DanceInTime on TV

1.  On the Fox 5 News

On April 4, 06, Holly Morris of Fox 5 News interviewed Barb Bernstein and featured her the DanceInTime crew on her Morning News show.  First we demonstrated the dance at the intermediate and advanced levels, and then we taught Holly very basic moves so she could join us in a beginners Rueda dance. 

It was a real kick.  Holly was having so much fun as she bantered with Barb on the air, that she did something which I understand is very unusual.  She gave our group extra TV air time.  To see video clips of this fun, click on the links below.

DanceInTime teaching on TV:
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DanceInTime demonstrating Rueda on TV

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Above: Fox 5 news covers DanceInTime, 4/8/06

2.  DanceInTime on the Comcast Sportsnet channel
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3.  DanceInTime on the ABC News
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4.  DanceInTime on Channel 19 in Montgomery County, Channel 30 in Fairfax County, Channel 76 in Prince Georges County and Channel 95 in Washington, DC

In the fall of 2007, DanceInTime organized a Ballroom and Latin dance segment that appeared on the ChezaTVShow in the counties and cities listed above.  A few video clips of that are below. 
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NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS

Over the years, a number of newspaper/magazine articles have mentioned our dance group.

Below are the excerpts from some of these articles which mention DanceInTime.

Many different newspapers are represented, including the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, The Kennedy Center News, The Capital-Gazette, the Montgomery County Gazette, etc.

Enjoy!

1.  From The Gazette--January 31, 2007

County Caliente:  Montgomery serves up a Spicy Taste of Salsa Dancing 

by Chris Slattery, Staff Writer    (Article is on page B10 of the Bethesda edition and page A46 of the Silver Spring edition.)

For the first time in her life, Barbara Bernstein says, ‘‘I feel like I’m in the right place at the right time.”  The Silver Spring native is a dance instructor, and the dance that has her feeling so serendipitous is salsa.‘‘  It’s a wonderful dance,” she says, ‘‘fun and lively, a wonderful activity.‘‘       

                                                                                                                                                            
And between the rise in the Hispanic population in this area and the rise in salsa’s popularity, I’m pretty busy!”
She won’t be taking a break anytime soon. In April, Bernstein will start up salsa rueda classes at Glen Echo Park. There, in the Bumper Car Pavilion and the appropriately named Spanish Ballroom, salsa is on the menu during the spring and summer months along with swing and contra dances.

Bernstein is living proof that ‘‘you don’t have to be Latino to love this.”  It does help to have that certain ‘‘sabor” or flavor. Salsa is, after all, a hybrid dance with origins in Latin American/Spanish-Caribbean culture. The Cuban mambo, according to Bernstein, is salsa’s closest relative.

"Mambo is a ballroom dance,” she explains. ‘‘Salsa is a street dance; it’s performed with feeling, with flair and sabor.”  Some say its origins can be traced back to the rhythms of West Africa that enslaved people brought to the Caribbean and mixed with the music of the Spanish who settled there. Most concur that the Cuban dance known as ‘‘son” was the basis for both mambo and salsa — although Tito Puente rejected the whole idea of ‘‘salsa” and Ruben Blades defined it as ‘‘just a concept.”

Did Puerto Ricans create salsa in New York City in the 1960s? Was it invented by Mexicans with their love of mariachi? It depends on who you ask. What everyone agrees upon is this: The word ‘‘salsa” is Spanish for sauce. And the ingredients in this particular sauce — son, Cumbia, Guaracha, Merengue — mix up into a dance style that unites — and excites — dancers all over the world....

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2. From The Washington Post's Weekend Section 6/17/05

On the Move

Salsa For One And All

By Rebecca R. Kahlenberg
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, June 17, 2005; Page WE56

IT'S SATURDAY morning, and the parking lots at Safeway, Giant and Whole Foods along Route 123 in McLean are packed with minivans and SUVs. But in a lower-level room in a nondescript brown building tucked away along the same stretch of road in Vienna, it feels more like Havana than suburbia. Salsa blares in Spanish as dance instructor Barb Bernstein leads a class in casino rueda , a form of salsa dancing also known as salsa rueda .About 15 students ranging in age from their twenties to their sixties have been divided into couples and stand in a circle.

"Back on the right and forward on the left!" Bernstein directs. "Back on the left, forward on the right!" Bernstein walks the class through the basic step, called guapea, several times.

She also explains that the constant rhythm of casino rueda is "Quick-quick-slow." Then she calls out "Dame una," another basic step that involves a partner exchange, and each student gets a new person to dance with.Casino rueda is roughly analogous to Western square dancing.

