Ruth Birkhead The Let’s Dance Club of SaddleBrooke is offering an ambitious line up of ballroom dance lessons for the next six months. These lessons are free to members of the club. Most classes are held Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. to noon, in the SaddleBrooke Clubhouse Vermilion Room. Beginning in December Rita and Steve Holdener will…
Night Club Two Step – slowing down the tempo Steve Holdener Night Club Two Step (NC2S) is a wonderful dance to slow down the tempo of life and enjoy your partner in this fast paced world especially in SaddleBrooke. NC2S is sometimes known as the Disco Two Step or California Two Step and is a…
Steve Holdener Mambo is a highly energetic Latin musical form and dance style. However, it is not to be confused with a Mamba also known as The Black Mamba, a very deadly snake in sub-Sahara Africa. The word mambo (“conversation with the gods”) is the name of a priestess in Haitian Voodoo derived from the…
Steve Holdener The Viennese Waltz, also known in German as the Wiener Walzer, is quite different from other forms of waltz. It is a rotary dance where the dancers are constantly turning either toward the leader’s right (natural) or toward the leader’s left (reverse), interspersed with non-rotating change steps to switch between the direction of…
Steve Holdener Growing up in the 1950s in Tacoma, Washington, I was aware of dancing in our Swiss community with polkas, waltzes, landlers, etc.; however, it made quite an impression on me as I was watching an old black and white movie on TV one day, which featured a beautiful woman dancing to a lively…
Steve Holdener Rumba is not to be confused with a famous alcoholic beverage mixed with Coca Cola! My wife Rita and I were first exposed to Rumba on a sea cruise in 1988 where we learned the basics of a box step. We said to ourselves at that time that we should learn these dances…
Steve Holdener After dancing a few East Coast Swing (ECS) numbers it’s nice to slow it down with a West Coast Swing (WCS). There is a big difference between the two swing dances even though they are both social partner dances. ECS is danced with fast swing music with random but tight floor spacing, while…