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Class Schedule

Fridays: 7:30 pm & 8:20 pm
Sundays: 7:00 pm & 7:50 pm

Doors open at 6:45 pm both nights.

Special Dance Times
See monthly schedule for dates when our dance space will be closed or dances held at an alternate location.

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Class Schedule

 

"Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals." - Charles Baudelaire
     December 2016    
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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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28
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30
1
2

No classes

Dark

 

3
4

6:45 Open dancing

7:00 Waltz

7:50 West Coast Swing

5
6
7
8
9

6:45 Christmas Celebration!

Party

10
11

6:45 Open dancing

7:00 Waltz

7:50 West Coast Swing

12
13
14
15
16

6:45 Open dancing

7:30 Waltz

8:20 West Coast Swing

17
18

6:45 Open dancing

7:00 Waltz

7:50 West Coast Swing

19
20
21
22
23

6:45 Open dancing

7:30 Waltz

8:20 West Coast Swing

24
25

BPD closed for the hoiday.

MC

 

26
27
28
29
30

6:45 Open dancing

7:30 Waltz

8:20 West Coast Swing

31

December Syllabus


Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Waltz Waltz Waltz

Underarm Turns:

WUT

Progressive basic step:

WPS

 

natural turn
running spin turn
open Impetus
double locks
double reverse spin
chasse to the right, weave ending
big top
hesitation forward
contra-check
promenade chasse

 

Waltz

Beginner Intermediate Advanced
West Coast Swing
West Coast Swing West Coast Swing

Starter step:

SS

Left side pass:

LSP

Right side pass:

RSP

What it looks like socially (really):

Really

 

 

 

Left side pass with barral roll led by the man's right arm to woman's left arm
Swivel-Swivel
Sailor shuffle
Left side pass with an inside turn
Whip with a lunge
Man leads walk-walk, turns lady to shadow position
Hold 5-6
Faceloop the woman on 7-8
Lead the follow out for free spin and two walks
Basket whip
Lead lady to man's left side 1-2-3-4 rotating
Ronde to face partner on 5-6
lean back 7-8
Lead woman to pass man on the right while sweeping right arm over follow's right to trap the to walk around leader.
Throwout, resulting in slot rotating 90 degrees

 

WCS

 


Past and Upcoming Monthly Calendars


September 2016
October 2016
November 2016
December 2016
January 2017
February 2017
March 2017
April 2017
May 2017
Who invented pointe shoes? Though "toe dancing" was popular in London as early as the 1820s, it is believed that the first ballet dancer to dance en pointe with modified shoes was Marie Taglioni in the ballet La Sylphide in 1832. The first pointe shoes were little more than soft slippers, heavily darned at the toes. Today, pointe shoes are made of multiple layers of burlap, paper and glue. The hardened glue gives pointe shoes their stiffness.