Both styles have a caller who shouts out moves (or signals them with his hands, in the case of casino rueda), both involve couples changing partners and there is a pattern to the progression of both dances. Indeed, some people refer to casino rueda as "Latin square dancing," Bernstein says, admitting that the term makes rueda experts shudder because the styles are so different. Casino rueda, she says pointedly, is "sharper and more sexy."

Weekend drop-in sessions at Bernstein's Vienna location start at the beginner level. An hour or so into each class, she begins to call out more advanced steps, which are longer and often more difficult to execute than basic moves. Today, a few students choose to sit out and watch the more challenging moves, but most have casino rueda experience and continue dancing.

Her students return week after week in part to gain more dance proficiency, but for other reasons as well."We love it," says Niss Albraig, 39. He and his wife, Alexandra, 35, have traveled from Owings Mills and left their two young children in the care of grandparents to attend the class for the fourth time. "It's always a challenge and gets our hearts going," Niss Albraig says. Alexandra Albraig agrees. "It's a good workout," she says. "And once you get going, it makes you sweat."

Norman Froomer, 58, of Vienna began coming a year ago when he moved to the area from New Orleans. "Usually, the man has to think about what to do next, and there is a certain anxiety about leading," he says. "That anxiety goes away here because there's a caller."

Falls Church resident Gilda Ascunce, 57, has been taking the class since November. "The music is very much in me," she says, explaining that she was born in Cuba and lived there until she was 13. "But I like casino rueda better than regular salsa because it's a group thing, which makes it more fun."

Jeanette Ortiz, 39, of Arlington, who has been dancing casino rueda for about 10 years, loves "the fact that people here are different ages and come from different cultural backgrounds, yet they share this one passion for dancing. It's almost like belonging to a club where you find kindred spirits." .....
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3.  From the Washington Post Sports Writer, Dan Steinberg's "blog" on July 23, 2007

This article followed an evening at the Bowie Baysox Stadium where DanceInTime conducted a Dancing with the Stars program with local celebrities. The celebrities were Washington Post writer Dan Steinberg and ABC's Weatherman Brian van de Graaff.  We taught them Merengue moves behind the scenes during the first six innings. They then performed their "Merengue routines" on the field during breaks in the game.  It was all great fun; these guys were wonderful to work with, and the action was captured on camera.  Videos of this event were shown on both the Comcast Sports channel and the ABC News!  Below are sections of Steinberg's blog about the experience!

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ARTICLE BY STEINBERG JULY 23, 07
....Luckily, the only sporting event I came in personal contact with this weekend was the Bowie Baysox game on Saturady night. Unluckily, I was there for "Dancing With the Stars" night, for which someone had decided I was proper material to be one of the dancing stars. This meant that four equally unlucky instructors from DanceInTime.com were forced to listen to me wailing about my rhythmic deficiencies for seven innings, until I finally was allowed to go on the field and attempt to Meringue Merengue for 80 seconds, at which time I promptly forgot all my steps and sort of wobbled about the third-base line with my partners.... The instructors were very nice and kind and gentle, and their company should be properly patronized, but I was awful.

My competition was WJLA's popular weather person Brian van de Graaff, who, thanks to years of being On Your Side, had lots of fans who were clearly On His Side. Also, he is naturally blessed with what the instructors called "Cuban Motion." Trust me, I am not.

Anyhow, I need a few more days to collect myself, but there will be video of the dance-off on CSN's Washington Post Live tonight, and later on the blog.
By Dan Steinberg |  July 23, 2007; 9:42 AM ET  | Category:  Media

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ARTICLE BY DAN STEINBERG,
SPORTS WRITER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST:
July 25, 2007

I Dance With the Stars----Or whatever.

I really have nothing left to say about this. All my memories of the events of Saturday night have been completely erased...

Actually, I do have some slight memory of this long speech I gave to Barb, one of my instructors, about how this dancing thing was quite the metaphor for life, and how some people are gifted with naturally fluid movements and thus bound joyfully through life with their soaringly optimistic personalities, looking as weightless as Nick Young on a moonbounce, and how others instead move with the grace of Dmitri Young on a treadmill, cruising through life with all the levity of a broken-down minivan traversing Benning Road, and that whether you can dance is probably in some ways a fine measure of all these other issues of lightness and weight, but maybe I'm just imagining all that.

And try not to watch the dancing portions of what follows on an empty stomach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTM9h1Q7K7s


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4.  From the Kennedy Center News---March/April 2003 Edition

Article on AmericaArtes: The Kennedy Center celebrates the Arts of Latin America

Performance Plus

Friday, March 14, experience the intricate footwork and comlex choreographiy of the form of salsa dancing called Rueda with an exciting performance demonstration by Salsa Linea on the Millenium Stage.

