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Bolero Professional Show – Arthur Murray Virginia

Arthur Murray Bolero professional show - ©TimeLine Media

Another posting today from the DC Area Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles. This time the photos feature the Bolero professional show by Allison and Phil from the Tysons Corner and Alexandria, Virginia studios. We have had lessons with both of these amazing dancers at our studio. We have admired their teaching as well as their dancing!

Professional Dance Show

Arthur Murray Bolero professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Bolero professional show – ©TimeLine Media

The Bolero is one of the most challenging dances. Although the movements do not have the showy speed of smooth dances, or the sharp quick movements of the rhythm dances, it has a different skill set for dancers to perform. In learning the basic steps, there is a fair amount of athletic qualities needed to do rise and fall, close body contact, around rotating your partner to a tempo slower than a Rumba.

Arthur Murray Tysons Corner professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Tysons Corner professional show – ©TimeLine Media

These two did the Bolero beautifully. The gentleman displayed the lady nicely – being very solid in many dips and a slide between his legs. As difficult as this dance is to do, it was very easy to photograph! The dancers made beautiful straight lines with their posture, legs, and feet throughout the performance. I just had to hope the flashes would fire, and it made a great image.

Arthur Murray Alexandria professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Alexandria professional show – ©TimeLine Media

To view more of the photos from this show, and all the photos from the Spring Freestyles weekend, visit the proofing site here:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

There is an early-bird special on all orders placed from this event, but it will expire tonight! After Monday April 21, 2014, you will still be able to view the photos, only the 20% off discount will be removed. Thanks to everyone that has already ordered their favorites over the 2 weeks that they have been available. We are grateful for your support of our photography that helps us to cover future events!

Arthur Murray Bolero professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Bolero professional show – ©TimeLine Media

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Spring Freestyles Sale Expiring!

Arthur Murray Silver Spring - ©TimeLine Media

The photos from the Arthur Murray 2014 Spring Freestyles are on sale until Monday, April 21, 2014. The early bird special is for 20% off all products including prints, albums, and digital files. We are so grateful to those that have come by the website to view and buy their photos. The web server has been busy shuttling files to you, and to the lab for printing. The photos will be available to view here until the end of July – it is only the sale that is expiring Monday:

http://proofs.timelinedc.com

Arthur Murray Alexandria - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Alexandria – ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Silver Spring - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Silver Spring – ©TimeLine Media

So far on the blog, I have only posted about one of the professional shows so far. I will be getting to all of the others, but have been busy with many other photo projects. With the change in season, it is nice to be busy in much nicer weather outside! At the Arthur Murray studios, I know that getting all the routines ready for the Summer Showcase is in full swing. We cannot wait to see what you and your instructors put together, and hope to get your best moves in photos.

Arthur Murray Narberth Paoli - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Narberth Paoli – ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Tysons Corner - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Tysons Corner – ©TimeLine Media

These are just a few of our favorite photos from the represented studios that attended the Spring Freestyles. It was really hard not to just go through the crazy Potomac Cup photos! These are the most spontaneous and off-the-wall photos we take. I think I will have to have a post just on these!

Arthur Murray Virginia Beach - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Virginia Beach – ©TimeLine Media

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Arthur Murray – Ashburn, VA Spring Freestyles Show

Arthur Murray Ashburn, VA - ©TimeLine Media

It has been a few weeks now since the 2014 Arthur Murray Spring Freestyles. After all the work to edit, sort the files, and get orders out to everyone, I finally have some time to look back on this event. There were many great dancers and photos we made that weekend. This is the longest break between Arthur Murray events that we cover. So we try to prepare as best we can for the event. There are always new attendees that we want to make a good first impression, so we have some of our best photographers to help, and we have all our gear cleaned and ready to go from the start! From this first post, I have selected photos from the first professional show that closed out the event – a Cha Cha by the Ashburn, Virginia studio!

Westfields Marriott

Cha Cha professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Cha Cha professional show – ©TimeLine Media

Being the first of the professional shows that performed for the evening is a neat spot! The crowd is still settling down from the last general dance, and with no previous performance, the audience has a fresh palette. The song was “Come Dance with Me” by Michael Buble. These two had a lot of success in getting the audience pumped up with some awesome dancing! You can catch a video of the performance here:

If you look closely, you can see me hunched in some of the frames as I tried to keep up! A lot of people ask why I shoot from down low. Really, this is the best angle to capture any subject that you want to make larger, more heroic in the photo. From down here, it is much easier to compose a frame where they look larger than life! You would think that it would have a strange perspective, but with a lot of distance between me and the dancers, that angle is minimized, and you can hardly tell that I was as low to the ground with my camera!

Arthur Murray Ashburn, VA - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Ashburn, VA – ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray professional show – ©TimeLine Media

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