Dance Weekend

Last night, I was feeling a little guilty that, there I was starting a blog about major dance weekends around the country and The Atlanta Varsity Showdown was wrapping up and I hadn’t managed to get to a single dance, workshop, or competition.  So I hopped in the truck and headed over to the venue where the final dance of the weekend was taking place.  I wasn’t planning on dancing, just socializing a bit to get a feel for how AVS had gone. (And it seems to have gone pretty well by most accounts!  Good job to Dean Robert and his ASEDA faculty.)

I had a good time socializing with both local and out-of-town dancers and noted that everyone looked good and whipped, which is usually a good sign in the waning hours of a workshop weekend.  Everyone, that is, except Javier Johnson, who never seems to get tired.  Ever.  It was a pleasant surprise to see him back in town for AVS.

But I’m most excited about setting up an interview with a young lady I’ll be interviewing tonight at Hot-Jam.  She’s a relatively new Atlanta dancer who I’d never met but she seems to definitely have the dancing bug.  In addition to AVS, she’s signed up to attend the Eastern Balboa Championships in Raleigh-Durham at the end of this month.

This will be my first interview and I’m a little nervous.  But you all love me, so it’s all good, right?  She’s new to Balboa so I plan to have both a before and after interview to hear her expectations for an out-of-town event and also how well the event lived up to those expectations.  She was the housing coordinator for AVS so we’ll see how well she likes the hotel events.

I’m not sure yet whether I’ll post the interviews separately or if I should wait and put them together after the event.  Either way, the interviews will eventually be posted right here on DanceWeekend.  So subscribe, add, follow, friend me up, beam me up, whatever.

And I’ll see you on the dance-floor!