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"Sparkling...saucy...sexy"
Saturday evenings through February 14 |
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VALENTINE'S DAY DINNER Sorry, dinner is sold out. Limited day of show tickets available at the door |
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Tout de Suite, a Century Ballroom Cabaret! An evening of Salsa, Tango, Lindy Hop, Tap, and West Coast Swing performance. Century Ballroom's resident chorus girls, The Launchettes, will escort you through a titillating evening in Paris: delicious dance, live music by Nova Devonie and Diedre Pierson, mime by Scott Davis, and more. Those that have been to one of our cabarets know that we continue to entertain and surprise. If you've never been, then let us entertain you...and behold the spectacular! |
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Michelle Badion has been dancing her entire life, beginning with classical ballet, and has taught partner dancing full-time since 1990. She specializes in Argentine Tango, Salsa and West Coast swing. Michelle discovered Argentine Tango in 1993 and it was love at first sight. She knew this was her dance. She has performed and taught with Carlos Gavito, Fabian Salas, Manuel Ortiz, Daniel Lapendula and many others. She has spent over 15 weeks in Argentina studying from the best and continues her education here by attending tango festivals and taking private lessons from the traveling instructors. She is also a prolific producer of Tango performances, and has brought stage shows (five) and cabarets (14 to date) to Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and Hawaii. Michelle also loves Salsa. She was one of Seattle's first Salsa teachers in 1992 and is well known in the community. She has taught and judged at many of the Salsa congresses in the US and has taught and performed with Alex DeSilva, Enio Cordaba, Jose Neglia and may others. Michelle is still dancing and teaching salsa many nights of the week. |
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Alison Cockrill started official dance training at age four and graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in 1990. She was a founding member of "Swing This!", the Century Ballroom performance troupe, and has been teaching salsa at the Ballroom since 1999. Ms. Cockrill has performed in modern dance productions, nationally and internationally, with the Pat Graney Company and with choreographer Wade Madsen, since 1989. She gave up jazz dance after her appearance on "Star Search", in 1995 and the Cabaret is the closest she has been to performing in musical theater since her experience in the infamous "Hunchback"- (an original rock opera), in 1997. |
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W. Scott Davis is a Seattle-based performing artist whose solo performance style is influenced by a background in mime and contemporary dance. Scott was a co-founder of Loon Soup Physical Theater Troupe, a New Jersey company that performed and taught nationwide in the 1990's. He moved to Seattle to study law at the University of Washington but in 2000 joined Lingo dancetheater, a contemporary modern dance company under the direction of KT Niehoff. Davis has also collaborated with Seattle Mime Theater, Amii LeGendre, Cyrus Khambatta, Rob Kitsos and Aiko Kinoshita and has produced his own work in Seattle, New York, New Jersey, and Ecuador. He is on the faculty at the Northwest School in Seattle. |
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Nova Devonie is a busy Seattle musician. She can be heard at music
venues all around town in several bands, most notably "Miles and Karina", "Tom Bennett and the Rolling Blackouts", and "Jo Miller and
her Burly Roughnecks". All of these bands have independently produced recordings, with more in the works. Nova toured nationally for several years as accordionist and backup singer in the swingabilly cowgirl group "Ranch Romance". Since then she divides her time between performing, composing and teaching. Along with musical partner David Keenan of "Miles and Karina", she was commissioned in 2007 by the Northwest Film Forum to compose a new original score to the 1926 animated classic film "The Adventures of Prince Achmed". In addition to the world premiere of this score in January of 2008 at the NWFF Children's Film Festival, Nova and David have continued to perform the score live at a variety of venues across Canada and the USA. Besides appearing at live music venues, Nova has been part of several theatrical productions, including the 2007 Seattle Rep production of "A John Denver Holiday Concert", and the 2008 Book-It Theatre production of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". |
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Stefan Durham has been teaching Lindy Hop for a few years now, and he has won some stuff at a variety of Lindy Hop competitions, but none of that really means anything because the real issue at hand is his unflagging, lifelong love for and devotion to partnered jazz dance. Stefan likes dancing really fast and really slow. He likes Charlie Chaplin and the traditional dances of Guinea. He can do the Mill's Mess and a pretty sweet scorpion kick. And he likes syncopating his steps as he's walking down the street, all cool-like. Bethany Powell, a Maine native, was never "classically trained" but has found a haven in the dances of the proletariat. You know, getting down. She quietly achieved the threshold of Lindy Hop savvy in the Portland and DC scenes of the past few years and, having fared well in recent competitions throughout the country, would like to advert that she dominated three-legged-races as a child. Bethany is intrigued by the interplay of assertion and concession that makes for good cooperative art. She would rather dance to the hot hot jazz. In spite of herself, she's really beginning to enjoy choreographing and teaching choreography. |
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Deron Hayes has been an integral member of the Century Ballroom team since 2000, designing, teaching, performing and much, much more. Deron was introduced to social dance at age 14 while living in Munich, rediscovered her love for dance in college and hasn't looked back since. She has been performing with the Salsa Girls since 2002 and has been teaching since 2003. Besides dance, Deron's passions include martial arts, art, and getting to be a part of people's social dance journey. |
