Movin' Easy Dancewear

Look and feel great in your dance class with the help of the best at Movin’ Easy Dancewear.  http://www.movineasy.com

Had an Austin teacher looking for slash tights.  Companies are all backordered.  Any suggestions?  We thought of using fishnets, cutting and banding areas.

Ballroom Sale shoes going great @Movin’ Easy.  We keep the dance fun going with best moving shoes and best fittings for happiness.

My dancing shoes from Movin’ Easy Dancewear make dancing easier, comfy, and just the right amount of flash.  My rockin’ MTB’s from Karavel Shoes make walking a flashy move going up the hills while I stretch.

I admire the trust and courage in the creative process demonstrated by the directors of ” The Holiday Road.”  Austin is full of interesting and talented people, but taking whomever walks through the door and creating a Musical Theater production with them!  That is a risk.  A high intensity risk.  Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique are adventurous to direct this Musical Theater event with an ever changing “mystery cast” (could be you!)

So this time I walk through their door.  Now I feel it is my risk, and the risk that each of the others has taken, when signing up to be there every week.  We give of ourselves to a script not yet written.  I feel an anxious hope like one of the characters from The Chorus Line.  “Will they see me?”  “Will I be the one?”  There are days when I choke…I want to sing out, but my baggage gets in the way.  Or I just can’t pick up that step-kick-turn for the life of me.  I leave deflated.  “What was I thinking?”  Then there are days when I project and delight in the power and freedom of my voice.  I fly from one spin to another with the greatest of ease.  “Aren’t they lucky I’m here.”

What part will I play in this unfolding work?  I look around and see that we all have an essential part.  Our roles become evident, big or small, in this Musical Theater mystery.  We trust our directors and have the courage to walk through that door every week.  We face ourselves, we give what we can, and discover the next clue.

mia

www.balletaustin.org

Musical Theater Workshop

“Yeah.  I can’t wait to try these out.”  Heard at Movin’ Easy from a member of the UT Latin Dance Club when he gets his first dance shoes. Size 14 and ready to dance.

That’s right.  Dance shoes make a huge difference.  They make you want to move because they slide as much as you want, they stop when you want to stop, they are your second skin that moves with you in any direction.  Well built, economical, flexible, light weight, a dance shoe has it all.

A Musical Theatre Workshop?  Who me?  Yes folks, I surprised my self by being drawn to it.  Maybe it was the charisma and infectious enthusiasm of Ballet Austin’s Butler Community School Broadway instructors, Danny Herman and Rocker Verastique, when I tried a Broadway Fit Class.  Maybe it was the sideways glance I gave myself in the mirror during a particularly coy dance number, “Hey, Good Lookin’.”  Maybe I shook something loose up there in my serious and contemplative brain during a feverish shimmy or a sexy head roll.  Whatever it was, here I am on “The Holiday Road”: a musical theatre workshop to culminate in a holiday, public performance at the Austin Ventures Theater in December.  Danny and Rocker are my guides into the unknown (unknown to me anyway). I follow them loyally into the expansive world of Broadway, where people sing with their mouths wide open and dance for the seats in the back.  Who would of thunk it?  Well, here we go shy girl.

Mia

www.balletaustin.org

Musical Theatre Workshop

Two families that love “So You Think You Can Dance.”

Two teens and their mom loved the show.  One teen was taking dance and the other teen was not.  She did say she would love to dance and was a little shy about thinking about joining a high school salsa or swing club.  Go girl.

Another family had two little ones, a boy and a girl around 9.  The mom says they dance together at home and make up their own dances.  I asked when they would be on YouTube and she hadn’t thought of that.

Mom with 9 year old says, “We have 2 of your bags and got so many compliments.  They are so unique with fun fabrics.”

Movin’ Easy is here at the Omni Hotel June 4-7 for tango workshops. We are selling Sansha and Bloch sneakers for comfort in the long haul of a four day workshop, all day and dance parties almost all night. We are also selling shoes for Jorge Nel who makes all the Tango conventions with a huge number of shoe styles, colors, and heel heights. Tango shoe buyers are interesting, ladies want high and flashy mostly and lower when their feet get tired.  Dance sneakers are good for guys as long as they have a classy or sporty dance shoe.

Argentine Tango requires fabulous initiative by both men and women to connect totally and to almost attack the space with subtlety and finesse.