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unusual facts about ballroom



Acefest

The inaugural ACE Film Festival took place from August 24 to 26 at the Broad Street Ballroom, 41 Broad Street, right in the center of Manhattan's Financial District and in close proximity to the New York Stock Exchange.

Asian Festival of First Films

The festival culminates in a grand, star-studded gala Awards Night at Raffles Hotel Ballroom during which the results of the competition are announced.

At the Family Dog Ballroom

At the Family Dog Ballroom is a recording of a 1969 performance by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane at the Family Dog Ballroom in San Francisco.

Back Porch Video

It premiered on January 28, 1984 as the brainchild of Russ Gibb, former owner of the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan.

Baltimore Elite Giants

Before his death in 1947, Wilson converted the park into a dog racing track and later the Paradise Ballroom, a popular black nightclub that attracted top musical talents of the day, including Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.

Blanche Coleman

After this she led the resident band in Beach Ballroom Aberdeen, between 1948 and 1950 with John Hanson, a popular guest singer.

Bobby Borchers

Borchers also owned the Longhorn Ballroom restaurant in Fort Wright, Kentucky in the 1980s.

Booji Boy

Booji Boy publicly announced his pending resignation on multiple occasions, most recently on August 13, 2007, yet he appeared at a Summerfest concert on July 4, 2010 and on July 8, 2010 at the Town Ballroom In Buffalo, NY.

Camlin Hotel

It can still be seen in the film The Fabulous Baker Boys, (although it was not, as is commonly rumored, the location of the famous scene where Michelle Pfeiffer sings the song Makin' Whoopee while sitting on a piano. That scene was filmed in the Crystal Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles).

Constable Care

The 2013 Constable Care Child Safety Awards Gala Presentation Ceremony will be held on 10 August 2013 in the Crown Perth Grand Ballroom.

Crystal Ballroom

Live at the Crystal Ballroom is a live DVD by The Black Keys, filmed in the Portland, Oregon Crystal Ballroom

Dick Jurgens

Jurgens held residencies at the Casino Ballroom on Catalina Island, the Elitch Gardens in Denver, the Aragon Ballroom and the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago, and other popular swing venues.

Disney's Contemporary Resort

On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon delivered his famous "I am not a crook" speech in a ballroom at the Contemporary in front of reporters from the Associated Press during the 'Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association'.

Dulcie Howes

She returned to South Africa in 1930 and opened a ballet school in Rondebosch to teach ballet, ballroom and Spanish dancing.

East Coast Swing

The name East Coast Swing was coined initially to distinguish the dance from the street form and the new variant used in the competitive ballroom arena (as well as separating the dance from West Coast Swing, which was developed in California).

Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything

# "Rains Thru the Roof at Thee Grande Ballroom (For Capital Steez)" - 3:57

Grand Pro Wrestling

The promotion runs shows in the North West of England, mainly in the Greater Manchester area at The Rose Club (formerly known as The Monaco Ballroom) in Hindley Wigan running between 8 and 10 times a year.

Hammerstein Ballroom

Jane's Addiction recorded the 1997 Halloween Show of their reunion tour at the Hammerstein Ballroom - the band's members performing some numbers in their encore from the balcony.

Horace Finch

On 14 December 1956 a fire almost destroyed the Blackpool Tower Ballroom and during this time, Reginald Dixon took up residency at the Empress whilst Horace was demoted to the Winter Gardens Pavilion on the Hammond Organ.

Joe Loss

Loss started band leading in the early 1930s, working at the Astoria Ballroom and soon breaking into variety at the Kit-Cat Club.

Johnny Colla

Like many others, Colla patronized the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore Auditorium, eventually pursuing his idols and musical dreams over the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County.

Jonathan Wilkins

He holds many titles in Professional Ballroom Dancing including being 10 times Professional Ballroom Champion, 1997 - 2007 ( in a partnership with Katusha Demidova which lasted eleven years, and brought considerable success).

Julia Powers

Julia's latest endeavor is Core Rhythms, which she co-created with another ballroom champion, Jaana Kunitz.

Kevin Hagen

For a time he taught ballroom dancing, the specialty of his parents, for the Arthur Murray Company.

