Dancers. Where?

I know they are here, all three classes. The mainly music lovers that would rather go to a Night Club in town to listen to live music. Our kind is there too, the lovers of moving to their favorite music in a social atmosphere.  And we also have the kind that are dancers in which dancing is the main thing. They may be Exhibition or Competition Dancers and the music may be secondary. But make no mistake, they can dance.

"You can accept responsibility for your life and realize that it is you

who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

Dancing in Kokohead? Of course not!

News from Asia:
In China, people can be seen hopping from their bicycles on the way to work to do a few dance turns among early-morning practitioners of Tai Chi in Beijing parks and on the Shanghai Band. The China Daily recently suggested that dance classes could be a healthy way to channel the interests of young people away from premarital sex.

"La Bamba" By Los Lobos

Millions dance in Japan, where ballroom dancing has been regimented into a 12-tier ranking system. Many are inspired by a sentimental Japanese movie, "Shall We Dance?" about a drab office worker who finds meaning for his life on the dance floor. Dancing comes with dim sum at Ocean City Restaurant in Hong Kong and draws celebrities to Paul Bishop's Academy of Dance.

In Thailand the venue is Lumpini Park in Bangkok, where there is already talk of competitin for Olympic medals at the Games coming up, where ballroom dancing is a new event.

"Rock and Roll is Here To Stay" By Danny the Juniors

And in Singapore, the authorities have added ballroom dancing to wine tasting and tennis as an appropriate activity for Government-run matchmaking clubs. That place is jumping.

But nowhere is ballroom dancing bigger than in the Philippines, where ''people power'' and coup attempts are things of the past. Morning, afternoon and evening, in discos, living rooms and stadiums, Filipinos are dancing. They gather under the palm trees in Luneta Park when the born-again Christians are not holding a rally. Plenty of others are dancing up a storm.