Friday, May 17
Warm-Up:
Beautiful In My Eyes
I Came To Love You
Vanotek Cha
Revolution
New Teach:
Just Dance! by Debbie Rushton & Niels Poulsen. 80 Count, 2-Wall, Intermediate/Advanced dance to the music “Let’s Shut Up & Dance” by Jason Derulo, LAY, & NCT 127. We had learned this at Rachael’s last workshop and I was going to wait to teach it but before I knew it the words were coming out of my mouth that we were going to learn a new one and away we went! Most of the class had already had it at least once but there were a few more that had not seen it yet. Everyone did great with it!
Reviews:
Satisfied
Nothing But You
Scotia Samba
My Angel & Me
Salsa Perdon
True Inspiration
Danced:
Simply The Best
Monday, May 13, 2019
Warm-Up:
Jessie
Vanotek Cha
Beautiful In My Eyes
Reviews:
5:15
Satisfied
Nothing But You
Scotia Samba
My Angel & Me
Salsa Perdon
Mad Crazy Love
True Inspiration
Danced:
Simply The Best
Pull You Through
I Came To Love You
Don’t Think About You
Requests:
Love Rush
Your Loving Arms
To The Moon & Back
Tightrope
Secrets We Keep
Hourglass
Friday, May 10, 2019
Warm-Up:
Don’t Think About You
Simply The Best
Pull You Through
New Teaches:
5:15 by Fred Whitehouse. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Easy Intermediate dance to the music “Hold You To It” by Tyler Dial. One easy jazz box tag after wall 3. The class did great with this and we danced it twice.
Satisfied by Amy Glass. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate dance to the music “Satisfied” by Galantis featuring MAX. Quick start (4 beats) and one restart on wall 4. Many had learned this already, but I wanted to catch everyone else up. Again, we danced it twice.
Reviews:
Geoff:
Nothing But You
Scotia Samba
My Angel & Me
Nancy:
Salsa Perdon
Jamie:
Nobody
True Inspiration
Mad Crazy Love
Your Loving Arms
Just Danced:
California
Love Rush
Uphill Battle
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers! Have a great weekend! See everyone Monday!
Monday, May 6, 2019
I’m not sure... but I think we’re all going to end up weighing more than we started when Celia’s holiday is over!!! More goodies today - and you just can’t pass them up! So yummy!!! And, we bid “safe & healthy summer” to Gail today - she’ll be back in December.
Warm-Up:
Falling Walls
Beautiful In My Eyes
New Teach (by Geoff):
Nothing But You by Darren Bailey. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate dance to the music “Nothing But You” by Leaving Austin. One easy restart on wall 5. Peppy little thing! Fun and the class did really well with it! We danced it at the end of the day, too!
Reviews:
My Angel & Me
Scotia Samba
Salsa Perdon
Nobody
True Inspiration
Danced:
I Came To Love You
Lonely Drum
Simply The Best
Can’t You See
Don’t Think About You!
Make You Mine
Mad Crazy Love
Secrets We Keep
Hourglass
Have a great week! See everyone Friday!
Friday, May 3, 2019
Celia showered us with more treats today!!! Oh so yummm!!!
Warm-Up:
Beautiful In My Eyes
Taps (4)
I Came To Love You
The Bounce (4)
Vanotek Cha
New Teach:
Geoff taught us “My Angel And Me” by Karl-Harry Winson. 64 Count, 4 Wall Intermediate dance to the music “Hello My Love” by Westlife. There is one restart and one tag in this dance. The class did really well with it and liked it a lot!
Geoff also taught us “Scotia Samba” by Lizzie Clarke and Bev Clarke (mother & daughter). 64 Count, 4 Wall Intermediate dance to the music “Dance The Night Away” by the Mavericks. No tags, no restarts. This dance was Dance of the Year back in 1998! We learned and danced this today in tribute to Lizzie who passed away suddenly about a week ago. She has been a legend and icon in the UK dance world for years and will be missed by many.
Reviews:
Salsa Perdon (Nancy)
Simply The Best
Nobody
True Inspiration
Mad Crazy Love
Your Loving Arms
Just Danced:
Love Rush
We danced the two new ones again to end the class time.
Have a great weekend! See you Monday!
Monday, April 29, 2019
It was an INTERNATIONAL class today!!! Geoff & Celia Ellis are here visiting - always a highlight for us! And we were lucky enough to have Barb stay in town last night so she could join us today!
