Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – January 2nd 2018
Dear All,
A Happy New Year to you all! We look forward to seeing all your shining faces in classes again this year as well looking forward to any and every new shining face!
What’s that? Face not shining? Well come to class anyway! We can fix that in no time at all! More than ever the world needs more dancing and you can do your part to tip the scales from dour pessimism to glowing optimism by becoming one of Those Who Dance (just make sure you use your dancing skills for good and not for evil).
We will be introducing one new policy this year: The Saturday morning Technique Class will be working on each dance for two months instead of one. It was requested that we extend each dance to help our students get a deeper understanding of each dance and we have agreed to try it. If there is a ground swell of interest, three months would not be impossible. But we will have to hear from those partaking. So, partake.
Be Seeing you in class.
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THIS WEEKS SCHEDULE
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The Mountain Fitness Wellness Center:
633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta, CA 96057
Tues. January 2: – Beginning SALSA 6:45 – 7:45 pm
Wed. January 3: – Beg/Intermediate Night-Club 2 Step 6:45 – 7:45 pm
Thur. January 4: – Int./Advanced Samba 6:45 – 7:45 pm
February Dances
Tues. – Beginning: Swing
Wed. – Beg/Int.: Salsa
Thur. – Int./Adv.: Night-Club 2 Step
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 $5.00/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
Our next visit will be: Jan. 12 (also the 26th)
Time: 7:00-8:00
$10/person
Dance: Beginning/Intermediate Foxtrot
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
1315 Nixon Rd, Mt. Shasta Ca
Saturday Mornings: January 6, 13, 20, 27
9:45 – 11:45 am
This month’s dance: INTERNATIONAL 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 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 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
February: WALTZ II
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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 -best)
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