Central Florida Ballroom Dancer wins World Championship!

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For immediate release: Winter Park, FL, Nov 30, 2010/All Central Florida Publications/- - - Winter Park, Arthur Murray Dance Studios.

Quin Bommelje, 63, recently won the Amateur Senior One American Rhythm event at the prestigious Ohio Star Ball World Pro Am Championships that was held in Columbus Ohio earlier this month, one of the most prominent Ballroom Dance Competitions in the United States which is a nationally televised event.

Ms. Bommelje and her partner Romney Reyes brought home the prestigious award to the Arthur Murray Dance Studio, Winter Park, where they train. Quin began dancing only five years ago after playing and coaching competitive tennis for over 25 years. “I always wanted to learn how to dance but never had the opportunity”, she said. “My husband and I decided to take some lessons.” After a short period of learning how to dance socially, Quin realized that there was a competitive side to ballroom dancing, and decided that this was something she wanted to pursue. With the help of Arthur Murray Winter Park’s owner Lukasz Rogowski, she set out to move into the level of Competitive Ballroom Dancing.

Ms Bommelje began dancing with her partner, Romney Reyes, two years ago. Reyes, who also competes at the professional level on the ballroom dancing circuit, saw something special in Quin. “Dancing is total teamwork and we

both have the desire to reach our fullest potential.” he said.

Through their extensive and strenuous training schedule and focused

commitment, they have rapidly achieved amazing results, earning their

way into the top level of the Amateur-Professional ranks. “As a

competitive athlete, Quin was used to the physical and mental demands

required to succeed,” said her coach Lukasz Rogowski. “Her dedication

to excellence is extraordinary.” When asked why she likes dancing

so much, Quin responded, “Dancing is my oxygen!”

Media Contact: Lizabeth Rice, Director of Marketing

Arthur Murray Dance Studios, Winter Park. 407.673.7339

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Arthur Murray Winter Park, Dance Tips -Hustle

History

Based on older dances such as the mambo, the Hustle originated in Hispanic communities in New York City and Florida in the 1970s. This was originally a line dance with a Salsa-like foot rhythm, that after some fusion with swing and eventual shortening of the count to "&1 2 3", became the present "New York" Hustle.

The original Hustle in the early 1970's was counted "1 2 - &a3 4 - 5 &a6" and went by many names, including Latin Hustle, New York Hustle, Same Foot Hustle and Tango Hustle.

The Bus Stop was the best known and most frequently performed line dance in the discos of 1976 & 1977. This dance was also referred to as the "LA Bus Stop Hustle."

This line dance was a version of Merengue with steps to rotate the dance direction orientation to another wall. The most popular current version (1980–2008) is called "The Electric Slide".

The original NY mainstream Bus Stop and Hustle trend ended and freestyle took over when recording artists Chic released the song Le Freak in 1978. Everyone else in the country started in 1978 after Saturday Night Fever was released.

Depicted in Saturday Night Fever

The 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever showed both the line and partner forms of hustle, as well as something referred to as the "tango hustle" invented just for that film by the cast. Afterwards, different line dance and couple dance forms of the Hustle emerged. Although the huge popularity faded quickly as the hype that was created by the movie died down, the hustle has continued and is now a "ballroom dance"; it has taken a place besides swing, cha-cha-cha, tango, rumba, bolero, nightclub two step and other partner dances in America.

New York Hustle

The couple dance form of hustle is usually called New York Hustle or Latin Hustle. It has some resemblance to, and steps in common with, swing and salsa dancing. As in the Latin dances, couples tend to move within a "spot" on the dance floor, as opposed to following a line of dance as in foxtrot, or as opposed to tracking within a slot as in West Coast Swing or LA Hustle.

Common steps

Basic - similar to the basic from single-step swing, except rock step is at beginning

Turn - 180° clockwise turn taken between 2 and 3 count, followed by a rock step

Left Turn - 180° counterclockwise turn taken between 1 and 2 count, followed by a rock step

Side Break - lead sends follow out still holding her left hand, then picks her back up

Wheel - couple in double hand-hold pumps arms like a bellows; couple as a whole rotates 180° clockwise

Inside Turn or Loop Turn - similar to the loop turn from swing; follower twirls 360° counterclockwise

Don’t forget: Arthur Murray, Winter Park’s – Champagne Guest Gala! June15, 2010 Starting @ 8 pm. This party gives our students a chance to show off their dancing to friends and family. This party gives our guests the opportunity to see how easy and fun it is to learn how to DANCE!!!!

Thank you to all the students for making our MAY- GUEST GALA a SUCCESS!!!!!

Dress to impress, Winter Park Magazine will be present taking photos of the event for their up coming publication.

WHY SHOULD I BRING GUESTS?????

1. It provides a chance for you to show off your dancing and the studio to your friends, co-workers, and family.

2. More people in the studio will create a larger student body—the more the merrier.

3. If you would like more gentlemen to dance with, then invite both male and female guests---- they may know gentlemen also that they can bring as guests.

4. By bringing guests you have a chance to win free lessons and/or a bonus for helping us advertise using word of mouth to your friends, co-workers and family.

5. You have a chance to decide who will become a member of your Arthur Murray dance studio by introducing us to people with whom you like to socialize.