Warm-Up:
Beautiful In My Eyes
Vanotek Cha
Just A Phase
Hourglass
New Teach (by Nancy):
Salsa Perdon by Rachael McEnaney-White. 48 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate salsa style dance. Music “El Perdon” by Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias.
Reviews:
Simply The Best
Nobody
True Inspiration
Mad Crazy Love
Your Loving Arms
Danced:
Don’t Think About You
Tightrope
Geoff will be bringing us a new teach on Friday - he has two for us while he’s visiting: Karl-Harry Winson’s My Angel & Me and Darren Bailey’s Nothing But You - both of which his class really like! We’ll see which one we do on Friday!
NOTE! Practice sessions start WEDNESDAY!!! 9am-12 noon at Club Naples RV Resort! Bring your lists!!!
Friday, April 26, 2019
Friday, April 26, 2019
Warm-Up:
The Last Word
The Language of Love
Uphill Battle (4)
Kiss Of Heaven
Change Your Mind
Beautiful In My Eyes
Reviews:
Mad Crazy Love
True Inspiration
Nobody
Simply The Best
Tai-Want Love
Don’t Think About You
Your Loving Arms
I Came To Love You
Danced:
Vanotek Cha
Healing Hands
Just A Phase
Love Rush
Monday, April 22, 2019
Warm-Up:
Falling Walls
Somebody To Love
Beautiful In My Eyes
Reviews:
Mad Crazy Love
True Inspiration
Nobody
Simply The Best
Can’t Ya See
Tai-Want Love
Don’t Think About You
Your Loving Arms
Danced:
Taste
Feed The Fetish
Smell Of Your Sweet Perfume
Friday, April 19, 2019
Warm-Up:
Beyond Beautiful
Where I Stood (4)
Jessie (4)
Reviews:
True Inspiration
Mad, Crazy Love
Nobody
Simply The Best
Can’t Ya See
Danced:
Addicted
Off My Feet
Vaiven
Hourglass
Rythm Inside
Have a wonderful Easter! See everyone Monday!
Monday, April 15, 2019
You were all troopers today!!! Great job!!!
Warm-Ups:
Uphill Battle
California
Secrets We Keep
No Strings Attached
Reviews:
Simply The Best
Nobody
Can’t Ya See
Walk-Thrus:
Don’t Think About You
Tai-Want Love
New Teaches:
Valerie brought us Julia Wetzel’s “True Inspiration”. What a great dance!!! 32 Count, 2 Walls, High Intermediate NC2S to the music “You Say” by Lauren Daigle. There is a 16-count tag (which we’re calling “B” since it’s done everytime on the back wall (except the first time back there) and then there’s a rocking chair tag added to the end of “B” the 2nd time. Thank you, Valerie, for bringing this to us!
I taught “Mad Crazy Love” by Gary O’Reilly. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Rolling 8 to the music “Mad Crazy Love” by Tenille Arts. I threw this at the class at the very end of the class period. Even with four tags, everyone did a really good job with this and we’ll look at it again on Friday.
Happy Tax Day!!! Have a great week!
Friday, April 12, 2019
You can always tell when it’s Friday! LOL!
Big welcome to Gail Platt who has moved to the area and is beginning to check out all the various classes in her roaming radius! Nice to have you join us!!!
Warm-Up:
Taps (4)
Change Your Mind (4)
Sleepwalk With Me (4)
Make You Mine (4)
Bardot Blues (full)
Bethlehem Child (4)
Reviews:
Can’t Ya See
Tai-Want Love
Don’t Think About You
Danced:
Taste
Just A Phase
Hourglass
Love Rush
New Teaches:
Simply The Best by Maddison Glover & Rachael McEnaney-White. 48 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate Cha Cha. 1 restart on Wall 4. Great job! We also danced it again at the end of the class - it seemed like most of it even came back! LOL!
Nobody by Jessica Devlin. 64 Count, 2 Wall (actually a 3 wall) Intermediate dance to the music “Nobody” by Todrick Hall. 1 restart on Wall 5 which puts the dance on the side wall until the end. Again - great job!!!
Have a great weekend! See you all Monday!
Monday, April 8, 2019
Our last day with Cheri! We look forward to your return - whenever that may be!!!
