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VIDEO Medley: Dancing With Geneva Stars 2012 Greatest Hits
Two things: Fantastic show. Get your tickets early next year.
A few things about the attached video:
(1) It's way too long—more than 5 minutes. We're only supposed to run videos that are 2 minutes or less, but I couldn't resist leaving in extra moments for each set of dancers.
(2) For the most part, these are video clips of the practice sessions. I made the tactical mistake of video for the practice sessions and photos for the dance performances. As I noted in a couple earlier stories, the dancers really upped their games for the actual Saturday night performances.
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(3) Beth (Bales) Olson's face on Saturday night was beaming so brightly people in the audience actually sighed in unison—and I didn't capture the Saturday Night high beams on full power. (I curse myself for not saving the video for the show. I'm sorry, Beth and Steve!)
(4) It's a little bait-and-switchy. By that, I mean I framed the practice sessions with some video from the Saturday night show ceremony. So you'll see Mayor Kevin Burns' intro and drum-roll-please announcements and the final bows of the full cast ... but the actual dancing is from the afternoon practice.
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(5) It's shaky and ameteurish videography.
With all those provisos said, I'm presenting it anyway, so that you can get a little flavor of the variety, artistry and difficulty of the dances. And if you weren't there, just a little glimpse at the show.
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The performers are, in order:
- Michael & Heidi Jacoby — Tango
- Art & Connie Wagner — Fox Trot
- Jim & Maureen Radecki — Salsa
- Steve & Beth Olson — Waltz
- Eric & Kari Bartel — Cha-Cha
- Laura Rush & Derek Swanson — Jive