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

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

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.
  

In the advanced lesson:

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