Lady Anne Barnard

A chamber in the Castle of Good Hope is known as "Lady Anne Barnard's Ballroom"; a road in the suburb of Newlands, where the Barnards lived, is named "Lady Anne Avenue" and a carved sculpture of her is displayed in the foyer of the civic centre in the neighbouring suburb of Claremont.

Lee Sung-jae

In 2004 Lee portrayed a mountain climber in the big-budget adventure/melodrama Ice Rain, which was shot in the Canadian Rockies, then played a ballroom dancer in Dance with the Wind, Park Jeong-woo's directorial debut (Park wrote the screenplay for many of Kim Sang-jin's films).

Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968

Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is a live album by Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin.

Los Furios

Some of their highlight gigs include two opening spots at The Commodore Ballroom (House of Blues), first with Fishbone and later with The Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.

Louis Keller

which was far more inclusive than Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred"— the number, reputedly, that could be accommodated in Mrs William Astor's ballroom.

Mad Hot Ballroom

Mad Hot Ballroom was the second highest grossing documentary in 2005 after March of the Penguins.

Midnight My Love

Sometimes he'll visit a ballroom where big band music is played and there is dancing, but he always sits by himself and sips a Coke.

Mr. Floppy's Flophouse

There was the main ballroom where DJ's and acts such as Olli Wisdom or Psychic TV would play.

Palomar Ballroom

Originally named the El Patio Ballroom and located on the east side of Vermont Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street, it boasted being “the largest and most famous dance hall on the West Coast.”

Peggy Spencer

She was a leading coach for competitive Latin dancers, and was influential in both Ballroom and Latin American branches of the ISTD.

Pete St. John

His songs often express regret for the loss of old certainties (the former song regrets the loss of Nelson's Pillar and the Metropole Ballroom, two symbols of old Dublin, as progress makes a "city of my town").

Philip Connard

Connard was given a number of important decorative commissions: murals at Windsor Castle; two panels for a ballroom in New Delhi; and a large panel on the subject of England for the Cunard liner, RMS Queen Mary.

Porro

It was originally a folkloric expression from the Sinú River area that evolved into a ballroom dance.

Rib Hillis

On August 17, 2012, he married ballroom dancer, world champion and former Dancing with the stars pro, Elena Grinenko.

Rose Brennan

At age sixteen she started singing with the Neil Kearns Orchestra at Dublin's Olympic Ballroom, Johnny Devlin's De Luxe Orchestra at the Crystal Ballroom, and the Pavilion (popularly known as "The Hangar") in Salthill, County Galway.

Savoy Ballroom

"Stompin' at the Savoy", a 1934 Big Band classic song and jazz standard recorded by Chick Webb, was named after the ballroom.

Snow Blankets the Night

A cover of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is also featured on the EP, also containing live versions of his singles "These Walls" and "For You I Will (Confidence)" recorded at the Harro East Ballroom in his hometown of Rochester, New York.

So Pure

The single's video, directed by Morissette, featured her and (then boyfriend) actor Dash Mihok as dance partners transitioning through time and style, from ballroom to salsa, swing, tap, freestyle and rave.

Spillville, Iowa

Spillville is also the site of the Inwood Ballroom, established in 1920 and the destination of several popular 20th century musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo and The Byrds.

Surf Ballroom

Backstage, in an area known as "The Green Room," acts that have played in the ballroom, such as Little River Band, Loverboy, The Righteous Brothers, The Temptations, The Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings and Bobby Rydell have signed their names on the whitewashed walls, as well as have had photos of themselves placed on a wall alongside those of early rock-and-roll pioneers.

The Ballroom of Romance

The film was shot on location in Ballycroy, County Mayo as by 1982 the ballroom which William Trevor had originally written about had been modernized and no longer resembled a dance hall typical of 1950s Ireland.

The Bare Necessities

In the 1994 live-action Disney film Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Dr. Julius Plumford exclaims "The bare necessities of life!" in the ballroom scene.

The Music Machine

Rhodes and Edgar subsequently teamed with Curt Boettcher and others to record as part of The Ballroom and The Millennium.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers) who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing.

Virginia High School League

Since 2005, the awards portion of this event has been held in the nearby historic Jefferson Hotel's ballroom.


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