Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – October 11th, 216
Dear All,
Just to remind you, Thursday evening’s Swing/Jive is more beginning/intermediate these first couple of weeks, so everyone is welcome to join it. It will move faster later (for those of you who are more advanced) but everyone will find fun and challenges (or for those of you who really enjoy challenges, fun and funner). Come join us.
And the Foxtrot class is really sailing, so come learn how to sail (as in ‘sail across the dance floor with grace and elegance’, not as in ‘sail into an oncoming wave, get wet and sea-sick so you have to spend the rest of the day in your cabin’). Join us to learn what some call the most elegant of all the dances.
Finally, Rumba. What more need one say? Nothing. But I am going to anyway. The easiest of all the Ballroom Latin dances, with most of the elements of the other Ballroom Latin dances, but at a manageable pace. And sensuous. Did we mention sensuous? Well we have now. Again, come join us.
See You There.
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THIS WEEKS SCHEDULE
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The Mt. Shasta Wellness Center:
633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta, CA 96057
Tues. Oct 11: – Beginning Rumba -6:45 – 7:45 pm
Wed. Oct 12: – Ballroom for Parkinson’s cancelled this week (to resume next week)
Wed. Oct 12: – Beginning/Intermediate Foxtrot (Int’l.) -6:45 – 7:45 pm
Thur. Oct 13: – Intermediate/Advanced Swing/Jive -6:45 – 7:45 pm
November Dances
Tues. – Beginning: Tango
Wed. – Beg/Int./: Rumba
Thur. – Int./Adv.: Foxtrot (International Style )
You do not need to be a Wellness Center member to attend these classes.
Single Class: $7.00
Class Card (for 4 classes or more)
Non-members: $20 for 4 classes (or $5/class)
Wellness Center Members: $20 for 8 classes (or $2.50/class)
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Fort Jones Community Center:
Fort Jones Community Center in Scott Valley (15 minutes from Yreka)
11960 East Street, Fort Jones, CA
This Friday! Oct. 14 (also Oct. 28)
Group class: 7:00-8:00 pm
$10/person
Dance: New Dance!! Beginning Tango
Come one come all and join us for the easiest most basic steps and then continue with the class as the month by month the steps become more advanced.
Anyone interested in scheduling a private lesson on a Friday please e-mail us or contact us at the contact information listed below.
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Saturday Morning Technique Class
Mt. Shasta City Park
Dance Hall Lodge
1315 Nixon Rd, Mt. Shasta Ca
Saturday Mornings: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
9:45 – 11:45 am
This month’s dance: Waltz/Viennese Waltz
9:45 – 10:45 am: Technical drills in International and American Smooth Style dances specifically designed to strengthen and improve your dancing and dancing abilities. Focusing on the elements that make Partner dancing more fluid, dynamic, powerful and fun: Lowering, Rotation, Swing, Cant and Sway. Developing these basic skills will improve your performance in not just this dance, but in all of the dances by giving you more control over your balance, timing, power and expression.
And that is just too much fun to miss out on. So what say you give it a try?
10:45 – 11:45 am: Amalgamations. Putting the drills you worked on in the first hour to work in the actual steps of the dance, allowing you to develop more control over the steps, floorcraft and yourself.
COST: $15/person
$10/person youth discount
NEXT MONTH (November): TBA (Foxtrot or Latin Technique? Cast your votes now!)
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PRIVATE LESSONS are AVAILABLE to anyone who would rather learn in a more private or personal environment (i.e. no witnesses) or anyone who wants to progress faster or to anyone who simply wants private lessons.
Also, if circumstance prevents you from attending any of the group classes at their respective times, private lessons are arranged in accordance to your schedule and at your convenience. Contact us by e-mail or by telephone (number below).
GROUP PRIVATES and SPECIAL EVENTS are also available. If you can’t make it to our classes and you have a number of friends and acquaintances who you think might be interested, get them together and we can find a time in which we can come to you at your collective convenience.
Also, WEDDINGS, BIRTHDAY PARTIES, ANNIVERSARIES, ETC. are all great events to include Ballroom Dancing as a group activity. Again, contact us to make arrangements or ask questions.
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, comments, expressions of adoration or just to let us know what is up with you. Information regarding our Gift Certificates can be found at our
Website: www.mtshastadance.com
Cheers,
Rick and Peggy Nixon
Ballroom Dance Professionals
530/853-4147 (home)
415/215-2652 (cell)
McCloud CA
davisnixon@msn.com
Feel free to pass the newsletter on to anyone 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 and other forms of dementia (with a link to the original article in the New England Journal of Medicine).
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.