Ballroom Newsletter, Siskiyou County & Northern California – December 27th 2016

Dear All,

Having enjoyed the holiday season ourselves, we are hoping that each of you had the Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/(fill in the blank) to which you were looking forward.

If your feet didn’t get everything they wanted, it is not too late to give them one last treat by taking them dancing this week, the last week of the year.  Have they have been shuffling around the house feeling dejected because all they ever get for Christmas is socks, then treat them to some fancy footwork and bring them to class this week.  And then next week.  And perhaps the week following.  They won’t forget it and you won’t regret it!

Good news!  Our Holiday Gift Certificates have magically morphed into New Year’s Resolutions for Fitness and the Development of New Skills Certificates!  It is a Christmas miracle!  The day before Christmas, they were Holiday Gift Certificates and when we got up on Christmas morning, there they were: New Year’s Resolutions for Fitness and the Development of New Skills Certificates!!!

We looked at each other in amazement, our eyes filled with tears of joy.  Now we can continue to offer them to you for (at least) another week!  We have moved all the information to the bottom of this newsletter for those of you who are overjoyed at not having missed out on this opportunity to gift each other with the gift of dance or who want to introduce friends and other loved ones to this exciting world.

You can pick them up this week at our classes or on the weekend at the Wellness Center in the afternoons.

See you there.

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THIS WEEKS SCHEDULE

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The Mt. Shasta Wellness Center:

633 Lassen Lane, Mt. Shasta, CA 96057

 

Tues.     Dec 27:    – Beginning   Nightclub 2 Step              -6:45 – 7:45 pm

Wed.     Dec 28:    – Ballroom for Parkinson’s                  -12:15-1:15pm

Wed.     Dec 28:    – Beginning/Intermediate Tango               -6:45 – 7:45 pm

Thur.     Dec 29:    – Intermediate/Advanced Rumba            -6:45 – 7:45 pm

 

January 2017 Dances 

Tues.  – Beginning:    Waltz

Wed. –  Beg/Int./:        Nightclub 2 Step

Thur. –  Int./Adv.:       Tango

 

You do not need to be a Wellness Center member to attend these classes.

Single Class:  $7.00

Class Card (for 4 classes or more)

Non-members:      $20 for 4 classes (or $5/class)

Wellness Center Members:  $20 for 8 classes (or $2.50/class)

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Fort Jones Community Center:

Fort Jones Community Center in Scott Valley (15 minutes from Yreka)

11960 East Street, Fort Jones, CA

 This Friday!  December 30th

Time: 7:00-8:00

$10/person

  Dance:    Beginning Tango

  Come one come all and join us for the easiest most basic steps and then continue with the class as the month by month the steps become more advanced.

 

Anyone interested in scheduling a private lesson on a Friday please e-mail us or contact us at the contact information listed below.

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Saturday Morning Technique Class

Mt. Shasta City Park

Dance Hall Lodge

 1315 Nixon Rd, Mt. Shasta Ca

 

Saturday Mornings: December 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31

9:45 – 11:45 am

This month’s dance:  Latin Technique & Viennese Waltz

 

9:45 – 10:45 am:     Technical drills in International and American Smooth Style dances specifically designed to strengthen and improve your dancing and dancing abilities.  Focusing on the elements that make Partner dancing more fluid, dynamic, powerful and fun: Lowering, Rotation, Swing, Cant and Sway.  Developing these basic skills will improve your performance in not just this dance, but in all  the dances by giving you more control over your balance, timing, power and expression.

And that is just too much fun to miss out on.   So, what say you give it a try?

 

10:45 – 11:45 am:      Amalgamations.   Putting the drills you worked on in the first hour to work in the actual steps of the dance, allowing you to develop more control over the steps, floor craft and yourself.

 

COST:  $15/person

               $10/person youth discount

 

NEXT MONTH (January) Quickstep

 

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PRIVATE LESSONS are AVAILABLE to anyone who would rather learn in a more private or personal environment (i.e. no witnesses) or anyone who wants to progress faster or to anyone who simply wants private lessons. 

Also, if circumstance prevents you from attending any of the group classes at their respective times, private lessons are arranged in accordance to your schedule and at your convenience.  Contact us by e-mail or by telephone (number below).

GROUP PRIVATES and SPECIAL EVENTS are also available.  If you can’t make it to our classes and you have a number of friends and acquaintances who you think might be interested, get them together and we can find a time in which we can come to you at your collective convenience.

Also, WEDDINGS, BIRTHDAY PARTIES, ANNIVERSARIES, ETC. are all great events to include Ballroom Dancing as a group activity.  Again, contact us to make arrangements or ask questions.

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, comments, expressions of adoration or just to let us know what is up with you.  Information regarding our Gift Certificates can be found at our website.

Website:    www.mtshastadance.com

Cheers,

 

Rick and Peggy Nixon

Ballroom Dance Professionals

530/853-4147 (home)

415/215-2652 (cell)

McCloud CA

davisnixon@msn.com

 

Feel free to pass the newsletter on to anyone 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 and other forms of dementia (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.

   HOLIDAY GIFT CERTIFICATES    

Now that the holiday season has settled down and become more focused, it is time for us to trot out the Holiday Gift Certificates so that you may all spread the gift of dance to your friends, neighbors and relatives so that they, too, may experience the joy you have found in dancing (and so that you will have more people with whom to dance).

Several packages are available:

Basic Package (at Fort Jones)

One classes for $10.

Two classes for $20.

Four Classes for $40.

Private Lesson Package (at any available location with sufficient space)

One Private Lesson for $60.

Two Private Lessons for $100.

Four Private Lessons for $180.

Certificates may be picked up directly before or after any of our classes including Fort Jones or on weekends at the Wellness Center (front desk) between 12:00 and 6:00 pm, or we can mail them to you, whichever you prefer.

To acquire one or more Holiday Gift Certificates please contact us at the phone numbers or e-mail address below.   Or come see us in person directly before or after any of our classes.   Give the gift that keeps on dancing.