Dear All,   Brief one, coming up: The Rumba class has finally gotten underway.  Everyone is happily learning and/or developing their Rumba skills and figures.  As previously noted, we will continue to address Rumba figures during the Cha-cha classes in June too, not only make up for the missed day, …

Dear All,   Please accept our deepest apologies to those of you who showed up for Rumba class last week only to find that we weren’t there.  I could go on and on about the Saga of The Flat Tire (and you are all aware of how badly I want …

Dear All,   Here it is, the first full week of May and that means Rumba on Wednesdays.  Curiously, Rumba used to be spelled with a “w” (Wrumba”) like “wrestle” and “wrought”, but as that has no effect on or meaning for anything, we will let the topic drop, much …

Dear All,   Happy Hybrid Week, kiddie-winkies.  This week we will have one dance from April (Tango, Wednesday night) and one dance from May (Waltz, Thursday night).  We considered teaching an actual hybrid dance to celebrate Hybrid Week (either the Wango or the Taltz) but decided that one lesson in …

Dear All,   It’s the last week for Salsa, kiddiewinkies (but the next to the last week for Tango since the last Wednesday in April is the 30th {next week}), make sure you don’t miss it (nor the last Tango on the following Wednesday)!   Wring all the fun out of …

Dear All,   Having over-burdened our reading public with several long newsletters in a row, legal counsel has recommended a short one this time to keep our reading public from running screaming into the woods.  Since the woods are far too accessible in this region (into which running whilst screaming …

Dear All, Well, we changed from the Winter sheets to the Spring sheets yesterday, in the presumption that the weather had become warm enough to indulge in that particular Springtime ritual.  As it turns out, our presumption was, in a word: presumptuous.  Day time temperatures and even evening temperatures may …

Dear All, I was putting one of my free hours to good use the other day by composing a ballroom dance parody of “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” (‘Tiny Kangaroo Dance Sport’ {aka The Wallaby Open Competitions in Australia) and the last verse (“Dance on my grave when I’m dead, …