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This thread contains local Ithaca dance classes - I link to specific events from the newsletter I send out. (Are you on that list: "Mikes-Music"?)

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Missed 1st class because of weather last Tues? [/b]well, there is still time to jump in. We will review!
And deduct $12 per couple/ $6 per single for coming in at week 2.


BALLROOM BASICS - Slow Fox Trot & Hustle - TUES 8:10-9:20pm - START Feb. 26, 2008, \ 6 weeks. (mid-session break: no class Mar 18th)

[/size]Classes meet in the beautiful Island Health & Fitness building - great floor, great sound system. Only $65 per person, discounts for couples, club members, & previous students. Info, music lists, fees: www.ithacadance.com - register now to reserve a space. Gift certificates available.

For raw beginners, as well as those with some dance experience. Improve your leading, following, listening to the music, posture, balance, movement and enjoyment! Singles as well as couples are welcome: we pair up and rotate the singles frequently throughout the class.

Castle Foxtrot, one of the earliest American ballroom dances, is our favorite beginner ballroom strategy. This slow foxtrot is perfect for dancing at weddings. It is danced to slow music, and there is a lot of great slow popular music from all time periods up to the present day. Learning STYLE is as important as learning steps, moves, and lead/follow technique. The Castle Foxtrot is enjoyable, definitely the easiest to learn, very practical and adaptable. You will hear plenty of great music in our classes.

Hustle is so much fun for all those great dance tunes of the 70s, 80s, right up to 2008: Bees Gees, ABBA, Madonna, Earth Wind & Fire, Michael Jackson, KC & The Sunshine Band, Whitney Houston, C&C Music Factory, Scissors Sisters, and on and on! Hustle is a mix of swing and latin stylings. It really moves around the floor, with lots of turns. We love the music of hustle and the dance that goes great with it. Hustle and Castle Foxtrot give you everything you need for the majority of tunes played at weddings.

Free CD with practice tunes! We give plenty of individual attention. Instructors: Kurt Lichtmann (Cornell Dance Instructor, M.M. Ithaca College) and Maria Bodiu.
Info, music lists, fees: www.ithacadance.com

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BALLROOM BASICS - Slow Fox Trot & Hustle - TUES 8:10-9:20pm - START Feb. 26, 2008,
6 weeks. (mid-session break: no class Mar. 1 Classes meet in the beautiful Island Health & Fitness building - great floor, great sound system. Only $65 per person, discounts for couples, club members, & previous students. Info, music lists, fees: www.ithacadance.com - register now to reserve a space. Gift certificates available.

For raw beginners, as well as those with some dance experience. Improve your leading, following, listening to the music, posture, balance, movement and enjoyment! Singles as well as couples are welcome: we pair up and rotate the singles frequently throughout the class.

Hustle is so much fun for all those great dance tunes of the 70s, 80s, right up to 2008: Bees Gees, ABBA, Madonna, Earth Wind & Fire, Michael Jackson, KC & The Sunshine Band, Whitney Houston, C&C Music Factory, Scissors Sisters, and on and on! Hustle is a mix of swing and latin stylings. It really moves around the floor, with lots of turns. We love the music of hustle and the dance that goes great with it. Hustle and Castle Foxtrot give you everything you need for the majority of tunes played at weddings.
Castle Foxtrot, one of the earliest American ballroom dances, is our favorite beginner ballroom strategy. This slow foxtrot is perfect for dancing at weddings. It is danced to slow music, and there is a lot of great slow popular music from all time periods up to the present day. Learning STYLE is as important as learning steps, moves, and lead/follow technique. The Castle Foxtrot is enjoyable, definitely the easiest to learn, very practical and adaptable. You will hear plenty of great music in our classes.
Free CD with practice tunes! We give plenty of individual attention. Instructors: Kurt Lichtmann (Cornell Dance Instructor, M.M. Ithaca College) and Maria Bodiu. Info, music lists, fees: www.ithacadance.com
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It's time to Swing!

5-Week beginner series begins NEXT THURS March 6, 8-9pm, CSMA
Classes 3/6, 3/13, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10 (no class 3/20)
Members $42
Non-members $56
http://www.csma-ithaca.org/ or 272-1474 to register.

Coast to Coast Swing
An introduction to jazzy East Coast Swing (a.k.a. Jitterbug) and smooth, bluesy West Coast Swing. You'll learn basic steps of both dances and partnering skills essential for all social dances. Find out what these two dances are, and how to look good doing them! To encourage the highest level of learning and dancing, students rotate partners during class. No partner or experience necessary to enroll.


Hope to see you there!
Maren
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Authentic Lindy Hop Swing Dancing!

5-Week into series begins THIS MONDAY, March 3
Time: 730-830pm
Location: Soma Yoga Studio (backside of the building) 409 W State St.
Cost: $40 pre-registered
For more information and to register go here: www.groovejuiceswing.com

Intro to Lindy Hop
The Lindy Hop is the original high-energy partnered jazz dance, invented in the late 1920's Harlem and popularized in the '30s and '40s. We can't wait to have you join us for this exciting five week series! We'll focus on the fundamental Lindy Hop moves and rhythms for the inexperienced beginners, and break them down to more detail for those with some swing dance experience.

