Anthony appeared in the Birmingham Post and Birmingham Star Newspapers who featured pictures and reported on his recent dance workshop at St michaels C.E. Click on the picture to enlarge.

Anthony was a featured guest on the Jo Good Saturday morning show on BBC Radio London 94.9 FM. The interview/feature lasted 45 minutes and was funfilled and high energy covering every crazy subject on earth!

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ONLINE! (online for 1 week…recording coming soon)

(Interview starts on 40 minutes. No rewind. Press the “15 minute” button twice and the “5 minute” fast forward button twice, to start streaming in exactly the right place)

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Anthony has been invited back to guest on the BBC “Jo Good morning show”, this Saturday 13th, from 6.40am on BBC Radio London 94.9FM. Join him live on air! If you don’t live in the UK then you can listen live online on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/radio/. Or watch it being streamed live too!

On Monday 10th September the London Lite newspaper ran a competition for a lucky reader and 20 of their friends to win a private dance workshop with Anthony King!

After a massive response the winner was picked at random and given the workshop with Anthony and 20 theatre tickets, for an exciting weekend in London.

Winner:

Congratulations to S. Simmons and friends!

So! We continue with our look at the 1956 classic “Funny Face” starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. In part 2 we’re going to take a closer look at the amazing “Court yard” dance, performed amazingly by Astaire and “Clap yo hands”, performed by Astaire and Kay thompson:

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“Clap Yo Hands” performed by Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson

Astaire used his mac like a matador would use his cape, to amazing affect, as well as his umbrella like a sword. And also a note…the umbrella throw was real! Fred Astaire would practice for months until perfection. Ginger Rogers once said that her feet bled after rehearsing with Astaire. He loved props and really brought them to life…real life! I do feel that he was the best. Say if we compare his use of props to Gene Kelly’s in “Cover Girl” (ie. the hat stand), this is clear to see. He is a magical dancer and was always dressed immaculately in sharp suits, he always looked fantastic, on and off the set.

In the late 40’s “jazz” was just coming into fashion and Astaire or any great star of the like would have looked down upon it as a fad or nonsense, probably…this is clear to see in the piece…it is a satire on “jazz”…interpretating it through the filter of Hollywood, saying that it was a little silly….they who specialised in BALLET and TAP.

Anyway, the genius of Astaire and Thompson is that they lifted it and the style that was in vogue at the time in Paris and really made it look dignified and classy…just what I love about them. Even a send up of the Philosopher, the French and “Jazz” is made to look majestic and dignified.

Don’t forget that the last Wednesday class of 2007 will be:

WEDNESDAY 31st OCTOBER.

Anthony’s Monday and Saturday class will remain unaffected and the Wednesday class will be back in the new year.

AK Team