Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County – September 30th 2014
Dear Dancer,
Starting as early as next week (Oct. 9th) we hope to be holding our Thursday night dance class again, but until we can find a new location in the Weed area, they will be held at the Mt. Shasta Wellness Center. Our apologies for those of you for whom this makes extra travel, but for now it is the best we can do. We will confirm this in next week’s newsletter.
Starting this week, we will be holding the first of our Friday night dance lesson/practice session. We are looking to hold it once a month, possibly twice if there is a hue and cry for more but definitely once.
This Friday we will be teaching Samba to give those of you who missed the last classes a chance to catch up and to give those of you who just want to have fun get the chance to do just that (and finally , to give those of you with thin, spindly calves a chance to develop the calves of a Highlander!).
Come join us for a frolicsome Friday night.
See you on the Dance Floor
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This week’s schedule
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THE MT. SHASTA WELLNESS CENTER:
633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta CA, 96067
Tues. Sept 30: Beginning Foxtrot 6:45-7:45 pm
Wed. Oct. 1: Cha Cha 6:45-7:45 pm
Friday. Oct 3: Ballroom for Parkinson Noon-1:00pm
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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MT. SHASTA CITY PARK, DUDES AND DAISIES LODGE:
1315 Nixon Rd., Mt. Shasta CA 96067
FRIDAY NIGHT OPEN DANCING (LESSON WITH PRACTICE TIME)
7:00 to 9:00 pm (or longer)
7:00 – 8:00 pm – Lesson
8:00 – 9:00 pm (or longer) Open Dancing/Practice/ access to instructors help
Dance Lesson: SAMBA Come to learn some new steps, stay to work on them or work on any other dances you want to. Instructors will be on hand to answer questions, help overcome problems and play any dance music you request.
$7 for lesson
$5 for Practice Session only
$10 for whole evening
Youth Discount: $5 for evening
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SATURDAY MORNING TECHNIQUE CLASS: October 4, 11, 18, 25,
9:45 – 11:45 AM
This month’s dance; FOXTROT (International Style)
9:45 – 10:45 – 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.
10:45 – 11:45 – 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 (for the whole two hours)
$5 youth discount
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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
Friday’s in October : 10th & 24th
Group Class is at 6:30-7:30
We have started a new series, teaching: Waltz
Cost $10 per person
It is by no means too late to join us. We are still working on the basics, so come one, come all.
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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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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