Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – October 1st 2018
Dear Dancers,
Good news, everybody! By popular demand (and to popular acclaim) we will be leaving the Swing class right where it is this month: on Wednesday nights!
It will pick up where the September Swing class left off (with some review, should anyone new wish to join us). Since, traditionally, Wednesday is already the beginning/intermediate night (when we aren’t teaching at COS), it makes sense. We’re happy . . . you’re happy . . . ain’t nobody unhappy!
Thursday nights will become a Waltz class, a little more advanced (since it is the intermediate/advanced night) but all in all (or even some in some), lots of fun.
And did somebody mention “teaching at COS”? Yes. I did. That’s because tomorrow night is the last night for the Waltz class (in which a fun time was had by all) and beginning next Tuesday (10/9) will be Salsa (enrollees willing)!
Those of you who would still like to enroll, we have included one more time the on-line enrollment information:
Course number 7371 – XFW 0311-01, Tuesdays, 10/9/2018 -11/13/2018, 6:30pm -8:30 pm at the Yreka campus (2001 Campus Drive) in room 7.
. . .but you can always come to the first night of class and we will have enrollment forms there. Hoping to see all of you there.
In the meantime, enjoy the rains like a firefighter does and come to class in our all-weather environment (known as the classroom) and dance.
Be seeing you.
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THIS WEEKS SCHEDULE
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The Mountain Fitness Wellness Center:
633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta, CA 96057
Tues. Oct 2: – No class this month – 6:45 – 7:45pm
Wed. Oct 3: – Beginning/Intermediate: SWING/JIVE – 6:45 – 7:45pm
Thur. Oct 4: – Intermediate/Advanced: WALTZ – 6:45 – 7:45pm
October: Dances
Tues. – No wellness center classes this month
Wed. – Continuing Beginning (/intermediate) Swing
Thur. – Intermediate/Advanced Waltz
You do not need to be a Wellness Center member to attend these classes.
CURRENT RATES
Non-Members: Members:
$8/Single Class $8/Single Class
$25/Four class Card $15/Four Class Card
$50/Eight Class Card $30/Eight Class Card
$60/Ten Class Card $35/Ten Class Card
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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
Next visit: Friday October 12 (also, Oct. 19)
Time: 7:00-8:00
$10/person
New Dance: Beginning Bolero
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.
Finishing up Nightclub Two Step this month! Next month: Bolero.
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Saturday Morning Technique Class
Mt. Shasta City Park
Dance Lodge
1315 Nixon Rd, Mt. Shasta Ca
Saturday Mornings: October 6, 13, 20, 27
9:45 – 11:45 am
Dance: Waltz II
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 the dances by giving you more control over your balance, timing, power and expression. Or, in other words, allowing you to dance freely and funly.
And that is just too much fun to miss out on! So, what say you give it a try? Eh?
10:45 – 11:45 am: Amalgamations. Putting those drills you worked on in the first hour to work in the actual Figures of the dance, allowing you to develop more control over the steps, floor craft and yourself.
COST: $15/person
$10/person youth discount
November: TBA
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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.
Website: www.mtshastadance.com
Cheers,
Rick and Peggy Nixon
Ballroom Dance Professionals
530) 853-4147 (home & your best bet of reaching us)
415) 215-2652 (cell)
McCloud CA
Please: no texts -we don’t receive them, for some reason
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.