Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County – August 26th 2014
Dear All,
Here it is the last week of August, last chance to get a taste of this month’s dances. Don’t be afraid to come just because you have missed a class or two (or three). We will teach you whatever steps you will need to have fun in the time we have left.
Also, like schools and colleges the nation over, September marks the start of our “School Year”, at least in the Tuesday Night Beginning Class, and we will be starting our cycle again from the beginning.
For those of you who don’t know, we have all of the dances organized from the least complex to the most complex, so starting with the American Style Foxtrot in September, which is the easiest of them all to learn, we will proceed through all the dances month by month, until next September, you will have learned them all, even the most complex. And you will have learned the most proficient way to do them as well.
If you have any friends who have always wanted to learn, now is the time to push them to get started. Of if you just want to brush up on your own skills, you will find that re-learning the steps and figures will give you a deeper understanding of those steps and figures and your own speed of learning will increase.
And, finally, just to let you all know, my SWORD WOUND (and NOT a hernia operation, as Peggy would have you believe) is healing quite nicely. I am being careful not to over do it, which is a danger with hern…(ahem) sword wounds, but I am able to be far more active in classes this week and look forward to seeing you all there.
Show up to dance, stay to see my scar. How can anyone pass up an opportunity like that?
Be Seeing You.
NEW Classes in September:
Tuesday night Beginning Class; Foxtrot
Wednesday night; Bolero
Thursday night; Samba
Saturday morning; Quickstep
See you on the Dance Floor.
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This week’s schedule
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THE WELLNESS CENTERS:
Tues. Aug. 26: Mt. Shasta Wellness Ctr. (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Beg. Swing/Jive 6:45-7:45 pm
Wed. Aug. 27: Mt. Shasta Wellness Ctr. (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Ballroom for Parkinson’s: 11:00am-noon.
Wed. Aug. 27: Mt. Shasta Wellness Ctr. (633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta): Waltz/Viennese Waltz 6:45-7:45 pm
Thurs. Aug. 28: School Hill Wellness Ctr., (778 S.Davis St.,Weed). Waltz/Viennese Waltz 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
This Friday: August 29th
Group Class is at 6:30-7:30
We will be starting a new series teaching: Waltz
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: August 30,
This Saturday we will be at the
Dudes & Daisies Lodge
Mt. Shasta Park
1315 Nixon Rd.
10:00-noon
This month’s dance; International Style 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. And that’s just too much fun to miss out on. So give it a try.
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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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://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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