Warm-Up:
The Last Word (4)
Kiss Of Heaven (4)
Jessie (4)
The Bounce (4)
Where I Stood (4)
Reviews:
Can’t Ya See
Tai-Want Love
Don’ Think About You
Feed The Fetish
Addicted
I Came To Love You
Vaiven
The Smell Of Your Sweet Perfume
Danced:
My Rules
Somebody To Love
Revolution
Hourglass
No Strings Attached
Love Rush
Consequences
Rythm Inside
Healing Hands
California
Falling Walls
Beyond Beautiful
New teach(s?) coming Friday.....
Have a great week!
Friday, April 6, 2019
What kind of instructor goes to class without their music????!!!! Geesh! Again - my apologies for such a late start of class on Friday! But, also again, SO IMPRESSED!!! I was thrilled to walk in to the room and see ALL OF YOU on the floor just dancing away!!! AWESOME!!!
You all did your own warm-up:
Uphill Battle
Just a Phase
Where I Stood
Secrets We Keep
Reviews:
Can’t Ya See
I Came To Love You
Vaiven
Tai Want Love
Don’t Think About You
Feed The Fetish
The Smell Of Your Sweet Perfume
Danced:
Off My Feet
California
Taste
Jessie
Monday, April 1, 2019
APRIL!!! Wow! And time just keeps marching by!
Warm-Up:
Taps (4)
Sleepwalk With Me (full)
Back In Town (4)
Bardot Blues (full)
Secrets We Keep (4)
New Teach:
Can’t Ya See by Joey Warren. 32 Count, 2 Wall, High Intermediate. Music “Falling” by Why Don’t We. One 16-count tag. We took our time with this and tried to really work on the timing. We danced it twice and once more at the end of class.
Reviews:
Vaiven
Tai-Want Love
Don’t Think About You
Danced:
Hourglass
No Strings Attached
Love Rush
Consequences
Make You Mine
Have a wonderful week - see you Friday!
Friday, March 29, 2019
WELCOME BACK JANET!!! Oh my, it’s been such a longggg time!!! So good to have you on the dance floor again!
And... farewell, Pam! See you in Raleigh! So nice to have you with us this winter! Hopefully you’ll be able to stay even a little longer next year! Such an asset to our class!!!
Warm-Up:
Where I Stood (4)
Rythm Inside (4)
Sleepwalk With Me (4)
Healing Hands (4)
Uphill Battle (4)
Reviews:
Tai-Want Love
The Smell Of Your Sweet Perfume
Don’t Think About You!
Feed The Fetish
Addicted
Off My Feet (yes, Pam - the one Chris taught! LOL!)
California
Taste
Hourglass
Danced:
Beyond Beautiful
Secrets We Keep
Change Your Mind
Falling Walls
Somebody To Love
Jessie
Revolution
Love Rush
Monday, March 25, 2019
Today’s Class
Monday, March 25, 2019
Warm-Up:
Language Of Love (4)
Kiss of Heaven (full)
The Bounce (4)
Bethlehem Child (4)
New Teach (Valerie):
Tai-Want Love by Debbie Rushton & Simon Ward. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate NC2S. Music “I Want Love” by Chris Stapleton. Valerie did a great job teaching this - it’s a wonderful dance! We danced it 3 times and the class did so well with it!
Reviews:
The Smell Of Your Sweet Perfume
Don’t Think About You
Feed The Fetish
Addicted
Taste
Just A Phase
Danced:
My Rules (4)
No Strings Attached
Love Rush
Hourglass
Make You Mine
It was Robyn’s last day with us until next February!!! A great addition to our class - see you on the dance floor soon!!!
Friday, March 22, 2019
Warm-Up:
The Last Word (4)
Jessie (4)
Consequences (full)
Review:
The Smell Of Your Sweet Perfume
Don’t Think About You!
Addicted
Off My Feet
Taste
Requests:
Feed The Fetish
California
Love Rush
Revolution
Perfect
Have a GREAT weekend!!!
Monday, March 18, 2019
Warm-Ups:
Beyond Beautiful
Taps
Back In Town
Change Your Mind
Reviews:
Don’t Think About You!
Addicted
Feed The Fetish
California
Taste
Off My Feet
Dances/Requests:
Somebody To Love
Secrets We Keep
Falling Walls
Love Rush
Hourglass
Revolution
I Came To Love You
Great class! Enjoyed having Jackie visit us today. And if, by chance, it’s Robyn’s last class - it was fun having you with us!!!
Hope to see most of you Friday!!!
