At last year’s Stars over Macon Ball, Eddie Ares generously offered to come to Macon to give a free dance workshop. It’s taken almost a year but the workshop date has finally been scheduled: Sunday, September 26, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. at the Howard Community Club. After the workshop, our dance will start at …
Category Archive: lessons
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Jul
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Celebrate National Dance Day!
And support our troops & veterans! Today is National Dance Day, the brainchild of Nigel Lythgoe (executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance) and the Dizzy Feet Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting increased access to dance education. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce a National Dance Day resolution in Congress today, but …
Jul
24
“Go big or don’t go”
Driving back from our lesson with Eddie this afternoon, I passed a minivan whose back window was dominated by a huge decal from a dance studio. Below the studio name was the slogan “Go big or don’t go!” I had to smile because I’d been having the same conversation with Eddie just a couple of …
May
24
Mid-Summer Bummer
We just got word yesterday that this year’s SouthernStar Mid-Summer Classic has been canceled due to “multiple factors beyond [the organizers'] control.” It’s hard not to wonder what happened, given that the date had been scheduled long ago and the organizers were already promoting the competition. We’re sad to be missing the comp this year. …
Mar
12
Relevant Statistics
From our overnight trip to Atlanta on Wednesday/Thursday… Miles driven in teeming rain: approximately 90 (to ATL on Wednesday) Miles driven sans teeming rain, thank God: another 90 (back home on Thursday) Lessons with Eddie: 4 (2 per day) Routines learned: 2 (tango, foxtrot) Total wine expenditure: $20 (for only 2 glasses–”thanks,” California Pizza Kitchen) …
Feb
07
Practice makes hilarity
We saw Eddie again last weekend and spent most of our lesson learning a tango routine. Now we have 2 routines to practice while he is traveling for the next few weeks–we won’t get another lesson till early March. So far I have elbowed Daniel in the face twice (once each in waltz and tango) …
Jan
24
Movin’ on up…
Yesterday we had our first private lesson in months–Daniel’s surgery and then the holidays shot the wheels off November and December but we are getting the ball rolling now. We talked to Eddie about moving up from Bronze to Silver level at competition and discussed the possibility of skipping the syllabus levels altogether and starting …
Jan
04
New Year’s resolution: Learn new dances!
If you are looking to move beyond the basic waltz, tango, & foxtrot (or cha-cha, rumba, and swing), check out this workshop coming up: This is a workshop for those wanting to learn the basics of West Coast Swing and Hustle. Step patterns will be given. Instructor: Philip Jones. Philip started dancing in high school …
Aug
29
Tango and waltz workshops coming soon
Clint Rauscher of Tango Evolution, assisted by our own Joyce Newman, will be teaching two Argentine Tango workshops in Macon on September 20 and October 18, with plans for a regular third Sunday workshop if turnout is good for those two dates. Each workshop will be 2 hours followed by a one-hour “practica” (practice time). …
Aug
08
Media blitz!
Photos from the SouthernStar Midsummer Classic competition are now available here. We are in the American Smooth and American Rhythm divisions. Also, last night a reporter/cameraman from WMAZ showed up at our First Friday dance at the Sports Hall of Fame. He took video of us dancing and recorded short interviews with Paula and with …