Mindpoke dance

Louise Missen SN: How was it for you? LM: Bloody amazing! I don't even know where to start - a week on and I'm still in awe not just of the organisation that went in but the fantastic atmosphere everyone brought with them - it was just wonderful. My partners David, Chris and Heather were brilliant and it was great to have so much fun on the dance floor SN: How was it different from London based comps? LM: This has been commented on before but bears repeating - the organisers have just clearly taken everything negative from the competition circuit that they've experienced and found a way to eliminate those issues. The net result is a much more intimate, relaxed and friendly champs than I've experienced (though my disclaimer is I haven't been to many other champs!) Particular highlights - reasonably priced food on site, flexibility when the timings got a bit muddled (quickly inserting freestyle between rounds so top cats could check their results) and the f...

"It is the Music that matters" - Herbert von Karajan Chris Uren has been kind enough to offer this blog his annotated play list from Ceroc Northern Champs. I know the Scottish Champs playlist is regularly published but here we have Chris' words about why he choose what he chose and I think this is useful for two reasons for competition dancers. First if you can't dance to this type of music you are missing a great joy and your liable to be left floundering - most people obviously give it their best shot but the other reason for looking at it is that it my give you some options for practice. So many thanks Chris - it is a corker of a playlist. "Northern Champs Music 2014 I have made some comments on tunes as I go along and are purly my observations in watching the competition dancers or my DJ thinking on why a tune was chosen. I consider myself to be a moderate Intermediate as a dancer so complexity was sort of based around what I thought I could do. L...