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Dance Game Genre Will Decline in Popularity Next Year

While dance games have become very popular in the last couple of years, industry analyst Jesse Divnich believes that 2011 has seen them at their peak, and the New Year will see profits and popularity go down fast. Dance games have become extremely profitable in the last couple of years, with lots of casual gamers ea...

29 December 2011
03:09 GMT

DWTS Season 12: Cast Announced

It’s almost time for stars to get their dancing shoes on and fans to grab a bag of popcorn and sit comfortably in front of the TV: ABC’s 12 season of Dancing With the Stars is nearing air date and the cast has been announced. This year, just like previous editions, comes with some surprises, though th...

1 March 2011
10:37 GMT

Dance Reveals Stable Personality Traits

In a new study, researchers discovered that the way people dance holds clues to some long-standing personality traits that are unique to each individual. In this sense, one may be able to tell a lot about a person by simply watching them dance. The research was built on previous investigations, which showed that the ...

24 November 2010
09:06 GMT

Children and Dancing Keep Britney Spears in Top Shape

Britney Spears is back at the top of her game, working on new music, hanging out with her two boys and, one must also note, looking fitter than ever. For her slender frame, she credits both her professional and her personal life. In a recent interview cited by OMG Music, the pop star reveals she’s not doing any...

15 November 2010
10:21 GMT

Paula Abdul Is Judge on New Show, Live to Dance

Following months of speculation that she was either going back on American Idol or doing Simon Cowell’s US X Factor, Paula Abdul’s new gig has just been announced: she’s the lead judge on a new CBS reality show, Live to Dance. Fans know that, before she launched a career in pop, Paula was head cheer...

15 October 2010
04:01 GMT

Pamela Anderson Takes Dancing Act on Tour

Since her appearance on the previous season of Dancing With the Stars was so well received, Pamela Anderson is giving dance a serious try by going on an international tour with her partner. TMZ has learned that the financially troubled star is looking to maximize her profits by putting in appearances on television sh...

10 September 2010
05:12 GMT

NYC Police Officer Directs Traffic by Dancing

They often say that it’s the little things that can make all the difference: today, this is a video that will most certainly make viewers smile. A police officer in NYC directs traffic by dancing – and has been doing so for the past 10 years. Wilbert Castillo is 46 years old and, because of the unusual wa...

7 September 2010
10:23 GMT

MRI Now Possible for 'En Pointe' Ballet Dancers

Researchers at the University of California in Irvine announce the development of a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology, that allows for the observations of ballet dancers en pointe.It takes a lot of skill, effort, training and patience to reach the degree of physical performances that allows for en point...

31 August 2010
08:34 GMT

Kate Gosselin on DWTS Finale: I’m So Controversial

The other night, as the tenth season of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars came to an end, Kate Gosselin returned for one final dance – and some free advertising for her upcoming shows. Footage aired before the dance number, from rehearsals, shows Kate trying to convince the audience that she’s more relax...

27 May 2010
04:20 GMT

Nicole Scherzinger Wins Dancing With the Stars

After a tense but very entertaining three months, judges crowned the winners for the tenth season of ABC’s immensely popular dance competition, Dancing With the Stars. The winning star was Pussycat Dolls star Nicole Scherzinger, with partner dance pro Derek Hough, who thus marked his seventh win since he’...

26 May 2010
05:24 GMT

This Spring, Dance Your Way to a Toned Body

The increasing popularity of shows like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With the Stars have made it so that more and more people want to lose weight and tone up with dancing. If dance classes are not an option, for one reason or another, a good idea would be taking home a DVD with a dance workout from the many...

6 April 2010
13:21 GMT

Kelly Osbourne Dazzles with New Figure at Fashion Week

Kelly Osbourne, the wild child of British showbiz, has long battled the extra pounds but it would certainly seem that her recent stint on Dancing With the Stars has done wonders for her. A slim and toned Kelly attended the New York Fashion Week and dazzled onlookers in a tight, black leather mini number, as StarPulse...

14 February 2010
05:27 GMT

Arts Successfully Fight Depression

Scientists in Norway have recently determined that exposure to art forms tend to have a very positive impact on the life of average individuals. The study concluded that people who go to see concerts, painting or sculpture exhibitions, visit art galleries, or make music tend to be a lot less depressed than other citi...

14 December 2009
17:01 GMT

Paula Abdul Works Out, Dances, Looks Fabulous

Paula Abdul, whom many consider as essential to American Idol as, say, Simon Cowell himself, has left the show following an alleged dispute over money issues. That was back in August this year. Since then, the star has kept a rather low profile, only to emerge at this year’s American Music Awards in a body-hugg...

27 November 2009
16:21 GMT

Take Up Dancing to Lose Weight

Usually, when we set out to lose some weight, especially if it’s more than a couple of pounds, we think strict dieting and working out until we’re numb from exhaustion. It doesn’t necessarily have to be so, fitness experts point out for Shape magazine, offering the alternative of taking up dancing t...

18 November 2009
15:31 GMT

Jermaine Jackson Will Judge Michael Jackson-Themed Dance Show

The Vienna tribute concert that Jermaine Jackson wanted to do in honor of his late brother, the King of Pop, and where he was to perform a duet with him, fell through as stars did not wish to attend. Now, Jermaine has other plans of keeping Michael’s memory alive, via a dance show that will feature iconic moves...

5 October 2009
10:34 GMT

Dancing With the Stars to Honor Patrick Swayze with Dirty Dancing

Patrick Swayze, star of “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost,” passed away a few days ago after an almost two-year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was one of the few A-listers able to combine acting and dancing so well, which is why Dancing With the Stars Executive Producer Conrad Green has decid...

