 DanceInTime performing at the Washington, DC Salsa Congress 2010

Above: Sean Climer and Christine
Bollino perform a tango at the World Bank show in Alexandria, VA.* 3/4/10
Photo by Isabel Triemer.
 Above: African dancer from Wombworks at the World Bank show in Virginia 3/4/10.

Above: Indian dancing for
DanceInTime's Latin/Indian fusion performance at the World Bank show in
Alexandria, VA.* 3/4/10 Photo by Isabel Triemer

Above: DanceInTime performs a
combined Salsa and Cha Cha performance of their "Charlie's Angels Routine" at
the Miami Salsa Congress, 2007
 Above: The audience practices dance
moves after a lesson at First Night Annapolis. 12/31/05

Above: DanceInTime debuts their Cuban routine at the World Bank show in
Alexandria, VA. 3/4/10

Above: Asian dancers from Silk Road Company join DanceInTime at the World Bank
show in Alexandria, VA. 3/4/10

Above: Teaching children in the
audience at First Act Annapolis, a
New Year's Eve program aimed at
entertaining families with young
children 12/31/04

Above: Holly Morris filming the
DanceInTime crew in Mc Lean,
Virginia, on 4/4/06.

Above: Open Dancing after the World Bank
show in Alexandria, VA. 3/4/10

Above: DanceInTime teaching at
Artscape in Baltimore, Maryland. 7/06

Above: Hungarian dancers performing at World Bank
show in Alexandria, VA. 3/4/10

Above: DanceInTime partnered with
"Project Generation" to produce a show in
Miami, Florida on a yacht. 1/10

