This report is being written a little late due to my two week August celebration with my wife Kathryn which included both the JUDY CHEN directed WOW! event in Parsippany, NJ and the AMERICAN MASTER’s event in Las Vegas, Nv., both of which had event coordinators JAMIE and BARNEY MARSHALL using their expert event coordinating experience to create a fun atmosphere for the many NEWLINE line dancer’s that attended both events.
It was good to see sixteen year old foreign exchange high school student SOPHIE from Germany, who has only been in the states since August 12th., dancing to both Guyton’s SHAKE and Jamie’s WITH YOU FOREVER with very good movements during her travels with Jamie and Barney to both of the above events. Having Jamie and Barney as designated parents for a full school year is like winning a fun time USA traveling jackpot experience with a bundle of moral, character and judgement direction information that will remain with her for a lifetime when she returns to Germany.
After completing this report about the WOW! and mowing my lawn which looks like a “hay field” after my prolonged traveling time, I will write more about the American Master”s event latter today or tomorrow.
For this WOW! report, I will try not to give redundant information that was already presented last week via the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday newsletter by two of our great WOW event instructors, Rona Kaye (New York City), and Forty Arroyo (Sturbridge, Ma). Plus, Robert DeLong who had his fun interesting and “future hit new dance” LESS COMPLICATED presented by Scott Blevins, Barbara from New Jersey, and the Wow Line Dance Spectacular NJ report. All of these “write ups” reflected the fun well directed and coordinated activities that took place during the WOW!
Thanks Judy for creating this WOW weekend for us line dancers. The large applause that you received from the line dancers after the show is an example of the appreciation and respect us line dancers have for you’re being brave enough to take a “they will come” chance in order for a dream line dance event to take place in New Jersey.
This WOW! LINE DANCE SPECTACULAR event, as mentioned in the WOW step sheet book, was Judy’s farewell party to the United States line dance community and her new beginning in China. Before, leaving for Shanghai, Judy traveled to Las Vegas for the American Master’s. Hopefully, she will fly back to an event now and then in the future, and be part of making the WOW! grow into a large annual New Jersey event. Good luck Judy with all of your future adventures. We will definitely miss you.
The WOW! Event Schedule, which included three nights of early start time open dancing with a majority of NEWLINE intermediate and advanced dancers made this an “extra fun” dance event for me. DJ’s Alan Kohn, DJ Jam and “Hot Pepper” did a great job of managing the request list for this elite crowd of line dancers.
LINE DANCE NEWS FLASH: During Max Perry’s teach of Bailey and Poulsen’s “With These Eyes” at the WOW! he announced his new idea called “MASH UP”. Once a month Max is going to take two popular dances and create a music CD that combines the dances together. This month the mashed together selections are “With These Eyes” and Noel Castle’s dance “Amazing”. This was a fun dance experience for me, and I am looking forward to not only dancing to this first “MASH UP 1” once again, but to each of Max’s future “MASH UP” monthly selections.
APPROXIMATE PLAYLIST:
FROM CAROL’s Sept. 03 Survey(Top Down): Keep On Dancing, Bosa Nova, It’s Up to You, Simplemente, Heartbreaker, Hey! People, Breakfree Cha, Cute Cute Cute, S.O.U.L. Steppin, Go Grease Lightning, Kill the Spidders, Walk Back to Me, Hips, Juicy, Red Dress, Come Tomorrow, Rio, Ain’t No Other, Helluva Polka, East to West, Geek in the Pink, Mr. Pinstripe, Come Into My World, I Scream, Leaving of Liverpool, Together Forever, All That I Am, Fantabulous, Larger Than Life, Batter Up, Be Strong, Kowboy Crazy, With These Eyes, After Party, Candyman, Syncopated Kiss, Bop the B, Cold Hard Cash, Drop the Heat, Holding a Dream, Keep it Burning, Soul to Soul, Caught in the Act, Just a Matter of Time, Promiscuous, Pump It, Start a Love Train, Talk About It, Bombshel Stomp, Come Dance With Me, Dreams of Martina, Drivin’ Me Crazy, Happy Hour, Holding Back the Ocean, Jailhouse Creole, Meltdown, Shake Yourself Loose, The Way, Trust Me, Black Eyed Samba, Booty Check, Bored 2 Tears, Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Diver Sity, I’m Moving On, No Regets, Porcelanosa, Soft & Slow, Buttons, Can’t Stop the River, Careless Whisper, Chill Factor, Crabbuckit, Get it While it’s Hot, Have Fun Go Mad, I Am Afraid, Irish Stew, Just For Tonight, Less Complicated, Monkeying Around, Now or Never, Pitter Patter, Raindrops for Perfidia, Replay, Secrets, Shake, Sqeaky Clean, Start to Sway, Stitched Up, Street Soul, Suds in the Bucket, Syncapated Love, Together We Are One, Trippin’, Twisted, Whatever Happens, With You Forvever.
DANCES NOT ON CURRENT SURVEY: (Excluding Taught Workshop Dances) Friction Addiction, Amazing, This Little Light, Basha, Time to Play, You Can Dance, Back Street Attitude, Destination Dance Floor, Energy, Venus, One Night With You, Get You’re Dream, Atlantis, Party Time, Sho Enough, Hosa Cuevo, Soul & Fire, Going All the Way, Tush Push, Electric Slide, Cool Whip, The One For Me, Miller Magic, Playa, Swamp Thing, Power Surge, Swing You’re Chains, Ave Maria, Clouds in the Sky, Por Te Siera, Just a Kiss, Overload, Hola, TGIF.
Thanks, again Judy for being the director of such a special event, to Jamie & Barney for fine tunnig the activities. Plus, a big thank you to all the helpers, the amazing group of popular instructors Max, Simon, Rona, Pepper, Kathy, Jamie, Guyton, Scott, Forty, John, Barry & Daristo Anne, Peter & Alison. And, finally cheers to the Dj’s Alan, “Hot Pepper” and DJ Jam.