dance advanced training

Dancing as sports and Culture
Lessons, Studies, Excursions

 

1970 Beginning with Orff- Institute classes of classical ballet in Salzburg/ Austria
1972 Starting with figure-skating in Salzburg / Austria
1982 Four ballroom- dancecourses in the dance-school Schober in Erlangen / Germany
1983 Joining the ballroom dance club Erlangen (TTC), win of a D- class - Tournament in the region of Franconia, Latinamerican Dances, Training in Standarddances and Latin with Ms. Hahn
1984 6.th Place at the bavarian Championship in Ingolstadt, Latin
1985 Last training in tournament dancing (because of Trampolining)

Since 1995 I took many lessons in dancing, visited shows, went to seminars, participated in training camps and so on, had workshops... All in different cities and countries, to get a real and original impression of the dances, either ballroom or special variaties; the following Overview gives the issues under chronological aspects:

1995 Madrid, Spain (2 weeks, paso doble)
1996 Worldwide Dancing: Hong Kong (5 days, chinese dances), Australia (5 weeks, square dance, folk dance, Melbourne, Sydney, Cairns), New Zealand (3 weeks, british ballroom dances in Commonwealth), Cook Islands, Rarotonga and Aitutaki (Blue Lagune, 2 weeks, polynesian dances as tourist attractions), Los Angeles, California, USA (1 week, blues as dance on to soulmusic, West Hollywood night clubs)
1997 Barcelona, Spain (2 weeks, spanish tango)
1998 Milan, Italy (2 weeks, tarantella)
London, England (3 weeks, slow fox)
Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, USA (3 weeks, quick step)
New York, New York, USA (2 weeks, tango argentino)
1999 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (2 weeks, folk dance)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (3 days, square dance)
Paris (3 months) Tango francais standarddance ballroom
2000 Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark roundtrip
(12 weeks, standard- and latinamerican dances as ballroom in bars, shows, varietes, danceschools, dancelubs and so on)
2001 Amsterdam, Netherlands (2 weeks, slow fox)
2003 Miami, Florida, USA (3 weeks, salsa and classical ballett), Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1 week, musical dance: fox)
2004 Buenos Aires, Argentina (2 weeks, tango argentino)
Cruise liner Ocean Monarch Shetland-Islands, Iceland, Greenland (3 weeks, dance as a show for guests, dancecourses for guests on board, especially salsa)

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