Above: Rueda performance at the World Bank show
in Alexandria, VA. 3/4/10

Above: Barb Bernstein and Sean Climer teaching and performing
at a high school in Annapolis, MD. We taught the students to
distinguish Salsa, Merengue, and Cha Cha music, and then taught
basic steps of those dances. 3/10
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Do You Want To Arrange
A Flashy Dance Performance
Or Instruction?
Add Fun & Sizzle
To Your Event/Party With Our
Latin Dance Entertainment!
We design
unique dance
entertainment
for events large & small in DC/MD/VA.
We're flexible,
performing at all types of venues.
Birthday &
Other Parties
We
have performed at many birthday, wedding, and
anniversary parties in town, adding "zing" to the
event! Sometimes instruction is added to the show to
make it interactive, so guests get to dance too!
CCR
Registration for Government
DanceInTime has a Central Contracting Registration
number to facilitate contracts with government
offices. (For our "cage" or Dunns number,
contact Barb.) We have done countless
Hispanic Heritage Month programs and have
many show options to choose from. We also have
an all women's team and present Women's
History Month programs.
Events Out of Town
Though based in the Washington DC
metropolitan area, DanceInTime has done both
teaching and performing in many other cities. At
Salsa Congresses and special events in Vancouver Canada,
San Juan Puerto Rico, Miami Florida, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania, NYC, etc. we have performed,
taught workshops, and/or judged dance contests.
Barb is teaching workshops in Dublin Ireland in 2011
at a St. Patrick's Salsa Festival.
Bringing in
Top Talent
In order
to bring original shows to the area, DanceInTime
sometimes brings in talent from other cities to
perform! For example, at the Verizon and
Kennedy Center shows, dancers came in
from New York and Richmond. We've brought in
dancers from Florida and Connecticut, as well!
"Women's History Month" Celebrations After
years of performing Hispanic Heritage Month
programs, DanceInTime has added to its
program options a presentation for Women's History
Month in March and Women's Equality Day, August 26. The program is
called "Women Take the Lead" and it has received a
fabulous reception. For example, it was performed
March '09 at the U.S. Mint in Washington, DC.
In this program, ladies both lead and follow, and the
audience guesses who was doing which part on a
variety of Latin dances. Barb links the dance presentation to the theme of the
event by saying a few words
about the increasingly important role of women in
society as reflected in the art of dance. We
can close the program by teaching basic steps and
offering women a chance to learn the leader's part
if they are interested!
These "Women's Programs" can include a team of
dancers or just two, and can be presented with more
extended remarks so that Barb is also taking the role
of a speaker.
Are you a dancer interested in performing?
If you are a Salsa dancer in the Washington,
D.C./Baltimore/ Virginia area interested in performing, feel
free to
write Barb
or call 301-464-6244 for an audition. We train
advanced dancers for shows and arrange
collaborations with other Latin performing groups
and couples. It would be nice to hear from
you! Kennedy Center Show
On March 23, 2003, Barb Bernstein produced a Millennium
Stage show for the Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts, located in
Washington, DC. This was
part of their AmericArtes Festival. In that
show, we explained the underlying rhythms & history of
some Latin dances (i.e. Salsa, Rumba, Cha
Cha, Merengue, & Salsa Rueda). Son & Cuban
Rumba were also performed.
The program concluded with flashy dance
performances and the audience was asked to identify
which dance they were watching. To help them
discern the different dances, a booklet with
basic information on each dance was given out to
all audience members.
You can watch this entire one hour show
right on your computer screen and read the
Kennedy Center's written program for that night.
Just click on the link below, scroll down; then click again where it says: "Play
this performance."
Kennedy Center Show
Verizon Center Show
We did a Salsa performance at Washington's Verizon
Center on January 30, 04 with roughly 70 Salsa
dancers!! This included three Rueda groups
from Richmond to NY and a number of additional Salsa
performers. We all danced
together on stage at this 20,000 seat arena in the
Nation's Capitol! To see a short video of this show, click here*.
The show provided entertainment at a National
Basketball Association game between quarters for
their "Latin Night."
Read an article about this
remarkable performance.
*This movie file requires QuickTime Viewer. To download a free viewer, go to
http://www.quicktime.apple.com.
Salsa Congress performances
The DIT "women's team" presented their "Rebellion"
routine and Charlie's Angels routine at Washington DC Salsa Congresses.
You can watch the latter here:
Part 1
Part 2
They also performed the Angels routine at the Miami
Salsa Congress where it was very well received. The
Miami performance included everything from humor, to
a jump-rope trick, while telling a story through dance
(with a surprise ending!) To watch, Click here.
DanceInTime teams have also performed at the 2008
Puerto Rican Salsa Congress, several NY Salsa
Congresses, & Philadelphia Congresses. Barb
has taught workshops at a number of these as
well.
The video clips below show DIT's Rueda team at
Zanzibar's nightclub in Washington, DC. The
routine had been done the week before at the Philadelphia
Congress. Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Performances of the DIT Women's Team
On May 1st, 2005, the Women's Team from
DanceInTime did their debut performance at the
annual Caribbean Fest held at Prince Georges
Community College in Largo, MD. Click below to see video of this performance.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Check
out the video clips below!
(You will note that in some of our routines, we have
included one or two men as needed to "tell our
story.")
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Part 1 Part 2
Click here
for the '08
medley routine! In addition, this team has danced
at festivals and clubs, including the 25th
Anniversary of "Latino Fest" (June, 2005), local club
shows, and a Clavekazi Studio party, "Women in Salsa" shows at Zanzibars,
and Women's History Month/Equality Day programs.
Cuban Salsa Performances
Many of the performances that DIT does include Salsa Rueda,
or "Cuban Salsa." Here are segments of a Cuban
Salsa show
at the 2008 DC Rueda Congress held at Glen Echo
Park, for example. Click here
and here.
To embellish the above routine, a Cha Cha segment
was added at the end and the new routine was
performed in Philadelphia and DC. You can watch that
here and
here.
Dancing With
the "Stars" (i.e. local celebrities)
A number of different venues have
asked DanceInTime to run a Dancing with the
Stars competition at an event. Male contestants dance with one of the women in our
dance group, and female contestants dance with one of
the men. Then the audience claps for each
contestant and either the volume of applause or a
judging panel determines the winner. This
is always fun! We've
done this at a Prince Georges
Community College festival, FirstNight Annapolis, and corporate
events and at a Bowie Baysox game (a minor league
baseball team). At the Baysox game, local celebrities
competed between innings. They were
taught by DanceInTime dancers during the
first six innings in a back room. The
"stars" (Dan Steinberg, a well known sports writer for
the Washington Post, and Brian van de Graaff, ABC's
popular
TV Weatherman) learned
some fancy Merengue steps which they each performed a short
routine. To see Dan's hilarious blog about the experience go to the "DIT
In The News" page. You can also watch the following video footage of this:
Click Here and
here.
Performing Dance Styles Besides Latin
DIT has also done presentations that went beyond Latin dancing.
For example, the SPCA held a
fund-raiser at the Westin Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland for which DIT arranged a
choreographed tap dance piece. The theme of the
event was "Putting on the Ritz" and we presented a
tap dance like Fred Astaire's in that
movie. And for another unique
performance, click here for a short clip of
Polynesian dancing.
DanceInTime has also done a show that fused Indian &
Latin dance elements. We have provided Israeli dancing for a Bar Mitzvah as
well!
In addition, DIT produced a multi-cultural dance show for a
big World Bank event on March 4, 2010. The audience
included 500 VIPs from all the member countries of
the World Bank.
Our dancers did Cuban Salsa & a Latin/Indian fusion routine. Wombworks
Productions performed a dance routine from Mali
(West Africa), and a Hungarian dance was performed
by the Tisza Ensemble. Silk Road Dance Co. did a
dance from Afghanistan, and Sean Climer and
Christina Bollino performed Argentine tango, Cha
Cha, and Swing (an American dance!). It was a
great evening with colorful costumes from all over
the globe. We closed with some dance
instruction and open dancing.
Click here to see the
videos of this show.
Customized Shows Dance programs that
include instruction and performances can be arranged
to your specifications.
We tailor all our entertainment programs to
accommodate any need and time requirement.
If you are interested in hiring any kind of
dance instruction or show to make an event special,
contact Barb (301-9806043; BarbBtalks@aol.com).
And for more
examples of DanceInTime shows,
click here.
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 Above: In June 2010, The Oxygen Network did a promotional
tour in DC for their TV show "Dance Your A** Off." DanceInTime was asked to perform at this event. (The show features people trying to lose weight by dancing.)
 DanceInTime's "Cuban Salsa" Routine at a Salsa Fest 2010.
 Above:DanceInTime's women's team performers 7/10

