Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County – May 6th 2014
Dear Dancer,
This week begins our new schedule. This only affects those of you who have been coming to our Wednesday night and/or Thursday night classes. To accommodate changes being made at the Wellness Center in Weed, we have flip-flopped the locations of those two classes. We used to meet in Weed on Wednesdays and Mt. Shasta on Thursdays (or, for the alliterative crowd, that would be “Mt. Thathta on Thurthdayth).
So, the new schedule in a nutshell:
Wednesday night: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center, Mt. Shasta
Thursday night: School Hill Wellness Center, Weed
‘Nuff said.
We are still up in the air as to just exactly where the Saturday classes will meet, but we will send out an update just as soon as the location is finalized. Since the repair work at the Dudes and Daisies is almost complete, there should no more displacement issues after this week.
May:
This month’s Wellness Center Classes:
Tuesday night Beginning Class; Salsa
Wednesday night; Quickstep
Thursday night; Quickstep
This month’s Saturday Morning Technique Class: Waltz
Come join us.
See you on the Dance Floor
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This week’s schedule
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WELLNESS CENTERS:
Tues. May 6: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Beginning Ballroom Salsa 6:45-7:45 pm
Wed. May 7: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): (Canceled this week only) Ballroom for Parkinson’s
Wed. May 7: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Quickstep 6:45-7:45 pm
Thurs. May 8: School Hill Wellness Center, (778 S.Davis St.,Weed). Quickstep 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).
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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
Our next visit will be: May 23rd.
Group Class is at 6:30-7:30
We are currently teaching a series of Beginning/Int. 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: May 9th
Location TBA
At The Mt. Shasta Park and Recreation or at the McCloud Dance Hall:
10:00-Noon
This month’s dance; Waltz
10:00 – 11:00 -Technique Drills in International Standard & American Smooth Style Dances. Focusing on the elements that make partner dancing more fluid, dynamic, powerful and fun: Lowering, Rotation, Swing and Sway. Developing these basic movement skills will improve your performance in, not just this dance, but 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 or at the McCloud Dance Hall.
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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
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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