MEDIA APPEARANCES
DanceInTime Appearances on TV
1. WTTG Morning News
On April 4, 06, Holly Morris of WTTG Morning News interviewed Barb Bernstein and featured her the DanceInTime crew on the Morning News show. Video clips here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvO2epuIw0o&t=32s and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVwsGkKROg4
2. Comcast Sportsnet channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlzpAaIq-wI&t=1s
3. ABC Morning News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEHlz-A62kc
4. Fox 45 Morning News in Baltimore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMpWBoGpD24&t=6s
5. "Voice of America" News Channel
On March 23, 2013, newscasters Raza Nqvi and Shonali Sen from the Voice of America came to DanceInTime's Saturday class to film for their TV channel.
http://www.urduvoa.com/media/video/1630913.html (The clips of dancing are at: 2:20-5:15; 8:45-9:50; 17:55-18:45 and 22:45-23:30.)
6.
This TV footage was done on Sunday October 9, 2022 at a Hispanic Heritage Month program at the Kensington Library.
https://youtu.be/ENnDCwtN1S0?t=1640
Newspaper Articles on DanceInTime
By Olivia Borgula
Barbara Bernstein, the director of a Cuban salsa school, DanceInTime Productions, led a Latin dance workshop on Friday, as part of UMD’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations…
“In this era, particularly with the pandemic, but even prior to the pandemic, there was a lot of research on people becoming a lot more separate, isolated in their lives,” Bernstein said. “There’s a tremendous health benefit, not just for physical movement, but for synchronous movement of people in a group learning to dance moves together … it bonds people.” When Bernstein reached out to propose a dance workshop, Studio A was granted financial support from the Maryland State Arts Council.
Leensa Fufa, who demonstrated steps, started taking classes at Bernstein’s studio, DanceInTime Productions…“I go to Barb’s class, which is just very welcoming, and really she adapts to who’s in the room,” Fufa said. “[Dance] is so intimate, and yet very distant. You’re not talking to people, you’re moving together.”
1. From The Capital Gazette
“Dance instructor brings diversity and fun to Annapolis through salsa”
By Ariana Perez
December 7, 2019
Recently in Annapolis, one of the most popular forms of dance that has picked up traction and has been well received by the community is salsa. Barbara Bernstein, dance instructor and director of DanceInTime, would agree. “Latin music is infectious,” she said.
Over the summer, four Annapolis Salsa Nights were sponsored by The Art in Public Places Commission and offered to the community near the dock for free. The turnout was overwhelmingly positive.
Bernstein, who is the mastermind instructor behind the organized salsa nights and has taught Latin dance full time for roughly 18 years, believes salsa is a fun, energetic dance that can be enjoyed by anyone and everyone regardless of age, background or ethnicity. “Salsa dancing can be found in all corners of the globe today,” said Bernstein, who grew up in a family that listened to music constantly.
Her Latin dance company DanceInTime teaches and performs in the Washington, D.C., area and beyond. The dance company has been featured on programs like ABC News, Telemundo and the Voice of America. Bernstein has produced and performed in shows for the Kennedy Center, the Verizon Center, World Bank Red Carpet Galas and the Washington Nationals Baseball Park to name a few.
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To get a glimpse of this wonderful outdoor event, watch: https://youtu.be/snXY9Cg2T3E
2. From The Washington Post's Weekend Section 6/17/05
"On the Move: Salsa For One And All"
By Rebecca R. Kahlenberg; Special to The Washington Post
Friday, June 17, 2005; Page WE56
IT'S SATURDAY morning, and the parking lots at Safeway, Giant and Whole Foods along Route 123 in McLean are packed with minivans and SUVs. But in a lower-level room in a nondescript brown building tucked away along the same stretch of road in Vienna, it feels more like Havana than suburbia. Salsa blares in Spanish as dance instructor Barb Bernstein leads a class in casino rueda , a form of salsa dancing also known as salsa rueda .About 15 students ranging in age from their twenties to their sixties have been divided into couples and stand in a circle.
