Posts Tagged ‘professional show’

Arthur Murray – Tysons Corner – Foxtrot

Foxtrot professional show - ©TimeLine Media

Chantilly, Virginia

When a Foxtrot comes on over the speakers, I think of relaxed, smooth almost walking steps across the floor. This professional show, like many of the others that we shoot, was much more of a showy display than what we do during practice – as the shows should be! Luck would be with me for making images from this performance.

Professional Ballroom Dance - Foxtrot - ©TimeLine Media
Professional Ballroom Dance – Foxtrot – ©TimeLine Media

We have covered the DC Area Arthur Murray events for a few years now, so many do not even know that we are regular students at the Tysons Corner studio. In addition, these two are our regular instructors, so we do have an affinity for them, and would have been cheering along with the crowd if we were not working! That disclaimer aside, I think my favorite images from this event came from this show.

Foxtrot Dance Show

Arthur Murray Professional Show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Professional Show – ©TimeLine Media

Of course the dancers are well-practiced, and they pulled the performance off nicely after some trouble with getting the correct music track to play. I also placed myself in what I thought would be the best spot to get the dancers by sitting across the long side of the floor with the studio banners in the back of the frame, and the flashes positioned in the back were in a spot to not flare too much from my position.

Professional Ballroom Dance - Foxtrot - ©TimeLine Media
Professional Ballroom Dance – Foxtrot – ©TimeLine Media

But really luck is what really allowed me to get this awesome photo of the two of them in mid-air!

Foxtrot professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Foxtrot professional show – ©TimeLine Media

Even when you are shooting quick action, you know when you may have captured something cool. You may not have time to look at the back of the camera, but you know by the timing, there is a good chance you have it. This frame was a complete surprise! You can still make out that they are dancing, but there is an abstract element that really makes it stand out to me. I may have to print this one out large to hang at home. This is definitely an early contender for my favorite 2014 ballroom dance photo!

Arthur Murray Professional Show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Professional Show – ©TimeLine Media

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Waltz Professional Show – Spring Freestyles

Ballroom Dance professional show - ©TimeLine Media

Chantilly, Virginia

Happy Friday! After a busy week, I am really trying to get the studio organized. There are some big projects coming up, and I need to clean up a little around here. There is more dancing photos in the future, and we just came back from a dance lesson. Overall, this helps to get the oxygen back into the brain after a day at the computer.

Ballroom Dance Waltz professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Ballroom Dance Waltz professional show – ©TimeLine Media

I think our smooth dancing is getting to be much better and “smoother” (pun intended) and the Waltz is my favorite right now. I feel like I do not have to think as much before starting a new figure, and when things do not line up, we can recover nicely without missing a beat. Looking for photos to post on the blog today, I thought about the Waltz and came across this pro show from the Arthur Murray, Gaithersburg, Maryland studio.

Ballroom Dance professional show - ©TimeLine Media
Ballroom Dance professional show – ©TimeLine Media

Waltz Professional Show

This was a beautiful performance of a dance that can be relatable to everyone that is watching. Whether you have been dancing for 6 weeks or 6 years, you know how to dance the Waltz. The simple three beats and a basic box will get you through any requests to go out on the floor.

Waltz by Arthur Murray Gaithersburg - ©TimeLine Media
Waltz by Arthur Murray Gaithersburg – ©TimeLine Media
Waltz - Ballroom Dance - ©TimeLine Media
Waltz – Ballroom Dance – ©TimeLine Media

Overall, these two took a dance that everyone is familiar with and made it look effortless as they performed solo in front of all the students, their colleagues, judges, etc. This is a tough assignment for all the performers so when they can come out and nail their routine as if they were still in the practice studio with no one watching is outstanding! Everyone was applauded their effort, especially the enthusiastic students and staff from Gaithersburg. They showed their pride in their professionals, and I know they will have many great shows when they dance in future events.

Arthur Murray Gaithersburg Waltz Pro Show - ©TimeLine Media
Arthur Murray Gaithersburg Waltz Pro Show – ©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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