Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County – April 15th 2014
(Special Announcements following Schedule)
This week’s schedule:
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THE WELLNESS CENTERS:
Tues. April 15: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Beginning Ballroom Waltz 6:45-7:45 pm
Wed. April 16: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Ballroom for Parkinson’s Noon-1:00pm
Wed. April 16: School Hill Wellness Center, Weed (778 S. Davis St., Weed): Swing/Jive/West Coast Swing 6:45-7:45 pm
Thur. April 17: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Swing/Jive/West Coast Swing 6:45-7:45 pm
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).
This month’s Wellness Center Classes:
Tuesday night Beginning Class; Waltz
Wednesday night; Swing/Jive/West Coast Swing
Thursday night; Swing/Jive/West Coast Swing
OTHER VENUES:
Fri. April 18: Ft. Jones Community Center (11960 East St., Ft. Jones): Rumba 6:30-7:30 pm ($10/person)
Sat. April 19: McCloud Dance Hall(104 Pine St. McCloud,CA): Technique Class; Foxtrot 12:30-2:30 pm ($10/person)
Please come join us.
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Dear Dancer,
As you can see, we are switching to a new format. This is because so many of you now use smart phones and I-pads and similar devices to access your information we thought we would make the pertinent information more readily accessible to you. Let us know if this is more convenient for you or less.
Please notice that the other major change this week is that the Saturday Morning Technique class will be held at the usual time (10:00 am – 12:00 noon) but has been moved to the fabulous McCloud Dance Hall. If you haven’t had a chance to dance on that wonderful floor, this will be an ideal opportunity to try it out!
Other than that, the usual fabulous week of dancing.
Come join us.
See you on the Dance Floor
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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 (April 18th)
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: April 19
At the McCloud Dance Hall
104 Pine St. McCloud CA
10:00 – 12:00 noon
This month’s dance; Foxtrot
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.
Main Lodge
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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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