As many of you know the new ballroom year is well underway, complete with new events, new fun, and of course your new officers.
The new team has set up a new online home which is regularly updated and filled with all the best information.
Thanks for reading and happy dancing.
Signing off,
Lindsey Loughman
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Moving up and moving on
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Spring back into Ballroom
Hi, I hope that everyone has had a good break. We have all of our normal events this week with the addition of the new Argentine Tango Club. Happy Dancing Lindsey Regular Weekly Updates------------------------------------------------No Partner or Experience Necessary On Campus -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Swing Club – Monday, March 17
Lesson: East coast, West coast, Balboa or lindy hop
Lesson at 8pm
Memorial Hall Ballroom
FreeArgentine Tango Club – Monday, March 17
Lesson taught by Fuad
Lesson at 7 p.m.
Myers Programming room
For more information contact:
Zach Gaeta zagaeta(at)yahoo.comFriday Night Dance Party, March 21
Lesson: TBD
Free Lesson at 7 p.m.
Dance Party from 8 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
New Dance Theatre
$3 for students $5 for non studentsLesson: TBD
Beginner lesson from
Advanced Lesson from
Open dancing till
Memorial Hall Ballroom
$2
Rueda Salsa - Sunday March 23
(Its like group salsa)
promptly
before the Sunday Night Lesson
Free
Dancing around town ------------------------------------------------------------------------Swing and Ladies – Tuesday, March 18
BuffaloAlps Shopping Center
Lesson: 9- 10 p.m.
Dancing 10 – 12 p.m.
$3 at the door
Just go through to the back room. Also feel free to show up early to dine. Casino Salsa (aka Rueda Salsa)- Tuesday, March 18
Lessons are available
Dancing is from 8-10 p.m.
The Upstairs bar at Transmetropolitan, downtown Athens
The Library in downtown
420 Clayton Street
Lesson by Matt @
10 p.m.
18 to party, 21 to drink.
$4
Saturday Night Salsa - Saturday, March 22
No Lesson
Dancing is from 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Upstairs at Tasty World, Downtown Athens (18+)
$5 cover ($10 is live band)
~BDC~
Friday, February 29, 2008
Ballroom Events
Hello Everyone,
Few announcements:
There is no Rueda Salsa this week.
There is also no Friday Night Dance party this week.
Happy dancing,
Lindsey
Regular Weekly Updates
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No Partner or Experience Necessary
On Campus
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Night Dance Lesson - Sunday March 2nd
Lesson: Foxtrot
Beginner lesson from 7-8 p.m.;
Advanced Lesson from 8:30-9:00 p.m.
Open dancing till 9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall Ballroom
$2
Swing Club - Monday March 3rd
Lesson: East coast, West coast, Balboa or lindy hop
Lesson at 8pm
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Free
Dancing around town
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Saturday Night Salsa - Saturday, March 1
No Lesson
Dancing is from 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Upstairs at Tasty World, Downtown Athens (18+)
$5 cover ($10 is live band)
Swing and Ladies – Tuesday, March 4th
Buffalo’s Café in Alps Shopping Center – Tuesday
Lesson: 9- 10 p.m.
Dancing 10 – 12 p.m.
$3 at the doorJ
Just go through to the back room. Also feel free to show up early to dine.
Casino Salsa (aka Rueda Salsa)- Tuesday, March 4th
Lessons are available
Dancing is from 8-10 pm
The Upstairs bar at Transmetropolitan, downtown Athens
$10 cover
SpicySalsa - Wednesday, feb 27
The Library in downtown Athens - http://tinyurl.com/yv76wq
Lesson by Matt @ 9p.m.
10 p.m. Open dancing
18 to party, 21 to drink.
$4
~BDC~
Monday, February 18, 2008
February is about Lovin' Latin Workshops
Our first workshops of the semester will be held next Sunday. The first part of the day will be in the Ramsey center from 1-4 p.m. while the second part will take place at our normal time of 7-8:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall Ballroom.
