Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – December 30th 2014
Dear Dancer,
A short week, as you can see. Tonight is it for the year (until Saturday). So we are welcoming all levels tonight and hope to see you one more time this year. Come and dance out the old year without having to forego that big New Year’s Eve bash that you will be attending.
Next year (week) we will start the Beginning Class at the beginning, with American Style Foxtrot, the easiest of all the dances to learn, and work our way through the dances from the easiest to the most complex.
Wednesday will be Salsa, in which we will review what we taught in the Beginning Class in December and then add new and fun steps. All levels are welcome, even if you missed December’s Beginning Class.
Thursday’s Intermediate/Advanced class will be Waltz, again carrying on from the Wednesday class in December. Some experience is required to attend this class. Call us at the number below or e-mail us if you have any questions or concerns about your eligibility.
We will keep this structure up in 2015, moving each dance from Tuesday one month to Wednesday the next month to Thursday the month after that adding steps and technique tips, so that you will get a chance to learn many more steps in each dance and become much more proficient at each dance (not to mention remembering more of the steps from sheer exposure).
We are looking forward to an exciting year of dancing and dance growth. Please come join us.
A Happy New Years to one and all, all year long.
See you there.
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This week’s schedule
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633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta CA, 96067
Tues. Dec. 30: Salsa (tonight all levels welcome) – 6:45-7:45 pm
Wed. Dec 31: No Class New Year’s Eve
Thur. Jan 1: No Class Happy New Year!
Fri. Jan 2: Ballroom for Parkinson’s (no Class this week only)
January’s Dances:
Tues./Beginning: Foxtrot (American Style)
Wed./Int.-Beginning: Salsa
Thur./Int. Advanced: Waltz
You 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: January 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
9:45 – 11:45 AM
This Saturday’s dance: FOXTROT
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: Fridays, January 9 & 23
Group Class is: 6:30-7:30
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
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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