Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – December 10th 2018

Dear Dancers,

 

 To re-iterate last week’s newsletter, we are once again offering our Holiday Gift Certificates so that you can share all of the fun you have been having with family, friends and your varied associates.

 

Pricing information may be found immediately below (Fort Jones pricing may be found in the Fort Jones section of this newsletter).  And, at the bottom of the pricings, we are adding a list of the times and places that the gift certificates can be picked up.

 

As for dancing this week, there is still plenty of it left so come partake.  We would especially like to encourage you all to come to our Wednesday night Swing/Country Two-Step class. 

 

The Country Two-Step/aka Texas 2 step part of the class at a very beginning level and we would like to heartily encourage (encouragement is something we never do tepidly) you all to join in the fun by joining us and the rest of the class.

 

Allow us to sweeten that pot by informing you of an event coming up where you will be able to put those Swing & Country Two steps use at a live performance. 

 

Yes, that’s right, we said LIVE PERFORMANCE!  On December 29th,  9:00-12:00 at Watson’s Veteran’s Club (on Main Street, Mt. Shasta), the group Jefferson Justice will be playing and they have told us to prepare for a night of Swing music and Country Two-Step music.  At last, a chance to dance socially instead of academically.  We heartily . . . well, you know.  No Cover Charge!

 

So, come dance, come share the joy of dancing and we wish Happy Holidays to all!

 

 

HOLIDAY GIFT CERTIFICATES

 

 Basic Package  
Four classes for $20.
Eight classes for $40.
Ten Classes for $50.
Private Lesson Package (at any available location with sufficient space)  
One Private Lesson for $60.
Two Private Lessons for $100.
Four Private Lessons for $180.

 

Obtainable at:

 

The Wellness Center on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursday between 6:45pm & 8:00pm

The Wellness Center on Saturdays & Sundays between 12:00 n & 6:00 pm

The Wellness Center on Mondays between 5:00 pm & 9:00pm

Mt. Shasta Park’s Dance Hall on Saturdays between 10:00 am & 11:45 am

Fort Jones Community Center on Friday December 21st between 6:00 pm & 8:00 pm

 

(Fort Jones Holiday Gift Certificate Pricing may be found under the Fort Jones section of this Newsletter.)

 

 

THIS WEEKS SCHEDULE

The Mountain Fitness Wellness Center:

633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta, CA 96057

Tues.  Dec 11:      Beginning: Cha-Cha                                – 6:45-7:45pm

Wed.  Dec 12:     Intermediate:  Swing/Country 2 Step    – 6:45 – 7:45pm

Thur.  Dec 13:    Intermediate/Advanced: Waltz                 – 6:45 – 7:45pm

 

January: Dances 

Tues. –Beginning Foxtrot

Wed. – Beginning/Intermediate Cha-Cha

Thur. – Intermediate/Advanced Viennese 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

 

Fort Jones Community Center:

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

11960 East Street, Fort Jones, CA

Our next visit:  December 21st

Time: 7:00-8:00  

$10/person 

 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.

 

HOLIDAY GIFT CERTIFICATES for FORT JONES

Basic Package (at Fort Jones Community Center)
One classes for $10.
Two classes for $20.
Four Classes for $40.
Private Lesson Package (at any available location with sufficient space)
One Private Lesson for $60.
Two Private Lessons for $100.
Four Private Lessons for $180.

 

Please note that we will only be in Fort Jones one more time before Christmas on 12/21.  We will be happy to mail you a gift certificate at any time, so call and place your order early.  Thank you.

 

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Saturday Morning Technique Class

Mt. Shasta City Park

Dance Lodge

 1315 Nixon Rd, Mt. Shasta Ca

Saturday Mornings:   December 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

9:45 – 11:45 am

Dance:   Quickstep

 

 

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

 

January’s dance:  Foxtrot I

 

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.

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

davisnixon@msn.com

Please: no texts -our phones 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.

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.