Before, during and now after the conservatorship that oversaw her life for 13 years, the pop star has used dance to assert her power and connect with her audience.

With her expansive arm gestures, rapid-fire turns and abdominal dexterity, Spears has always used dance to communicate her strength. Brian Friedman, the choreographer responsible for some of Spears’s most famous routines, noted that there was a visible change in her approach to dancing after the conservatorship was put in place in 2008.

“I feel like that was her way of being able to be in control of something, because she didn’t have control over so much,” Friedman said in a phone interview. “So by being able to step into the studio and say ‘I don’t want to do this, I want to do this, I’m going to make up my own thing,’ it gave her some kind of power.”

-from the NY Times, by Madison Mainwaring

https//www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/arts/dance/geothermal-body-heat-glasgow-nightclub.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§iondance

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/well/move/health-benefits-dancing.html

Hey, I will be dancing a Cha-Cha with my partner Amanda on Dec. 11 at DIR, and on Dec. 18 during the SDS Winter Showcase in Woodbridge, CT. Come on out to see us. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/arts/dance/nutcracker-new-york-city-ballet.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Dance

There ain't no gold in this river

That I've been washin' my hands in forever

I know there is hope in these waters

But I can't bring myself to swim

When I am drowning in this silence

Baby, let me in

Go easy on me, baby

I was still a child

Didn't get the chance to

Feel the world around me

I had no time to choose

What I chose to do

So go easy on me

There ain't no room for things to change

When we are both so deeply stuck in our ways

You can't deny how hard I have tried

I changed who I was to put you both first

But now I give up

Go easy on me, baby

I was still a child

Didn't get the chance to

Feel the world around me

Had no time to choose

What I chose to do

So go easy on me

I had good intentions

And the highest hopes

But I know right now

That probably doesn't even show

Go easy on me, baby

I was still a child

I didn't get the chance to

Feel the world around me

I had no time to choose

What I chose to do

So go easy on me

Peter Jackson’s documentary series “The Beatles: Get Back,” a seven-hour-plus project that will be shown in three parts on Disney Plus from Nov. 25 to 27

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/arts/music/beatles-get-back-peter-jackson.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-time-cutoff-20&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=666725245&impression_id=0c508a5b-42ed-11ec-accd-595fb9f8f8f7&index=2&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1®ion=footer&req_id=96358575&surface=eos-most-popular-story&variant=3_bandit-all-surfaces-time-cutoff-20

Amanda and I will perform a Cha-Cha at DIR, 19 S. Main St Branford, CT 06405 on December 11 at 8pm.

Call 203-641-0691 for more info

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/arts/dance/fall-for-dance.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Dance