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		<title>**Wow, we did it again**</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congrats! You won The Book Excellence Award! Dear Brigitt, It is with great pleasure to announce that you have been selected as a Book Excellence Award Winner for the following book and category: Book Title: Ballroom Icons Category: Arts and Entertainment There were hundreds of entries from around the world and your book was selected for its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballroom History Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t miss my video on the Ballroom history with an All Star Cast of Ballroom Champions Thanks go to my wonderful and enthusiastic cast that made this once in a lifetime History Show-Experience possible Order of appearance Opening number dance: Allemande   Opening cast Maurizio Veskovo and Andra Vaidilaite Francis Lafrenier and Claudia Primeau Kamil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whats New</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven’t been here for quite some time…being busy with other things forgetting my own blog My biggest baby in the past was of course my DanceArchives page…I posted that here, so no news really. http://www.dancearchives.net/2017/02/22/how-do-elite-athletes-conquer-their-nerves/ Now also serving on Canada’s National Dance Board NDCC time is even more limited. But do not despair, I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hockeystick    By Barry Gasson</title>
		<link>https://www.ballroomicons.com/blog/?p=593</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another fundamental figure in Cha-Cha-Cha and Rumba is the Hockey Stick Fan and Alemana, Fan and Hockey Stick. are the two commonly known movements, but where the Alemana can be taken from other positions than Fan Position, the Hockey Stick can only be taken from Fan Position. Aha! Gotcha! I hear you cry. “The book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who was Josephine Bradley MBE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from Ballroom Icons    © Brigitt Mayer-Karakis Josephine Bradley dancing with Frank Ford Josephine, “Jo” was affectiontely called the “first lady” of ballroom dancing. Those who were privileged to know her, remember her as one of the great personalities of ballroom teachers. Josephine Bradley, Victor Silvester and Phyllis Haylor were the key players who founded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dance detectives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alison Gallagher-Hughes hears from Brigitt Mayer-Karakis about the World Dance Council’s attempts to put history at our fingertips. Click the link below, to read the full article The_Dance_Detectives]]></description>
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		<title>The waltz  BY © Zoë Anderson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Print from Curt Sachs’ “World History of the Dance”  This article first appeared in a series called Perfect 10 in Dance Today (www.dance-today.co.uk) The waltz is one of the oldest of ballroom dances. Across its long history, this dance has been both scandalous and sweetly nostalgic, always associated with romance. The obvious characteristics of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And all of a sudden its Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There might be a dance-nut in an area near you. Ballroom Icons limited, numbered collectors edition is a perfect gift for your teacher, student or a family member. Your Ballroom Icons team]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Dance — A lecture by Brigitt Mayer, as presented at the Blackpool Congress</title>
		<link>https://www.ballroomicons.com/blog/?p=491</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report by Philip Nicholas for Dance Beat (USA) Over the years there have been many interesting lectures at Blackpool. But over all the years I have been there I do not remember one about the history of our dances. History has always been very interesting to me, so when my dear friend Brigitt Mayer-Karakis told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Congress 2012 ‘Let Your Body Talk’…part three by Jack Reavely</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brigitt Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  “Day One: Brigitt Mayer  History of Dance: One of my own favorite subjects is the History of Dance and Brigitt must have spent so many hours studying and then arranging this lecture which covered such a spectrum of dance, over so many years that the only way it could be utterly appreciated is to [...]]]></description>
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