Diana Wille It is time to register for SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club (SBDC)’s free October dance lessons. We will offer two different dances, Samba and Viennese Waltz. Ann and Dale Pizzitola, our professional dance instructors, have said, “Neither the Samba nor the Viennese Waltz are the first dances you will learn when taking lessons. But…
Judy Saks Dances here, dances there, dances everywhere! In fact, the SaddleBrooke Line Dance Club currently has 80 active dances. Finding and approving new dances is an important task of our Dance Committee. But just where do all these fabulous line dances come from? Like many things, the greatest source of information comes from the…
Diana Wille SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club (SBDC)will be offering FREE foxtrot lessons on Mondays and Thursdays for the month of September. Roger and Linda Shamburg will be instructing two beginning classes, one from 6 to 7 p.m. and the other beginning class from 7 to 8 p.m., both held in the Mariposa Room at DesertView.…
The SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club (SBDC) is adding a new and exciting function to help encourage the comfort of new dancers getting out on the dance floor. Can we all remember back to when we took that first class, attended that first party, or worse yet, actually got up and tried to remember anything of what…
Watched any Dancing with the Stars episodes? Then you have probably seen rumba. Remember Johnny (Patrick Swayze) in Dirty Dancing? “Time of Your Life” was a rumba-based dance. Did you ask, “Is that dance complicated? Which foot goes where?” Now is the time to figure this out! Dancing is great physical and mental exercise, a lot…
Judy Saks “April showers bring May flowers.” Well, I don’t remember any rain in April. But a lovely “bunch” of 45 SaddleBrooke Line Dance members came out for an aMAYzing dance party on Wednesday, May 25. All levels of dancers were there. There were the “tender buds” (Novice and Novice+), the “growing and maturing plants”…
Judy Saks The MountainView/Preserve Women’s Golf Association (MPWGA) was getting ready for their Member-Guest Tournament. Lady golfer and SaddleBrooke Line Dance Club (SBLDC) member Terry Kelly had been asked if she could teach a line dance at an evening event. She told them, “I’m just a novice!” But Terry knew she could call on some…
Diana Wille First of all, SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club (SBDC) offers our many thanks to Roger Shamburg. Roger has been coordinating our dance instructors for several years. He is stepping down from that role in our club, and we very much appreciate the hours of commitment he has given to managing our free dance lessons.…
Dancing Leprechauns! Judy Saks Ever heard the phrase, “Better late than never”? Of course, you have. Well, that was the case for the SaddleBrooke Line Dance Club (SBLDC) when they celebrated St. Patrick’s Day on March 24, not March 17! But this certainly did not dim the dancers’ enthusiasm for things Irish. There was a…
I’m Gonna Put on My My My My My Boogie Shoes … and So Can You! Diana Wille Please join us for an enjoyable evening. A fun dinner/dance opportunity takes place at the First Friday Dinner Dance, held on the first Friday of almost every month, with dinner at 4:30 p.m. in the SaddleBrooke TWO…