FOR NOV8TH & FOREVER

 

"Ich bin ein Berliner": June 26th, 1963... 5 months before he was shor.

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STARS AND STRIPES BALLET

Choreography: George Balanchine

While originally created in 1958, Balanchine's grand, patriotic ballet has been staged at the Kennedy Center specifically as a monumental tribute to President Kennedy's love for American culture and artistic expression.

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FOR NOV8TH 1👉6

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From Nov 8th 1960 to Jan 21th 1961

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CALUM'S RISE

👢👠📝: Colin Ghis

A STORY TOLD

👢👠📝: Kate Sala

BABY BLUES CHA

👢👠: Simon Ward & Shane McKeever

LEANING ON

👢👠📝:Alison Johnstone , Jo Kinser  & Joshua Talbot  

5 DIVAS

👢👠📝: Miguel Belloque Vane , Kate Sala, Michelle Risley,

Esmeralda van de Pol & Gregory Danvoie

DOUBLE UP

👢👠📝: Amy Glass & Darren Bailey

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DEEPER

👢👠📝: Gregory Danvoie

DNA

👢👠📝: Tim Johnson,

José Miguel Belloque Vane & Jean-Pierre Madge

DON'T CLICK PLAY

👢👠📝:  Guillaume Richard,

Chris Jacques & Debbie Rushton

CUANDO ME ENAMORO

👢👠📝: Raymond Sarlemijn (NL) & Colin Ghys

BODY & SOUL

👢👠📝: Gary O'Reilly

HEAD OVER FEET

👢👠📝: Maddison Glover

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FALLIN'IN LOVE

👢👠📝:  Gary O'Reilly & Maggie Gallagher

GIANTS

👢👠📝: Gudrun Schneider

GIDDY UP GET DOWN

👢👠📝: Simon Ward & Maddison Glover

HAPPIER

👢👠📝: Maggie Gallagher

DROWNING IN YOUR DEEP

👢👠📝: Daniel Trepat

FEVER DREAM

👢👠📝: Karl-Harry Winson

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YOU'LL KNOW MY NAME

👢👠📝: Niels Poulsen

KUMBAYA

👢👠📝: Maggie Gallagher

LIQUOR TALKING

👢👠📝: Maddison Glover

LOVE ME TO HEAVEN

👢👠📝: Gregory Danvoie & Guillaume Richard

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WE PRAY

👢👠: Esmeralda van de Pol & Guillaume Richard

S.T.F.U. 

👢👠: Ryan Hunt

MY LITTLE BABY

👢👠: Esmeralda van de Pol & Kate Sala

NOT AT THIS PARTY

👢👠: Gary O'Reilly

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MERCY

👢👠: Maggie Gallagher

OVERGROWN

👢👠: Fred Whitehouse

HEAR IT FROM ME

👢👠: Darren Bailey

RIGHT FOOT FIRST

👢👠: Fred Whitehouse

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ORBIT

👠👢📝:  Mike Liadouze & Daniel Trépat

BRINGING IT BACK

👠👢📝: Fred Whitehouse

SLOW MOTION

👠👢📝:  Grace David, Roy Verdonk & Jef Camps

SMOOTH INTENTION

👠👢📝:  Virginie Semo & Jean-Pierre Madge

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SODA POP

👠👢📝: Virginie Semo

SPACE IN MY HEART

👠👢📝: Gary O'Reilly & Maggie Gallagher

STICKS & STONES

👠👢📝: Maddison Glover, Simon Ward & Niels Poulsen

CUP OF JOY

👠👢📝: Hayley Wheatley

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FOR NOV8TH END

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🏖TAKE ME TO THE BEACH🏖

👠👢📝:  Debbie Rushton, Gregory Danvoie, Mike Liadouze & Guillaume Richard

🔑THE KEYS🔐

👠👢📝: Fred Whitehouse & Shane McKeever

🌊TIDE IS HIGH

👠👢📝: Mark Furnell, Chris Godden & Esmeralda van de Pol

LOVE OF DANCE

👠👢📝: Fred Whitehouse, Tim Johnson & Jean-Pierre Madge

WRECKAGE

👠👢📝: Fred Whitehouse (IRE) & Shane McKeever

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FOR NOV8TH HIGH HOPES

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HIGH HOPES

👠👢📄: Debra Donaldson

📚BOOKS-WHARFING ON SEINE RIVERBANKS🏞

 

It’s already November... 

Forty years ago, November 1986... 

I landed in Paris for one month... 

It was colder than usual in mid-fall... 

