Dance
Sport Spotlight by Nicky Miles
Blackpool
Grand Finals Weekend
Arrangements are
now in full swing for this important event in the ISTD calendar. If you
have yet to book your hotel and require a brochure please contact the
Blackpool Tourist Information Centre on 01253 478222.
Important Information.
Please note that
the correct dances are those that have been printed in the Dance magazine.
Some of the non-qulaifier dances on some information already sent out
gives different dances. The correct dances are listed in this issue.
On Sunday 26th
November at the Tower Blackpool, competitions will see the running of
the Pierre Trophy for 2000. Also to be run on this day will be the all
ladies Rumba Competition. Entries are required to Nicky Miles by 1st
November at the latest for inclusion in the programme.
Would you like
to advertise or wish someone or a school good luck in the special Souvenir
Blackpool Programme. If you do then please contact Jessica
Large at ISTD Headquarters for information, again by 8th November
at the latest.
The programme will
also include a lucky ticket enabling everyone who buys a programme the
chance to win some fabulous prizes which will be drawn on the Saturday
night Grand Dance.
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Millennium
Award
Final reminder
that the Millennium award can only be taken up until 31st December 2000.
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Personal
Letter from Elizabeth Romain to All Members
Firstly I would
like to apologise to you all for my rather untimely resignation as Chairman
of the Latin American Faculty, a position I was proud to hold, and one
I enjoyed immensely.
Unfortunately
ill health, in the form of a thrombosis and other blood related problems,
overtook me early this year, and although I am now much stronger I was
unable to have a hip replacement revision operation which was scheduled
for May, consequently travelling to HQ for meetings presents great difficulties.
I feel a Chairman
who cannot 'chair' would be unable to serve you, the membership, in the
best possible way. The decision was a hard one especially after serving
32 years on the Latin American Faculty committee, and I feel so sad that
I could not complete my term of office, or present the up-dated Latin
American technique at Refresher and Congress as arranged.
However, I am
delighted to have completed the editing of the five books, which was
indeed a mammoth task. I sincerely hope you will enjoy passing on the
new work to your pupils. For those kind members who have enquired about
my health and future, I am now delighted to be back in semi harness and
am able to do a limited amount of technical coaching.
I certainly hope
to see you all at Refresher and Congress next year.
In the meantime
I am confident that Lorna Lee, who has taken over the Chairmanship, together
with the other Latin American Faculty committee members, will do a wonderful
job on your behalf. My sincere good wishes to you all, and may your schools
flourish.
Elizabeth Romain
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Lorna
Lee - New Chairman of ISTD Latin American Faculty
Lorna's mother sent her to ballet
and tap classes at the age of four years old. She spent 10 years training
in the stage branches, during which time she made appearances in numerous
shows, cabarets and pantomimes.
Through those juvenile years her
dreams were to become a stage dance teacher and own her own dance school.
She began her ballroom dancing at the age of thirteen and when she left
school became a student teacher for the Court School of Dancing where
she met her husband and partner Michael Stylianos. Together they enjoyed
a fruitful competitive career.
In the short span of eleven years
and never dancing as Amateurs they won and successfully defended the
major Latin American Titles. Receiving a Carl Alan from HRH Princess
Anne for the most outstanding partnership in 1975. After their competitive
retirement, they continued to appear in cabaret and were much in demand
worldwide.
They performed in front of members
of the Royal family on numerous occasions and in 1986 they were the first
and only Latin American dancers to appear in cabaret at the famous Caesars
Palace in Las Vegas.
Since retiring from competitions
they have directed their boundless energy into the training of other
dancers. For eighteen years they owned and ran a successful studio in
South London for all grades of dancer and more recently have opened a
new purpose built Dance Academy especially for the training of International
competitive dancers.
Internationally well known Lorna
travels the World teaching, lecturing and adjudicating. Lorna was co-opted
to the Latin American Faculty of the Imperial Society of Teachers of
Dancing in 1997, then elected as a full member in 1998, since then she
has been helping to write the Imperial Latin American Technique.
She is co-organiser of the prestigious
Imperial Ballroom & Latin American Championships, the Universal Open
and the All England Latin American Championships and still finds time
to spend with her two daughters.
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Modern
Ballroom & Latin American Area Medallists Award Day Competitions
| DATE |
CATEGORY |
AREA |
CONTACT |
TEL
No. |
| 21st
January 2001 |
Junior
Award Day |
Hemel
Hempstead |
Anne
Lingard |
01622
753617 |
| 28th
January 2001 |
Adults |
Bournemouth |
Terry
Hunt |
01202
303108 |
| 11th
February 2001 |
Juniors/Juveniles |
Sudbury |
Margaret
Connon |
01702
523480 |
| 4th
March 2001 |
All
Age Groups |
Wakefield |
Richard
Hunt |
01924
371173 |
| 4th
March 2001 |
Juniors/Juveniles |
Bournemouth |
Terry
Hunt |
01202
303108 |
| 25th
March 2001 |
All
Age Groups |
Kemsley,
Kent |
Nicky
Miles |
01634
578282 |
| 8th
April 2001 |
Juvenile
Award Day |
Hemel
Hempstead |
Anne
Lingard |
01622
753617 |
| 20th
May 2001 |
All
Age Groups |
Berkhampstead |
Betty
Bouston |
01442
212404 |
| 10th
June 2001 |
Juniors/Juveniles |
Portslade |
Julie
Allen |
01273
733937 |
| 1st
July 2001 |
Adult
Award Day |
Hemel
Hempstead |
Anne
Lingard |
01622
753617 |
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British
Dance Council Slogan & Logo Competition
The competition
run by the Teachers' Committee of the British Dance Council resulted
in a slogan submitted by Mrs June Barrett of Fazakerly, Liverpool, being
adjudged the winner.
The slogan was:
"DANCE
FOR PLEASURE LOVE IT FOREVER"
The committee
now seeks a logo or suitable sketch to be used in connection with the
slogan and is offering a prize of £100 for the best entry. It does, however,
reserve the right not to award the prize in the event that no entry is
regarded as suitable for use by the committee.
All entries submitted
will remain the copyright of the entrant except the prize winner where
the copyright will devolve to the Teachers' Committee.
Entries should
be sent direct to the committee secretary:
Lyndon Wainwright
Gullsway
1 Cowden Road,
Saltdean
Brighton
BN2 8DD.
The last date for
receipt of entries is November 20th 2000
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