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Latin Dance Entertainment!

We design unique dance entertainment
for events large & small in DC/MD/VA. We're flexible, performing at all types of venues.

Birthday & Other Parties 
We have performed at many birthday, wedding, and anniversary parties in town, adding "zing" to the event!  Sometimes instruction is added to the show to make it interactive, so guests get to dance too!

Hispanic Heritage Programs for Offices &  Organizations
We have produced countless Hispanic Heritage Month programs and have many show options to choose from. To read about some of DIT's Hispanic Heritage Month programs, click here.

Events Out of Town
Though based in the Washington DC metro area, DanceInTime has taught and performed in many cities.  We've performed, taught, and/or judged dance contests at Salsa Congresses/Events in Vancouver Canada, San Juan Puerto Rico, Miami Florida, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, NYC, etc.  Barb is teaching workshops in Dublin Ireland in 2011 at a St. Patrick's Salsa Festival.

Bringing in Top Talent
In order to bring original shows to the area,  DanceInTime sometimes brings in performers from other cities.  For example, at the Verizon and Kennedy Center shows, dancers came in from New York and Richmond.  We've brought in dancers from Florida and Connecticut, as well!

"Women's History Month" Celebrations

After years of performing Hispanic Heritage Month programs, DanceInTime has added to its program options a presentation for Women's History Month in March and Women's Equality Day, August 26. The program is called "Women Take the Lead" and it has received a fabulous reception (at the U.S. Mint in Washington, DC and the Bowie Center for Performing Arts).

In this program, ladies both lead and follow, and the audience guesses who was doing which part.  Barb says a few words about women's roles historically and as reflected in the art of dance. (Click here to read about about this history.)   We can close the program with dance lessons, offering any women who are interested a chance to learn the leader's part!

To hear Marsha Savchenko explain how the role of women Flamenco dancers has grown and watch a demo, click here.
To see a women's performance of "Pretty Girl Rock," click here.

Are you a dancer interested in performing?

If you are a Salsa dancer in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore/Virginia area interested in performing, feel free to write Barb or call 301-464-6244 for an audition.  We train advanced dancers for shows and arrange collaborations with other Latin performing groups and couples.  It would be nice to hear from you!

Kennedy Center Show

On March 23, 2003, Barb Bernstein produced a Millennium Stage show for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, located in Washington, DC. This was part of their AmericArtes Festival.  In that show, we explained the underlying rhythms & history of some Latin dances (i.e. Salsa, Rumba, Cha Cha, Merengue, & Salsa Rueda). Son & Cuban Rumba were also performed.

The program concluded with flashy dance performances and the audience was asked to identify which dance they were watching.  To help them discern the different dances, a booklet with basic information on each dance was given out to all audience members.

You can watch this entire one hour show right on your computer screen and read the Kennedy Center's written program for that night.  Just click on the link below, scroll down; then click on "Performance Plus."
Kennedy Center Show

Verizon Center Show

We did a Salsa performance at Washington's Verizon Center on January 30, 04 with roughly 70 Salsa dancers!!  This included three Rueda groups from Richmond to NY and a number of additional Salsa performers.  We all danced together on stage at this 20,000 seat arena in the Nation's Capitol! To see a short video of this show, click here*.  The show provided entertainment at a National Basketball Association game between quarters for their "Latin Night."  Read an article about this remarkable performance.
*This movie file requires QuickTime Viewer. To download a free viewer, go to http://www.quicktime.apple.com. 

Salsa Congress performances

The DIT "women's team" presented their "Rebellion" routine and Charlie's Angels routine at Washington DC Salsa Congresses.  You can watch the latter here: Part 1    Part 2

They also performed the Angels routine at the Miami Salsa Congress where it was very well received. The Miami performance included everything from humor, to a jump-rope trick, while telling a story through dance (w/ a surprise ending).  To watch, Click here.