Friday, March 15, 2019
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle
Healing Hands
Social Review:
Coming Unplugged
New Teach:
Don’t Think About You! by Niels Poulsen. Intermediate/Advanced, 2 Wall, AB Nightclub to the music “I Don’t Think About You” by Kelly Clarkson. 2 tags. I really like this dance - and the class did really well with it! We danced it twice and then once more at the end of the class.
Reviews:
Addicted
Feed The Fetish
Off My Feet
Danced/Requested:
Rythm Inside
Falling Walls
Love Rush
No Strings Attached
Monday, March 11, 2019
Warm-Ups/Walk-Throughs:
Where I Stood (full)
Sleepwalk With Me (full)
I Came To Love You (full)
Taps (4)
New Teaches (Classics):
Addicted by Rachael McEnaney-White. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced Rolling 8. Music “Addicted” by Kelly Clarkson. Everyone did a GREAT job with this dance! We danced it again at the end of the class time.
Feed The Fetish by Scott Blevins. 32 Count, 4 Wall, High Intermediate to the music “Feedback” by Janet Jackson. Again - the class did really well with this considering we didn’t even get to it until after 11:00!!! Can you say “fried brains”???
Reviews:
Off My Feet
California
Request:
Make You Mine
Friday, March 8, 2019
Warm-Up:
Bardot Blues (full)
Bethlehem Child (full)
Back In Town (full)
Consequences (full)
The Bounce (cut)
Language of Love (cut)
The Last Word (cut)
Reviews:
Off My Feet (Chris)
California
Taste
Vaiven
Danced:
Hourglass
No Strings Attached
Love Rush
Just A Phase
Somebody To Love
Revolution
Grafitti
Falling Walls
Requests:
Jessie
My Rules
Make You Mine
Have a great weekend! See everyone Monday!
Monday, March 4, 2019
It was fun having Robyn join us today! She’ll be in SW Florida for the next several weeks so hopefully we’ll get to see quite a bit of her!
Warm-Ups:
Taps (4)
Jessie (4)
Change Your Mind (4)
Kiss Of Heaven (4)
Beyond Beautiful (full)
Healing Hands (4)
Secrets We Keep (4)
Rythm Inside (4)
Uphill Battle (4)
Make You Mine (4)
New Teach by Chris:
Off My Feet by Michele Perron & Jo Thompson Szymanski. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Easy Intermediate dance to the music “The Way You Make Me Feel” by The Douglas Group. Chris has taught this to her Tuesday night class and Scott taught it at his workshop in Deerfield Beach. It was good to review it again for everyone.
Reviews:
California
Taste
Vaiven
Danced:
Love Rush
Just A Phase
Somebody To Love (very quick teach for Robyn)
Revolution
Hourglass
No Strings Attached
Monday, Febuary 25, 2019
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle (4)
Kiss of Heaven
Taps (4)
Secrets We Keep (4)
The Bounce (4)
Change Your Mind (4)
New Teach:
Taste by Scott Blevins. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate dance to the music “Taste” by Betty Who. There is one easy restart on wall 4. This was my favorite from the Scott Blevins weekend. The class did well with it - and danced it 3 times!
Reviews:
Vaiven
No Strings Attached
Hourglass
Danced:
Jessie
Healing Hands
Make You Mine
Requests:
Perfect
Somebody To Love
Love Rush
Graffiti
Friday, February 22, 2019
Warm-Up:
Where I Stood (cut)
Bardot Blues (full)
Sleepwalk With Me (cut)
My Rules (cut)
Bethlehem Child (cut)
Back In Town (full)
New Teach:
Vaiven by Rob Fowler. 64 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced dance to the music “Vaiven” by Chayanne. I learned this from Rob when we were in Vegas in November and really liked it! Finally got a chance to sneak it in to the teaching schedule!
Reviews:
No Strings Attached
Hourglass
Beyond Beautiful
The Last Word
Rythm Inside
Danced:
Consequences
Somebody to Love
Just A Phase
Love Rush
Tightrope
Revolution
We’re off to the Scott Blevins weekend - new teaches coming up!!!
