Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – September 19th 2023
Dear All,
Well, everyone’s doing great this month and that is nothing to sneeze at (pepper up the nostril, now THAT’s something to sneeze at!). The Swing/Jive (Wednesday nights) is one of the most complex of the Latin dances, and our focus on syncopations in the Waltz (Thursday nights) has rendered that class more complex than it usually is as well and you’re all doing great in both classes.
We are so pleased with the progress everyone is making and hope that you are aware of it too. And if you aren’t, just read the first two paragraphs of this newsletter again (and again and again) until you get it.
Don’t forget, we aren’t just teaching steps . . . we are also sewing seeds of epiphany, by which I mean that one day, when you least expect it, you will be in a class where you are bored stiff because the teacher is saying the same thing he/she has been saying over and over again for years, and you are hoping you won’t fall asleep on your feet when BING! (read that “bing” in the highest reading voice you have): pieces will suddenly fall into place (sometimes pieces you never even knew you knew!) and you will have a revelation that will leap you forward by light years! That, my friends, is epiphany!
And it can happen anytime! You don’t even have to be in dance class. We have each of us (Peggy and I) experienced epiphanies whilst driving, whilst gardening, whilst doing something else entirely unrelated to dance. There have been times when one or the other of us have jack-knifed into awareness in the middle of the night out of a deep sleep all but shrieking “Eureka!”.
So, we are also planting the seeds in you for you to have moments like these yourself (you’re welcome!). This is one of the many things that will make dancing yours and yours alone (except for all of the other epiphany recipients).
We like to call it “feeling your thoughts in your feet” which is not the usual location of the brain, but hey, for most of us, it couldn’t do any worse there than it has been doing in our heads all these years now, could it? (yeah, we thought not!). It may even do a great deal better.
So come be a part of this noble tradition (there are so few noble traditions available for joining these days), and, not incidentally, learn how to dance well as well (and don’t leave out having fun. Never leave out having fun!)/
We look forward to seeing you all in class.
Cheers,
Rick and Peggy Nixon
530) 853-4147 / 415)215-2652 (cell)
(Weekly Class schedule listed below.)
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THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE
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The Mountain Fitness Center (South):
1630 South Mt. Shasta Blvd, Mt. Shasta, CA 96067 (back parking lot is best, as the dance studio is a mere two steps from the back door)
Wed. September 20th: SWINGJIVE 6:45 – 7:45pm
Thur. September 21st: WALTZ 6:45 – 7:45pm
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CURRENT RATES Group Class Rates $10 Single Class ($10.00/class) $25 Four class Card ($6.25/class) $50 Eight Class Card ($6.25/class) $60 Ten Class Card ($6.00/class)
Private Lesson(s) Rates
$30 Half-hour Private Lesson ($25 at four per month or more) $60 One Hour Private Lesson (one per month or less) $50 One Hour Private Lesson (two per month or more) Hour Lessons may be divided into two ½ hour sessions at half the hourly rate each.
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