The day has three sessions: the first two are Argentine Tango lessons and the final session is a Cha Cha lesson. Pricing is $8 per session for students and $10 for non students for each additional session you attend the pricing goes down (see flier picture for matrix). If you are wondering why the pricing is different than our regular Sunday Night Lesson, the answer is that, workshop teachers are paid for their time and are not volunteers.
We are very excited to have Fuad Elhage teaching our Argentine Tango lesson. So many people have requested this lesson we are truly excited that it has come about.
Fuad's day job is all about teaching Spanish at the university, but in his dancing life he has taught Salsa at Last Call in downtown Athens, taught Argentine Tango with TangoRojo, a local Tango troupe, and preformed Tango and Salsa in Atlanta.
The cha cha lesson will be taught by our usual instructors, Rachel Holland and Brandon Buckner. You can look forward to new and fresh moves we often miss in our regular lessons and and styling tips.
You can attend the both cha cha and first Argentine Tango lesson with no prior experience. However, in order to attend the second tango session, you must attend the first tango session or have previous Argentine Tango experience.
We really hope you will come out and join us.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Valentine's Day Events
Happy Valentines Day,
I hope you all are having a great week.
Mark your calendars! We are having an Argentine Tango with Fuad and a Cha Cha Workshop on Sunday 24th. We hope you'll join us.
Happy Dancing
Regular Weekly Updates
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No Partner or Experience Necessary
On Campus
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Valentines Day Dance: Friday Night Dance Party, Feb. 15th
Ramsey- Areobics Room B
Free Rhumba Lesson- 7-8
Open Dance- 8-10:30
Cost: 3$ for students, 5$ for non-students
*** Wear Red if you're in a relationship, white if you're looking and pink if your really don't care.
Night Dance Lesson - Sunday Feb. 17th
Lesson: Salsa and/or Rueda Salsa
Beginner lesson from 7-8 p.m.;
Advanced Lesson from 8:30-9:00 p.m.
Open dancing till 9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall Ballroom
$2
Rueda Lesson- Sunday Feb. 17th
(Rueda salsa is like group salsa)
Lesson starts at 6:30 pm before the Sunday Night Lesson
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Free
Swing Club - Monday Feb. 18th
Lesson: East coast, West coast, Balboa or lindy hop
Lesson at 8pm
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Free
Dancing around town
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Saturday Night Salsa - Saturday, Feb. 16th
No Lesson
Dancing is from 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Upstairs at Tasty World, Downtown Athens (18+)
$5 cover ($10 is live band)
Swing and Ladies – Tuesday, Feb. 19th
Buffalo’s Café in Alps Shopping Center
Lesson: 9- 10 p.m.
Dancing 10 – 12 p.m.
$3 at the doorJ
Just go through to the back room. Also feel free to show up early to dine.
Casino Salsa (aka Rueda Salsa)- Tuesday Feb. 19th
Lessons are available
Dancing is from 8-10 pm
The Upstairs bar at Transmetropolitan, downtown Athens
$10 cover
SpicySalsa - Wednesday Feb. 20th
The Library in downtown Athens.
Lesson by Matt @ 9p.m.
10 p.m. Open dancing
18 to party, 21 to drink.
$4
Salsa at Tasty World – Wednesday Feb. 20th
Tasty World Downtown
Lesson at 9 p.m.
10 p.m. open dancing
18 to party, 21 to drink
$4
~BDC~
Contact Us:
Bdcuga@gmail.com
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The Refusal to Dance
Etiquette provides us with guides for behavior, rules to general acceptance to fall back on. While many of us may rail against the Man and his ways , the Ballroom community still adheres to some of these traditions. To not follow them, may have the same effect as wearing orange to a GA game...
Here are some tips for Etiquette Mistress herself Ms. Emily Post:
THE REFUSAL TO DANCE
If [a girl] is sitting in a group, he [the man] can go up and ask her, "Don't you want to dance some of this?" She then either smiles and says, "Not just now-I am very tired," or if she likes him, she may add, "Come and sit with us!"
To refuse to dance with one man and then immediately dance with another is an open affront to the first one- excusable only if he was intoxicated or otherwise actually offensive so that the affront was justifiable. But under ordinary circumstances, if she is "dancing," she must dance with every one who asks her; if she is "not dancing," she must not make exceptions.
