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  Songlines Music Travel   -   Music, Culture and Dancing Holidays
Nothing beats experiencing music in situ where it belongs - with the food, the ambience and the local people. Yet finding the best music isn't always that simple.
That's why Songlines Music Travel is starting dedicated music trips for music lovers worldwide, bringing you the excitement of real music directly where it's made.
Each trip is led by a Songlines Travel Leader and will often involve private concerts, jam sessions and meetings with musicians and instrument-makers.
  Dance Holidays
Dance Holidays combine fantastic destinations, amazing sights, exuberant cultures, and exciting dance experiences. This is a holiday on which you'll forget all the stresses and strains of everyday life and return rejuvenated, with new friends and a new enthusiasm for life.
  Farida Adventures  -  Belly Dancing in Istanbul,  Cairo
Also dance classes from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon in Ford Castle in Northumberland.



  Jasmine Journeys  -  Belly Dancing Holidays in Hammamet  -  females only!
Discover the goddess in you! Take a trip with Jasmine Journeys and we will help every female rediscover her sensuality, inner strength and self-esteem. Most women love to dance and belly dancing is great fun as well as being a wonderful therapeutic way to get fit! Whether you're a first-timer or wish to improve your skills, we have some wonderful teachers booked to show you some amazing moves!
  Travel for the Arts  -  Ballet de l'Opera de Paris and Het Nationale Ballet of Amsterdam
Both these superb companies present a mix of classical-romantic, neoclassical modern and contemporary works. 2004 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine (1904-1983). Both Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris and Het Nationale Ballet pay tribute to him in special programmes.


Related Books

Strictly Come Dancing 
"Strictly Come Dancing" is the hit TV series which in 2004 was watched by over 10 million viewers. The celebrity ballroom dancing competition has become cult Saturday night entertainment and a third series is planned for BBC1 in Autumn 2005. Published against the third series, the "Strictly Come Dancing" book is a glossy and colourful celebration of the nation's ballroom dancing craze. Including interviews with the celebrity dancers, the judges and the professional dancers, and unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the show, the book is a must for all "Strictly Come Dancing" fans. Entertaining and informative, the book is packed with useful tips for ballroom fanatics, including a step-by-step lesson for each of the featured dances from expert Len Goodman. Designed to appeal to ballroom dancing enthusiasts and tv fans alike, "Strictly Come Dancing" brings both vibrancy and nostalgia to a subject that has caught the nation's imagination.
Hardcover 160 pages (October 27, 2005);  Publisher: BBC Books;  Language: English;  ISBN: 0563522933.
A Passion for Tango: A Thoughtful,Provocative and Useful Guide to That Universal Body Language - Argentine Tango 
David Turner
A Passion for Tango is a unique analysis of the logic and philosphy that underlines Tango. It has been written from the perspective of a learner's journey through experiences both in classes and on the social dancefloor. It deals with the history of Tango, the different schools of thought behind the teaching, leading and following, the connection between the partners, the embrace and its variations. Other chapters deal with the walk, concepts of linear and circular movements, navigation and endings as well as the expected explanation of ochos, giros, ganchos, sacadas, barridas, etc. While not being a teaching book as such, it has much to offer the newcomer to Tango while sharing many insights with the established dancer. The book's inspiration is the Argentine teacher Rodolfo 'el chino' Aguerrodi who writes a prologue in Spanish and English.
Paperback 226 pages (March 1, 2004);  Publisher: Dingley Press;  Language: English;  ISBN: 095470830X.
Ballroom Dance Pack  -   Walter Laird
Whether your style is Strictly Ballroom or you have just started to Come Dancing, discover how to master the six most popular ballroom dances with this fantastic guide. Step-by-step instructions will take you through the modern classics as well as the sexy Latin moves of the Rumba and Tango. With a specially recorded accompanying CD to ensure you keep in tempo and detachable dance step cards to help guide you round the dancefloor, you'll be certain to waltz your way to dancing perfection.
Hardcover 80 pages (October 28, 2004);  Publisher: Dorling Kindersley;  Language: English;  ISBN: 0751300799.
The Art of Belly Dancing  -   Melanie Votaw, Valerie Rushmere
Paperback 64 pages (March 2004);  Publisher: Running Press;  Language: English;  ISBN: 0762418141
 

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