Credits & Thanks

Here are the folks who dreamed
2LDance.org into SL

Chief Instigator

Carlyle Chaparral

You know those free dance lessons at the beginning of the dances we go to in Real Life?
They are so much fun!

Why couldn't you do that
in Second Life?

Carlyle is tasked with:
Dancing, Delivery, and Delight

Chief Organizer

We need a group.
Where are we going to get Instructors?
Let them place tip jars? Of Course!!
Is this color bad or awful? Can you understand this? Should this go here, or there?
Costumes! Sure let's have Costumes! I'll just start my own clothing business, then.
Time to start letting people know.

Karissa Nicole Rotaru

Kari is tasked with Communications, Community, and Costumes

Instructor & Costumer

Missee2

Missee is in training to be one of our first 2LDance.org Live Instructors and is helping to develop our initial choreography. She is also helping to develop our freebie costumes.

Dance 101 Voice Talent

QuandoCoeli

Quando has a RL background in broadcasting, telecasting, public relations and voiceover work. He is a RL friend and past co-worker with Carlyle Chaparral.

Quan is new to SL, but jumped at the opportunity to add his vocal "pipes" to the 2LDance cause. He recorded the fixed voice comments that are part of our track changes, where basic information about the next dance is provided over the background sound of our jingle music. The result sounds professional and sophisticated. We hope to use Quan on our future classes as well. Thank you, Quando!

Want to join in?

Join the 2LDance.org group in Second Life to stay in touch with our progress and live instructor classes as Partner Venues. It's FREE (of course!)

2LDance.org Group ROLES:

Fans

Dancers

Hosts

Instructors

Venue Partners

Friends of 2LDance.org who want to stay in touch

"Graduates" of our dance class
(live or self-guided)

Trained by 2LDance.org to facilitate self-directed dance classes.

Trained by 2LDance.org to provide Live Instructor classes at our Venue Partner facilities.

Offer Free Dance Lessons at your venue. Check out our Venue Partner page, and imagine what we could do together.

Developer of Magic:

Ydille

Look around and you'll find
Ydille magic all over the studio.

My first piece of Ydille magic was the Photo Frame from her store on SL Marketplace.   Then a showering of goodies from her 10L goodie bag (she loves giving stuff away!)   Then some serious development work. I needed to have our Info Panels follow along with the dance class.
Changing them manually each time was a pain.   How could this be accomplished?
Initially we looked at the Intan Dance Machine to control things. Ydille tried to envision panel that would listen to the dance machine's VERBOSE function. Even Cecilia Zheng got involved. But there were many issues... and it was a dead end.
Then, we looked into the Parcel Music Stream text. We used a JensTech Stream Board to shout the stream text in open chat.   Ydille created a Listening Texture Changer panel, with variable delay, that makes the linkage synch perfectly.   The effect is easy to control through the music stream, and...
It is MAGICAL!   Thank you Ydille!!

Sources of Inspiration:

Barbie Alchemi, Creations Park. (Creations For Parkinson's) What Barbie and her family did for her mom is inspirational and says to me:
"If you can dream it, you can realize that dream in Second Life." Dream Big.

Cecilia Zheng, creator of Intan Eksotics
She has such a "make it happen" attitude. She was even willing to discuss custom changes to her Intan Couples Dance Machine when we were exploring how to use it in our 2Ldance systems. That she would take time to work with us on this... was very impressive. Thank you, Ceclila... your Intan Dance Machine remains the focal point for our class experience.

2LDance Creative:

Carlyle, Kari & Others

   All items created by 2LDance.org are available for use for free by our venue partners under an arrangement similar to Creative Commons Licensing, subject to our terms of use.
   Our creative materials include purchased content and other pieces of creative work that are believed to be available for this use.
Please contact [email protected] if you find any item which is inappropriately used or improperly credited.   Thanks!

Our 2LDance.org creative is provided FREE to venue partners offering Free Dance Lessons at their venue.

For info, contact Carlyle Chaparral
(in-world or [email protected])

Purchased/Licensed/CCL Items

Jingle Tracks

101 Jingle: "brazilsamba"
courtesy of bensound.com

Purchased Images

2LD Dancers Logo Image
(and others)
purchased for web use from: 123RF.com

Kari's Instructors Tip Jar

Our Chief Organizer, Kari, whipped up this little ditty for our instructors to use with LIVE classes.

Jens Tech Stream Board

Works great, looks sophisticated (not gaudy) and priced competitively. We bought and tested many of the major Stream Boards, and Jens' is the one we incorporated into our 2LDance "magic."