...In certain communities, a girl dancing with her eyes shuts is recognized as signaling that she does not want to be "cut in on." This is an excellent practice but not one to be followed either often or for too long a time. This is done sometimes in order to give thise who dance well together a chance to enjoy at least one long dance.
At a public ball or cabaret- or wherever "cutting in" is not practiced, it is always the priviledge of the girl to stop dancing; a man is supposed to dance on and on, until she- or the music- stops..."
Thanks to Rachel Holland in providing the research for this post
Super Salsa Wednesday
If you've been missing Salsa, now all you need to decide is where you want to go and dance.
Here is line up for this Wednesday:
Salsa Benefit
Benefiting victims of last week's tornado
At Buffalo's Southwest Cafe on Alps
9 p.m. free lesson
10 p.m. open dance
$5
Just go through to the back room. Also feel free to show up early to dine.
SpicySalsa (from the Ritz)
Beginning this week.
The Library in downtown Athens.
Lesson by Matt @ 9p.m.
10 p.m. Open dancing
18 to party, 21 to drink.
$4
Salsa at Tasty World
Tasty World Downtown
Lesson at 9 p.m.
10 p.m. open dancing
18 to party, 21 to drink
$4
Happy Dancing
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Tango Music
Tango music can be some of the hardest music to hunt down but while I researching for the last post I found this site on building a good tango music collection.
Happy dancing
Looking back on Tango
This post is a long time coming: Review of our Tango lesson on Jan 27.
If your interested in learning more Tango, you should mark your calendar for our Argentine Tango Workshop on Feb. 24 in the Ramsey Center from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
On to the review.
The beginners lesson we learned:
- The Basic - Slow slow quick quick slow (Aka T-A-N-G-O)
- Outside of partner- This occurs when the lead gently pulls the follow's shoulder so that their frames are side by side each other rather than in front of one another.
- The Lunge - In class we learned the Tango lunge to side, where the lead's left leg is bent and the the right leg is extended to the side. Lunges can also be done in forward movements as they as are in the Leg Crawl.
- Cameo or Leg crawl - In both the beginning and advanced lesson we covered the basic leg crawl. This is time for drama and to show off your passion. However, its o.k. your not "passionate" with every partner. Here is a great example of a passionate leg crawl.
- Tango Rocks - A move that is best used when trying to get around and blocked up dance floor. The lead pulls gently on the follow to rock minimally forward and backwards during the first two slows of the basic.
To begin we discussed the two different faces of Tango. The face of anger and machoness, as displayed Tango Roxanne from Moulin Rouge and the face of passion, as displayed in the True Lies Tango.
The moves we dicussed were:
- Ochos - or figure eights are executed by the woman twisting her frame and feet so that they appear to float over a very tiny figure eight pattern.
- Beat alterations - This is simply something to play around with. All moves can be expanded to include more moves or moves of different beat structures as long as they eventually fall back in basic time.
- Drunken Sailor- This move had many different parts to it and I am going to try to summarize them as best I can. If you have questions please comment and we will try to clarify this description or come and visit us on Sunday night.
The counts (in 4/4 time where slow equals one beat and quick equals half of a beat) are divided thusly - In promenade position to the lead's left for - Slow quick
- Forward steps into Ronds de jambe in which the outside leg moves forward and then back; quick and slow
- closing up; quick quick slow
- Into Twistes; quick quick slow
- Back brake into and full leg crawl; quick quick slow
Valentine's week events
Regular Weekly Updates
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No Partner or Experience Necessary
Hello Dancers,
Happy news, Swing is back this week at Buffalo's on Alps rd. Also Rueda Salsa is returning to Sunday Nights!
On other notes, we are planing our first "workshop" for Sunday the 24. The workshop will be from 1-4 p.m at Ramsey.
We wanted to know: Are you still interested in having a Sunday night lesson that night?
Please give us some feedback.
Happy dancing,
Lindsey
On Campus Dancing
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Sunday Night Dance Lesson - Sunday Feb, 10
Lesson: Waltz
Beginner lesson from 7-8 p.m.; Advanced Lesson from 8:30-9:00 p.m.
