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@Geoff.Turner 19 сағат бұрын
Just been on QM2 and it seems that they have cut back drastically on using the Queens room for ballroom and using it more for 'party nights' No afternoon tea dance. No sequence dance sessions. If this is becoming the norm, we won't be cruising Cunard again,
@tonymariadance 16 сағат бұрын
Hi Geoff, thanks for your info. Which QM2 cruise was it? Please tell the number of nights versus the number of Motown plus party nights? two recent QE cruises of 5 to 10 days and a QM2 TransAtlantic each had one party night and one Motown evening. We accepted that as diversity. Queen Anne started having more party evenings and using the Queens Room as substitute for the theater. We and others lost no time to talk to the Entertainment Director on day 3 of the voyage, which may have led to more ballroom sessions as accomodation.
@user-pj4qb8hj5l 4 күн бұрын
Whats with all the wavy, sticking out arms?
@tonymariadance 4 күн бұрын
Hi, thanks for watching this channel. I have a favor to ask, please do not post comments here on how people dance. This channel only wishes to showcase how dancers enjoy dancing to their hearts, however way they prefer to express themselves in decent ways. No teaching, no judging. Thank you.
@user-pj4qb8hj5l 4 күн бұрын
It was a genuine question. As someone who enjoys watching dancing I have not seen this before. I imagined it was perhaps a new genre? I will continue to watch dancing and perhaps connect with others who are more generous and willing to explain rather than criticise those of us who are not fully offe with the art of ballroom dancing. Best foot forward..@@tonymariadance
@tonymariadance 3 күн бұрын
@@user-pj4qb8hj5l Thank you for explaning adequately. Your comment stays up.
@joanfreestone1707 4 күн бұрын
What a beautiful ballroom and such a nice way to raise money for charity.
@user-pj4qb8hj5l 4 күн бұрын
The chap in the black/cream shirt & the lady in green/coral can dance! He leads, she follows - there is a blending of their bodies...you cannot just walk to a tune - walking isn't dancing no matter how many times you fling your arms around..
@joanfreestone1707 5 күн бұрын
I always thought that the tango would be difficult to do but you made it look quite easy. I still don't think I could do it justice.
@tonymariadance 5 күн бұрын
Thank you for your compliment. Honestly we are not that good at Tango by any standard. We just dance for fun. We mix American Tango with International Tango as needed, and bring in Argentine Tango steps when we are in a tight spot.
@davidhouston3946 5 күн бұрын
It is of course great to get any music to dance to, but slightly disappointing that there were two vocalists sitting doing nothing. If Shirley Bassey could sing along to that 60 years ago you would have thought one or both of them could have made an effort to sing along.
@tonymariadance 5 күн бұрын
The three vocalist on the Queen Anne, Steven Tilley, Daisy of Wave Dual, or Rebecca all have enough vocal volume to do justice to the Gold Finger.
@davidhouston3946 5 күн бұрын
@@tonymariadance I wish they would then. I know some dancers that prefer just to have instrumentals, but I think it adds a bit more atmosphere to have vocals.
@yatchow6963 8 күн бұрын
Many Thanks
@joanfreestone1707 8 күн бұрын
Beautiful dancing to a beautiful song. Everyone looked so elegant.
@stephenvaughan-mennell4438 11 күн бұрын
Lovely excellent viewing Thank-you
@joanfreestone1707 11 күн бұрын
Thank you for this beautiful video. I've had a bad week and this was very calming for me.
@tonymariadance 11 күн бұрын
Our best wishes to you Joan! Be well!
@davidhouston3946 12 күн бұрын
Part of the issue with Queen Anne may be that Cunard have gone out of their way to market her as different from the others. They seem to think they need younger passengers. I don't quite get that, because the supply of old people is always being topped up so they're not likely to run short. You've experienced what seems like a policy to restrict the availability of dancing and that has been reflected in programmes for cruises before you sailed. Yet another thing I don't understand; I read comments from dancers that seem bothered if the floor isn't rectangular, perhaps that puts them off. We've danced on odd shaped floors over the years, and we see you dancing on other lines that don't have floors like Cunard.
