Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – November 18th 2014

Dear Dancer,

The holidays are fast upon us, and those pesky Thanksgiving festivities and Christmas parties are just around the corner. Not to shirk our own responsibilities for pesky festivities, we will be holding our annual Dance-After-Thanksgiving evening on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving from 7:00 to 9:00 (or later, if the crowd is still going strong) to help you alleviate some of the guilt associated with over-indulgence as well as some of the more corporeal consequences.

We will be teaching a Salsa class at 7:00, since it is a high energy, calorie-countering (not to mention fun) dance and then turn you loose on the open dance floor to dance whatever you want. As always, requests for your favorite dances will always be honored.

To re-iterate:

 

Friday, November28

7:00 pm to 9:00pm (or longer)

McCloud Mercantile, The Great Room (upstairs)

Us

You

Your friends and/or guests

The Music & Dancing: Waltz, Cha Cha, Rumba, Foxtrot, Quickstep, Swing/Jive, Tango, Salsa, Quickstep and more.

 

Please come join us.

 In the meantime (or even the nicetime), come to class and keep learning the skills that makes events like this even more fun.

 See you on the Dance Floor . 

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This week’s schedule

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 MT. SHASTA WELLNESS CENTER:

633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta CA, 96067

 

 

Tues. Nov. 18: Cha Cha, Beginning ——————— 6:45-7:45 pm

Wed. Nov. 19: Quickstep, Beginning/Intermediate 6:45-7:45 pm

Thur. Nov. 20: Tango, Intermediate/Advanced ——- 6:45-7:45 pm

Fri. Nov. 21: Ballroom For Parkinson’s —- 12:15-1:15pm

 

 ou do not need to be a Wellness Center member to attend these classes.

Single class: $7.00/person.

Class Card (four classes or more): non-members: $20 for four classes ($5.00/class per person).

Wellness Center Members can get special discount: Buy a class card for $20.00 and get 8 classes (a value of $2.50 per class). 

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MT. SHASTA PARK, DUDES & DAISIES LODGE:

1315 Nixon Rd.

Mt. Shasta, CA

 

SATURDAY MORNING TECHNIQUE CLASS: November 1, 8, 15, 21, 29

(November 29, Viennese Waltz)

9:45 – 11:45 AM

 

This month’s dance; WALTZ (International Style)

 

9:45 – 10:45 – Technique Drills in International Standard & American Smooth Style Dances. Focusing on the elements that make partner dancing more fluid, dynamic, powerful and fun: Lowering, Rotation, Swing and Sway. Developing these basic movement skills will improve your performance in, not just this dance, but all of the dances by giving you more control over your balance, timing and power. And that’s just too much fun to miss out on. So give it a try.

10:45 – 11:45 – Amalgamations. Putting the drills you worked on in the first hour to work in the actual steps as you develop more control over the steps, floorcraft and yourself.

 

Cost : $10 per person

$5 youth discount

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FORT JONES COMMUNITY CENTER:

Fort Jones Community Center in Scott Valley (15 min. from Yreka)

11960 East Street Fort Jones, CA

 

Our next visit will be: Monday, December 15 and Friday December 26.

Group Class is: 6:00-7:00 on Monday, Dec. 15

6:30-7:30 on Friday, Dec 26

 

We are still learning the basic steps of: Waltz

 Cost $10 per person

It is by no means too late to join us. We are still working on the basics, so come one, come all.

If anyone else wishes to schedule a private lesson on a Friday or Monday, please e-mail us or call us at the contact information below…

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PRIVATE LESSONS are AVAILABLE to anyone who would rather learn in a more personal environment (i.e. no witnesses) or to anyone who wants to progress faster or to anyone who simply wants private lessons. Also, if you cannot make it to any of the group class times, private lessons are arranged in accordance with your schedule and at your convenience. Contact us by e-mail or telephone (number can be found below).

GROUP PRIVATES & SPECIAL EVENTS are also available. If you can’t make it to our classes and you think you have a number of friends and acquaintances who would be interested and you can get together, let us know and we can come to you at times more convenient to you. Also, Weddings, Birthday Parties, Anniversaries are all great places to include Ballroom Dancing.

We are also available to lecture, demonstrate or perform at any event you would like to liven up.

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Any questions, please call or e-mail us. We love hearing from you and welcome any suggestions. Information regarding dance gift certificates can be found on our website: www.mtshastadance.com.

 

Cheers,

 

Rick and Peggy Nixon

Ballroom Dance Professionals

415/215-2652 (cell)

Healing House, McCloud CA

davisnixon@msn.com

 

Feel free to pass this on to anyone that you think might be interested in attending our classes.

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Relevant Links:

http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm Research substantiating that Ballroom Dance combats Alzheimer’s (with a link to the original article in the New England Journal of Medicine).

http://youtu.be/He6hR_ohoLE A You Tube video of our Ad currently running on the Siskiyou Media Council’s channels (YCTV 4 and MCTV 15). We haven’t managed to catch it yet. Please let us know if you have seen it air. Thanks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-rosenzweig/learning-to-wait-howwest_b_4129983.html A nice take on some of the more unexpected benefits of Ballroom Dance.

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