Open dancing till 9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall Ballroom
$2
Rueda Lesson- Sunday Feb 10
(Rueda salsa is like group salsa)
Lesson starts at 6:30 pm before the Sunday Night Lesson
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Free
Swing Club - Monday Feb 11
Lesson: East coast, West coast, Balboa or lindy hop
Lesson at 8pm
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Free
Off Campus Dancing
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Buffalo’s Café in Alps Shopping Center – Tuesday, Feb 12
Lesson: 9- 10 p.m.
Dancing 10 – 12 p.m.
$3 at the doorJ
Just go through to the back room. Also feel free to show up early to dine.
Casino Salsa (aka Rueda Salsa)- Tuesday, Feb 12
Lessons are available
Dancing is from 8-10 pm
The Upstairs bar at Transmetropolitan, downtown Athens
$10 cover
Near Future
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Valentine's Friday Night Dance Party - Feb 15
~BDC~
Contact Us:
Bdcuga@gmail.com
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Events
I know that you all are anxiously awaiting last weeks Tango review, and I promise it is coming soon. In the mean time you can check out BPG's Tango this evening. Here are the rest of the happenings this week:
On Campus Dancing Events
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No Partner or Experience Necessary
Friday Night Dance, Friday Feb 1
Lesson: Tango
Free Lesson at 7 p.m.
Dance Party from 8 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
New Dance Theatre
$3 for students $5 for non students
Sunday Night Dance Lesson - Sunday Feb 3
Lesson:
Beginner lesson from 7-8 p.m.; Advanced Lesson from 8:30-9:00 p.m.
Open dancing till 9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall Ballroom
$2
Swing Club - Monday Feb 4
Lesson: East coast, West coast, Balboa or lindy hop
Lesson at 8pm
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Free
Downtown Dancing Events
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Saturday Night Salsa - Saturday, Feb 2
No Lesson
Dancing is from 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Upstairs at Tasty World, Downtown Athens (18+)
$5 cover
Casino Salsa (aka Rueda Salsa)- Tuesday Feb 5
Lessons are available
Dancing is from 8-10 pm
The Upstairs bar at Transmetropolitan, downtown Athens
$10 cover
~BDC~
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Dancing this week
Hello Everyone,
I hope that you all have weekend plans to see BPG's Ballroom magic show this weekend.
This week you can look forward to the return of Swing Club to Monday Nights.
And in other news we will be set up at the Winter Student Activities Fair on Tuesday, so please stop by and say hello. We would love to have some of you come and dance throughout the day, so if your interested just send me a quick e-mail.
Happy Dancing
and Break a leg BPG,
Lindsey
Regular Weekly Updates
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No Partner or Experience Necessary
Ballroom Performance's Group Annual Show
BALLROOM MAGIC 2008--Choose from 3 shows left!!!
Jan. 25 8pm Friday
Jan. 26 2pm AND 8pm Saturday
New Dance Theatre
$8 for students
$12 nonstudent
Tickets Available at the Tate Center Box:706-542-8074
http://www.ugaballroom.com/
Saturday Night Salsa - Saturday, Jan 26
No Lesson
Dancing is from 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Upstairs at Tasty World, Downtown Athens (18+)
$5 cover ($10 is live band)
Sunday Night Dance Lesson - Sunday Jan 27
Lesson: Tango
Beginning lesson at 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Advanced lesson at 8:00-8:30 p.m.
Dancing till 9:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Swing Club - Monday Jan 28
Lesson: East coast, West coast, Balboa or lindy hop
Lesson at 8pm
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Free
Casino Salsa (aka Rueda Salsa)- Tuesday Jan 29
Lessons are available
Dancing is from 8-10 pm
The Upstairs bar at Transmetropolitan, downtown Athens
$10 cover
Winter Activities Fair - Tuesday Jan 29
Stop by and say hello, you can even dance a little for us
10-3
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Near Future
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FNDP: Feb 1
Monday, January 21, 2008
Events
Casino Salsa (aka Rueda Salsa)- Tuesday, January 22
Lessons are available
Dancing is from 8-10 p.m.
