Weekly Update Sunday 28th April 2024
- What are we doing this week?
- Adult Group: Tango & Jive
- Beginner – Sun 7pm, Mon 8pm, Wed 12.30pm
- Improver – Sun 8pm, Mon 9pm, Wed 1.30pm & 8pm
- Improver 2 – Wed 9pm
- Intermediate – Thu 7pm (Int 1) Thu 8pm (Int 2)
- Advanced – Thu 9pm
- ‘Over 50s’ – Tue 1pm
- Weekly Tea Dances – Mon & Fri 1.30pm-3.30pm
- FitSteps Dance Fitness – Wed 10.30am
- Workshops:
- no new workshops this week
- no new workshops this week
- Adult Group: Tango & Jive
- News
- Instagram…HEAD LEFT!
- YouTube…A Basic Waltz Pattern
- Anniversary Party – last 4 places!
- Spring Dinner & Dance – over 60% booked
- Kristina Rihanoff Workshop Day – workshops over 50% booked
- Simply Swing Live Band Event – over 40% booked
- Bournemouth Dance Weekend – only 7 rooms remaining!
- Looking Further Ahead (within the next month)
- Download latest print-outs
News and Notices
Instagram…HEAD LEFT!
Our American Smooth course is a few weeks in so we thought we’d put up a little highlight reel of how it’s going so far. Antony thought he’d try the soft-focus approach for this one.
Let us know what you think?
YouTube…A Basic Waltz Pattern
The first progressive sequence we look at in our beginner Waltz classes is a zig-zag pattern down the room. We use a left foot change step, a quarter turn to the right, a back left foot change step, then a quarter turn to the left. At a corner you can then use a left foot change step, and the quarter turn to the left to turn to your next wall.
Our next few videos start building up towards the full basic Waltz pattern.
Feel free to check out our YouTube channel for more videos. The more you watch and like our videos it really helps us to be recommended to other viewers so we’d appreciate that too.
Anniversary Party
Our Anniversary Party is tonight from 7pm-11pm!
The ticket price of £10 includes a welcome drink.
Doors open at 7pm and dancing starts from around 8.30pm.
We only have 4 places left before we run out of chairs!
Spring Dinner & Dance
We have our Spring Dinner & Dance on Friday 10th May.
Tickets cost £40pp, including a welcome drink and a two course menu.
We’re already over 60% booked for this event.
Kristina Rihanoff Workshop Day
On Saturday 18th May Kristina Rihanoff will be visiting to provide a morning of Latin American dance workshops.
There will be four workshops at the following times:
10am Rumba
11am Cha Cha
12pm Samba
1pm Jive
The workshops cost £25pp, £42.50 for any two, £57.50 for 3 or £70 for all four.
We’re already over 50% booked on the workshops (some 60%).
Simply Swing Live Band Event
For our June social we have invited a wonderful Ballroom and Latin American band, Simply Swing, to come to the studio.
The evening will feature 3 x 40minute live sets, with recorded music provided during the breaks.
Tickets cost £50pp and the event is available to book now. To reserve a space for another person please click here.
We are already over 40% booked. More Details…
Bournemouth Dance Weekend
Our Bournemouth Dance Weekend will take place at The Queens Hotel & Spa this year from Friday 4th-Sunday 6th October.
As well as DB&B our students will also have access to their indoor pool and jacuzzi, as well as discounted spa treatments.
This year’s break will be Quickstep & Jive with a ‘Guys & Molls’ theme to the Saturday night.
The cost will be £315pp, with a £70 single person supplement. You can save £15pp if you book and pay in full before 30th April.
There are also upgrades available (based on 2 sharing) of £20pp to a Supreme Double or £40pp to a Junior Suite.
We only have 1 Supreme Doubles and 1 Junior Suite remaining. All Solo Rooms are now fully booked. We only have 7 rooms remaining from our allocation!
Photos of the Queen’s Hotel & Spa
Upcoming
Dance Workshops
- Saturday 18th May – Kristina Rihanoff Workshop Day
- Sunday 19th May – Beginner Rumba Course starts
- Monday 20th May – Bachata Course starts
Social Events
- Every Monday & Friday – Weekly Tea Dance
- Friday 26th April – Anniversary Party
- Friday 10th May – Spring Dinner & Dance
Downloads
Download our most recent schedules
- Dates for your Diary – updated 26/04/2024
- Schedule of Dances – updated 26/04/2024
- Class Timetable (Landscape) – updated 21/04/2024
- Class Timetable (list) – updated 26/04/2024
