Come enjoy this dance performance that features amazing student/teacher routines, professional numbers, prizes, and scholarships. General dancing onstage. Mouth watering Buffet.

Visit their website for ticket information (they range in price from about $15 - $65). Evening and All Day Ticket reservations due by June 17th.

Sarah will be also performing in a group Salsa number! Come cheer her on!

In years past, I have attended the adult camps and had a fantastic time. Not only is the access to quality instruction superb, but the instructors are the very people who often judge at the competitions Sarah and I attend.

The adult camps offer a full week of dance classes, social dances, performance, and full immersion into ballroom dancing. The organizers limit enrollment to ~250 participants. In the years I have attended, there have been about 30-40 participants under age 30, with most of the participants ages 40 and above.

It is mostly amateur dancers who attend the camp, most of whom do not compete in dancing, but rather enjoy dancing as a great hobby. Classes are offered in beginner through advanced levels and are taught by skillful nationally (and internationally) prominent dancers and dance teachers.

Private lessons are available with any of the instructors. (Look at the website links, above in the white box, to see who is teaching. The current Rhythm champions are teaching at the first adult camp, if that gives you some idea of the caliber of instruction available.)

I have never attended the youth camps - intended for HS students - so I do not know first-person details about them. I suspect they are quite similar to the adult camps in quality. HS students may attend the adult camps, and each year I was there several HS students were participants.

I have no relationship with the camp or with the organizers. I am posting it here so that you may consider planning to add a dance camp to your summer plans.

Wisconsin State Dancesport Championships
April 17-20
Compete - Attend - Support Darrell & Sarah

Darrell and Sarah will be dancing in both the Professional Rising Star American Rhythm
(Thursday Evening, doors open at 7:00 pm) and Professional Open American Rhythm
(Saturday Evening, doors open at 7:00 pm) competitions. We would love to have familiar faces in the audience!

If you are interested in coming, let us know NO LATER THAN March 28!

Sarah and Darrell will be debuting as a new professional dance partnership at the Indiana Challenge this year! Come on down and cheer like mad! More details on the road trip to follow…

Featured Performers:
Alain Doucet and Anik Jolicoeur

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.

Details including prices, carpool information, departure times, hotel rooms, etc, will be published here and announced on the Announcements mailing list.

The competiton organizer’s published prices are…
- Friday Night - $45 in advance / $50 at the door
- Saturday Daytime - $25 in advance / $30 at the door
- Saturday Night - $45 in advance / $50 at the door

Ordering tickets in advance for the Friday Night and Satruday Night events is a good idea - when the ballroom is at capacity, they stop selling tickets. (This has caused problems for us in years past.)

This is a weekend of entertainment and ballroom immersion. Nothing compares to seeing so much quality dancing all at once! Consider it inspiration and fuel for your dancing.

At the Appleton Competiton, 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!

We will spend Friday night in Appleton to arrive fresh and ready to compete on Saturday morning.

As long as you are putting in all the effort to attend the competition, you might as well dance as much as humanly possible! Enter dances in multiple skill levels to maximize your time on the dance floor.

Additional solo (choreographed), multi-dance, and freestyle entries may be added to these packages at the a la carte prices appearing above.

If you are competing with more than one partner or are entering some amateur and some pro/am entries, please discuss your plans in detail with Darrell Dieringer.

Carpool and Hotel information will appear here as soon as plans are finalized. You are certainly welcome to secure your own lodging with friends or relatives in the area.

The competition is an all-day event on Saturday. We will stay at a local hotel on Friday night prior to the competiton and Saturday night after the competition to assure we are well rested for the competition and for the return trip to Madison. We will share hotel rooms, keeping the cost for both nights as low as possible.

Travel and hotel information will appear here soon. If all goes well, budget for an additional $60 - $80 per person for travel and sleep arrangements. Having a hotel will be well-worth the extra cost. Plus, by arriving on Friday night, we can attend the Friday night social dance.

The information appearing above is subject to change and clarification without notice.

I have been to the dance in Belvidere many times and enjoy it for not only its beautiful venue but for the energy, enthusiasm, and welcoming environment provided by the many people who attend. I usually expect to see over 100 people at the dance!

I am seeking volunteers to perform during the 15 minute showcase in the middle of the dance. In the past, performers get in for free!

We will carpool from the studio, meeting promptly at 5:00pm on Saturday, 28 April 2007. Please post a comment below if you can drive or if you need a ride. Passengers, please bring gas money for the drivers.

This is another road trip I (Darrell) will not be able to attend, but you may still want to go. Casa di Danza is a beautiful studio with two ballrooms and great party guests!

Meet at the Art of Dance at 6:30pm to carpool. The Art of Dance will not be open on Saturday at 6:30pm, but you can still meet out front. Please post a comment below if you can drive or if you need a ride. Passengers, please provide gas money for the drivers.

The February social dance at Easttowne Ballrooms is this weekend. Interested parties are invited to depart from the studio at 5:00pm on Friday, 16 February 2007.

I (Darrell) will not be able to make it this month to Easttowne, as much as I would like to. You will still have a fantastic time without me!

Post a comment (below) if you plan to attend - be sure to mention whether you can drive or if you need a ride. Passengers, please provide gas money for the drivers.

Regardless of your desired transportation option (below), I need an accurate list of atendees by noon on Tuesday, 20 February 2007.

Hotels must be reserved in advance. Tickets must be purchased in advance. You are committing to attend and agreeing to pay the admission fees (see below) and hotel costs by saying you will attend. No refunds are available. No cancellations will be honored!

This year is the third year the studio has attended this amature, pro-am, and professional competition. However, it is the first year that we will be entering competitive events!

Studio owner Darrell Dieringer and his professional partner Amanda Wolf make their debut together at this competion. Come to offer support and to cheer us on.

Two Transportation Options
Leaving Friday: We will carpool and caravan to Indiana (just across the border from Chicago) on Friday, 23 February 2007 at 5pm, spend Friday night in a hotel (sharing rooms), watch the amateur and pro-am events all day Saturday, and stay for the Saturday night professional competition!

Leaving Saturday: Instead of spending two nights in Indiana and the whole day at the competition, you can come for just the Saturday professional competiton, spending Saturday night at a hotel. Meet at the studio at 2pm on Saturday, 24 February 2007. Please post a comment (below) to indicate whether you are willing to drive or if you need a ride. Passengers, please provide gas money and toll road money for the drivers

We will spend Saturday night in Indiana and return to Madison Sunday.

Show your support for the studio and spend an entire weekend immersed in ballroom dancing!