Friday, February 15, 2019
Warm-Up:
Taps (4)
Secrets We Keep (4)
The Bounce (4)
Revolution (full)
Falling Walls (full)
Reviews:
No Strings Attached
Hourglass
Beyond Beautiful
The Last Word
The Language Of Love
Kiss Of Heaven
Make You Mine
Rythm Inside
Danced:
Consequences
Somebody To Love
Just A Phases
I Came To Love You
Love Rush
Requests:
Jessie
Uphill Battle
Feel
Healing Hands
Change Your Mind
Monday, February 11, 2019
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle (C)
Healing Hands (C)
My Rules (C)
Bethlehem Child (C)
I Came To Love You (full)
New “Teaches” (reviews from Saturday):
Hourglass by Maggie Gallagher & Gary O’Reilly. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate dance to the music “Hourglass” by Alice Chater. Everyone did a great job remembering this from Saturday.
No Strings Attached by Simon Ward, Maddison Glover, & Niels Poulsen. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate Cha Cha to the music “More Than Friends” by James Hype featuring Kelli-Leigh. Again - great job remembering the dance from Saturday!!!
Reviews:
Beyond Beautiful
Love Rush
Just A Phase
Consequences
Revolution
Requests:
Tightrope
Jessie
Sleepwalk With Me
Feel
Naked
Gypsy In The Night
Fully Clothed
Somebody To Love
Falling Walls
Bardot Blues
Friday, February 8, 2019
Warm-Up:
Where I Stood (C)
Secrets We Keep (C)
The Bounce (C)
Jessie (C)
Back In Town (full)
Summer Re-Teach:
Beyond Beautiful by Julia Wetzel. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate NC2. Music “Something About The Way You Look Tonight” by Elton John. This was a class favorite from the summer that they wanted shared with our winter friends!
Reviews:
Love Rush
The Last Word
The Language of Love
Kiss Of Heaven
Bardot Blues
Falling Walls
Revolution
Consequences
Somebody To Love
Just A Phase
I Came To Love You
I’ll see all the Hillsborough attendees tomorrow!
Have a great weekend - see you Monday! (I suspect we’ll be dancing two new ones on Monday from Saturday’s event!)
Monday, February 4, 2019
Warm-Up:
Sleepwalk With Me (4)
Taps (4)
Change Your Mind (4)
Colors (full)
Review:
Vanotek Cha
New Teach:
Love Rush by Simon Ward, Maddison Glover, Niels Poulsen. 96 Count, 2 Wall, Advanced Waltz to the music “Before I Cry” by Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born soundtrack). 1 tag done at the end of walls 1 & 3, 1 “bridge” (tag) done on Wall 2 (restart), 1 restart on wall 5, and an ending. This hits the music perfectly and the class just loves it!
Reviews:
The Last Word
Starlight
Just A Phase
Rythm Inside
Make You Mine
Somebody To Love
Consquences
Revolution
And we ended the class with another go at Love Rush.
Friday, January 31, 2019
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle
My Rules
Healing Hands
Bethlehem Child
Bardot Blues (full)
Reviews:
Language of Love
I Came To Love You
Starlight
Just A Phase
Kiss of Heaven
Consequences
Revolution
Falling Walls
Re-Teach:
The Last Word by Fiona Murray & Roy Hadisubroto. 48 Count, 2 Wall, High Intermediate waltz to the music “The Last Word” by Frances. There is one tag in this dance.
Have a great weekend!
Monday, January 28, 2019
Warm-Up:
Where I Stood (cut)
Secrets We Keep (cut)
The Bounce (cut)
Jessie (cut)
Back In Town (full)
Reviews:
Starlight
Just A Phase
Somebody to Love
Consquences
Revolution
Rythm Inside
Make You Mine
Old Teaches:
I Came To Love You by Gary O’Reilly & Dee Musk. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate dance to the music “I Came To Love You” by Alexander Rybak. This is a favorite of Joe’s, which did not get danced at the social, and was taught by Geoff to our class last year and the class really liked it. Which they remembered they liked when we danced it again today!
Language Of Love by Niels Poulsen. 32 Count, 2 Wall, High Intermediate rolling 8 to the music “F.U.” by Little Mix. This is one of the dances from the summer that was voted to be taught to our winter friends and kept alive. Such a great love song! LOL!
Friday, January 25, 2019
Warm-Up:
My Rules (cut)
Sleepwalk With Me (cut)
Taps (cut)
Change Your Mind (cut)
Colors (full)
New Teaches:
Just A Phase (Nancy taught) by Fred Whitehouse & Maddison Glover. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate dance to the music “Just A Phase” by Adam Craig. One easy restart on Wall 4. The class did great with this and really liked it!
