Still time to ballroom dance The Let’s Dance Club is completing its ambitious 2016/2017 schedule of dance instruction. Spaces are still available for beginning and intermediate Cha Cha lessons taught by the award winning professional dance team of Leslie Eisele and Alan Daughenbaugh. These lessons will be taught on three consecutive Sunday afternoons beginning March…
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Clubs & Classes, December 2016
Give the gift of dance
If you are looking for a special gift, an evening of dining and dancing is a lovely choice. There are a myriad of dance opportunities scheduled in SaddleBrooke for this winter and spring. They range from informal practice sessions to elegant dance galas. These are all sponsored by the SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club and the…
Clubs & Classes, September 2016
Ballroom dancing – wish we had been there
Ruth Birkhead The first Thursday evening in August my dance partner (and husband) and I went to the SaddleBrooke Clubhouse for dinner. Much to my delight there were 10 or so couples on the dance floor. We couldn’t hear the music but I could see the dancers. There were a couple or two who I…
Clubs & Classes, April 2016
Thank you, Let’s Dance teachers!
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…
Clubs & Classes, December 2015
Waltz and Nightclub Two Step – a special chance to learn
The Let’s Dance Club of SaddleBrooke is sponsoring a series of Ballroom dance workshops conducted by the award winning dance instructors, Alan Daughenbaugh and Leslie Eisele. The first set of lessons will feature the beautiful Waltz. Both beginning and intermediate/advanced lessons will be offered. These will be on Sunday afternoons, January 3, January 17 and…
Clubs & Classes, July 2015
Let’s Dance Club announces fall schedule
The basis of the Latin dance Merengue is a march of eight equal steps During June Dave Poferl and Mary Borkovec taught their class of Let’s Dance Club members several varieties of those eight beats. Imagine what the patterns called Bow and Arrow, Halo or Rainbow look like! The Merengue is also a dance that…
Clubs & Classes, June 2015
Let’s Dance through the summer
The energetic members of the Let’s Dance Club have completed a month of East Coast Swing lessons. Taught by Claudia Booth and assisted by Barry Moore the class ended the May session with a reincarnation of a high school dance. Poodle skirts, bobby socks and tight tee shirts abounded. Moving from East Coast Swing to…
Clubs & Classes, May 2015
Let’s Dance & SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Clubs
Steve Holdener What is a cockchafer and its relationship to a bodkin? According to Wikepedia a cockchafer is a European beetle and it’s also called a May bug, Mitchamador, Billy Witch or Spang Beetle. A bodkin has been described as a dagger, stiletto, ornamental hairpin shaped like a stiletto or a sharp slender instrument for…
Clubs & Classes, April 2015
All aboard the Cha Cha Choo Choo train
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…
Clubs & Classes, March 2015
A Gala Affair
Tom Kurtz It was truly a Gala Affair with 64 ballroom dancers decked out in their finest formal attire dancing cheek to cheek around the floor. The evening was filled with Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, Rumba, Cha Cha and Swing music provided by our favorite resident D.J. Steve Holdener. This is an annual event sponsored by…