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When Craig Ben
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dancers when they met him. Ma
reports for Linedancer magazine about C
fantastic trip.
It all started, as many things seem to do We ate and drank sake for about four hours!
these days, with an e-mail. Farly Iguchi from Oddly enough can’t remember that much!”
Japan wrote to Craig with a question about
one of his dances. They had met in Las Vegas The workshop was held from September 11-14.
at an event, so they knew each other a little, The fi rst day, Thursday, was a special workshop
and that one e-mail blossomed into a trip to geared towards budding choreographers.
Japan for Craig. The morning was spent learning good styling
technique for different dance rhythms. Then
Craig had always wanted to come to Japan, in the afternoon, Craig gave the participants
Farly and his partner Lily Izuka were some hands on experience in how to
interested in putting on a workshop with choreograph a dance. After talking about what
him, and away they went. Craig says: “After makes for good choreography, the participants
a 13 hour fl ight, I got to have a fantastic were split into four groups, and each group
introduction to Japanese hospitality with my was to choreograph 16 counts of a dance.
fi rst real experience in a Japanese restaurant. They then put the sections together, and
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