Weekend drop-in sessions at Bernstein's Vienna location start at the beginner level. An hour or so into each class, she begins to call out more advanced steps, which are longer and often more difficult to execute than basic moves.
Her students return week after week in part to gain more dance proficiency, but for other reasons as well."We love it," says Niss Albraig, 39. He and his wife, Alexandra, 35, have traveled from Owings Mills and left their two young children in the care of grandparents to attend the class for the fourth time. "It's always a challenge and gets our hearts going," Niss Albraig says.
Falls Church resident Gilda Ascunce, 57, has been taking the class since November. "The music is very much in me," she says, explaining that she was born in Cuba and lived there until she was 13. "But I like casino rueda better than regular salsa because it's a group thing, which makes it more fun."
Jeanette Ortiz, 39, of Arlington, who has been dancing casino rueda for about 10 years, loves "the fact that people here are different ages and come from different cultural backgrounds, yet they share this one passion for dancing. It's almost like belonging to a club where you find kindred spirits." .....
3. From the Washington Post Sports Writer, Dan Steinberg's "blog" on July 23, 2007
This article followed an evening at the Bowie Baysox Stadium where DanceInTime conducted a Dancing with the Stars program with local celebrities. The celebrities were Washington Post writer Dan Steinberg and ABC's Weatherman Brian van de Graaff. We taught them Merengue moves behind the scenes during the first six innings and they performed what they learned on the field during breaks in the game. It was great fun!
ARTICLE BY STEINBERG — JULY 23, 07
....Luckily, the only sporting event I came in personal contact with this weekend was the Bowie Baysox game on Saturady night. Unluckily, I was there for "Dancing With the Stars" night, for which someone had decided I was proper material to be one of the dancing stars. This meant that four equally unlucky instructors from DanceInTime were forced to listen to me wailing about my rhythmic deficiencies for seven innings, until I finally was allowed to go on the field and attempt to Merengue for 80 seconds, at which time I promptly forgot all my steps and sort of wobbled about the third-base line with my partners.... The instructors were very nice and kind and gentle, and their company should be properly patronized, but I was awful.
My competition was WJLA's popular weather person Brian van de Graaff, who, thanks to years of being On Your Side, had lots of fans who were clearly On His Side. Also, he is naturally blessed with what the instructors called "Cuban Motion." Trust me, I am not.
Anyhow, I need a few more days to collect myself, but there will be video of the dance-off on CSN's Washington Post Live tonight, and later on the blog.
By Dan Steinberg | July 23, 2007
ARTICLE BY DAN STEINBERG — JULY 25, 2007
I Dance With the Stars----Or whatever.
I really have nothing left to say about this. All my memories of the events of Saturday night have been completely erased...
Actually, I do have some slight memory of this long speech I gave to Barb, one of my instructors about how this dancing thing was quite the metaphor for life, and how some people are gifted with naturally fluid movements and thus bound joyfully through life with their soaringly optimistic personalities, looking as weightless as Nick Young on a moonbounce, and how others instead move with the grace of Dmitri Young on a treadmill, cruising through life with all the levity of a broken-down minivan traversing Benning Road, and that whether you can dance is probably in some ways a fine measure of all these other issues of lightness and weight, but maybe I'm just imagining all that.
And try not to watch the dancing portions of what follows on an empty stomach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTM9h1Q7K7s
3. From the Kennedy Center News---March/April 2003 Edition
Article on AmericaArtes: The Kennedy Center Celebrates the Arts of Latin America
Performance Plus
Friday, March 14, experience the intricate footwork and complex choreography with an exciting performance by Salsa Linea on the Millenium Stage.
(Note that the date of this show at the Kennedy Center was subsequently moved back after the Kennedy Center News magazine was published! Salsa Linea is the name of the previous Salsa Rueda group that was co-directed with Gary Pennington by Barbara Bernstein. To see this show, click on the button above titled "The Kennedy Center Show" and you can watch the entire one-hour show on your computer screen.)