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Letter from GermanyJune 3rd, 2009 Sehr geehrte Frau Mayer! Am Freitag habe ich Ihr Buch erhalten! Muss Ihnen ein großes Lob aussprechen — habe es inzwischen schon oft zur bloßen Freude durchgeblättert und bereits viele Porträts gelesen; ich bin wirklich begeistert! Sie haben ein wundervolles Werk der Erinnerung und ein eindrucksvolles Statement für die Historie und die Wurzeln des Tanzsports geschaffen, mein Kompliment. Alexander Huber, Germany Note from Dance TodayJune 2nd, 2009 Hello Brigitt I have just recieved a copy of the book — what an amazing publication. Thank you. Katie Gregory, editor Dance Today View Dance Today article (1Mb PDF file) Bryan Allen’s Blackpool launch speechMay 27th, 2009 We were especially pleased to have Bryan Allen speak at Blackpool on behalf of the book Ballroom Icons. Here is what he said at the launch party:
Ladies and Gentlemen: Our reasons for being here tonight are four in number. We come to launch this most remarkable book. We come to honour those icons no longer with us — our pioneers, whose incredible contribution to the world of dancing has got us to where we are today. We come here, as some of the icons still making a significant contibution to the wonderful world of dance. Very importantly, we come here to congratulate and to thank a quite remarkable Lady. I have been involved in the production and publication of a number of books relating to our dance world and I fully recognize the great effort, the work, the dedication and the struggle such projects entail. I pay her a personal and sincere tribute in the foreword I was invited to write in the book; Ladies and Gentlemen, for HER superb contribution to the world of dance, please let us salute and thank Brigitt Mayer. Bryan Allen, President of the British Dance Council A word from the editorJune 16th, 2008
Ballroom’s nature is perennial. It carried on during the Great Depression with paying clients, survived in the ‘psychedelic’ 70’s and the Disco craze and has given us scores of gifted people with fascinating and often funny stories. Today throughout the world, millions of enthusiasts experience the joy of ballroom dancing. But who are the men and women who brought this about? Who are the icons of ballroom dancing? What are their stories? We lose more and more of those who remember the roots of ballroom dancing with its emotional, colorful and almost hedonistic nature. Brigitt Mayer, the author of Ballroom Icons, has been intrigued and passionate about preserving and recording the history of ballroom dancing before it is lost forever. Born and educated in the Rhineland, Germany’s dancing ‘hub’, she began her career at age 16. Due to her innovative and creative approach to ballroom dancing, she received an invitation to perform at Britain’s prestigious Albert Hall. She lives in Canada, teaches and adjudicates worldwide and had the opportunity and the skill to research and write Ballroom Icons. Her book, Ballroom Icons with its archival and exquisite original photographs, documents the lives of the men and women who personify ballroom dancing. |
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Ballroom dancing has its roots in the first decade of the 20th century, one of the most accelerated in history. Ballroom’s longevity and resurgent popularity in the 21st century is owed to men and women who, were and are, passionate, talented, benevolent and clever.