Above: Silk Road's Asian dancers
performing at the World Bank show in Alexandria, VA.* 3/4/10 Photo by
Isabel Triemer.

Above: Stephanie doing a head roll at the New York Salsa Congress. 2009
 Above: Above: DanceInTime performs a combined Salsa and Cha Cha performance of their "Charlie's Angels Routine" at the Miami Salsa Congress. 2007
 Above: DanceInTime Rueda team performing at the US National Dance
Championships in Northern VA. 10/06
 Above: Some members of the American Dance Montage perform a swing routine at a show at the Woodrow Wilson Plaza in
Washington, DC. 7/05. (Frank Regan kindly lent the use of this wonderful choreography for the show.)
 Above: performing at the National Zoo in
Washington, DC. 10/05
 Barb trained these dancers for a Salsa/Rueda performance at
a Montgomery County High School in Wheaton, Maryland.
 Above:
DanceInTime after a Hispanic Heritage month celebration show at the Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Columbia, Maryland. 9/07
 Above:
Barb and Rita entertain at a Women's History Month program at a federal
government office in Washington, DC. 3/09
 Above:
DanceInTime Women's
Team at the New York Salsa Congress 2009
 Above: Some of the Verizon Center
Performers in Washington, DC. To see a short video
of this show,
click here*.
*This movie file requires QuickTime Viewer.
To download a free viewer, go to
http://www.quicktime.apple.com.
 Above: Ladies Team from DanceInTime at
Prince Georges Community College's Carribbean Fest performance
in Largo, Maryland. 5/1/05 To see a short video of the
women's team performing,
click here.
To see more pictures, click here.
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These photos with astericks were kindly taken by Isabel Triemer, a DIT team member and
professional photographer. Check out her website at www.dreamerphoto.com. |