@mariayeung432 12 күн бұрын
Hi Ryan, glad we can chat online, haha. Have you booked another QM2?😊
@ryanmurry2902 12 күн бұрын
Thank you for capturing such wonderful evenings. Tony and Maria, you are both a delight.❤
@mariayeung432 13 күн бұрын
It was like a dream! We enjoyed dancing with lots of happy couples ❤and amazing guitar music!!
@joanfreestone1707 13 күн бұрын
What lovely music. It must have been very nice dancing to it.
@davidhouston3946 13 күн бұрын
Hi Tony, Do you recall the title of a swing song that was used in Zumba classes on Queen Anne? Apparently they used the same music each day. Someone on Cruise Critic is asking.
@tonymariadance 13 күн бұрын
Sorry. Do not remember, but if someone has a short video of the zumba class, that can identify the song.
@davidhouston3946 13 күн бұрын
@@tonymariadance Thanks.
@davidhouston3946 14 күн бұрын
Spoiling us with two so quickly! Sometimes folk ask if they as novices or non dancers will annoy others and get in their way. There was a couple there that prove that idea is nonsense. I suspect that one of them had mobility issues, but I noted that all the dancers managed to negotiate a path avoiding them even when they were going against the line of dance.
@tonymariadance 13 күн бұрын
We observed that almost all dancers on the Queens Room floor were polite and made space for each other. Once, however, on a QE Baltic cruise, I observed that a male dancer, in his road rage, executed a medium power wrist-twist punch on the back of another unsuspecting male dancer. The latter was shocked but did not stop to voice his objection. The line-of-dance moved on and the offender got away with it.
@davidhouston3946 14 күн бұрын
QA's Queens Room fits the field of vision on your videos quite nicely. The other couple chose to get a cha cha out of that music, which reminded me of a recent post on a forum. The poster seemed to be complaining that when a piece of contemporary music was played in the Queens Room dancers still did ballroom or latin dances to it, as if that was wrong and you should only dance disco to pop tunes! They didn't seem to get the concept of a shared space for everyone. 😀
@mariayeung432 14 күн бұрын
Hi Joan, yes, we enjoy dancing to good music! This piece has nice beats and easy to dance. Ballroom dance is always our favorite 💃🕺🏻
@joanfreestone1707 14 күн бұрын
This was so different to your other dance videos. Did you enjoy it as much?
@joanfreestone1707 14 күн бұрын
That must have been a wonderful cruise and everything looks so elegant. I really enjoyed watching.
@stephenvaughan-mennell4438 15 күн бұрын
A stunning video Tony Maria especially as we were there with you. Brings it all back beautiful scenery beautiful ship and lovely people on board.
@LanaTilley 15 күн бұрын
Hi. I am not sure if you saw my last message but I would really like to get in touch with you. We are thoroughly enjoying the recent videos you have been sharing of the amazing Steven Tilley. I have sent you a private message if you are able to check if you have received it. Many thanks. Lana 🥰
@tonymariadance 15 күн бұрын
Lana, We have not yet received your private message. For this channel, we use the email address: [email protected]. We have more videos of Steven Tilley singing.
@LanaTilley 15 күн бұрын
Thank you. I have emailed you.
@thomastucker7216 16 күн бұрын
Thank you for the reply. We cruise often on Queen Mary 2 and heard it was different on Queen Anne and that they only had Ballroom from 6 to 8 in the evening.
@mariayeung432 16 күн бұрын
After many people requested Ballroom music for dancing, they reviewed the situation and the band plays a lot more ballroom at 8:45 now. Hope it still holds true!
@thomastucker7216 17 күн бұрын
How many hours do they have ballroom dancing on Queen Anne and what time. We will be on for two months next year
@tonymariadance 16 күн бұрын
It is different daily according to the program that they give you. Read it carefully and plan your activity so you will not miss the dance lesson, tea dance and bands. Enjoy the beautiful ship and have fun!
