Depuis plusieurs mois maintenant, une vidéo est devenue virale parmi les danseurs. Des conférenciers, deux danseurs professionnels y expliquent un concept existant depuis de nombreuses années en danse sociale, mais quasiment inexistant / partiellement ignoré / jamais mis en mots avant : si vous laissez de coté la répartition des […]
S’il y a bien une question universelle que tous les danseurs se posent, quelle que soit la danse, c’est bien “qu’est-ce que tu as comme chaussures ?” et “Où les as-tu trouvées ?” Les danseurs passionnés ont généralement plusieurs paires de chaussures pour parer à toutes les situations, comme danser dans […]
For several months now, the video below went viral amongst dancers. The speakers, two professional dancers are explaining a concept existing for decades in social dancing but unusual / partly ignored / rarely put in words before : if you get rid of the gender roles of partner dancing, then […]
The band announced a mazurka. The room is filled with people looking desperately for a partner. “I always dance the first and the last mazurka with my girlfriend / boyfriend” say some people. With years passing, I have the feeling that bal folk’s couple dances, especially mazurka, are transforming under […]
Le groupe vient d’annoncer une mazurka. La salle rentre en effervescence, les couples se cherchent. “Je danse toujours la première et la dernière mazurka de la soirée avec ma chérie”, annoncent certains. Les années passant, j’ai l’impression que les danses de couple folk, et plus particulièrement la mazurka, se transforment […]
Quand nous parlons de danse, très vite nous avons tendance à parler relations sociales, fun, musicalité, rythmique, passes, connexion, bons et mauvais danseurs, théories sur comment guider et suivre efficacement… Et de temps en temps, quelqu’un va dire “ Danser a changé ma perception au corps. Ça a influencé ma […]
When we talk about dancing, we come up with various subjects like social relations, fun, musicality, pulse, variations, spins, good or bad dancers, connection, leading, following… And from time to time, there is a person saying “dancing changed my way of holding myself and my confidence, made me think about […]
If you want to start something else but you don’t know what, prepare yourself, I have A LOT of ideas. I started to dance 9 years ago and I couldn’t stop. I tried a lot of different dances, as a follower and as a leader, and even now when I […]
Il y a quelque chose de particulièrement incroyable qui se passe depuis quelques années dans le milieu du bal folk. Tous les danseurs qui parcourent les festivals en France et en Europe vous le diront : il y a un nombre croissant de nouveaux groupes de musique de très bonne […]
There is something truly amazing happening in bal folk dancing for several years now. People going to festivals across Europe, probably noticed the huge numbers of bal folk bands of superb quality. Lately, I felt really amazed by the richness and creativity in bal folk when it comes to music […]
Next october, a new edition of the fantastic bal folk festival Cadansa will take place in Duiven, The Netherlands. A quite big and magical event only Dutch could have invented. These past years, I have attended to several events in The Netherlands, from the regular bal to bal folk and […]
Le week end prochain, les copines du groupe “Les Conteuses de Pas” organisent un atelier pour apprendre “la connexion de groupe et l’énergie en rondes”. Une idée que je trouve absolument brillante car elle est nécessaire et – il faut bien le dire – pas toujours bien présente en bal. Les danses […]
The question always end up when i pronounce the word « tango » in front of uninitiated persons « but why do tango dancers always make such a long face when they dance ? It is not a very friendly scene, isn’t it ? » I thought a lot about […]
As i spend too much time on youtube, i always find some amazing videos of people dancing. I’ll try to explain what captivates me in that video. Let’s talk about one of my favourite tango video. Even if usually, i would prefer improvisation to routines, because it feels more natural and spontaneous, in […]
As i spend too much time on youtube looking for dances videos, i had a period looking for “first dances videos”. After a brave search in my awefully difficult quest of finding beautiful wedding dances, here is an example of 3 dances i find especially sweet and beautiful. I still try […]
August 2015, after a short visit of Lisbon, I am on my way to an amazing dance festival in the mountains : Andancas. In the hotness of Portugal countryside lies a multidanse/multi activities festival lasting a week and full of hippie like people, ready to party. How to go there I […]
I often take days off from work for long weekends. My colleagues are asking “what are you doing for the week end?” and the answer is often “on my way to dance in Belgium / Netherland / Portugal / England / Ireland/ somewhere lost in France”. Quite difficult for some […]