Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – August 27th 2018
Dear All,
Big change, this week: There will be no Tuesday night class this week at the Wellness center. We are pre-obligated to go to Yreka to see if the COS class is a go or not. We will let you know in next week’s newsletter what the results are since it directly affects the next few weeks of the Tuesday night class at the Wellness Center.
And those of you who wish to attend the COS class, we strongly recommend coming to class to sign up if you haven’t already done so on-line. That would probably be the best way to enroll at this point in time. The dance will be Waltz, solely taught for the whole six-week session.
For those of you with intestinal fortitudes of steel who are still willing to face the vicissitudes of the COS on-line registration system, we present, one last time, the enrollment info (following in blue):
7370 – XFW 0310-01, Tuesdays, 8/28/2018 -10/2/2018, 6:30pm -8:30 pm at the Yreka campus (2001 Campus Drive) in room 7.
Or, again, sign up in class on the first day (tomorrow, Tuesday, August 28th). Just show up and we will gladly enroll you.
We look forward to meeting and/or welcoming back as many of you as possible.
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. Aug 28: – NO CLASS TONIGHT – 6:45 – 7:45pm
Wed. Aug. 29: – Beginning/Intermediate: BOLERO – 6:45 – 7:45pm
Thur. Aug 30: – Intermediate/Advanced: TANGO – 6:45 – 7:45pm
September: Dances
Tues. – Beginners start here: Swing (Beginning swing may move to Wed. in Sept.)
Wed. – Beginning/Intermediate: Waltz (Beginning Swing may replace Waltz in Sept.)
Thur. – Int./Adv: Bolero
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
Our next visit: Sept 14th (also Sept. 28th)
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.
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: September 1, 18, 15, 22, 29
9:45 – 11:45 am
Dance: Waltz I
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 do 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
October: 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.