17 September 2009
09:29 GMT

Woz Wins His First Dance Off, Apologizes for 'Rigging' Accusations

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, aka The Woz, has won his first ever Dancing with the Stars dance off, following the announcement that couple Belinda Carlisle and Jonathan Roberts was leaving the competition on Tuesday evening.Woz was "suspicious that the true voting numbers, both from telephone and online voting, are...

19 March 2009
09:20 GMT

Woz Determined to Dance On After Fracturing Foot

Between Steve-O battling back problems and Gilles Marini suffering from a separated shoulder, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is just one of several contestants injured during dance rehearsals for the popular American TV show, Dancing with the Stars.As reported by most US publications, the Apple co-founder now has a s...

16 March 2009
11:08 GMT

Vote for Woz on Dancing with the Stars

“Tonight's the night! Apple co-founder Steve 'Woz' Wozniak is set to begin his run on ABC's TV 'reality' program, 'Dancing With The Stars',” MacDailyNews is reporting. As an Apple fan, you are encouraged to go online or use your phone to vote for Woz, but remember t...

9 March 2009
14:07 GMT

More Fitness Programs Needed in Schools

According to health experts, children in US schools need more appropriate fitness classes than they benefit from at this point. The scientists say that the current level of physical exercises existent in schools is nowhere enough to avert the large number of obesity cases recorded in the country. The disease is a tra...

9 March 2009
14:01 GMT

ABC Posts Promo of Woz and His Dancing Partner

The American Broadcasting Company has recently announced that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is going to face off singers, actors and athletes in the popular TV Show “Dancing with the Stars.” ABC has now posted a promo picture of Woz and his dancing partner, Karina Smirnoff (a professional dancer). Karina...

23 February 2009
06:13 GMT

Bees Can Count and Speak Foreign Languages

A recent study proved that trained honeybees can count up to four landmarks in order to get to the food they were provided. Adding to that number caused them to lose count and reach different destinations. It has been long known that bees (Apis Mellifera) are capable of remarkable things, perhaps more than other...

27 September 2008
05:11 GMT

Different Bee Species Can Learn Each Other's Language

Species of honeybees inhabiting the Asian and the European continent are somehow different from each other through the fact that they communicate using different languages. About 30 to 50 million years ago, honeybees split into nine species currently found all over the world and started developing unique communicatio...

10 June 2008
05:00 GMT

Dancing With The Stars For Mobiles Announced

THQ, global leader in developing and publishing interactive entertainment software, announced the release of a new game for Windows PCs and mobile phones: Dancing with the Stars. Based on the famous TV series airing on ABC (in the US), the new game will allow players to get in the role of the celebrities they like a...

16 April 2008
09:31 GMT

I Dance for Sex

These are the "Chip and Dales" of the crab world: the best performers of erotic dances in the world of the crustaceans. And their dances are extremely efficient, as they send pheromones to lure far-away females out of their dens, as found by a new research published in the "Journal of Experimental Biology." It appear...

9 April 2008
03:56 GMT

Snake-like Robot Dances with You

Dance and robots. The worst possible combination in the world today; some aren't even able to walk, not to mention dancing. Or is it? Some robot developer from Merlin Robotics in collaboration with the Nottingham Trent University argues that you don't necessarily need by be human-like to be able to dance, t...

4 February 2008
05:42 GMT

MC Hammer Can and Will Touch This

I guess we'll be hearing less of "Stop! Hammertime!" from Stanley Burrell (that's his real name… big jump from Stan to MC Hammer, wouldn't you agree?) and more of "Cut! No, you put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you shake it all about! Yes, and only then you do the Hokey Pokey, what...

4 January 2008
03:44 GMT

The Dance for Uncoordinated White People Is Here on YouTube

You guessed it - a new Macarena has risen from the ashes of easy, sequential arm and leg movements with a seldom jump here and there. It's the answer to all the critics who said that white men can't dance: they can and they are filmed by their kids for YouTube in order for the hysteria to be perpetuated.It ...

6 November 2007
10:41 GMT

People Working, Robots Dancing!

The Japanese… robots… and dance! And now let's try to make a sentence out of it. I know that everybody thinks about the same thing now: the Japanese are dancing the way robots do. This is partly true but it would be more accurate to say that robots are dancing like the Japanese and this because some Japanese res...

10 August 2007
05:22 GMT

Hot on YouTube: Prisoners Dancing on Michael Jackson's Thriller

A new YouTube clip attracts an impressive amount of viewers as it shows more than 1,000 prisoners dancing on the Michael Jackson hit, Thriller. It all starts with some interesting zombie moves. It continues with amazing dancing moves made by the prisoners, all of them being dressed in orange prison suites. In the bac...

26 July 2007
15:06 GMT

Laser Dance Matrix: Hacked "Stepmania" DDR Simulator

Plug 'n' play Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) are video games like no other. The concept is pretty simple: shake your behind while dancing on the pad in order to lose weight. Without getting bored that is. Well, here's a DDR that doesn't rely on pressure sensitivity as most pads do. The Laser Dance M...

7 May 2007
18:11 GMT

Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix Cheats and Unlockables (Xbox)

The arcade dancing phenomenon debuts on the Xbox with Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX, complete with new songs, awesome dance hits, and new game modes. With Xbox Live support, the revolution goes online, offering new downloadable features and online gameplay. The game combines fun, excitement, competition, choreograp...

21 March 2007
04:56 GMT


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