Heather and I are very excited to announce the completion of our first ever, instructional dvd, Ballroom Dancing For Tough Guys™, THE WHY DANCE!
“If you’re gonna’ dance like that…why dance?”
THE WHY DANCE!
The Why Dance" is the first in what will be a Ballroom Dancing For Tough Guys™ library of all the social partner dances.
This first DVD is all about romance and how to dance to those impossibly slow songs like "At Last" without having to choreograph a specific routine. Seven dance moves, none of them stiff, broken down into two easy parts, Rock-step -- 1-2, that will make a couple look like they know a whole lot more than they did before.
But most importantly Ballroom Dancing For Tough Guys™ is exactly that, for Tough Guys. These DVDs are for EVERY GUY who thinks he's not a dancer. Of course, it's also for the guys who do think they are dancers...because a lot of those guys need to know the truth, am I right ladies?
Seriously, the BDFTGÔ technique was designed by a guy who never once thought to himself, "Oh, jeeze, if I can’t dance, I don't know what I'll, friggin’ do!".
How do Lou and Heather qualify to teach tough guys? What kind of experience do they have in a man and woman’s working world? How do Lou and Heather know what the everyday John and Jane needs when it come to learning how to ballroom dance?
Although a highly trained ballroom dance instructor and the one and only National Dirty Dancing Champion (Just ask Oprah Winfrey), Lou Brock has never been a man lacking in other talents. He's worked in construction, sold tires retail, done burglar alarm installations, asbestos removal, and more.
Heather? Born and raised with the work ethic of the family farm in Vermont. She ain’t no pansy, mister!
There's never been anything like Ballroom Dancing For Tough Guys™ and now it's the hottest thing in teaching DVDs
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HEATHER GEHRING, may have grown up on the family farm in Vermont, but she was born to dance. She began her training in dance at an early age with Boston Ballet and the School of American Ballet. Soon after graduating H.S. Heather went on to perform with the Hartford Ballet. Never one to settle for just conquering one dance technique, she explored other dance styles, eventually discovering ballroom dance, where she went on to compete and perform in ballrooms and on stages around the country and the world. She has danced everything from Argentine Tango in Off-Off Broadway’s “Let’s Talk Tango” to a stint as a Fly Girl on MTV. Heather continues to appear in films (Disney's Enchanted, Little Manhattan), while she is founder and director of her own contemporary dance company Gehring Dancetheatre. Heather currently works out of Garden State Ballet and Dance Manhattan as well as doing professional shows with her dance partner Lou Brock. |
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LOU BROCK, a native of Chicago, is a ballroom dancer/choreographer and coach as well as comedian and writer/producer. His many performing credits include dancing in films (Mona Lisa Smile, The Stepford Wives, Enchanted), numerous television appearances including The Oprah Winfrey Show, the original Star Search, Dance Fever, and Dirty Dancing the TV series. Recently Lou was professional partner to first place mom Patty Brooke in Dancing w/The Stars spin off, Dancing w/The Mom’s on Good Morning America. He has produced several unique comedy dance shows in Manhattan including Ballroom Dancing For Tough Guys, Cool, and The Manhattan Hour Variety Show. Lou was a member of the acclaimed American Ballroom Theater(ABrT) dance company and is currently teaching for ABrT’s Dancing Classrooms program which brings ballroom dancing to kids in inner city schools. Mr. Brock is an in house teacher at Dance Manhattan in New York City and teaches lifts and theater dance at NYU’s CAP21 theater program. Lou continues to perform around the world with his partner Heather Gehring. |
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Praise for BDFTG
Booking Dance Festival 4: Athletic
FRINGE REVIEW I
By Claire Flatley | 20 August 2010
While introducing a more tongue-in-cheek approach to the art form, the Ballroom Dancing for Tough Guys duo teach us what it means to find the perfect dancing partner. Through popular musical accompaniments (including a delightfully humorous dance to Bruce Springsteen's Fire) the character and charisma of the two performers and their on-stage chemistry is ever present.
(Including) a sultry and crowd-pleasing Argentine Tango from Ballroom Dancing for Tough Guys, this show provides a digestible introduction to contemporary dance whilst still maintaining exceptionally high standards.
Booking Dance Festival 3: Rock It!
FRINGE REVIEW II
By Ava Macgregor-Dennis | 20 August 2010
Ballroom Dancing For Tough Guys adds sparkle with an elegant self-parody performed to songs such as The Platter’s Only You, serving to emphasize the distinctive New York foundations that tie this diverse showcase together.
EDINBURGH SPOTLIGHT
FRINGE REVIEW
By Danielle Farrow
Ballroom Dancing for Tough Guys presents three shorts, which explore ballroom dance within elegance, self-parody and film noir frames, again with humor and story, though also with a touch of ham.
...Entertaining Ballroom Dancing for Tough Guys...
Ballroom Dancing for Tough Guys adds more story scenes to those already seen in Rock It! – also reviewed here – and Lou Brock spoke well of what dance means to him. His quirky sense of humour is reflected in the dances, and his pieces bring elements of Hollywood and Vaudeville to entertaining life. He is beautifully partnered by the classically elegant dancer Heather Gehring, with her long, clear lines and feel for emotion. There are impressive lifts and holds within pieces that also amuse and even move – as Brock points out, the word ‘emotion’ includes ‘motion’ and it is in movement that this Tough Guy feels able to express his feelings.