Category Archives: MSDC

• Foxtrot in November

  Posted on October 24, 2013 by lauraet in MSDC, teaching.

  Tweet If you’ve been waiting for your chance to join our ballroom class at Madison Studio, November is your chance. We’ll be doing a short session of 2 classes (90 minutes each) in November focusing on the foxtrot. The dates are Sunday, November 3 and Sunday, November 10, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Learn a new dance and […]

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• “Translocal”?

  Posted on May 19, 2012 by lauraet in dancing in the media, in other news, MSDC.

  Tweet Jonathan Marion, whom I can pretend to know because he is a frequent flyer on Dance Forums, published this interesting article about “the translocal culture of competitive ballroom dance” in Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement.  The article does a nice job explaining that competitive dancers not only take the extensive travel […]

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• Instrument Petting Zoo!

  Posted on March 11, 2012 by lauraet in dance events, dancing in the media, Dancing Stars of Central Georgia, exhibitions & performances, MSDC, Uncategorized.

  Tweet Daniel and I had to stay busy between meeting our Dancing Stars partners and finding out the dances we’d been assigned, so last Sunday we spent the afternoon at the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences’ “Instrument Petting Zoo” event.  The event is an annual collaboration between the Museum and the Mercer/Macon Youth Orchestra […]

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• Spring Formal at Macon State College

  Posted on February 12, 2012 by lauraet in dance events, MSDC, social dancing.

  Tweet It used to be the case (18th-19th centuries, after the invention of partner dancing as we know it) that “older” and/or married people didn’t dance at parties or balls.  Dancing was for the young people and those who were courting.  I’m glad that’s not true anymore or Daniel and I would not have had […]

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• For the Macon State Dance Club: Dancing makes you smarter!

  Posted on January 27, 2012 by lauraet in MSDC.

  Tweet A tip of the hat to Sadie for sending this video clip my way.  It fits right in with this past Wednesday’s first meeting of the Macon State College Dance Club, for which I have the honor to serve as faculty advisor.  We had an incredible turnout of around 20 students, all full of […]

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  Introducing the Macon State Dance Club

  Posted on November 29, 2011 by lauraet in MSDC.

  Tweet After a lot of “We should” and “Why isn’t there” and “How do we,” I am excited to announce that Macon State College is finally starting a dance club! This project fell into my lap a few weeks ago already half done; the students who wanted to start the club came to me with […]

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