This song I wrote is autobio❣️

MY LYRICS

Title of the Song: 

Books-Wharfing on Seine Riverbanks

Walking along River Seine bents
My heart still in pain and no ends
Looking for any precious bead
And again beating sounds in my head

It was in a freezing morning
Of November, or at evening
Then so young was my achy heart
And I felt so lone and apart

Like flyin' she walked as an elf
She headed I don't know to where
I just followed her ev'rywhere
Suddenly she gazed a bookshelf

She leafed books on choreographers
And one about Joel Hall Dancers
So I thought she was a dancer
Then we glanced at one another

She was freezing cold... shivering
I wore jeans and a short sleev' T-Shirt
She kept her gloved hands close girt
Looking to me, I was beaming

She asked kindly where I came from
I said "Calgary is my home"
In a bistro we had a coffee-cream
Since then, we’re living a lovers’ dream

Title of the Dance: 

Riverbanks Encounters

Title of the dance:
RIVERBANKS ENCOUNTERS

Choreographer: DJ John HITTHEROAD
Music: Books-Wharfing on Seine Riverbanks
Rythm: Country-Jazz
BPM: + 100
AI-Cover on John HITTHEROAD's Lyrics

Level: Easy Improver
32-count
2 walls
No tag, No restart
Weight on left foot
Start with lyrics

SECTION  1
¹ ² ³ ⁴ Jazz box ¼ turn right facing 3 o' clock
Cross right foot over left foot
Left foot behind turning it 45 degree to the right
Right foot near left foot
Assemble: facing 🕒 (3. o'clock); wolf

⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ Rocking chair
Rock right foot forward
Recover on left foot
Rock right foot backward
Recover on left foot

SECTION  2
¹ ² ³ ⁴ Marche: step forward (x4)
Right foot forward
Left foot forward
Right foot forward
Left foot forward

⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ Back marche: step backward (x4)
Right foot forward
Left foot forward
Right foot forward
Left foot forward

SECTION  3
¹ ² ³ ⁴ Rocking chair
Rock right foot forward
Recover on left foot
Rock right foot backward
Recover on left foot

⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ Monterey ¼ turn right facing 6 o' clock
Point right foot to the right with a ¼ turn right
Left foot near right foot
Point left foot to the left
Right foot near left foot

SECTION  4
¹ ² ³ ⁴ Weave left
Cross right foot before left foot
Pose left foot near right foot
Cross right foot behind left foot
Together

⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ Jazz box
Cross right foot over left foot
Left foot behind turning it 45 degree to the right
Right foot near left foot
Assemble

Dance again since the beginning.

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Ha! Ha, Ha... Halloween🎃👻

HALLOWEEN ICED SCREAMS

📄✍️Lyrics: Jack himself... me,  J LW LeQueux

🎼Music: Gemini on my prompt

🗣🎙: Gemini on my specs

Title of the song: 

Halloween Iced Screams

It was in eighteen seventy three
The temperature was twenty three

It was a freezing cold friday
Two Chicago kids took their sleigh

And they started their Treat or Trick
Tour that should have been pretty quick

But 'bout future nobody know
Especially under the snow

When suddenly appear a field
Of tens jack-o' lantern who squealed

And their screams hovered the full sky
While Jack Skellington scream'd a cry

But 'bout future nobody know
Especially under the snow

Suddenly straight from Egypt Land
Mummy was singing with her band

Boys, don't you see the growing glow?
What's happening abov' the snow?

Wahoo: it was raining goodies!
All poured down by giant hoodies...

But 'bout future nobody know
Especially under the snow

🕺👢💃👠📄: STEPSHEET

by Jack himself (me: J LW LeQueux)

⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️

Title of Dance : "Halloween Iced Screams"
Music:
Country Song: "Halloween Iced Screams"
By Gemini AI
Level: Beginner
32-count
2-wall
Start with lyrics
Don't stop dancing on music
No tag, no restart

SECTION 1:
- ¹ ² ³ ⁴  Jazz Box ¼ turn right
- ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸  Rocking Chair
SECTION 2
- ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Skate (x4)
- ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ Run run back (x2)

SECTION 3
- ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Rumba box
- ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ Toe Strut ¼ turn right, toe strut

SECTION 4
- ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Toe strut back (x2)
- ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ Run run forward

Dance again until the end of the song.

🕺👢💃👠📄: STEPSHEET ON COPPERKNOB

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AND NOW,

🎃A real frightening choreo🎃

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...with the 🩸bloodcurdling🩸 @Ad...damned...

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

👢☠️👢📝: Dolly Kingsley

👻📽🎓👨‍🏫: Vide👼teach by Miguel Angel Sastre

BLUE BLUES BLUESA NOVA

 "Blue Blues Bluesa Nova" is a trilogy of songs using the same lyrics I wrote.

 I used 5 of my haikus — ultra-short verses to express a mood, a moment, a remembrance or a just a chant — to  create a piece of lyrics of 5 verses.

Based on the resulting lyrics, the possible rythmics could be:

¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶
or
¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸
⁴ and ⁸ = [silence]

Here's the lyrics:

LYRICS: OUR BLUE DREAMS

Haiku 1
One million years it seems

Haiku 2
Have gone by since we shared

Haiku 3
Our blue dreams [long silence]

Haiku 4
But I'll hold you again

Haiku 5
There won't be any sad days...

THREE SONGS FOR THE SAME LYRICS

My feelings were that the song(s) should reflect the untemporality invoked by the lyrics. Then I defined for each one of the songs I wished: the tempo, the bpm, the genre etc... in order to make three prompts for Gemini.

