Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Dancing Divas

What form of dance do you do? Hip hop, Steppin, Ballet etc. Why should we try to learn your form of dance?
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Ju Ju said...

Big Frizzie does Steppin! She says you should learn this form of dance, because it's a romantic interlude. It's also, can be very sexual when you have the right partner. Steppin, can be fun, competitive and even used for excerise. You can learn many different styles, like Chicago Steppin, Westside, Atlanta, and even those who Bop and Walk. So, let's get in the groove of things and learn something new!

June 20, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Ju Ju said...

Someone you should know

Cyd Charisse

Cyd Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea on March 8, 1922, in Amarillo, Texas. Hollywood's greatest dancer of all times first studied classical dancing. She was in the Russian Ballet in Monte-Carlo and worked with David Lichine and Leonid Massine, using the names Felia Sidorova and Maria Istomina. She married her ex-dance teacher, Nico Charisse, in 1939. In 1943, David Lichine asked her to appear in her first movie ballet, in "Something to shout about", in which she is credited as Lily Norwood. The same year, she played a Bolchoï dancer in "Mission to Moscow", by Michael Curtiz. Choreographer Robert Alton and producer Arthur Freed hired her, to dance with Fred Astaire in "Ziegfeld Follies", directed by Vincente Minnelli, and Cyd Charisse then signed a seven year deal with the MGM. "The Harvey Girls", in 1945, by George Sidney and featuring Judy Garland, gave her the opportunity to show her talent as an actress.


The beginning of a great career

In the next few years, she appeared regularly in dancing acts of several musicals, with Judy Garland, Esther Williams, and Kathryn Grayson. It is also the time when she married her second husband, singer Tony Martin (1948). Her first part in a non-musical movie was in 1949 : "Tension", a detective film by John Berry, followed by "East Side, West Side", by Mervyn Leroy, featuring Barbara Stanwyck and James Mason. She played a Spanish woman in "Mark of the Renegade" (Hugo Fregonese, 1951), where she danced with Ricardo Montalban. She played and Indian girl in Andrew Marton's "Wild North", in 1952, a western movie.


Her greatest movies

She really became famous in 1952, with her fantastic appearance in the Broadway Melody Ballet scene, with Gene Kelly, in the most famous musical ever : "Singin' in the rain", by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Her white dress in the dreamlike sequence, her hairdo "a la Louise Brooks" and her look in the first part of the ballet were a revelation for many people. The beauty and the talent of Cyd Charisse make her one of the stars of the movie, despite her relatively short appearance in it and her silent part. Her way to be double was used again by Vincente Minnelli in "The Band Wagon", where she starred with Fred Astaire, which was a real consecration. "Singin' in the rain" and "The band wagon" are Cyd Charisse's most important movies, and acts like the Broadway Melody Ballet, and, in the second movie, Dancing in the dark and The Girl Hunt Ballet, are forever in the Hollywood Musicals Hall of Fame. The picture galleries available from the filmography contains photographies of these unforgettable moments.


Cyd Charisse's hour of glory

Cyd Charisse had become a star. She played again with Gene Kelly in a musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, "Brigadoon", in 1954, and did one of her greatest acts in "Deep in my heart", by Stanley Donen. Her beauty and her talent were amazing in "It's always fair weather", by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. In 1957, she played a part created in 1939 by Greta Garbo, in a musical version of Ninotchka, directed by Rouben Mamoulian : "Silk stockings". With Fred Astaire, she did some of her most elegant dances of her carrer in this movie. In 1958, she played in the "Party Girl", directed by Nicholas Ray. Her two dancing acts are admirable, but she is also amazing in her dramatic role in this movie, which is her last great musical. The best moment of the end of her career is her part in "Two weeks in another town" (Vincente Minnelli), where she plays a vamp. She then appeared in several TV shows, and on stage in Las Vegas, with Tony Martin. She also appeared on stages in Melbourne, New York and London, where she starred in musicals ("No, No, Nanette", "Charlie Girl", "Illya Darling" and "Grand Hotel").

Cyd Charisse died on June 17, 2008 in Los Angeles, California and was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery on June 22, 2008.

http://legs.free.fr/English/bio.html

October 13, 2008 at 6:14 AM
Ju Ju said...

Someone you should know

Jennifer Lopez

Birthday : 24 July 1970
Hometown : Bronx, New York, USA
Height : 5' 6"
Weight : 121 lbs
Relations : David ( Father ), Guadalupe ( Mother ), Linda and Leslie ( Sister ), Marc Anthony ( husband), twins Max and Emme

Actress and pop singer. Born July 24, 1970, in the Bronx, New York. Lopez began her career as a dancer, appearing in stage musicals and various music videos. In 1990, she won a national competition and earned a spot dancing on the popular Fox comedy television series, “In Living Color,” as one of the “Fly Girls.” A series of small acting jobs followed, including parts in two more series and a TV movie, Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7, in 1993. Lopez’s first feature film was the critically acclaimed Mi Familia, or My Family, in 1995. She also appeared in Money Train (1995), opposite Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, and in Jack (1996), directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Robin Williams.


» Lopez’s first big break came in 1997, when she was chosen to play the title role in Selena, a biopic of the Tejano pop singer Selena Quintillana Perez, who was killed by a crazed fan in 1995. She earned widespread praise for her performance, including a Golden Globe nomination, and became the highest-paid Latina actress in history with her paycheck of $1 million. That same year, Lopez starred in the forgettable Anaconda and in Blood and Wine, opposite Jack Nicholson. Her role as federal marshal Karen Sisco in Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight, a film based on the Elmore Leonard novel and co-starring George Clooney, further enhanced her image as a bankable movie star.


» Lopez’s musical career also began to take off, as she released her debut Latin pop album, On the 6 in June 1999. The album, fueled by the success of her hit single, “If You Had My Love,” went platinum within two weeks, making Lopez—along with Ricky Martin—one of the most influential examples of the growing Latin cultural influence in pop music.


» Early in 2000, Lopez was nominated for Best Dance Performance for her second hit single "Waiting for Tonight," but lost the award to veteran diva Cher. In the summer of 2000, she starred in the science fiction-thriller The Cell, in which she plays a child psychologist helping to track a terrifying serial killer. The same year, she starred in Enough, a portrayal of spousal abuse.


» The popularity of the multi-talented Lopez reached new heights in early 2001, when her album, J. Lo debuted at No. 1 on the pop charts, while her film, the romantic comedy The Wedding Planner, shot to the top spot at the box office in its first week of release. In December 2002, she performed another one-two punch with the release of the record This Is Me ... Then and a starring role in the comedy Maid in Manhattan, which was a box office hit, if not a critical one. In 2003, she co-starred with Ben Affleck in the box office bomb, Gigli. Upcoming projects include Jersey Girl (also with Affleck) and An Unfinished Life, in which she plays a single mom taken in by her father-in-law played by Robert Redford. She is also set to star opposite Richard Gere in Shall We Dance?, a remake of the top-grossing Japanese flick.

Lopez subsequently married singer Marc Anthony in June 2004 at a private ceremony at her Los Angeles mansion.


http://www.jenone.com/biography/page1.html

October 13, 2008 at 6:49 AM

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