Tag: dancing

Part 20: Classic Argentine Tango Dance styles

Lidia and Hector Legrand If you are interested in learning more about Argentine Tango and Tango events in SaddleBrooke, please visit our website, http://tangoargentino.sharepoint.com, where you can also read Parts 1 through 19 of this series. Tango Canyengue is a style from the early 1900s, still popular today. It contains all elements of traditional Argentine…

All aboard the Cha Cha Choo Choo train

The beginners Cha Cha class.

Little did the thirty dancers who attended the Let’s Dance Club’s Cha Cha beginning level class, taught by Linda and Barry Moore, know that they would be hopping aboard the Cha Cha Choo-Choo Train for four weeks of fabulous fun and instruction. Yes, the students actually moved into a single line holding on to each…

Square Dancin’ Thursdays

The SaddleBrooke Square Dancers take their club on a road trip to several outside venues.

Rita Fletcher Thursday evenings the SaddleBrooke Square Dance Club holds dances at 7:00 p.m. in the MountainView Ballroom. Some Thursdays the club steps out to frequent fun venues in the area. So was the case on March 12. The Oracle Inn Saloon has some great food choices and great food to boot! The place allowed…

Argentine Tango dance

Sherry Ginsberg Join us at an Argentine Tango Dance, a Milonga, to be held at The Highlands Clubhouse on Tuesday, May 12, 2015, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.; food and drink will be available. Discover the secrets of this captivating social dance. DJ’ing by Hector and Lidia Legrand, Argentine Tango Dancing instructors and founders of…

Free clogging expo

There will be a very entertaining clogging exhibition on Thursday, April 2 at 6:00 p.m. at SaddleBrooke Ranch. If you’ve never seen clogging you are in for a treat. It’s a high energy type of Appalachian Mountain dancing performed mostly to country western music. The dancers have jingle taps on their shoes and the sound…

Why not dance?

The holiday season is approaching. Are you ready to dance? SaddleBrooke and Ranch residents are invited to dance. Beginners or seasoned dancers are all invited to Dance at HOA1 Vermilion Ballroom. There is no fee. If you are a beginner, someone will help you to get around the dance floor. If you are a seasoned…

Ballroom Dance Club – swing to the beat

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;…

A few theories about the origins of the Argentine Tango

Lidia and Hector Legrand If you are interested in learning more about Argentine Tango and Argentine Tango events in SaddleBrooke, please visit our website http://tangoargentino.sharepoint.com where you can also read Parts 1 through 15 of this series. Historians as well as musicologists have arrived at different conclusions (sometimes these conclusions complement one another) about the…