@davidhouston3946 17 күн бұрын
I note a comment I responded to disappeared. We live in France but our 23 years of dance lessons were all taken in Scotland. There are differences between social dancing styles between UK and North America, and styles in France are different again. I suspect the couple that the comment related to are British. I doubt the comment posted was intended to offend, probably a British dancer seeing a style they are familiar with.
@tonymariadance 17 күн бұрын
Hi David, We are not sure which one was your comment. We aplogize if your comment may have disappeared when we, for the first time, removed a comment from another person yesterday. IMHO, we considered that comment not appropriate for the spirit of our dance channel, not that it was offensive. Unlike most dance channels that wish to teach or show how well they dance, where critiques are appropriate, we only wish to show dancers enjoying dancing. To us there is no right or wrong, just dancers expressing from their hearts. We share everything there, all friends, no critics, no judgement. That's our spirit. We enjoyed dancing over 200 songs during 14 days on two Cunard ships. 🙂🙂
@davidhouston3946 17 күн бұрын
@@tonymariadance Hi Tony, I can understand why. I only said the couple commented on were present in other videos. The other poster had indeed gone into needless comment regarding technique.
@GabrieleAnna 18 күн бұрын
Is it only me? There are lot of complex, well performed moves / but were is the smooth, romantic character, the harmony and the flow? Less could be more🤔
@NVanHiker 19 күн бұрын
This is painful.
@joanfreestone1707 20 күн бұрын
Very enjoyable. It's lovely that you have so many opportunities to use your dancing skills. I always enjoy watching you.
@davidhouston3946 22 күн бұрын
That was quite good to get so many tea dances. We only went to afternoon tea once in 14 days on QM2 in 2022. There was a harpist playing that day, not really music for dancing. I checked back and other days were the Bevis String Trio, a Pianist, and one afternoon was Brian Moore on his guitar. We don't really need tea and cakes but might call in more often on our next two trips to see if there is dance music on. edit: It was more like 12 days as they don't have afternoon tea in Southampton or New York.
@tonymariadance 21 күн бұрын
Looking at the daily programmes more carefully, and checked my videos, we only had three Tea Dances in our 7 day Norway cruise, not six. The QA Orchestra played one and the Wave Duo played two. All were full of ballroom music. We did the QM2 transatlantic this June and there were no tea dances, but more great prerecorded sessions than we had time or energy to dance them all. The Queen Anne spent a lot of Queens Room evenings on non-ballroom dancing activities, making the sporadic ballroom sessions on non-gala days sometimes very inconvinent to attend. You can tell from our videos that sometimes only one to three couples were on the floor. It was like a piazza with wooden floor.
@joanfreestone1707 23 күн бұрын
A tea dance is such a nice idea.
@atyeung 23 күн бұрын
People were sitting at the tables an hour early in order to get a front row seat for any of the tea dances!
@joanfreestone1707 25 күн бұрын
The quickstep is my favourite. I saw you both dancing on another channel's video, also filmed on the Queen Anne.
@davidhouston3946 25 күн бұрын
So did I. About 2 seconds of waltz filmed from above.
@Lanclasscan 25 күн бұрын
Is anyone in time to the music !?This is not strict tempo/International style but social dancing. The floor seems small. Not much room to practice floor craft. LOL>
@jantomczykiewicz9 26 күн бұрын
Thank you for your info about ballroom dancing. We appreciate it a lot. Keep going on. 💃👠
@SidYoung-au 27 күн бұрын
no rock-n-roll :(
@Life-is-a-Dance 27 күн бұрын
Thank you for posting this. I am glad to see no dance hosts, i am aware that single ladies will rely on kind passengers to dance, my problem with Cunard dance hosts is, they think they own the dance floors, thanks again 👍
@michaeleasler5249 27 күн бұрын
It's interesting that no one dancing has correctly identified that the rhythm of the music is for disco dance steps.