Starlight by Kate Sala & Robbie McGowan Hickie. 64 Count, 4 Wall, Improver dance to the music “Such A Night” by Michael Buble’. One easy restart on Wall 3. This is the dance I have selected to teach at the Celebration Line Dance Workshop in Tampa on February 9 and decided to try it out on the class today. They liked it and we danced it twice! Thanks for letting me show it to you!!!
Reviews:
Consequences
Somebody To Love (Nancy)
Graffiti
Revolution
Falling Walls
Healing Hands
Friday, January 18, 2019
**NO CLASS MONDAY** - MLK Day - the Vineyards is CLOSED!
Welcome back Diana!!! So great to see you this morning!!! And Cherie is back from “Christmas Vacation” - wonderful to have you on the dance floor again!
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle (cut)
Bethlehem Child (cut)
Secrets We Keep (cut)
The Bounce (cut)
Bardot Blues
New Teach (Nancy):
Somebody To Love by Rachael McEnaney-White. 34 count, 2 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced Rolling 8 to the music “Somebody To Love” by Queen. This dance has two different tags (during walls 8 & 10) and 4 restarts (walls 2, 4, 5, and 7). This is another great Rachael dance and the class did such a great job with it! Thank you, Nancy!!!
Reviews:
Graffiti
Consequences
Revolution
Monday, January 14 2019
Warm-Up:
Sleepwalk With Me (cut)
Taps (cut)
Jessie (cut)
Healing Hands (cut)
Beautiful In My Eyes
Social Reviews:
Beautiful Wonderful
Guilty As Hell
New Teach:
Consequences by Paul Snooke, Jo Kinser, Guillaume Richard, and Jonas Dahlgren. 1 Wall, 80 Count, Advanced Phrase Waltz to the music “Consequences” by Camila Cabello. I really liked this dance when I learned it in Las Vegas and like it just as much now. The class did really well with it!
Reviews:
Graffiti
Revolution
Falling Walls
Make You Mine
Rhythm Inside
Kiss Of Heaven
Requests:
Revolution (again)
Back In Town
Change Your Mind
Have a great week - see you Friday!
REMEMBER - NEXT MONDAY NO CLASS! THE VINEYARDS IS CLOSED DUE TO MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY!
Friday, January 11, 2019
Welcome back Nancy Weber!!! So good to see you again!
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle (cut)
My Rules (cut)
Secrets We Keep (cut)
Colors (full)
Bardot Blues (cut)
New Teach:
Graffiti by Karl-Harry Winson. 32 count, 4 Wall, High Intermediate. Music “Never Comin Down” by Keith Urban. There is a 16-count tag done once, 1/2 of that tag done another time, and 2 different restarts.
Reviews:
Revolution
Falling Walls
Make You Mine
Rhythm Inside
When She Grows Up
Requests:
Revolution (again)
Sleepwalk With Me
Have a great weekend! See everyone Monday!
Monday, January 7, 2019
Warm-Up:
Jessie (cut)
Healing Hands (cut)
Bethlehem Child (cut)
Back In Town (full)
Reviews:
Falling Walls
Make You Mine
Rhythm Inside
When She Grows Up
Colors
Bardot Blues
Requests:
Tightrope
Uphill Battle
New Teach:
Revolution by Fred Whitehouse. 64 Count, 4 Wall, Advanced to the music “Revolution” by Alisan Porter. We took our time with this one - and everyone did a GREAT job with it!!! We danced it twice and it sounded like everyone was pleased with the dance!
Friday, January 4, 2019
Happy New Year! You can’t imagine how I’ve longed for this day! It was soooo hard to not teach anything in December!!! (And y’all might want to think twice before you make me do it again! LOL!)
Warm-Up:
Healing Hands (full)
Uphill Battle (cut)
Bethlehem Child (full)
Tightrope (cut)
Jessie (full)
New Teaches:
Falling Walls by Darren Bailey. 32 Count A; 8 Count B; Intermediate to the music “Walls” by Jamie N Commons (Skycraper Soundtrack). This was an absolute favorite coming out of the Florida Classic and we’ve been dancing it since then, but I hadn’t taught it to our group yet. Today was the day! (And everyone loved it as much as I do!)
When She Grows Up by Jose Miguel Belloque Vane and Roy Verdonk. 32 Count, 4 Wall Nightclub, easy intermediate to the music “When She Grows Up” by Craig Campbell. I really liked this dance from the Vegas Explosion and was eager to get to it in the teach rotation!
