June is Salsa month Salsa, the All American Latin Dance Following the Cuban revolution, a large number of refugees settled along the Atlantic Coast including Florida and New York. During the early ’70s, the New York émigrés worked with the existing Puerto Rican community to create a new dance, Salsa. This new dance uses the…
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Clubs & Classes, June 2019
Thursday is for ballroom Dine and Dance Parties
Wanda Ross The SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club’s monthly Dine and Dance Parties continue through the summer. Join us for dinner at the SaddleBrooke One Vistas Dining Room. Thursdays are burger night. Order the burger of your choice (or order from the menu) then dance off dinner in the attached Vermilion Room. Dates for the summer…
Clubs & Classes, June 2019
SaddleBrooke English Country Dancers meeting notice
Enid Fowler We enjoyed having our snowbird dancers and hope they are enjoying their summer months. Classes are still being held on Thursdays at the Vermilion Room, SaddleBrooke One from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. depending on attendance. This would be a good time to try English country dancing if you enjoy exercising your mind and…
Clubs & Classes, May 2019
Can I still dance this spring? Barely!
Dr. Mark Magdanz The first classes began on April 22, so don’t delay. You may catch up if you inquire now and have some fitness. Should you learn Line Dancing from a professional instructor? Yes, for an easier, safer and less frustrating experience. Rebecca has a deep commitment to your fun and rapid development of…
Clubs & Classes, May 2019
Partners Western Dance summer activities
Jane Gromelski, President Partners Western Dance Club will continue dancing in the summer months in the MountainView Ballroom on Mondays at 6:00 p.m. These are not classes, but informal practices. Harry and Dottie Adams have volunteered to provide music and will organize the practices, so we don’t forget all the dances we have learned. As…
Clubs & Classes, May 2019
Ballroom dancing into summer
Wanda Ross Summer is just around the corner. Snowbirds are starting to leave but we’re still dancing. On Friday, April 12, more than 40 dancers enjoyed our last Ballroom Dance Dinner Party of the winter/spring dance season. We enjoyed a delicious dinner of pear walnut salad with a choice of chicken marsala, striped sea bass…
Clubs & Classes, May 2019
SaddleBrooke Line Dance Club
Andrea Sahl Retirement is a wonderful phase in our lives when we can try new things, return to long-lost passions or just reinvent ourselves. SaddleBrooke offers a myriad of opportunities to do any and all. I have always wanted to learn to dance, and when we moved here, the SaddleBrooke Line Dance Club was the…
Clubs & Classes, May 2019
Latin Rhythm Dance Club
Celebrates Columbia Month About Colombian Cumbia During the 17th and 18th century African slave populations of Colombia’s Caribbean coastal towns lived, worked and died alongside the indigenous Amerindians; a population similarly exploited by the colonial powers of Europe. Out of this society, cumbia emerged as a social and courtship dance, taking its name from the…
Clubs & Classes, May 2019
Ballroom Dance Club elects new officers
Wanda Ross New officers were elected for the SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club at our General Meeting in April; Brian Hand as President, Kathleen Dunbar as Vice President, Dottie Adams as Secretary and Wanda Ross as Treasurer. The vision for the Board is to help both those people who want to get back into dancing and…
Clubs & Classes, April 2019
We’re ballroom dancing this spring
Wanda Ross Spring is here, the desert is in bloom and we’re still dancing. Come join us. On Friday, April 12, more than 40 dancers enjoyed our last Ballroom Dance Dinner Party of the winter/spring dance season. We enjoyed a delicious dinner of pear walnut salad with a choice of chicken marsala, striped sea bass…