Wanda Ross In the MountainView Ballroom, beautifully decorated for our Autumn theme by our talented team, 48 people enjoyed the SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club Party. The party began with an hour of socializing with other dancers. Then we enjoyed delicious meals prepared by Executive Chef Alan Lambert and his team. Most dancers had either blackened…
Wanda Ross The SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club is pleased to announce lots of interest in our dance classes. We offer a variety of ballroom dance classes that are proving to be quite popular. They certainly enhance our dancing skills and this makes dancing more fun. Plus, dancing is one of the best activities for maintaining…
Wanda Ross Now that the snowbirds are returning to SaddleBrooke, the ballroom dinner dance parties have started. This is an excellent time to enjoy dinner with both friends and new members and to dance to a wide variety of music provided by our valued DJs. On October 13, members and guests enjoyed our Dance with…
Randy Miles The SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club launches its new evening school of dance lessons beginning Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in the DesertView Mariposa Room. This sunset series will target beginning dancers, but all levels are welcome to attend. Taught by experienced club members, each four week session promises to put students…
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…
If you are new to SaddleBrooke or just emerging from the first months of getting settled, it is time to start thinking about keeping fit, having fun and meeting new friends. Dancing has it all! A dizzying array of dance opportunities awaits you. There is ballroom dancing, square dancing, western partner dancing, line dancing, folk…
Dance lessons line up Ballroom dance lessons are free to members of the Let’s Dance Club and the SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club. Linda and Barry Moore will be teaching the Cha Cha in January ([email protected]). Steve Hess will teach the Latin Hustle in February ([email protected]). Register with the instructors via e-mail, please. March will bring…
It’s the Hustle Steve Holdener The Hustle is a fun partner dance created in the New York Bronx in the latter part of 1972 and was primarily danced among the Puerto Rican people at house parties, basement club dances and hooky gigs in the South Bronx. In 1974 it was also known as the Spanish…
Bolero – Spanish or Cuban? Part 2 Steve Holdener Last month I wrote that Bolero is a very slow and deliberate romantic Latin dance originating in Spain in the late eighteenth century. The music at that time was sung and accompanied by castanets and guitars. The Cuban Bolero tradition originated in Santiago de Cuba in…
Steve Holdener Ravel’s Boléro is one of his most famous works, originally written as a ballet score for his patron Blanche Lapin or commissioned by Ida Rubinstein, but now usually played as a concert piece. It was originally called Fandango but has rhythmic similarities with the Spanish dance form. Some versions of Ravel’s Boléro are nearly 17 minutes…