Make You Mine by Darren Bailey. 48 Count, 2 Wall, Low Intermediate to the music “Make You Mine” by Josie Dunne. Just a fun dance that most of the class had already had but, again, since I wasn’t teaching anything in December, it had to wait.
Rhythm Inside by Darren Bailey. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate to the music “Rhythm Inside” by Callum Scott. Darren struck gold at the Florida Classic and this was another of his hits. Again, a dance most of the class has already had, but it needed to be taught to our group as well.
Also Danced:
Sleepwalk With Me
Back In Town
I had asked some of the dancers for some selections of dances we should keep as we move into the new year. The results of that query include:
Sleepwalk With Me
Bardot Blues
Back In Town
Jessie
Healing Hands
Taps
Secrets We Keep
Bethlehem Child
Uphill Battle
Kiss Of Heaven
Change Your Mind
Colors
Language Of Love
The Last Word
Beyond Beautiful
Monday, December 31, 2018
The last class of 2018!!!
Warm-Up:
Healing Hands (full)
Uphill Battle (cut)
My Rules (full)
Where I Stood (cut)
Bethlehem Child (full)
Pull You Through (cut)
Jessie (full)
Reviews/Danced/Requested:
Kiss Of Heaven
Globetrottin’
Wild Boys
Bardot Blues
Change Your Mind
Back In Town
Colors
Secrets We Keep
Sleepwalk With Me
The Bounce
Taps
Diggin’
Thai Of My Life
Friday, December 28, 2018
Warm-Up:
Healing Hands (full)
Uphill Battle (cut)
My Rules (full)
Where I Stood (cut)
Bethlehem Child (full)
Perfect (cut)
Jessie (full)
Reviews:
Kiss Of Heaven
Back In Town
Wild Boys (Valerie)
Change Your Mind
Colors
Bardot Blues
Danced/Requests:
Secrets We Keep
Sleepwalk With Me
The Bounce
Lil Mama
Tightrope
Falling Walls
I Hate Love Songs
Friday, December 21, 2019
Warm-Up:
Healing Hands (full)
Uphill Battle (cut)
My Rules (full)
Where I Stood (cut)
Bethlehem Child (full)
Pull You Through (cut)
Jessie (full)
Reviews:
Globetrottin’
Bardot Blues
Wild Boys
Back In Town
Change Your Mind
Danced/Requests:
The Bounce
Secrets We Keep
Sleepwalk With Me
Taps
Tightrope
Monday, December 17, 2018
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle (4 rotations)
My Rules (full dance)
Where I Stood (4 rotations)
Bethlehem Child (full dance)
Tightrope (4 rotations)
Jessie (full dance)
Reviews:
Wild Boys
The Bounce
Back In Town
Colors
Change Your Mind
Danced:
Healing Hands
Secrets We Keep
Sleepwalk With Me
Taps
Diggin’
Friday, December 14, 2018
Today’s Class:
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle
Perfect
Where I Stood
Reviews:
Colors
Back In Town
Danced:
My Rules
Jessie
New Teach:
Valerie taught us “Wild Boys” by Fred Whitehouse, Shane McKeever, and Niels Poulsen. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate dance to the music “Wild Child” by Kongsted & Cesilia. Fun “samba-y” dance with a 16 count tag done 4 times during the dance. Since I promised I wouldn’t teach anything else new until after the 1st of the year, I needed someone else to do the teach! LOL!
We finished out the time with requests:
If You Ever
Falling Walls
Pull You Through
Secrets We Keep
Sleepwalk With Me
I Was Wrong
Healing Hands
Revolution
Price You Pay
Monday, December 10, 2018
Warm-Up (full versions):
Uphill Battle
Pull You Through
Where I Stood
Reviews:
Back In Town
My Rules
Bethlehem Child
Healing Hands
Jessie
Requests:
Sleepwalk With Me
Secrets We Keep
Today’s Class Monday, 12/3/18
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle
Perfect
New Teach:
Back In Town by Team USA (Jo Thompson Szymanski, Joey Warren, Scott Blevins). 2 Wall, Intermediate, Phrased line dance. A = 32 Counts, B = 32 Counts, Tag = 16 Counts. Music “Back In Town” by Matt Dusk. Peppy little thing! The class had fun with this!
