Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County – March 11th 2014
Dear Dancer,
When you don’t come to dance class, you feel a little worse about yourself. When you feel a little worse about yourself, you buy ice cream by the gallon and finish it in one sitting. When you buy ice cream by the gallon and finish it at one sitting you become pinned to your chair by its armrests. When you become pinned to your chair by its armrests, you call 911. When you call 911 they send a lot of trucks with sirens blaring. When they send a lot of trucks with their sirens blaring, the neighbors gather around to find out what’s wrong. When the neighbors find out what’s wrong, you end up being the laughingstock of the neighborhood. Don’t be the laughingstock of the neighborhood. Come to dance class.
Actually, we just love having you there. Come learn the basics of the Cha-cha on Tuesday and the more intricate steps on Thursday. And don’t forget to come for the Foxtrot on Wednesday and Quickstep on Saturday.
See you on the dance floor.
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This week’s schedule:
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THE WELLNESS CENTERS:
Tues. March 11: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Beginning Ballroom Cha Cha 6:45-7:45 pm
Wed. March 12: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Ballroom for Parkinson’s Noon – 1:00 pm
Wed. March 12: School Hill Wellness Center in Weed (778 S. Davis St., Weed): Foxtrot 6:45-7:45 pm
Thur. March 13: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Cha Cha 6:45-7:45 pm
This month’s Classes:
Tuesday night Beginning Class; Cha Cha
Wednesday night; Foxtrot
Thursday night; Cha Cha
Please come join us.
You do not need to be a Wellness Center member to attend these classes.
Single class: $7.00/person.
Class Card (four classes or more): non-members: $20 for four classes ($5.00/class per person).
Wellness Center Members can get special discount: Buy a class card for $20.00 and get 8 classes (a value of $2.50 per class).
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FORT JONES COMMUNITY CENTER
Fort Jones Community Center in Scott Valley (15 min. from Yreka)
11960 East Street Fort Jones, CA
This Friday! March 14th
Group Class is at 6:30-7:30
We are currently teaching a series of Beginning Rumba (still not too late to join us)
Cost $10 per person
If anyone else wishes to schedule a private lesson on a Friday (or perhaps a different day?), please e-mail us or call us at the contact information below.
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SATURDAY MORNING TECHNIQUE CLASS: March 15th
At The Mt. Shasta Park and Recreation
1315 Nixon Rd
At the Main Lodge
This month’s dance; Quickstep
10:00 – 11:00 -Technique Drills in International Standard & American Smooth Style Dances. Focusing on Lowering, Rotation and Sway which improves your performance in all of the dances by giving you more control over your balance, timing and power.
11:00 – Noon – Amalgamations. Putting the drills you worked on in the first hour to work in the actual steps as you develop more control over the steps, floorcraft and yourself.
Cost : $10 per person
$5 youth discount
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No Saturday Evening Dancing this week:
At The Mt. Shasta Park and Recreation:
1315 Nixon Rd.
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PRIVATE LESSONS are AVAILABLE to anyone who would rather learn in a more personal environment (i.e. no witnesses) or to anyone who wants to progress faster or to anyone who simply wants private lessons. Also, if you cannot make it to any of the group class times, private lessons are arranged in accordance with your schedule and at your convenience. Contact us by e-mail or telephone (number can be found below).
GROUP PRIVATES & SPECIAL EVENTS are also available. If you can’t make it to our classes and you think you have a number of friends and acquaintances who would be interested and you can get together, let us know and we can come to you at times more convenient to you. Also, Weddings, Birthday Parties, Anniversaries are all great places to include Ballroom Dancing.
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. Information regarding dance gift certificates can be found on our website: www.mtshastadance.com.
Cheers,
Rick and Peggy Nixon
Ballroom Dance Professionals
415/215-2652 (cell)
Healing House, McCloud CA
davisnixon@msn.com
Feel free to pass this on to anyone that 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 (with a link to the original article in the New England Journal of Medicine).
http://youtu.be/He6hR_ohoLE A You Tube video of our Ad currently running on the Siskiyou Media Council’s channels (YCTV 4 and MCTV 15). We haven’t managed to catch it yet. Please let us know if you have seen it air. Thanks.
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.
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