See you soon!
Jerone Gagliano
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Saturdays, 7PM-8:30PM, starting March 1st (THIS SATURDAY!)
Dance Emotion
Connecting emotions and dance
Yoga AHIMSA
272-YOGA
www.ithacayoga.org
An Exploration of Dance through... any medium, and a modern dance class.
The main focus of the classwill be freeing, connecting to, and expressing emotion through dance; including yelling and noise, stillness, and more. No technique or experience necessary, but this would be a good class for a professional dancer as well.
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SWING - FROM SCRATCH !

TUES 8:10-9:20pm - START April 22, 6 weeks, Island Health & Fitness

Several popular styles will be taught! East Coast Swing, Jumpswing, 50s style, and Charleston. Suitable for any swing event in Ithaca, or anywhere in the world. Dance to great tunes 1930-2008. Some easy dips, but no throws - it's safe and comfortable for ALL age levels. Singles as well as couples are welcome: we pair up and rotate the singles frequently throughout the class. Free CD with practice tunes. Discounts for couples, and for previous students. Kurt Lichtmann & Christel Trutmann. Register by mail, Paypal, or at the door. Shall we hold a slot for you?
More at: www.ithacadance.com Kurt Lichtmann kpl5cornell@yahoo.com

Students say:

"Of course, this class is awesome. I will take Swing II.
The teachers, the music, the people - I love swing dancing!" - Fall 2007

"Do it! It's fun and the music is great!" - Fall 2007

"Good chuckles, fluid & welcoming, confidence building.
This is learning swing instead of learning to get stressed out by being a klutz.
Steps are broken down, atmosphere is all bounce." - Fall 2007

"This is the best course I've taken at Cornell!. ...The style of teaching is very clean and easily understandable. The music is good. " - Summer 2003

"The course is tons of fun, and I learned very much. HOORAY FOR SWING!" - Fall 2001

"We learned a lot from the course and the instructors were very talented. I feel confident to go out and dance swing." - Fall 2001



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Ballroom Classes at CSMA with Iska and James

See www.csma-ithaca.org to register; Questions? mailto: iziver@verizon.net

Beginning Wednesday, April 23 for five weeks

6:00 – 7:00 pm - Beginning Waltz

This is an introductory course for those who want to learn waltz in a fun, upbeat and supportive environment. We’ll cover basic steps, movement and posture of this romantic and elegant dance. Learn the aspects of partner dancing that easily transfer to any dance. We’ll spend time on connecting with your partner, the basic elements of lead and follow, and good foundational technique. No partner necessary!

7:00 – 7:30 pm - Open Practice

Free and open to any CSMA social dance student, past or present – we’ll play a variety of music for practicing what you’ve learned.

7:30 – 8:30 pm – Night Club Two Step

Night Club Two Step is a wonderful slow dance that lilts and flows, and can be danced to a variety of music styles. As a nice complement to your faster dance repertoire, NC2S is a great dance to bring to clubs, ballrooms, and weddings. Some dance experience is recommended.

No partner necessary – we’ll rotate in class. We recommend wearing smooth-bottomed shoes. Come prepared to learn and have fun doing it!

Here’s what students from previous sessions had to say: “James and Iska made it fun, it was great!”; “Perfect introduction to ballroom. We had lots of fun and felt ourselves improving!”; “The class was excellently paced, allowing everyone to understand the steps. I highly recommend James’ and Iska’s classes to all dance lovers, no matter what your skill level is.”

A little about us…….

By day Iska is a practicing attorney in Ithaca in the areas of family law, mediation and collaborative law. Her other passion is dance. She has trained in various partner dances since 1999, and also studied ballet, jazz, belly dance, modern dance and theatre arts. In addition to CSMA, she has taught swing, Latin and ballroom dance at Cornell and also offers private lessons.

James has been dancing for more than 20 years. He has taught a variety of partner dances - including ballroom, swing and Latin - in California, New York and Sydney, Australia. He has competed professionally as well as given private instruction and coaching to many other competitive dancers.


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CHACHA - THURS 7:20-8:20pm - START Dec.2, 2008, short 3-week pre-holiday class series. Classes meet in the beautiful, spacious Island Health & Fitness building on the inlet - great floor, great sound system. Only $35 per person, discounts for couples, club members, & previous students. Info, music lists, fees: www.ithacadance.com - register now to reserve a space.

Chacha is Cuban in origin. During the 1950s, the Cha Cha became a craze due to popularization by Arthur Murray, who spent considerable time in Cuba. He also changed the name from CHA-CHA-CHA to Chacha! Chacha is always played in the mix on club latin nights. It has become a ballroom staple as well, with a decidedly different look and feel than club or street style. As with all dances, Cha cha can be danced vigorously, or in a very mellow style. Check out Angel & Reyna dancing street style Chacha in Cuba: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAxDwrYVS4 video

For raw beginners, as well as those with some dance experience. NO PARTNER NEEDED: Singles as well as couples are welcome: we pair up and rotate the singles frequently throughout the class.

Free CD with practice tunes! We give plenty of individual attention. Instructors: Kurt Lichtmann (Cornell Dance Instructor, M.M. Ithaca College) and Heather Carlsen, currently Ithaca's #1 couples dance teaching team. Info, music lists, fees: www.ithacadance.com - register now to reserve a space.
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