Daniel & Laura

American society doesn’t give us many reasons to look forward to getting older, but continuing to dance for the next several decades is one aspect of aging that I look forward to.  The ballroom world is full of people who are still dancing in their 80s and beyond.  Locally, the Georgia Golden Olympics provides a [...]

In 2009 we will be going to Louisiana twice: once to New Orleans for the PCA/ACA annual conference (not dance related at all, though there are some conference sessions about dance) and once to Baton Rouge for the Gumbo DanceSport Championships, June 26 and 27, 2009.  “Gumbo DanceSport Championships” is funny enough, but this event [...]

On Saturday, February 21, 2009, we competed in our first USA Dance-sanctioned competition, the Triangle Open Dancesport Championship.  Since the summer we’d been working hard to improve our dancing and were rewarded with 5 first-place results!  Although we are still just beginners compared to a lot of the dancers we saw, we [...]