Due to the international dance festival organized this year, the organizers reinvented the idea of Friday Night Party and mixed together all the dances promoted by this year's festival: thus creating the very-original Friday Night Dance Fusion, a fusion of: Sport/social dance, Argentine Tango, Contemporary dance, Caribbean dances and street dance; with show-dances and special performances.
When we decided to attend this party, I didn't know I was going to love it so much!!!
As a connoisseur, I have raised my standards of a quality-social-dance party; :-) having a history of social-dance parties that I've attended in the past years (from New-Year's Social-Dance Parties, Halloween and so on) to the usual or classical Friday Night Dances (that we even helped organized, from time to time).
This party, the Friday Night Dance Fusion, had all the spice & pepper it needed: high quality location with great food and beverages plus the party specials: themed cocktails; a wooden dance-floor, the groups of music lovers gave the party a unique atmosphere; the musical variety, all topped with the surprising shows... all combined, turned this party into the best event of it's kind (that I've ever attended). Each of us came with a style or from a group but we ended up watching and even dancing, learning or practicing other dance styles.
As I didn't have my camera, I will use the existing photos, thus photo credits will be mentioned in the end of this post.
Perhaps Contemporary Dancing is not so easy to understand, if you're not familiar with it (as I was not), my impression, is that the style is more in the sphere of theatrical, calculated, but warm :-)
Anyways, what I can say for sure is that, the dance was delightful for the eyes, the ears, the heart!!!
One of my favorite parts, the ballroom dancing show! This sport-dance moment was the one that I enjoyed the most! This young couple of Professional Dancers offered us a close-to-perfection interpretation of three dances that I very much like: slow waltz, tango and slow fox. A delight for the eyes and for the soul; awesome dancers, great costumes, wonderful poses and posture, attitude, technique and musicality...
As I mentioned previously, there was a Fusion of five styles: Contemporary Dances, Street Dance, Ballroom, Argentine Tango and Caribbean Dances. The well known salsa and bachata are part of this last mentioned group. We saw the dancers from the "Salsa school" perform on the rhythms all night long. They prepared a special, very passionate bachata show... heating up both the floor and the atmosphere! Watch them :-)
As another sign of a successful party, the dance floor was always full between the dance performances. People were enjoying themselves and dancing to their favorite rhythms, music, they were all "dance-stars" :-)
Even though we didn't get the chance to learn so much Argentine Tango, I must say it's one of my soft sports, because it's very very unexpected. The tango orchestra turns rapidly from soft, to passionate and even to brutal noises. Music is the star of the dance floor, the dancers (leader and follower) seem like puppets, in the hands of music; they will surprise you with great poses and a lot of passion that's going on, on the dance floor.
I'm now looking forward for future Dance Parties, that will top this one!!! ;;)
[photo credits: Sebastian Gruia / Reflekt Image; follow the link for more pics]
