Salsa at Bikini Bar

Libing was appointed to run this event at sentosa every sat evening. xen bar will be conducting salsa classes free, for those who happen to be at bikini bar and coastes at siloso beach on saturdays. so last week, i went down with bangzhi to check it out.
Libing invited other friends too, according to him, he told quite a number of people but only a handful of us turned up, so if you are reading this, please bring some friends down to the bikini bar on sat to support our friend here!!
Actually, he has improved quite a lot in terms of his teaching skills, dun play play, he has been dancing every day and teaching every week you know!!

Since we were quite late, decided to have dinner at the bar itself, food was quite good, just a little expensive, 6 chicken wings for $16, and bangzhi had to shuttle between the dance floor and the table cos he wanted to learn as well as eat at the same time!!

Nearing the end of the session, he perspired so much that the dance partners had to try to siam his sticky and slimy shoulders, and according to him, the girls seems a little turned off by his sweat.. haha

Well done libing, and to the rest... remember to go support him if you can afford the time, bring all you friends along, he'll be happy to see you people there.

Boxing Day Performance

Went down to victoria theatre on boxing day with bingwei zhenhong jerine mingbao and jiehong to watch a performance by the guys from xen bar. and of course tickets were from libing!! he's really improving fast, from casual dancing to street performance to teaching of small classes, and then international competition and now full scale stage performance. all if just around a year. impressive

Went over to lao pa sat for supper after the performance, looking forward for more of his performances coming up!

SIM Bash

Sim held a bash at zouk, and bangzhi got tickets for us cos he was performing at the event.Saw bangzhi and the dancers at the entrance, preparing to go on stage to show what they have for us!! if i'm not wrong, they are all students at sim, and this is sim's own dance team...
Performance was great, full of energy and power.. we stayed throughout and watched the pageant, i left after the event while chiver, yutong and bangjie stayed on to club..
While i was about to leave, this girl came up to bangzhi and said she was from strait times, urban section, and wanted to interview him, cos they are featuring 1 hot guy and 1 hot gal every week.. and she finds bangzhi hot enough to get on the papers... embarassing part came when she asked him where he got the clothes and how much they were.. and he had to answer.. "they all belong to my brother."..

Salsa at Marina Square

Libing together with the guys from xen bar had a performance at marina square. and the photos i took are quite similar to the ones i posted on their past performances so i shall not post them this time.
During a break, this small kid actually walked up the stage and weanted to join the dancers, so they just played along and got him to dance a few steps on stage, absolutely sporting little kid.

After the performance, we went for lunch at azabu sabo, and i ordered my fav cold sabo again!! it's really good, you must go try it.. read it from my food blog.. and yes, libing walked around marina with his make up still on, even while he was having lunch...

Dirty Dancing?

21st Sept 2007

Met up with libing at xenbar again, they were having a party, quite a number of people turn up, i think it's all their students, free flow of lychee martini, and some performances from libing and gang. it's the same dance as what we saw previously (see here, and here, and here, and here) so i shall not post too much on the dance performance.. cos it's the same faces too...

This time, i got something interesting. i wonder what kind of dance this is... we gotta ask him.
Here's one of the 2 performances they did for the people who were present. really not easy to take photos of people dancing, cos they move very fast and the lighting is not very good there, luckily they had a powerful spotlight at the front. and the mirrors around the sides of the walls aren't helping, difficult to find a position where i won't catch the reflection from my flash.
As the music plays, everyone will look for a partner and find a nice spot on the dance floor to show what they have got. there are quite a few of them who dance pretty well..
And for people like me who know nuts about salsa, we can stand by the balcony for a fish eye view of the dancers, it's quite enjoyable to stand there and look at people dance too.

Salsa at Double O

Went down to double o bar last friday with bingwei to check out a dance performance by the xenbar guys. and of course i have a task, to take nice shots of libing in action.. Firstly we have libing with justin and yanqing
And here we have libing and more friends who went down to support him.
They performed a total of 2 dances, i didn't get good photos of everyone as the place was quite small and there wasn't a lot of space for me to move around. here are the better ones that i got from the preformances.There are more photos, interestings ones were taken when everyone was a little high.. but i won't be showing those here... and we can all see that libing has indeed improved from the last time we see him perform. on his way to becoming a pro dancer!!

Salsa Pro in Action

Libing performed at double o bar last friday on their invitation. ok not him alone, but the guys from xenbar... haha

I haven't got time to do up all the photos yet... so here's one of him first.. more to come in a few days time!!

More on Salsa

Following the preview at xenbar, libing and the rest of the dancers staged the same performance at tampines on sunday, this time round there was a much larger crowd watching as it was during a dance competition open for the public. generally i prefer the photos taken at the bar cos the lighting is warmer. but still, here are the photos from sunday (click on the images for a larger version)

Here's libing preforming the number he did for the competition he did in taiwanThe crowd loved the dance, probably because of the skimpy costumes worn by the dancers. there were some old men looking and cheering and whistling at them.. haha.. must be all the chee ko peks.. but on the whole, they did a good job in entertaining and drawing more crowd before the actual dance competition starts. we didn't stay for the competition though.

Together with mingbao jiehong and bingwei, we decided to go parkway, cos the parents-to-be wanted to check out kiddy palace as there's 20% storewide. and we had dinner at this steamboat place, apparently it's quite famous, there was a long queue, and it's not very cheap, at the basement foodcourt, mini steamboat delight, do not go there if you are expected good service, the staffs are generally quite rude and if you want to add soup, you gotta go do it yourself. all these at about $20 per person, ala carte, no buffet here.
Here's another update of jerard's development, i hope the person who requested for these updates do see it here... september is coming soon.. we'll all get to see jerard soon!! .. just 3 more months!!

Salsa @ Xenbar

If you could recall, i wrote about libing going overseas for a salsa competition some time back. finally, we get to see him dance, cos he's staging a performance with the rest of the dance team at his "school"
A nice cozy place situated at pagoda street in chinatown, xenbar offers dance classes or you can just buy and drink and sit at the bar while you watch the people dance salsa.

Libing was involved in a few dances that they were going to perform. i was expected a short performance cos how many dances can a few people remember? but i was surprised and thrilled when they staged more than 10 dances!! a feast for my camera.

Here are some of the shots i got of libing in action, he seems pretty cool for a person who only picked up dancing half a year ago, i'm really tempted to learn too, if clumsy libing can do it, it shouldn't be there difficult right?
Now for the rest of the performers.. among them all, one of the dancers was really captivating, apart from the powerful dance steps and beautiful posture she has, the expressions on her face really shows that she's enjoying every single bit of the dance, and eye contact with the audience was always there. to a photographer, you really want to capture the many faces of this dancer.
The dances were really entertaining, never knew salsa was this fun. here are a few of the other dancers, there were too many of them, i couldn't get photos of every single one, these are a few of the shots that i like.
It has been a busy weekend, so i need more time to prepare the photos from the second performance.. salsa anyone???