Broker-Dancer Double Life

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Kevin Roose, Dreaming About Dancing the Cha-Cha on the Trading Floor; A credit broker has a second career as a ballroom dancer. New York Times, Oct 14, 2011
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/dreaming-about-dancing-the-cha-cha-on-the-trading-floor/?scp=1&sq=ballroom&st=cse

Note:
(a) Phoenix Partners Group
http://www.phoenixpartnersgroup.com/
("Founded in 2005, Phoenix Partners Group is a leading credit and equity derivatives interdealer broker with offices in New York, London, and Paris")
(b) credit broker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_broker
(c) Balenciaga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balenciaga
(a fashion house founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga [1895-1972] in 1914; Headquarters Paris)
(d) jive (n; origin unknown; First Known Use: 1928):
"swing music or the dancing performed to it"
www.m-w.com
(e) Strictly Come Dancing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly_Come_Dancing
(The [television] show has run on BBC One since 15 May 2004, primarily on Saturday evenings)

* Come Dancing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Dancing
( a BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1998, bcoming one of television's longest-running shows)
* Strictly Ballroom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly_Ballroom
(a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film)
* The US television show Dancing with the Stars started in 2005.

(f) pro-am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-Am
(g) pasodoble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasodoble
(literal meaning in Spanish: double-step)
(h) jive (dance)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jive_(dance)
(i) showcase (n):
"1: a glazed case, box, or cabinet for displaying and protecting wares in a store or articles in a museum
2: a setting, occasion, or medium for exhibiting something or someone especially in an attractive or favorable aspect"
(j) rib (vt; from the tickling of the ribs to cause laughter; First Known Use: 1930):
"poke fun at: KID"


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