@tonymariadance 27 күн бұрын
We did disco, it is natural to us from disco days to do a-go-go in disco beat. However, dance and steps are best from the heart. Some people may suggest that everyone may express their feelings the own way and need not follow "rules" mechanizally. 🙂
@tonymariadance 28 күн бұрын
*** note added 7/6/2024: The dance situation described in this video has improved significantly in a report in Facebook, by Michael Morrison 5 days after we left the ship. While onboard, we felt our suggestions to the musicians and the entertainment director were rapidly responded to positively and efforts were made to bring back more ballroom dance music. They have been to this channel and played our favorite songs which we appreciated. Dancers have to speak up! Go Cunard go!
@pedrorodriguezmartin 19 күн бұрын
Me parece horroroso No tiene nada del glamour Del QUEEN VICTORIA Y DEL QUEEN MARY 2
@tonymariadance 19 күн бұрын
@@pedrorodriguezmartin We agree. There is no royalty glamour, art or tradition displayed on the Queen Anne. A generic new cruise ship. Hopefully it is work in progress to earn its name as a Queen.
@MariaMorgan-bd1ce 28 күн бұрын
Thank You Tony for video,So looking forward to dance on this same dancing floor on July 22
@stephenvaughan-mennell4438 28 күн бұрын
We were taking part in all the dance classes often next to you and admired your dancing hope to join in more on our next cruise. Keep dancing.
@keithcostello5070 28 күн бұрын
Great Review.
@ryanmurry2902 28 күн бұрын
Thank you for your review. It was a delight to meet the two of you on the QM2. Your review of the Queen Anne is very helpful.
@stephenvaughan-mennell4438 28 күн бұрын
We where on board and enjoyed the excellent Ballroom lessons given. just wished the orchestra in the evening would pick up on the dances we had just been taught so we could try them out more. But great sound and very enjoyable
@davidhouston3946 28 күн бұрын
Cunard's management seem keen to get away from ballroom/latin to attract a "younger crowd". We can dance latin/ballroom to 80%+ of disco numbers, or disco using small latin steps rather than standing shaking ourselves or head butting into mid air. I know I'm repeating myself; floor looks fine to me, we've quickstepped on 3m x 3m postage stamps! Just takes Cunard to provide music. Another good video, thanks.
@clintoncollier 27 күн бұрын
I heard the same thing. Fewer dance hosts, more party nights
@joanfreestone1707 29 күн бұрын
Very good information about the Queen Anne dance floor. I have heard similar comments. It was a good idea to request more ballroom music. Most people seem to prefer it.
@user-pj4qb8hj5l 29 күн бұрын
Who are the two people who hog the camera...
@davidhouston3946 28 күн бұрын
🤣
@davidhouston3946 29 күн бұрын
Great video, thanks. From videos I've seen there doesn't seem much wrong with Queens Room. We'll dance on any floor, it doesn't need to be rectangular. Biggest issue I'm picking up is using the room for other things and not offering dancing. We don't mind a party band/disco in the mix we'll still do ballroom, latin or disco if we have a space. We won't be on her though, QM2 is our only interest with round trips booked next June and September of 2026. Looking forward to more videos, and particularly if you do any from QM2!
@tonymariadance 29 күн бұрын
We just took the QM2 to the QA. Very enjoyable cruise. We even met Monty Murry on that cruise. I have 40 GB of QM2 dance video and will surely be putting them out. Thanks for watching.
@clintoncollier 27 күн бұрын
How many dance hosts do they offer on board, pls?
@tonymariadance 27 күн бұрын
None on the Norway cruise.@@clintoncollier
@tonymariadance Ай бұрын
It was our pleasure meeting you both at Queen Anne. We hope you have enjoyed the ship and Norway. Have a nice day!
@darrensurman Ай бұрын
How nice to have met you both recently on Queen Anne at the afternoon tea dance and to see your wonderful dancing again. Keep dancing ... Darren & Mark