Then, my intention is to place the song in three successive periods of time of the history of Chicago, since the end of the 19th Century until nowadays.

Prompt 1:

• period: at the beginning of the 20th Century (1890-20s)

• rythm : Waltz

• instruments: Grand Piano with orchestral intro

BLUE WALTZ LONGAGO

Prompt 2:

• period : Chicago Jazz/Blues... between (1920-60s)

• rythm : Blues

• instruments: 🎷🎹🎸🥁

BLUES DOWNTOWN CHI

Prompt 3:

• period: Chicagoan Bossa Nova (starting mid-60s)

• instruments:  🎷🎹🎸🥁

CHICAGO BLUESA NOVA

&... Now: Dance❣️

👢👢📃:UNDER👷‍♀️🚧👷‍♂️

SPECIAL... SPECIAL...SPECIAL... POSTAB 1

Jonas, baby whale, says: My day is March 23rd!

COCO NA NA

👢👢📃: Alison Johnstone & Joshua Talbot

🐤STRUMMINGBIRD🐥

👢👢📃: Maddison Glover

SIXTEEN NUMBER

👢👢📃: Fabienne Goulais 

Videoteach: 📽🎓🕸

WINGS TO FLY

👢👢📃: Lai, Hayley Wheahley

COUNTRY GIRL LIKE YOU

👢👢📃: Daniel Trepat

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SPECIAL... SPECIAL... SPECIAL... POSTAB 2

SHIMMER

👢👢📄: Michelle Wright

A LITTLE DREAM

👢👢📄: Guillaume Richard

CANDY SHOPPIN

👢👢📄: Guillaume Richard

CHASING THE WIND

👢👢📄: Bruno Morel

CLAYMORE SHUFFLE

👢👢📄: Guillaume Richard

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SPECIAL... SPECIAL... SPECIAL... POSTAB 3

 

I LOVE THAT DANCE

👢👢📃: Tim Gauci

TURN THIS TOWN

👢👢📃: Maddison Glover & Jo Thompson Szymanski

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ROLLING STONE🌊💎

👢👢📃: Maddison Glover & Gary O'Reilly

KISS MY GLASS👄🍸 Maggie

👢👢📃: Maggie Galagher

KISS MY GLASS👄🍷 Karl-Harry

👢👢📃: Karl-Harry Winson

FOLLOW TIL THE END

👢👢📃: Maggie Gallagher

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OCTOBER: ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

 THE ITALIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE

COLUMBUS DAY 2026 OCT 12TH

Christopher Columbus was the 2nd European Shipmaster to land on the shores of the New World... almost 500 years, after Leif Eriksen.

Then, for two centuries, came other explorers who left their names to many places:

– First of all, of course, is Amerigo Vespucci whose first name was given to the New Continent (America!)

– Then, Verrazano who left his name to a bridge of NYC 

– And also Giovanni Cabotto... John Cabot for the King of England, Jean Cabot for the King of France...

Their common point is that they sailed for the kings of Spain, France or England... but never for "Italy" because Italy was not a Kingdom but it was divided in powerful cities-republics like Genoa or Venice, and... puny tiny kingdoms.

MASSIVE ITALIAN IMMIGRATION

It was not before late 19th Century that massive Italian immigration started further to the economical situation of the new re-unified Kingdom of Italy.

ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE

 IN SONGS MUSIC & DANCE

Although it was "late", considering that the Italian explorers took a major part in the early exploration of the New World, this immigration gave to America major artists recognized worldwide.

The posts of this Blog contains already many songs and music of members of the famous Franky's Rat Pack. We can also add other major artists, like:

- Madonna (Song: Medellin /Dance: The Sphinx)

- Nancy Sinatra (Summer Wine/Angel's Kiss)

- Liza Minelli

- and many others❣️

THE SPHINX

(coached by my 💔Agnès💘)

👢👢📃: on Copperknob

🗣🎙: Madonna (Medellin)

ANGEL'S KISS

👢👢📃: Harry Heng on Copperknob

🗣🎤🗣🎙: Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

NEW YORK NEW YORK

👢👢📃: Andre Adhitama Rizal on Copperknob

🗣🎙: Lisa Minnelli New York NewYork

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HOWDI, COWBOY! PLEASE YODEL ME A SONG!

 Hallo, Cowboy! Bitte Jodl mir ein Lied...

This article will dig into the legacies of German speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and also other Allemanic regions of Europe like Alsace and Lorraine in France, Lombardy in Italy et many other places) to the domains of music, songs and dances in America and their contributions both to the entertainment industry and to all sub-domains related to Country and Western hobbies.

Unlike the peoples of the countries that colonized North American lands — I mean England, Spain, France, Holland, Portugal — the whole german-speaking population who settled there were immigrants, while among the others were colonists, merchants, soldiers, Royal Civil Servants and of course migrants for some of them.

As in my Blog and Website there should be music, songs and dances all time, let's listen to:

SHE TAUGHT ME TO YODEL

👣📋: John Warnars