Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – March 19th 2018
Dear All,
Be sure and join us this week at the Mt. Shasta Fitness & Wellness Center for our Latin Technique Workout Class! It is a non-partnered (as in “no partners”) class designed to improve your control over your hip & torso action (also known as Cuban Motion) & footwork using the basic steps & figures of the Rumba, Cha-cha, Salsa, Samba & yes, even the Swing.
This class will strengthen (read tighten) your abdominals (all of them -upper, lower & obliques), improve looseness & flexibility in the torso region & enhance your dancing skills while providing a pretty good workout as well. If it proves to be popular we will continue it until everyone is slim, svelte & has flawless Cuban Motion . . . and then we will take it to the next level!
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. March 20: Latin Technique Workout – Beginners welcome -6:45-7:45pm
Wed. March 21 – Beginning/Intermediate SWING – 6:45 – 7:45 pm
Thur. March 22: – Intermediate/Advanced SALSA – 6:45 – 7:45 pm
April Dances
Tues. – Beginning: TBA
Wed. – Beginning/Intermediate: TBA
Thur. – Int./Adv: Swing/Jive
You do not need to be a Wellness Center member to attend these classes.
NEW RATES COMMENCING IN MARCH 2018
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
This Friday! March 23rd (April Dates: Fridays 13th & 27th)
Time: 7:00-8:00
$10/person
Dance: Beginning/Intermediate Foxtrot (still open for beginners to join! Especially now, since we are reviewing (& re-teaching) the basics for the next few weeks )
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: March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
9:45 – 11:45 am
This month’s dance: Viennese Waltz I (all 9 steps of Int’l)
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
April: Viennese Waltz II (American variations (turns, canters & more)
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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.