Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County – May 27th 2014
Dear Dancer:
We are happy to announce that our Summer Technique Workshop at the McCloud Dance Hall is going to happen again this year. The dates will be June 23th, 24th and 25th. This will be a morning only workshop, so those of you who are not local can make a vacation get-away AND have a dance workshop as well. We will provide more information next week.
Also, not this weekend but Saturday the 7th, we will be having our annual Ballroom/Country Dance bash when our friends from Sacramento come up. More information below under Saturday’s schedule. CORRECTION: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED UP TO THIS WEEK-END, MAY 31ST (details below).
Come to classes this week and brush up your skills for this and other events.
Also coming up later this Summer in July, our Youth Dance Camp. It will be held mornings from July 14th to July – July 18th, sponsored by the Mt. Shasta Parks and Recreation District. If you know of any young people (Elementary School through High School -including those who have just graduated) who might be interested, let them know. Or if you wanted to sponsor a youth yourself, that would be wonderful, too. Again, more information later (or contact us directly now, if you want to find out more).
In the meantime, come to classes and develop your dance skills. It teaches youth good social skills, strengthens the mind against Alzheimer’s and is good exercise for everyone
May:
This month’s Classes
Tuesday night Beginning Class; Salsa
Wednesday night; Quickstep
Thursday night; Quickstep
aturday morning; Waltz
(more information see below)
Come join us.
See you on the Dance Floor
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This week’s schedule
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THE WELLNESS CENTERS:
Tues. May 27: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Beginning Ballroom Salsa 6:45-7:45 pm
Wed. May 28: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Ballroom for Parkinson’s
Wed. May 28: Mt. Shasta Wellness Center (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Quickstep 6:45-7:45 pm
Thurs. May 29: 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 in June; Friday’s 6 & 13
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 31
At The Mt. Shasta Park and Recreation
Dudes & Daisies
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 weekend: BUT. . .
Come and join us THIS WEEKEND Saturday MAY 31ST for a special event at the McCloud Dance Hall.
We will doing Country dancing interspersed with our regular Ballroom dancing throughout the evening. This is the forth event of this nature that we have held, and it has always been a fun, well-attended affair enjoyed by everyone who has attended.
Time: 7:00-10:00
Cost: $10/person
$5 youth discount
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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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