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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Free dance lessons coming up Wanda Ross Do you see others dancing and wonder if you might like to learn to dance? You’re in luck. September is less than a month away so the snowbirds will soon start returning to SaddleBrooke, and a full schedule of dance classes will be offered. Dance lessons are free…
Wanda Ross Do you like to dance? Whether you like line dancing, Western, disco, rock and roll or ballroom dancing, let’s dance together. On Friday, June 21, a group of 38 line dancers, Western and ballroom dancers had a very fun TGIF afternoon of dancing together. There was plenty of room on the dance floor…