The Chicago Harvest Moon Ball Championship (Harvest Moon Competition) happens October 12, 13, & 14 2007 at the Crown Plaze Chicago O’Hare (in Rosemont, IL).
Our plan is to arrive sometime Friday afternoon / early evening, watch the Friday night events, spend the night, watch the Saturday daytime and evening events, spend another night, and return to Madison Sunday. A whole weekend of ballroom dancing!
Watching a lot of dancing can be great inspiration for your own dancing!
With rapid preparation, tons of practice, and a little luck, Sarah and I will be competing in the Professional Rising Star competition on Friday night and the Open Professional competition Saturday night.
Every competition has vendors for shoes, clothing, costumes, and jewelry! Throughout the Friday night and Saturday night portions of the competition, there will also be periods of social dancing. Saturday evening ends with a professional showcase.
Published on
26th
August
2007
Instructor: Darrell Dieringer
Enrollment: limit 20
Cost: $50/person
Four Weeks of 75-Minute Classes
Offered by: the Art of Dance Ballroom Dance Studio
By popular demand, the studio is offering this class, a second New Dancer Salsa Class! This class will meet on each Tuesday in September for a total of four weeks. We will cover what some people call the Miami or Cubano style of Salsa, featuring many turns and spins for both the leads and the follows. We will use a simple set of common moves to explore creativity, inventiveness, and fluidity in Salsa dancing.
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 four weeks you will discover how to produce many of the common dance moves you see at nightclubs where people dance Salsa.
Published on
24th
August
2007
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!
Published on
20th
July
2007
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.
Published on
20th
July
2007
Instructor: Kecia Doyle Greene
limit: 24; 0.8 CEU; $65/person
Program #1106
Offered By: UW Division of Continuing Studies
In this introductory class you learn the body conditioning technique that focuses on strength, flexibility, breath, and postural alignment by emphasizing kinesthetic (mind/body) awareness, uniform development of the body, and using core abdominal strength to support movement. Please bring a towel or mat to work on.
Published on
14th
June
2007
Every Thursday and Friday, “do lunch” a different way.
Have some fun during you work / school week with a hot Latin dance class designed for all experience levels! Join this continuing class at any time. No pre-enrollment or advance registration is necessary.
Learn energetic and sensual Latin dances like Salsa, Merengue, Rumba, Mambo, Cha Cha, Samba, and Bolero.
Before each class we decide as a group what we would like to work on that day. The focus is always on having fun.
Bring your friends from the office or job site. Spend some quality time with your favorite colleagues outside of work. Meet new people!
Published on
11th
June
2007