(Note that the date of this show at the Kennedy Center was subsequently moved back after the Kennedy Center News magazine was published!  Salsa Linea is the name of the previous Salsa Rueda group that was co-directed with Gary Pennington by Barbara Bernstein.  To see this show, click on the button above titled "The Kennedy Center Show" and you can watch the entire one-hour show on your computer screen.)

5. From the Capital-Gazette; Arundel Report Section 6/26/05
Copyright 2005 Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
The Capital (Annapolis, MD)

June 26, 2005 Sunday
SECTION: ARUNDEL; Pg. D1
HEADLINE: Latin Flair
BYLINE: PETER HOLLEY, Staff Writer

Nearly one-thousand Annapolis residents, kids and community leaders including First Lady Kendel S. Ehrlich, braved the afternoon heat for a chance to experience Latino culture yesterday afternoon, at the third annual Hispanic Family and Children's Festival...

Organizers from Centro De Ayuda -- Spanish for Center of Help -- said...they were pleased with...the opportunity the event provided them to reach out to Annapolis' growing Hispanic community. The non-profit center offers Anne Arundel Hispanic families an array of charitable services..." It has been great," said Mauricio E. Barreiro, chairman of the Governor's Commission on Hispanic Affairs.

Without question the festival's pulse and ultimately its highlight, was the contagious Latin music that held the crowd's attention throughout the afternoon, courtesy of Baltimore-based Grupo Latino Continental. Although the crowd was initially tentative, it wasn't long before bobbing heads and shuffling feet became the norm.

Salsa dance instructor Barbara Bernstein, who specializes in a group form of Salsa - a variation on the dance's traditional couplings - believes the festival's growing popularity is a sign Annapolis is on the brink of a Salsa explosion. Ms. Bernstein provided free dance lessons, giving festival-goers a chance to experience a culture she loves, and of course, to dance whenever possible.

"There's a growing Hispanic community in Annapolis most major cities have a fair amount of salsa," she said. "It's time has come in Annapolis."...
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6. From The Jeffersonian; Health and Well-Being Section
9/16/03

The Jeffersonian
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Section A---Page 5

Studio host to salsa dancers

Patrice Dirican
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Catonsville

Catonsville's Avalon Studio for Movement and Dance has been the scene of some saucy moves and hot rhythms recently.

The studo is hosting several salsa groups booked to perform the Casino Rueda at the Fiesta Musical to be held at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, Sept. 21, as part of Hispanic Heritage Month. ....

The Casino Rueda, which originiated in Cuban nightclubs in the 1950s, is done in a "rueda," or circle, composed of two or more couples executing a series of synchronized moves announced by a caller with partners passed around.

"To my view, the steps are very complex," said Bernstein whose resume includes experience in a variety of Latin dance forms, as well as ballroom and foreign folk styles. "I really love this dance. It's a very joyful kind of experience."

Bernstein, a former mathematician and part-time publisher of instructional tax materials, is regarded as an expert on the salsa rueda, having choreographed and staged audience-interactive performances at such venues as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Washington Convention Center.

To learn more about rueda classes at Avalon, call Barbara Bernstein at 301-464-6244 or visit www.DanceInTimeProductions.com.
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7. From the Baltimore Sun
Live Section
6/16/05

The Sun
Live Section June 16, 2005; Page 23T

Article: Cheap Date
by Sam Sessa

Salsa Night

Where: TK Sharky's, 2072 Sommerville Road, Annapolis

When: 8 tonight and the first and third Thursdays of every month

Why: Admit it, guys and gals: You've always wanted to be able to show off your salsa moves---you just never learned any. Now you don't have an excuse. Follow dance instructor Barbara Bernstein's lead 8 p.m.-9:15 p.m., and then flash your newly learned salsa chops on the dance floor all night.

Information: 301-980-6043, www.danceintime.com. $7.

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8.   From: The Gazette
 Maryland Community Newspapers
Friday, May 15, 2009

Frederick's young professionals dancing to a new beat

Group, established through social network Meetup, takes on salsa dancing

by Katherine Mullen | Staff Writer

Salsa is the type of music and dance that changes your mood.

Inside the rectangular bar of Danielle's Restaurant, young Frederick professionals have started to meet regularly to learn how to salsa with Frederick Salsa Meetup, a new group that formed in March.

Established through Meetup — a worldwide network of social groups online — nearly 30 people arrived at Frederick Salsa Meetup's first event on April 29 at Danielle's Restaurant on North East Street.