DanceInTime teams have also performed at the 2008 Puerto Rican Salsa Congress, several NY Salsa Congresses, & Philadelphia Congresses.  Barb has taught workshops at a number of these as well. (See the "videos" page to watch this!)

The video clips below show DIT's Rueda team at Zanzibar's nightclub in Washington, DC.  The routine had been done the week before at the Philadelphia Congress.  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3  

Performances of the DIT Women's Team

On May 1st, 2005, the Women's Team from DanceInTime did their debut performance at the annual Caribbean Fest held at Prince Georges Community College in Largo, MD.  Click below to see video of this performance.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Check out the video clips below!  (You will note that in some of our routines, we have included one or two men as needed to "tell our story.")
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Part 1 Part 2
 Click here for the '08 medley routine!

In addition, the "women's team" has danced at festivals and clubs, including the 25th Anniversary of  "Latino Fest" (June, 2005), local club shows, and a Clavekazi Studio party, events at Zanzibars, and Women's History Month/Equality Day programs. 

Cuban Salsa Performances

Many of the performances that DIT does include Salsa Rueda, or "Cuban Salsa."  Here are segments of a Cuban Salsa show at the 2008 DC Rueda Congress held at Glen Echo Park, for example. Click here and here.

To embellish the above routine, a Cha Cha segment was added at the end and the new routine was performed in Philadelphia and DC.  You can watch that here and here.

Dancing With the "Stars" (i.e. local celebrities)"

A number of different venues have asked DanceInTime to run a Dancing with the Stars competition at an event.  Male contestants dance with one of the women in our dance group, and female contestants dance with one of the men.  Then the audience claps for each contestant and either the volume of applause or a judging panel determines the winner.  This is always fun!

We've done this at a Prince Georges Community College festival, at FirstNight Annapolis, at corporate events and at a Bowie Baysox game (a minor league baseball team).  At the Baysox game, local celebrities competed between innings.  They were taught by DanceInTime dancers during the first six innings in a back room.  The "stars" (Dan Steinberg, a well known sports writer for the Washington Post, and Brian van de Graaff, ABC's popular TV Weatherman) learned some fancy Merengue steps which they each performed a short routine.  To see Dan's hilarious blog about the experience go to the "DIT In The News" page. You can also watch the following video footage of this: Click Here and here.

Other Dance Styles Besides Latin

DIT has also done presentations in other ethnic dances. For example, click here for a short clip of Polynesian dancing.  We have also provided instruction in a Greek "Hasapikos" (click here), and performed the Japanese "Bon" dance (click here) for Diversity Day shows!  Of course, Latin dancing is generally also included (click here). We have provided, as well, Israeli dancing for a Bar Mitzvah.

DIT also arranged a tap dance show for an SPCA fund-raiser at the Westin Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland.  The theme of the event was "Putting on the Ritz" and the party organizers wanted a tap performance that mimicked the one by Fred Astaire in that movie!

In addition, DIT produced a multi-cultural dance show for a big World Bank event on March 4, 2010. The audience included 500 VIPs from all the member countries of the World Bank.  DIT did a Cuban Salsa & Latin/Indian fusion routine.  Wombworks Productions performed an African dance (from Mali in West Africa), and a Hungarian dance was performed by the Tisza Ensemble.  Silk Road Dance Co. did a dance from Afghanistan, and Sean Climer and Christina Bollino performed Argentine tango, Cha Cha, and Swing (an American dance!).  It was a great evening with colorful costumes from all over the globe.  We closed with some dance instruction and open dancing. Click here to see videos from this show.

Customized Shows

Dance programs that include instruction and performances can be arranged to your specifications. 
We tailor all our entertainment programs to accommodate any need and time requirement.  We also are happy to work with special populations, making accommodations that are helpful.

If you are interested in hiring any kind of dance instruction or show to make an event special, contact Barb (301-9806043; BarbBtalks@aol.com).

And for more examples of DanceInTime shows, click here.