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Spring Swing Thing Takes Shape, May 2 - 4
A
dance workshop with four of Alaska’s top instructors!
West Coast Swing • Hustle • Night Club Two-Step
Country Western Two-Step • Swing Dance at UAF!
$10 per class, or $8 per class for four or more classes. No
advance registration.
Learn basic—and
beyond—patterns in West Coast Swing, Hustle, Night Club
Two-Step, and Country Western Two-Step with classes taught
by four of Alaska’s premier social dance instructors.
Back by popular demand will be Liv Froholm and Van Rauch from
Anchorage. Liv and Van have taught together since 2001 and
have won West Coast Swing, Hustle, Night Club Two-Step, and
Country Two-Step dance competitions in the Lower 48. These
stellar dancers will be joined by Fairbanks’ own Judy
Kreith and Stefani Brown for a full weekend of fantastic dance
lessons!
And on Saturday
night, May 3, the six-piece Fairbanks Swing Cats band will
perform for the big Spring Swing Thing Dance at the UAF Wood
Center Ballroom! The Ballroom Dance Club is teaming up with
the Swing Club for this dance; it will take the place of our
usual social for May 3. For more info, contact Kurt Byers
at bluefox@acsalaska.net.
Get the workshop
schedule and the Country
Two-Step Advanced Class
Social Dance, May 16, Music from Girls With
Guitars
End
of Season Dance. Since it clearly needs some help warming
up around here, we will be having another social dance with
live music on Friday, May 16. Girls With Guitars will be playing
lots of great music. This will be a potluck event--bring a
dish and two get in for the price of one. Admission will be
$8. Stay tuned for details.
Free
Dance Practice Held Every Saturday
There
will be dance practice on May 3. All of our instructors say
that practice is very important, that it is key to learning
your dance moves well. Even if you are not taking classes you
are invited to come by to practice your steps; you can help
our beginners a lot by showing them how more experienced dancers
move around the floor and if you are a
beginner there are experienced dancers there who can help you
figure out the steps you are practicing. The practice is free
of charge.
COLD
WEATHER POLICY--Classes will
be canceled if the temperature at the airport is -35 F or colder
at noon; the airport weather phone number to call is 458-3745, after
connecting press 1-1-1-3. In the event that classes are canceled,
make-up classes will be scheduled at at a later date.
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Our newest effort, Swing Dance for Beginners with Judy Kreith and
J.J. Laserna, is now availible in limited quantities.

Our Intermediate/Advanced West Coast Swing DVD, featuring Jerry
Blemke (dancing with local lovlies Anya and Mary) is also now available
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Both are screaming bargains at $10 U.S. -- Details below

CLUB DANCES, PRACTICES AND MEETINGS

Dance practices
are held every Saturday from 4 PM to 6 PM during dance class sessions.
They are free for all to attend. We structure the music to accomodate
the dances being taught during the the curent session.

SOCIAL DANCES are held twice a month
on the first Saturday and third Friday of each month.
8:30-11:30 at the Pioneer Park Dance
Center. Our dances feature great music for all of your favorite
dances, yummy snacks, and lots of friendly folks to dance with.
Some dances include a lesson at no extra cost. Couples, singles,
beginning and experienced dancers are all very welcome. Always smoke
and alcohol free, all ages welcome. Cost is only $5. Please bring
a pair of clean-soled, non-marking shoes to protect the best dance
floor in Fairbanks.