6. You can help your teacher win rewards and recognition, as well as recognition for you.

7. The more people you bring into the studio, the more people you will have to dance with, and the faster you will learn to dance.

8. Bringing your guests to guest parties is an opportunity for you to share an activity with a group of friends. Dancing offers more benefits and touches more parts of your life than other activities.

9. Your guests may enter a world they only dreamed of because you are there to help ease their nervousness at entering a studio for the first time.

10. When the studio grows with your help, then we will be able to offer you even more excitement, attract more teachers and have even bigger parties.

Arthur Murray Winter Park, Circa Night Out

Arthur Murray Winter Park, Circa Night Out

Attention all, Your Circa Lounge "Night Out" will start at 10pm this Thursday Night, come listen to great music and dance the night away with your Arthur Murray, Winter Park Dance Staff. Just a little Music Tip Below: Book Suggestion Reading: "Your Brain on Music". Daniel J. Levitin. Researchers in the field of neuroscience and music believe that they can learn a lot about human behavior by considering the evolution of the mind. What function did music serve humankind as we were evolving and developing? Certainly the music of 50,000 and 100,000 years ago is very different than Beethoven, Van Halen, or Eminem. As our brains have evolved, so has the music we make with them, and the music that we want to hear. Did particular regions and pathways evolve in our brain specifically for making and listening to music? Contrary to the old, simplistic notion that art and music are processed in the right hemisphere of our brains, with language and mathematics in the left, recent findings from Mr. Levitin’s laboratory and those of his colleagues are showing us that music is distributed throughout the brain. Through studies of people with brain damage we've seen patients who have lost the ability to read a newspaper but can still read music, or individuals who can play the piano but lack the motor coordination to button their own sweater. Music listening, performance and composition engage nearly every area of the brain that we have so far identified, and involve nearly every neural subsystem. Could this fact account for claims that music listening exercises other parts of our minds, that listening to Mozart 20 minutes a day will make us smarter? The power of music to evoke emotions is harnessed by advertising executives, filmmakers, military commanders, and mothers. Advertisers use music to make a soft drink, beer, running shoe or car seem more hip than their competitors'. Film directors use music to tell us how to feel about scenes that otherwise might be ambiguous, or to augment our feelings at particularly dramatic moments. Think of a typical chase scene in an action film, or the music that might accompany a lone woman climbing a staircase in a dark old mansion: music is being used to manipulate our emotions, and we tend to accept, if not outright enjoy, the power of music to make us experience these different feelings. Mothers throughout the world, and as far back in time as we can imagine, have used soft singing to soothe their babies to sleep, or to distract them from something that has made them cry. This book is about the science of music, from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience - the field that is at the intersection of psychology and neurology. I'll discuss some of my own and the latest studies researchers in our field have conducted on music, musical meaning, and musical pleasure. They offer new insights into profound questions. If all of us hear music differently, how can we account for pieces that seem to move so many people - Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, or Don McLean's "Vincent (Starry Starry Night (Vincent)" for example? On the other hand, if we all hear music in the same way, how can we account for wide differences in musical preference - why is it that one man's Mozart is another man's Madonna? The mind has been opened up in the last few years by the exploding field of neuroscience and the new approaches in psychology due to new brain imaging technologies, drugs able to manipulate neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin, and plain old scientific pursuit. Less well known are t he extraordinary advances we have been able to make in modeling how our neurons network thanks to the continuing revolution in computer technology. We are coming to understand computational systems in our head like never before. Language now seems to be substantially hardwired into our brains. Even consciousness itself is no longer hopelessly shrouded in a mystical fog, but is rather something that emerges from observable physical systems. But no-one until now has taken all this new work together and used it to elucidate what is for me the most beautiful human obsession. Your brain on music is a way to understand the deepest mysteries of human nature. That is why I wrote this book. By better understanding what music is and where it comes from, we may be able to better understand our motives, fears, desires, memories, and even communication in the broadest sense. Is music listening more like eating when you're hungry and thus satisfying an urge? Or is it more like seeing a beautiful sunset or getting a backrub, and thus triggering sensory pleasure systems in the brain? Why do people seem to get stuck in their musical tastes as they grow older and cease experimenting with new music? This is the story of how brains and music co-evolved ­ - what music can teach us about the brain, what the brain can teach us about music, and what both can teach us about ourselves. Neuroscientist, Daniel J. Levitin, the book is called “This is Your Brain on Music” My background with music as a kid growing up was piano lessons for many years, chorus in the middle schools years, and later in life acoustic guitar. The college years I was able to apply all that musical experience to Ballroom Dancing. The business itself is just a very FUN business to be involved with. Ballroom Dancing and being surrounded by the students, I was able to realize at a young age the difference it makes and the positive effects that dancing does for people as well as how it changed my life immensely; Of course being surrounded by the music, which has always been a great outlet for me. The book is fantastic and I thoroughly enjoyed it, if you get a chance, put this one on your “book to read list.” Best regards, Lizabeth Rice, Director of Marketing Arthur Murray Studios, Winter Park 407.673.7339 www.winterparkarthurmurray.com liz@winterparkarthurmurray.com