8 - 12 p.m.
$10 admission ($5 with student ID) includes light buffet and beverages. Feel free to bring your own spirits and food.

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Instructor: Darrell Dieringer
Enrollment: limit 20
Cost: $200/person - non-competitors
Cost: $100/person - competitors in Badger State Competition 2007

Six Tuesdays for 90 minutes and five Sundays for two hours for a total of 19 hours of class time!
Eleven class sessions over six weeks - rapid learning!
Offered by: the Art of Dance Ballroom Dance Studio

In preparation for the Badger State Competition 2007 in Waunakee, the studio is offering this series of classes, meeting twice each week leading up to the competition.

This class is open to the public and expects dancers to understand leading and following and to have a basic understanding of several ballroom dances . Dancers entering the competition in Waunakee this summer will receive a sizable discount!

Dances covered will include Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, Cha Cha, Mambo, Rumba, Bolero, Swing, Hustle, and Merengue.

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Instructor: Darrell Dieringer
Enrollment: limit 20
Cost: $95/person

Eight Weeks of 75-Minute Classes
Offered by: the Art of Dance Ballroom Dance Studio

This class is intended for people new to partner dancing or new to Salsa dancing and will move at an appropriate pace. Experienced dancers are encouraged to enroll and refine your basics!

In this 75-minute class meeting each week for eight weeks you will discover how to produce many of the common dance moves you see at nightclubs where people dance Salsa.

Improve your own balance and learn to recognize how each partner influences the balance of the other. Develop an understanding of how you move your own body and how those movements are felt and interpreted by your partner. (Applies to leads and follows alike.) Build the fundamentals for leading and following well. Exercise those fundamentals to invent your own moves!

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Instructor: Darrell Dieringer
Enrollment: limit 20
Cost: $95/person

Eight Weeks of 75-Minute Classes
Offered by: the Art of Dance Ballroom Dance Studio

This class assumes participants have extensive experince with partner dancing and with salsa dancing and will move at a pace appropriate for Advanced Dancers.

In this 75-minute class meeting each week for eight weeks you will learn energetic, fluid, compact Salsa dancing, featuring many spins, turns, and changes of place. Move your own body comfortably, translating those skills into good leading and good following.

In addition to a number of exciting new moves, you will work on Cuban motion (hips), fancy footwork, arm styling, syncopation, body rolls, and freezes.

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The UW Division of Continuing Studies offers a variety of movement and dance classes. I teach two such classes for Continuing Studies.

Please join us for an informal presentation of African Dance, Hip Hop Dance, Irish Step Dance, Latin Dance, Middle Eastern Dance, and Modern Dance on Sunday, 29 April 2007 from 2:30-3:30pm.

Madison Center for Creative and Cultural Arts
306 West Dayton Street
(just around the corner from the Art of Dance)

Admission is FREE for everyone!

For more details, contact Maureen Janson
608.263.8927
mjanson@dcs.wisc.edu

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Take your dancing one the road and show the judges what you can do!

In this second year of the Badger State Ballroom Dance Competition and Showcase, students of dance compete with each other (amateur entries) or their teachers (professional/amateur aka pro/am entries) in either solo (choreographed) or freestyle (not choreographed) dances.

This is the second year the studio will participate in this fun amateur and pro/am competiton!

All events will occur on Sunday, 24 June 2007.

11-11:45am - Solo Routines
noon- 1:30pm - Smooth Freestyle & Multi-Dance Events
1:45-2:30pm - Solo Routines
2:45-4:15pm - Rhythm Freestyle and Multi-Dance Events
5-6pm - Dinner
6-8pm - General Dancing and Awards

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