Dancing Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona by Michael Bivona

By Michael Bivona

From Buenos Aires to Paris to New Orleans, Mike and Barbara Bivona have traveled and danced in the course of the international. And during this memoir and travelogue, those dance aficionadas percentage their adventures and stories.

Ballroom dancers for greater than 20 years, the Bivonas have traveled greatly whereas honing their dancing talents and assembly fellow dancers. Dancing around the globe with Mike and Barbara Bivona presents unique bills in their studies in Argentina, Paris, Hawaii, Italy, the Catskill Mountains of recent York, the Caribbean, and South Florida, in addition to different locations. This account not just comprises dancing information, but additionally stocks the background and taste of the intriguing locales they've got visited.

Augmented with pictures, Dancing world wide with Mike and Barbara Bivona additionally contains heritage info at the paintings of ballroom dancing, a couple of dance classes, biography of decide upon dancers who've played at the tv express Dancing with the celebs, present ballroom dancing philosophy, and knowledge concerning the highbrow merits won from dancing.

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