An hour before the salsa lesson began on the narrow, wood floor, dancers of all levels mingled over drinks and appetizers. Women dressed in high heels and jeans and men sporting dress shirts then took to the dance floor for a free beginner lesson by Barbara Bernstein of Dance in Time Productions.

"You will never look on the dance floor and see anyone unhappy," said Scot Wilson of Harper's Ferry, W.Va. Wilson has taken salsa lessons on and off two years in Frederick, and has organized other Frederick Meetup groups for whitewater rafting and hiking.

According to Aaron Ferrufino, organizer of Frederick Salsa Meetup, there is no other place in Frederick for people to salsa. Though most opportunities to salsa are in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., Ferrufino believes Frederick Salsa Meetup will be a big hit. "We can definitely get a decent crowd once a month," he noted.

Frederick Salsa Meetup is a private, online group, where interested members have to sign up on the group's Web site. Though the first event was free, the group charges $10 in advance or $15 at the door for upcoming salsa meetings.

Tania Lombo of Buckeystown chatted with a friend before the lesson began and noted that she likes to learn new styles of salsa, like rueda. Lombo, who is Colombian, said she wasn't surprised that Frederick Salsa Meetup formed. Frederick is growing, she noted, and there is a need for social activities for young, single professionals.

Salsa is difficult in the beginning, Lombo said, but you have to listen to the beat and learn how to lead or be lead. "It all depends on your personal rhythm—how you feel the music in your body," she said.

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9.   From: The Gazette
Maryland Community Newspapers
July 29, 2010

Cheverly event asks for some shoes, then some moves

Protect the feet of children and get a free salsa lesson

by Liz Skalski, Staff Writer

Strap on those dancing shoes, feel the rhythm and get ready to salsa.

Publick Playhouse is hosting its second annual ShoeBert Alley dancing event that benefits area children from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Playhouse in Cheverly.  The event begins with an hour-long salsa lesson, followed by two hours of open floor salsa dancing to music from Bio Ritmo, a Richmond-based Latin band.

Barbara Bernstein, the owner of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan-based Dance In Time Productions, will teach the salsa lesson and perform a salsa dance demonstration with partner Cedric Teamer.  "The nature of the music is so lively and just so rhythmic. I certainly think it's good, clean fun," Bernstein said.

Bio Ritmo plans to perform two, one-hour sets of music after the lesson.  Marlysse Simmons, the pianist for Bio Ritmo and a songwriter, said the Latin music will only incite salsa dancing.  "It will be something for them to party to, get up and dance to," said Simmons, 35, of Richmond. "We are an alternative salsa band because we definitely mix it up. It's fun music because we can interact with the audience."  The band, which has been based in Richmond for 20 years, is comprised of three singers, and musicians who play the saxophone, trumpet, trombone, a synthesizer, electric bass guitar, congas and bongos.

The vendor, El Taco Azteca, will serve chicken, beef and pork tamales and tacos, said Sonya Kitchens, the assistant director of the Publick Playhouse in Cheverly. More than 100 people are expected to attend.  "I think it'll be a good way of bringing cultures together," Kitchens said. "It's going to be a lot of fun."   Last year, the Playhouse held a blues band event.

The event, which costs $15 or a new pair of shoes and socks for a preschool or elementary age child, will be given to the Prince George's County Department of Social Services to benefit children in the county.

Bernstein, who has been dancing salsa for eight years, and Teamer will teach event participants the basics of salsa dancing, and then perform a salsa demonstration.   The hour-long lesson, geared for beginners, will start with Bernstein teaching the footwork to salsa dancing, which includes picking up their feet, learning to shift their weight with every step and taking small steps with each beat.   Participants will then partner up and learn basic movements, including underarm turns. Bernstein will explain the how dancers learn to lead — typically done by men — and to follow, typically the woman's role.

"There's a lot to absorb. When someone masters this they're well on their way to dancing salsa," Bernstein said. "What makes it fun is the music — that's hard for that not to be great fun."  Salsa has seemingly become one of the most popular types of dance, Bernstein said.   

"It's great if people can take a dance class, but the reality is we want people to dance however they feel like it," Simmons said. "With salsa music people tend to get very scared when they see other people doing it. It's more important that people have fun and get into it."

Bernstein said she believes that dance opens up "a world of joy."   "It's really almost impossible to be sad while you're dancing — it's a biological imperative," she said. "Dance is an expression of joy. I can really open up a new world and one where you forget your cares and one where you thoroughly enjoy yourself."

Photos by Chris Anderson at the Gazette: Barbara Bernstein and Erick Sanchez of Dance in Time Productions rehearse salsa dancing.