Things Are Looking Up.

Getting around a little less but the rumors are still running around. And I hear all kinds of rumors just probably less than the rest of you. I hear that Chapters may be disbanding, Pearl City is moving to Waipio, Aiea is moving to Foster Village, and you all know the kind of hooey out there. Dancing is being cancelled here, And Salsa is no more there. So I have to just take them with a grain of salt. If they are just rumors, don't believe them, they certainly will not enlighten me or anyone else.

There's music in the gushing of a rill;

There's music in all things, if men had ears:

Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.

~Lord Byron

I have again expanded to ten blogs and diluted the readership. The Stats are shaping up nicely, even with the spam robot hits. For sure, we are gradually getting the best reader/dancers on this Island. This should be the last expansion before I delete the worse ones. It will come down to about five blogs and the reader/dancers will make the choice.

"American Pie" by Don McLean

I signed up for five micros, Twitter, Linkedlin, Google Plus, Friend Feed and Facebook. And I have been using them to beat the bushes for the blogs. With ten blogs the hits should have dropped but they are staying steady. Now I expect them to rise in hits to the end of the month. And I already deleted Facebook, they are all over the world and I am interested in Hawaii.

It still stands that the readers want something that is not S.O.S. So the Two-Center and the Guest Author are of prime importance to the development of blogs as social media. Whatever it is, as long as it is your own personal viewpoint. And this applies to photos too. Your preferred photos may not be the same as mine or his, or hers. But it is all there available in our dance scene. All we have to do is be willing to share.

Blogger's Law No. 45a: Where an exaggerated emphasis is placed upon delegation; responsibility sinks to the bottom.
 

The American Indians have Exhibition Dances Too

Fancy Dance
The brightest and fastest of men's dance styles, the Fancy Dance or Feather Dance did not originate from any old dance or style. Fancy dancing is the result of trying to entertain visitors at reservations in the early 1920's. The outfit combined the popular bustles of traditional dancers and made them larger, brighter, and more exciting and added feathers, fluffs, and colors wherever they would fit.

The Fancy Dance has typically been a young man's dance, although many older dancers who are still in shape participate. The Fancy Dance belongs to no one tribe -- it started in Oklahoma and is now all over the country, with some differences in dress and style in the North.