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Social Dance Friday, June 19th, 8:30 PM At Pioneer Park

There is a social dance this Friday, June 19th at the the Pioneer Park Dance Hall. We will have a wide variety of music - Ballroom, Swing and Latin styles. The dance starts at 8:30 PM and goes to about 11:30. There will be refreshments and snacks. There's no smoking or alcohol so the dance is family friendly. Admission is $5 per person. Please bring clean, non-marking soled shoes to help protect our great dance floor.

Cross Step Waltz Refresher Class Monday, June 29

We have added a review class for Cross Step Waltz to our summer offerings. Judy Kreith, with assistance from Stan Justice, will review those steps you aren't quite remembering. These review classes are designed to review many steps and so are not intended to as a vehicle for learning new steps, therefor previous instruction in Cross Step Waltz is necessary. This class will be held at the Pioneer Park Dance Hall on June 29th from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM followed by thirty minutes of music to practice by. The class will be $15 per person.  

Waltz, Foxtrot, Cha Cha and Rumba Refreshers Scheduled in July

Megan Allen will be holding refresher classes in July on the 6th, 8th, 15th & 20th. All of these classes will be 1 1/2 hours with half an hour of practice following. These sessions will be from 7 PM to 9 PM. The price per person is $15 per class. Please note that there is a change in the schedule, due to scheduling for important floor maintenance at the dance hall, the Cha Cha refresher has moved from the 13th of July to the 20th of July.

Monday, July 6 - Waltz Refresher
Wednesday, July 8 - Foxtrot Refresher
Wednesday, July 15th - Rumba Refresher
Monday, July 20th - Cha Cha Refresher



Dance Practice Will be Held Saturdays from 4 PM to 6 PM at the Pioneer Park Dance Hall.

We have a regular schedule of dance practices. They are held from 4 PM to 6 PM on Saturdays at the Pioneer Park Dance Hall. They are open to everyone and are free of charge. Please bring a pair of clean, non-marking soled shoes.  We plan to hold practices through the summer.  Please note that there will not be a practice held on July 4th.


Ballroom Dance Club In The News

Erica Goff of the Fairbanks News-Miner wrote a wonderful article about the Ballroom Dance Club of Fairbanks that appeared in the Sunday, February 15 paper. If you missed the article, you can go see it here: http://newsminer.com/news/2009/feb/15/dance-dance-dance/ . Pass this along to your friends who need to discover our fine club.

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Dancing Saturdays at the Silver Spur, 6 to 8:30

Nice big dance floor, good sound system, and friendly, efficient bartender and service staff. Expect a wide variety of excellent dance music, about half of which is for different kinds of swing, the other half for various Latin and ballroom dances. No cover charge. Adults only. Singles welcome and encouraged.

 

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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Twin Births:

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 for sale.

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.

QUE PASA - LATIN DANCE NIGHT AT THE BLUE LOON:
D.J. Mike Guzman plays hot Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Reggeton, and hip-hop with the occasional cumbia and polka thrown in. Usually held two Fridays per month, with some variations. Check schedule at: http://www.theblueloon.com/events.html


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.
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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 October 21, 2008