The Upstairs bar at Transmetropolitan, downtown Athens
$10 cover
Ballroom Performance's Group Annual Show-------
BALLROOM MAGIC 2008--Choose from 4 shows!
Jan. 24 8pm
Jan. 25 8pm
Jan. 26 2pm AND 8pm
New Dance Theatre
$8 for students
$12 nonstudent
Directions to the dance building: http://www.franklin.uga.edu/dance/directions/index.htm
Tate Center Box Office Info:
706-542-8074
Visit our website for more information about our group and performances:
http://www.ugaballroom.com/
Near Future
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Sunday Night Lesson - January 27th
Swing Club - Monday, January 28th
Rueda Lesson- Sunday, Late January Early February
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Rumba Review
Last week Rachel did a great job of teaching us Rumba.
Here is a quick review of what she taught:
In the Beginning Lesson:
- The Basic - slow quick quick slow
- Rotating Basic - turning the basic box in quarter turn increments
- 5th Position Breaks - where the foot goes behind
- Cross over breaks - where the foot comes in front
- Pivot Turns - turning 180 degrees in one place
- Arch Turns - leading the turn away from you
- Loop Turns - leading the turn towards you
- Swivels - shake it!
- Rumba Cuddles
- Cuddles exited by a loop turn into crossover breaks
- Cuban breaks
- Sliding Doors
Here are the marks for the different moves so you can "fast forward" to what you want to review.
Box step 0:00
Underarm (Arch turn) 0:42
Open break underarm turns (turning from the open position) 1:32
Crossover breaks 2:12
Parallel breaks 3:10
Alternating open breaks 3:41
Ladies underarm turn into side-by-side turn 4:33
2nd position breaks (Cubans) 5:33
Extended box 6:10
Alternating crossover breaks 6:50
5th position breaks 7:40
Happy dancing
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Avanced Lesson Sucess
I'm not sure about everyone else but I felt that the advanced lesson was a breath of fresh air for some of our old hats. Rachel did a great job teaching moves that will really enhance our dancing dictionary and I can't wait till week after next.
Look out for tonight's lesson notes in future posts
happy dancing
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Back in the Black: First weeks events
Its a much shorter events this week, the Ritz is not having their weekly dances which is quite sad to the Athens dance community. Also their will be no Rueda lesson until after Ballroom Magic (Jan 24 -26) as our fabulous teachers will be in rehearsal.
On the bright side we are trying out a short intermediate lesson at the end of the regular Sunday Night Lesson. We know that many of you, would like to take it to the next step, so we are giving it a try. Please feel free to give us feed back (go ahead hit that comment button), and bear with us as we try to iron out the seems in the process.
Happy dancing,
Lindsey
Regular Weekly Updates
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No Partner or Experience Necessary
Sunday Night Dance Lesson - Sunday, January 13
Lesson: Rumba
One hour lesson at 7pm; Intermediate Lesson 8:00-8:30ish; Dancing till 9ish
Memorial Hall Ballroom
$2
Casino Salsa (aka Rueda Salsa)- Tuesday, January 15
Lessons are available
Dancing is from 8-10 p.m.
The Upstairs bar at Transmetropolitan, downtown Athens
$10 cover
Saturday Night Salsa - Saturday, January 12
No Lesson
Dancing is from 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Upstairs at Tasty World, Downtown Athens (18+)
$5 cover ($10 is live band)
Near Future
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Friday Night Dance Party - Friday, January 18th
Swing Club - Monday, January 28th
Rueda Lesson- Sunday, Late January Early February
Sunday, January 6, 2008
New Semester- New Start
Today the officers and teachers meet the hash out plans for next semester, and I have to say I'm really excited. Last semester, as many of you know had its fair share of disasters, but so far it looks as though this semester will run much more smoothly.
Things to look forward to,
Workshops - I think we really mean it this time
Formal - your chance to get all gussied up
More advanced moves in lessons
And maybe even some Valentine's Day Fun
Our first lesson is next Sunday, and we will be teaching Rumba!
Hope to see you dancing soon.
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