If you don’t like to get up at 5:00 a.m. to walk or jog, there is an alternative way to exercise during these hot summer months. Dance! Dancing is a great aerobic exercise as well as being good for balance, coordination and your brain. It takes a lot of brain power to get those feet,…
The Let’s Dance Club salutes the following members for their dedication, time and energy. They will have all taught a series of four week dance classes in 2016. Barry and Linda Moore – Cha Cha; Steve Hess and Vivian Herman – Latin Hustle; Dave Poferl and Mary Borkovec – Salsa; Claudia Booth, Dave Poferl, Tom…
Way back at the turn of the century Ross Stephen gathered several people together to form the first Ballroom Dance Club in SaddleBrooke. From that beginning SaddleBrooke ballroom dancers now have two clubs which have a combined membership of over 100 people. The two clubs are somewhat like fraternal twins – same genesis but different…
Ruth Birkhead Gathered to celebrate a successful year of dancing, the volunteer teachers of the Let’s Dance Club ushered in the holiday season. The teachers, all experienced amateur dancers, taught Cha Cha, Fox Trot, Waltz, Argentine Tango, Rumba, East Coast Swing and several other dances in 2015. The celebration was held at the home of…
Steve Holdener Mambo is a highly energetic Latin musical form and dance style. However, it is not to be confused with a Mamba also known as The Black Mamba, a very deadly snake in sub-Sahara Africa. The word mambo (“conversation with the gods”) is the name of a priestess in Haitian Voodoo derived from the…
Steve Holdener The Viennese Waltz, also known in German as the Wiener Walzer, is quite different from other forms of waltz. It is a rotary dance where the dancers are constantly turning either toward the leader’s right (natural) or toward the leader’s left (reverse), interspersed with non-rotating change steps to switch between the direction of…
Steve Holdener I love a song that has a nice swing beat. In SaddleBrooke we like to dance to both an East Coast Swing (ECS) and West Coast Swing (WCS). There is both commonality and differences between the two swing dances. They are both social partner dances and belong to the group of swing dances;…