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Hallie Kuperman is the owner of the Century Ballroom and Restaurant & HaLo in Seattle WA. She has been teaching Lindy Hop and Swing dancing since 1991 and Salsa dancing since 1997. She was the co-director for Swing This!, a Lindy Hop performance troupe at Century Ballroom. She continues to teach, choreograph and perform whenever possible. Prior to opening Century Ballroom she ran Swing Girls, an organization dedicated to teaching gay, lesbian and non-homophobic people partner dancing. She will always appreciate the community's support, realizing that without it Century Ballroom would not have become the renowned dance club that it is today. |
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Ricki Mason (aka Lou Henry Hoover) directs The Launchettes, Century Ballroom's resident chorus girl troupe. The Launchettes are part of LAUNCH dance theater -- check it out at LAUNCHdancetheater. Ricki also teaches queer partner dance at Century Ballroom and ballet at Velocity Dance Center. |
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Northwest Tap Connection, formerly TTAAPP Central is a Seattle based urban youth rhythm tap dance company founded by the late Dr. Darrlyn Smith. The company is composed of young dancers age 14 to 19. Northwest Tap Connection is also the home of the Tapoholiks, winners of the Seattle 2004 Apollo Star Search. The Company's mission is to preserve and promote Rhythm Tap Dance through education and performances. These young artists have danced with tap legends such as the Nicholas Brothers, the late Buster Brown, Savion Glover, the late Gregory Hines, Jeni LeGon and Jimmy Slyde. The company's repertoire includes choreography by nationally acclaimed Diane Walker, Lane Alexander and Chester Whitmore. Dancers participate in yearly national tap festivals including travels to Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Steamboat Springs, and Washington, DC. Northwest Tap Connection is owned by Dr. Joseph Smith, and Melba Ayco serves as Program and Artistic Director Ms. Ayco is a Louisiana native and tap dance historian. She strives to incorporate the mood of "Down South" in the chorography performed by the Company. |
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Deidre D. Pierson is originally from Montreal, Quebec and is currently pursuing a degree in Music focusing in Vocal Jazz Performance at Cornish College of the Arts. She began singing in grade school musical productions and acquired her musical sensibility through the vocal oral tradition. Her musical influences now span the genres of jazz, urban-folk, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, world and Latin. She draws her vocal inspiration from the infamous legacies of Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, and Elis Regina and she enjoys paying tribute to their legacies by singing in their original languages of English, French and Portuguese. Deidre recently performed with the Greta Matassa Rhythm Section Workshop and in the Beth Winter Vocal Showcase at Tula's Restaurant and Nightclub. Since 2002, she has also enjoyed learning to Salsa dance as both a lead and follow through the lessons taught at the Century Ballroom. |
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Greg Rolnick and Lera Thompson are teaching the ever expanding vocabulary of Argentine Tango from the basics to the advanced creative process at the Century Ballroom in Seattle. Greg's early performance career in dance extends from ballet in San Francisco to modern dance performances throughout the US and Europe. Since 1997 he has studied Tango and danced extensively throughout the US, and parts of Europe. Lera has been dancing Tango since 2002. Among her first teachers are Fabian Salas, Mario Consiglieri, Cecilia Gonzalez and Luciana Valle. She has taken ballet and modern dance classes at University of Washington to improve her understanding of movement. Greg and Lera became partners in 2004 and have taught and traveled together since then. Together, they strive to improve their dancing and teaching skills by attending seminars in Europe and Buenos Aires every year. Among their most influential teachers are Sebastian Arce and Mariana Montes, Chicho Frumboli, Eugenia Parilla, Damian Rosenthal and Celine Ruis, Mario Consiglieri and Anabella Diaz-Hojman. |
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Jenna Bean Veatch, queen of go-go quirk, is a dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and ukulele songstress. She has taken on the roles of a magical fairy, a dancing doll, an anti-war dance demonstration organizer, and a Marshmallow Peep. In addition to performing her own work, she also currently dances for Ricki Mason and Walrus Dance Co. |
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Destiny Williams fell in love with salsa dance and Latin culture while volunteering for 17 months in Guatemala and El Salvador. Upon his return in 2002, he joined the Century 'family' and worked his way up to the top of the social salsa classes. Destiny performed in the 'Latin Cabaret' (2002). He is known on the dance floor for his playfulness and his relatively flexible hips- not bad for a 'gringo'. His love for sharing the gift of salsa music and dance has led him to teach for college dorm dances, wedding receptions, and in literally hundreds of living rooms and linoleum kitchens across the world. |
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This menu is in effect for all shows except Valentine's Day, 2/14. That night's special menu is below. Menu based on availability of ingredients and is subject to change. Roasted Vegetable / Marinated Vegetable Tray includes Olives, Beans and Grains Mixed Greens Salad with Corona Beans, Olive Salad, Red Wine Vinaigrette Chicken, Smoked Sausage and Roasted Vegetable Paella Brulee Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce Beverages not included. Dinner price includes tax and 15% gratuity.
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WHEN: Saturday Nights 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7 & 2/14 6:00pm Dinner (2/14 only) 7:30pm Tout de Suite 9:15pm Beginning Salsa Lesson (open to general public; 21+) 9:45pm Salsa (open to general public; 21+) PRICES: $25 for Tout de Suite, Beginning Salsa Lesson & Salsa Dancing $30 for Dinner add-on (2/14 only - SOLD OUT) $55 for Dinner, Tout de Suite, Beginning Salsa Lesson & Salsa Dancing (2/14 only - SOLD OUT) Because minors can't stay for the Salsa dance after Tout de Suite, they will receive a pass for free entry at one of our All Ages dances. Limited day of show tickets available at the door Have a group? Tout de Suite is great for parties! For group reservations, please email the Century Ballroom or call us at 206 324-7263. |