Video Of The Day

Thanks to TWOP poster morethanidsrv for finding this, a video of teenage Danny Tidwell dancing a ballet piece.

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The Business Side Of Wade

FinanceVisor.com analyzes how Wade Robson leveraged a dance career into a business enterprise:

Robson's attorney, leading Los Angeles entertainment attorney Helen Yu, of Yu Leseberg, negotiated and strategized each of Robson's deals. She states: "Normally, a dancer's career is done by their late twenties, but Robson has continued to expand his career by strategically planning his future beyond just dancing and choreography. All forms of media and entertainment are converging these days. Whether it is choreography, film, music, television, art, or commercials, choreographers need to expand their repertoire outside of choreography into other media. For Wade, I've been able to meld his choreography with a successful career in music and video directing, and also license his brand for a shoe line."

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Shane Seeks Arrogant Dancers

As previously mentioned, Shane Sparks is involved in a J-Lo/Secret Deodorant cross promotion, seeking dancers for a music video. This quote stopped me in my tracks:

Dancers have to impress Shane Sparks, one of the judges from So You Think You Can Dance, to make it onto the video.

"We are looking for girls that are beautiful, that can dance and are confident," Sparks said. "We are looking for girls that are very confident and very arrogant about what they do."

Oh, the irony.

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Video Of The Day

We have 2 videos today. First, Brian Friedman dancing with someone only identified as Tony, at a Monsters Of Hiphop event.


Next, some new stuff from Phillip Chbeeb and the Marvelous Motion Crew.

Around The Web

It's been a very slow news week but we do have a couple of things going on.

Shane Sparks answers 16 questions from Andrew Moreno for Lifted Magazine:

Moreno: As a dance instructor, what lesson do you constantly give your students?

Sparks: Think before you dance. Motiveless movement is dead movement!

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Season 3 winner Sabra Johnson will get to meet Ellen DeGeneres when she makes an appearance on her show Monday. Check your local listing for times.

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The results are in for week 2 of Ducky's Video Death Match. You might be surprised at which routines you eliminated.

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Laura Johnson at the Pepperdine University Graphic writes about So You Think You Can Dance, Hairspray, and being Billy Idol.

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Watching With Aussies: Season 3 is being broadcast in Australia. I'm enjoying reading their reactions and comparing them to ours. This blogger says he's giving up after seeing the Dancing Derrick audition show:

Some will say that if you audition for such a show, you deserve what you get. In the words of Lythgoe "I am here to judge you". Which is true. But it is the producers' responsibility to judge things also. The dancers will be judged, yes, but certain things--the truly sad things--needn't be aired. Last night talent and warmth was traded for an opportunity to laugh at the weak. I may resume my viewing in a month's time, or so, when this spectacle of cruelty has finished, and the real show begins. Or I may never switch it back on, and make the world's stupidest stand but mean it.

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Video Of The Day

We found 3 Pasha Kovalev fan videos.

The first was created by heckyeahfool


The next by buffmetube


And finally, by helloworld409

Video Of The Day

Winners of the recent Eurovision Dance Contest, Katja Koukkula & Jussi Väänänen of Finland.

Rumba


Freestyle Paso Doble


Eurovision Dance Contest Official Site