Click here and check out the Knicks City Dancers on SportsIllustrated.com!

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Click here and check out the Knicks City Dancers on SportsIllustrated.com! I’m on a little road trip. First stop Charlotte’s Time Warner Arena:
The Lady Cats and director Brandii McCoy were wonderful hosts and I had a fabulous time and tonight’s Bobcats-Clippers game. Photos coming next week!
Their mission? To take an active role in promoting the “up-and-coming” City of Brotherly Love, through the eyes and ears of the personalities of phillyin.com. The focus will be on setting the record straight about what Philly has to offer, while helping to cultivate and document this on-going transformation from “old school” caterpillar to “A-list” butterfly, and having a ton of fun along the way. Amber-Joi also has a post up about the upcoming Sixers Dancers Alumni performance scheduled for this Monday. Knicks City Dancer Dana began her dance training at age two with her first performance coming just one year later. She danced for most of her life at the world renowned Broadway Dance Center in Manhattan New York. At Lehigh University she continued to dance, becoming the university Dance Team’s choreographer the very first semester of her freshman year. She was Team Captain for three years and the team won a gold medal along with best hip hop and best precision at NYCDA with her original Choreography. After graduating with a BA in Behavioral Neuroscience, Dana began purusing a dance career full-time. She’s been an instructor for twelve years and have taught all ages and levels in hip hop, street Jazz, modern and ballet. She’s taught for Triple Essence Dance Studio (Brooklyn), Ronnie Clifford School of Dance (Bethlehem, PA), Elite Dancentre (Rockville Centre, NY), Oceaside Dance Conservatory (Oceanside, NY), Rider University, NYU, and the NJ Emerald’s Semi-pro team.
1. Behavioral Neuroscience is not a major most folks would associate with Dance. Why did you choose it? I wanted to take advantage of a unique program that Lehigh offered. Originally, I had intended on studying biology and I took neuroscience as an elective. I ended up being really good at it and finding it fascinating so I decided to stick with it. I chose not to study dance because I wanted to have a safety net outside of the entertainment industry. You never know what life has in store and god forbid I ever get injured I wanted a reliable degree to fall back on. I would have to say that of all the places I have danced that performing at Madison Square Garden, in my hometown New York, has been the most memorable. I am a New Yorker born and bred so it was the ultimate rush to get out there in front of all those fans and represent this great city. I love to travel and I have been blessed enough to travel around the world to some truly beautiful places. I have loved every place I have been and performed but there’s no place like home. 3. What sort of organizations or dance teams could benefit from having you as a Guest Choreographer? I do a lot of choreography for studios, university dance teams, competitions, semi-pro teams, pro-teams and dance conventions. I think I could work with any type of team or organization and make the experience beneficial. My choreography is completely original and ranges in style from hip hop to street jazz and everything in between. I have been a choreographer for a long time and teaching is something I love to do and as a choreographer I am a chameleon. So, I find that I can do great work for any dancers at any age or skill level because I adapt well to the needs of any organization. No matter what people that work with me are guaranteed to have a lot of fun. 4. What do you enjoy most about teaching/choreographing? 5. What have you got planned next? Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Right now I am doing a lot of big choreography jobs. I will be going on a countrywide tour beginning at the end of March in Baltimore working with teams and organizations all over America that will conclude with a major convention in Tampa in the fall. I plan on taking each day as it comes and performing and teaching as much as possible. This is my life’s work and I always feel blessed by every new opportunity. I plan to relocate to LA by the end of next year to try my luck on the west coast. In five years I will have achieved some more of my bigger performance goals and danced at some more big venues. I would like to have opened a studio on the east coast and still be blessed enough to perform and teach every day.
Tisiphani, a captain and three-year veteran, of the Bucks Energee! dance team, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her knee during practice last week. The injury will be keep her sidelined the remainder of the season. We wish Tisiphani a full and speedy recovery. The Orlando Magic Dancers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders made a joint appearance at ESPN: The Weekend, last month. And the FOX Orlando TV affiliate has quite a few photos of the two squads.
Lots of new photos of the Atlanta Hawks A-Town Dancers on SportsIllustrated.com. Click here to check ‘em out!
Executive producers Tyra Banks (“The Tyra Banks Show,” “America’s Next Top Model”) and Ashton Kutcher (executive producer of “Punk’d” and “Beauty and the Geek”) team up again to put their spin on beauty in Sin City. Five gorgeous females and five hot men will live together at Planet Hollywood Hotel while they compete (they think) to become the “Face of Vegas.” Unbeknownst to them, they’ll be deliberately challenged by moral situations to see if they really are kind, generous and compassionate and have what it takes to be truly beautiful inside and out. The women contestants are Amy Schmoldt, a 22-year-old bartender from New Brunswick, New Jersey; Erika Othen, a 25-year-old singer/cocktail waitress from Long Island, New York; Liz Parada, a 31-year-old model from Hollywood, Florida; Michelle Mozek, a 21-year-old dancer from Dallas, Texas; and Regina Villano, a 22-year-old teen pageant queen from Tabernacle, New Jersey. The men are Craig Francyzk, a 29-year-old retail manager from Winnipeg, Canada; David Palmer, a 24-year-old DJ/astrologer from Huntington Beach, California; JD Scott a 26-year-old real estate agent from Los Angeles, California; Michael Allen, a 25-year-old actor/model from Miami, Florida; and Taylor Bills, a 24-year-old former professional athlete from Irvine, California. The attractive contestants assume they’re being judged solely on their physical attributes when, in fact, the episodes will showcase two sides of each person, one that displays outer beauty as well as one that exhibits inner beauty. One person will be eliminated each week based on their behavior and how well they ranked in each challenge, as they’re evaluated and critiqued by the judges. At the end of eight episodes, one winner will be declared who has successfully demonstrated both inner and outer beauty. That winner will receive a $100,000 cash prize and a feature article in People magazine. Hey, haven’t we seen this before? by Katie Engelhart
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