OTHER DANCE EVENTS AND INFORMATION

FREE DANCE CLASSES FOR COMMUNITY
CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS
We invite all local clubs and community organizations
to have a free dance lesson from one of our excellent teachers at
your next dance event. Click Here for
info
SATURDAY NIGHTS
- SWING/BALLROOM/LATIN DANCING AT THE SILVER SPUR: Join
Kurt Byers and his great recorded music at the Silver Spur saturdays
from 6-8:30, before the country dancers arrive. Lotsa swing and
all your other favorite dances -- Argentine Tango too! Must be
21. Don't be shy to come out to the Spur if you're a beginner.
You'll find plenty of friendly, experienced dancers there who
will be glad to take you out for a spin, maybe even show ya a
cool move or two. Dancing with several different partners can
really help your dancing. Ladies-- you will be AMAZED at how different
the lead can be from different guys! Click this link for the latest
Swing Club E-newsletter: Newsletter
SUNDAY EVENING
DANCING AT CHATANIKA LODGE: Teresa Bauer, our Chatanika
Nightingale performs every Sunday evening, 4 pm to 8 pm, at Chatanika
Lodge. If you haven't heard her truly wonderful voice, you owe
it to yourself to make the scenic drive to Chatanika and check
it out. It's a great way to wind down your weekend! Nice dance
floor and good food, too.
BIMONTHLY
CONTRA DANCES: Have you tried contra dancing? If not, you're
missing one of the most fun dance happenings in Fairbanks! It's
a bit like square dancing, but done in long lines, dancing with
a different person each time the music repeats. This dance form
was designed for flirting! Quote: "Contra dance is a form of dance
that thrusts a different person of the opposite sex into your
arms every 30 seconds". Always live music and a great mix of friendly
folks of all ages. Waltzes too! Details: www.acsalaska.net/~jadams47/
DANCE INSTRUCTION/REVIEW DVD'S
& VIDEOTAPES
Our latest production:
SWING DANCE FOR BEGINNERS with Judy Kreith and J.J. Laserna
will get you off on the right foot. It covers all the essentials
of partnering dynamics in swing, eg: dancing on the beat and doing
those pretzel moves without sending your partner to the E.R. Contents
DANCE INSTRUCTION DVD'S
by JERRY BLEMKE -- bio
(Produced by our Club and available for only $10 each at our classes
or dances).
Advanced East
Coast Swing
Amaze your friends!---Learn the Boogie Walk, Jump Step, Camel
Walk, and 20 more cool moves on this very fun dvd. Contents
Intermediate/Advanced
West Coast Swing
Face Loops Tuck and Spin, Toe-Heel Swivels, Hammerlock to Neck
Wrap ........more than 20 totally slinky WCS moves are yours on
this dvd. Contents
NIGHT CLUB 2-STEP DVD by
LIV and VAN

Liv Froholm and Van Rauch, from Anchorage, are national-competition-class
dancers and excellent instructors who taught a superb workshop
for us in Night Club 2-Step in December, '06. Our dvd of their
workshop features detailed, step-by-step instruction in this wonderful
dance which is done to slow, romantic music. This is a totally
different dance from Country 2-Step. Their instruction is especially
clear and easy to follow. You can easily learn this dance from
scratch using this dvd. Cost is only $10. Contents
BALLROOM DANCE REVIEW DVD
Where can you find the following practice moves:
Waltz(22), Foxtrot(17), East Coast Swing(29), Cha Cha (10) and Rumba
(10)?
Answer: On our locally-produced DVD available
to our students for only $25. This DVD is only available locally,
and is not available by mail order. Take a look at the extensive
Table of Contents! click here
ZIMMERMAN 4-COUNT SWING VHS TAPE
Contact Kurt Byers at fnkmb1@uaf.edu
to get your copy! Download a sample video (.wmv) of Greg and Susie
Zimmerman doing a few of their cool 4-count moves at their retirement
party in Nov, 2002. NOTE:
file is 7.2mb and takes about 5 min to download on DSL, Since it
is not a streaming video, you will need to right click this link
and choose "save target as".... right
click here
TIPS FOR NEW DANCERS
Tip #6) MOVING AROUND THE
DANCE FLOOR (OR NOT) KURT BYERS:

As the winter dance season swings into high gear, and our local
dance floors get crowded at the Silver Spur, Big Daddy's, and
other venues, and with the Harvest Moon Ball fast approaching,
it's a good time remind everyone that there are some basic tenets
for taking up real estate on the dance floor. Different kinds
of dances can often be done to a single song. For example, many
Big Band swing numbers are great for both East Coast/Lindy swing
and Foxtrot. ECS and Lindy are considered "spot" dances,
done more-or-less in one spot on the dance floor. Foxtrot is
a "traveling dance," moving counterclockwise as if
on a track around the perimeter of the floor. Spot dancers and
traveling dancers need to accommodate each other. The rule is,
spot dancers (regardless of skill level) must stay away from
the perimeter of the floor, allowing free passage for the traveling
dancers around the outside of the floor. And traveling dancers
should stay to the outside of the floor and avoid invading the
spot dancers' real estate on the inside of the floor.
Click Here for previous tips.
CONTACT INFO
We are located at the Dance Center within Pioneer
Park just Northeast of the intersection of Peger Road and Airport
Way.
Maps: Regional - Detailed
Ballroom Dance Club of Fairbanks Incorporated
P.O. Box 81197
Fairbanks, AK 99708
http://www.ballroomfairbanks.org
Contact us at info@ballroomfairbanks.org
For upcoming events call 456-3331
Pioneer Park Dance center: 452-5699
To access the hall during off hours, call Pioneer Park Security:
452-2215
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website updated February 18,
2008
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