Author: David Mallabone
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Casting Session for 2012 Season Attracts New Talent
Over 50 dancers attended the XS 2012 Casting session held on Monday 9th January at Milton Community Centre. The dancers represented a wide range of abilities from complete beginners in Latin American dance to very experienced competitors.
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XS Latin A and B Team Casting Session for the 2012 Season
The 2012 season will see XS Latin A dancing a very exciting new routine and XS Latin B building on their Cabaret programme. Castings for both teams for the new season will take place on Monday 9th January at Milton Community Centre from 20:20 to 22:20. Dancers aged from 15 to 40 are welcome to…
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Zuvedra wins the 2011 World Latin Formation Championships
On December 2nd 2011, XS Latin A team flew to Vilnius in Lithuania for the 2011 World Latin Formation Championships. The anticipation for this competition had been building for several months: the host team had prepared very hard for the competition but were to face stiff competition from the 2010 World Champions, Vera, from Russia…
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XS Latin Dancesport Training group commences Thursday
XS Latin will be starting its own Latin Dancesport Training group from Thursday 13th October 2011. This is open to everyone! More information, costs and directions in Dancesport Training
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XS B move to new regular training venue
XS B Team has moved training venues to a larger hall and will now be training regularly at Cottenham Village College Sports Centre on Thursdays from 1830 to 2000. If you would like to come along and find out more about what we do then please visit us or contact David Mallabone. To find our…
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XS B Team First Training Session!
XS B Team held its first training session tonight, which was attended by about 30 eager people! The team will be dancing a brand new routine to the music of the Broadway musical Cabaret and are aiming to be ready for competition by the end of the year. Anyone interested in joining or finding out…
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
2010 – 2011A trip to the theatre in London in Autumn 2009 for several members of the team, which resulted in one member enthusiastically taking to the stage (and struggling to find his way off!), provided the inspiration for XS Latin’s 9th routine, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
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Night Fever
2010 – 2011After Hairspray, the XS Juniors were looking for a new and exciting challenge and so the coaches decided to give them the routine with which XS Latin adult team had won its third British National title in 2008 – Night Fever. The routine, featuring songs like You Should Be Dancing, Staying Alive and How Deep Is Your Love,…
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Night Fever
2008 – 2009The inspiration for this, XS Latin’s 8th themed routine, was the London stage production of Saturday Night Fever, which played at the London Palladium and was choreographed by Arlene Philips. One of the team members, along with her sister, displayed a worrying devotion to the production, having seen it on stage several times, and, after…
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On Broadway
2007Taking its inspiration from some of the classic musicals of the 1960s and 1970s, On Broadway aimed to capture the feeling of the Broadway or West End theatre land.