’t worry! There are many schools that you can go to in Panama that can help you with that problem like: Alina’s Dance Academy, Panama Hot Salsa dancing academy, Academia Artiste and many more. These dance schools from Panama will teach you how to move your body like a pro! Learn to dance Salsa, merengue, bachata, rumba, chachachá, tango, típico (tradicional dance from Panama), and many others at a dancing academy!

So if you are new to Panama and you want to make some new friends, then I suggest you start learning the Latin dance moves that bring many people from different countries together at a dancing academy! And once you got your Latin rhythm, you can hit the clubs in Panama!

“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars: And being with child she cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth”
Proyección Leyla Salam presents “Apocalipsis”, a show full of mysticism which will take you to the beginning of the final times on earth.

This show will count with the participation of Leyla Salam’s dance team, Arabic Dance Studio Alondra and from Costa Rica the group Noura. With more than 15 dancers and actors on scene you will be taking a sneak peek into evil.

What will our future holds for us? Is the Apocalipsis our end?

Date: October 17, 2009
Place: Ascanio Arosemena Theater (diagonal to the Administration Building next to Balboa’s fire station)
Time: 7:00 pm
COST: $10.00 Pre-sale – $12.00 day of the event
For more information: www.leylasalam.com

We encourage all couples/dancers to get ready and train hard for this outstanding event. They will have the opportunity to show their talents. The winner couple will represent Panama in Puerto Rico. They will need to have a valid US visa. If not, Salsa Congress will provide them with a recommendation letter in order to help with the visa process. However, organizers shall not be held responsible if visa is rejected.

Event will be carried out in 3 different places of Panama City. Royal Casino, Discoteca Dubay and Café Dali. Inscriptions currently are open. Don´t miss the chance to represent Panama at an international level.

Breakdancing may have begun as a building, productive, and a constructive youth culture alternative to the violence of urban street gangs. Today, breakdancing culture is a remarkable discipline somewhere between those of dancers and athletes. Since acceptance and involvement centers on dance skills, breakdancing culture is often free of the common race and gender boundaries of a subculture and has been accepted worldwide.

The past Sunday 5 of April the super event Back 2 Da Scene was carried out in the gymnasium Yuyin Luzcando de Bethania, from 11:00 a.m. This event gets together the best dancers of break dances from Panama and the other provinces of the country. Competitions of 3 versus 3 were carried out, in which 3 of the best dancers of each enrolled group participated; also mini competitions of 1 versus 1 were realized maintaining active the attending public.

There was participation of MC’s/Rappers that animated live to the public with their rhymes. In short, the event filled the expectations of the public who attended hoping that these events repeat more often since it had a very good welcome by the fanatics of this dances.

Dance Therapy can help patients the following ways:

• Dance develops positive body image
• Dancing improves self-concept and self-esteem
• Dance reduces stress, anxiety, and depression
• Dancing decreases isolation, chronic pain, and body tension
• Dance increases communication skills
• Dancing encourages a sense of well-being

or some cancer patients, dance therapy is an effective form of exercise. However, dance therapy has not been studied enough to know if there are any unique health benefits to cancer patients, or to confirm the effects on prevention and/or recovery of illness.

The benefits of dance therapy come through physical activity are known to increase endorphins, which create a general state of well-being on the body.  And total body movement such as dance enhances the functions of other body systems, such as circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, and muscular systems. Dance therapy not only helps you to stay mentally and physically fit but it also gives you pleasure by creating rhythmic art with your body and express them dancing.

Dame Margot most memorable portrayal came at age 30 in the Sadler´s Wells Ballet production of “Sleeping Beauty” as Princess Aurora, which stunned the audience at the Metropolitan Opera House with her youthful performance.

In 1955, Dame Margot married Dr. Roberto Arias, a Panamanian diplomat to London and a philanderer.  Their marriage was tumultuous due to his frequent infidelities. In May of 1964, Dr. Roberto Arias was elected to the National Assembly, his first foray into active politics.  A year later tragedy struck the Arias family, as a rival Panamanian politician, Alberto Jimenez, shot Dr. Arias on a street corner in a suburb of Panama City.  Dr. Arias was treated for 18 months in British hospitals and spent the rest of his entire life as a quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair.

Due to the enormous medical cost amassed by Dr. Arias´s medical care, Dame Margot continued to dance until 1979, her sixtieth year, despite from suffering from an arthritic foot.  She remained loyal to Dr. Roberto Arias until his death in 1989.  The artist that too many represented “Eternal Youth,” and whose blend of refinement and passion redefined 20th-century ballet passed away at age 71 on February 21, 1991 in Patilla Hospital in Panama City.