Diana Durham Your SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club (SBDC) friends are optimistic, so we are proceeding with our plans for May and early June in SaddleBrooke and you’re invited! A fabulous Thank Goodness It’s Friday (TGIF) Dance Party happens on May 15 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the MountainView Ballroom. Start off the weekend swinging and swaying to…
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Clubs & Classes, May 2020
SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club
Free Dance Classes Diana Durham Dance is a social experience. In group dance classes, you’ll get to know new people who want to learn dance as much as you do. Sure, you might not know what you’re doing at first, but our dance classes are filled with supportive people who all share a love of dance and…
Clubs & Classes, April 2020
TGIFriday Dance Party
Diana Durham You’re invited! A Fabulous Thank Goodness It’s Friday Dance Party happens on April 17, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the MountainView Ballroom. Start off the weekend swinging and swaying to a great selection of dance tunes. This fun event is sponsored by the SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club (SBDC) and all SaddleBrooke residents…
Clubs & Classes, April 2020
Free Dance Classes
Diana Durham In April, you can register for the SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club’s Beginning and Beyond Tango Rumba Fusion dance classes to be held on Wednesdays, May 6, 13, 20, and 27 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Mariposa Room at the DesertView Performing Arts Center. Two of the most romantic and beautiful of the…
Clubs & Classes, March 2020
Having Fun Socializing Maintains Our Brains
Diana Durham To maintain our cognitive function, the top three activities are having fun socializing, eating healthily, and exercising, according to Dr. Thad Polk of the University of Michigan. His expertise is cognitive neuroscience and psychology, and the Princeton Review lists him as one of the top 300 professors in America. So, we believe him…
Clubs & Classes, March 2020
Learn the Modern Hustle
Diana Durham So, if you think of the hustle dance style and the ’70s come to mind, stop right there! The modern hustle (also called “New York Hustle”) is a dynamic, flashy, and superb series of dance steps that is the best all-around dance for contemporary music. You and your partner will look and feel…
Clubs & Classes, January 2020
SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club
Full Schedule of Dance Lessons Here in SaddleBrooke Wanda Ross It’s a new year, even a new decade, so a full schedule of classes starts again in January. Cha Cha will be taught by Bob Osborne assisted by Dottie Adams. The most popular Latin dance, Cha Cha is a lively, fun dance. You can easily…
Clubs & Classes, December 2019
Enjoy learning to dance
Wanda Ross We are hugely fortunate in SaddleBrooke to have a large cadre of experienced dancers who volunteer their time to teach ballroom dancing. Lessons that would easily cost $60-$75 per hour at studios are free to members of the SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club. How nice is that? Instructors for each class spend many hours…
Clubs & Classes, December 2019
The healing powers of dance
Diana Durham Dancing is more than fun – it’s therapeutic. Do you remember watching swing dancers from the ’60s? Have you been sitting at the dances in SaddleBrooke watching the fun in front of you? Or maybe you don’t go because you don’t know how to dance? How do those couples do those dances? Can’t…
Clubs & Classes, September 2019
Ballroom Dance lessons continue
Wanda Ross In October, SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club members are learning the fun and dynamic west coast swing from Dave Poferl and Mary Borkovec and the graceful American waltz from Silke Gsching. It’s time now to register for November dance lessons. Argentine tango will be taught by Mary and Tom Borkovec. There is no dance…