Reviews:
My Rules
Bethlehem Child
Healing Hands
Jessie
Where I Stood
Today’ Class (Friday, 11/30):
Warm-Up:
Uphill Battle
Perfect
New Teach:
Back In Town by Team USA (Jo Thompson Szymanski, Joey Warren, Scott Blevins). 2 Wall, Intermediate, Phrased line dance. A = 32 Counts, B = 32 Counts, Tag = 16 Counts. Music “Back In Town” by Matt Dusk. Peppy little thing! The class had fun with this!
Reviews:
My Rules
Bethlehem Child
Healing Hands
Jessie
Where I Stood
Today’ Class (Friday, 11/30):
Warm-Up (full versions):
Yeah!
Uphill Battle
New Teaches:
1) Bethlehem Child by Roy Verdonk, Sebastiaan Holtland, & Jose Miguel Belloque Vane. Music “Children, Go Where I Send Thee” by Kenny Rogers featuring Home Free. This is a 4-wall, 28-Count, Intermediate level dance. It has four different 4-count tags, which you progressively add after each rotation. There is 1 restart on the 4th wall after 16 counts. As long as you don’t let yourself get scared off by the phrasing, it’s really quite a fun dance!
2) My Rules by Amy Glass (Bailey). 96 count, phrased intermediate, pretty much 1-wall dance. Music “My Rules” by Jadagrace. Such a fun dance!
The class did really well with both teaches and we even danced My Rules again at the end of the class day.
Reviews:
Healing Hands
Jessie
Summer Teach for Winter Students:
Where I Stood (Jason Takahashi)
Just Danced:
The Bounce
I plan to teach “Back In Town” on Monday...
Monday, November 26
Warm-Up:
Pull You Through
Tightrope
New Teach by Nancy:
Healing Hands by Maddison Glover. 64 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate to the music “Healing Hands” by Conrad Sewell. We learned this dance in Vegas and really liked it. Fits so well to the music. No tags or restarts.
Reviews:
Jessie
Colors
Globetrottin’
Change Your Mind
Uphill Battle
Sleepwalk With Me
Have a great week! See you on Friday!
Monday, November 19
Warm-Up:
I Hate Love Songs
Blessed
Follow My Footprints
Yeah!
If You Ever
New Teach:
Jessie by Rachael McEnaney-White & Simon Ward. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced NC2 to the music “Jessie” by Joshua Kadison. There is a restart on Walls 2, 6, and 9; and a different restart on Wall 4. This was a favorite from the Rachael workshop in Orlando at the beginning of the month!
Reviews:
Colors
Bardot Blues
The Bounce
Secrets We Keep
Summer Review/Teach:
Uphill Battle
Danced:
Diggin’
Perfect
Have a great Thanksgiving! No class Friday - see everyone in a week!
Friday, November 16, 2018
Warm-Up:
Pull You Through
My Heart Is In Havana
Perfect
Gypsy In The Night
Tightrope
New Teach:
Colors by Fiona Murray & Roy Hadisubroto. 2 Wall, Phrased, High Intermediate/Advanced Dance. Music “Colors” by Jason Derulo. 32 Count A, 32 Count B, 16 count C. We took our time with the teach and by the time we danced it, the class had a fairly good grip on it. When we danced it again at the end of the class, it looked like it was going to come together pretty well. Yay! It was my favorite dance from the Vegas Dance Explosion!
Reviews:
Bardot Blues
Change Your Mind
Danced:
Taps
Secrets We Keep
I hope everyone has a chance to look at these over the weekend - we’ve got more coming your way!!! Happy Weekend!
Monday, November 5, 2018
Warm-Up:
To The Moon & Back
Perfect
Thai Of My Life
Tightrope
I Won’t Let You Down
Review:
Pull You Through
New Teach:
Bardot Blues by Simon Ward & Rachael McEnaney-White. 48 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate Rolling Count. Music “Jus’ Like Brigitte Bardot” by Joshua Kadison. One tag on wall 3. Nice, bluesy/jazzy dance - the class did great with it!
Reviews:
Change Your Mind
Sleepwalk With Me
The Bounce
Secrets We Keep
And we danced Bardot Blues one more time at the end.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Warm-Up:
Tightrope
Perfect
New Teach:
Change Your Mind by Debbie Rushton & Joey Warren. 96 Count, 2 Wall, Phrased Advanced Tango/Cha Cha. Music “Change Your Mind” by Britney Spears. The class just LOVES this dance!
Reviews:
The Bounce
Secrets We Keep
Globetrottin’
Taps
Diggin’
Kiss Of Heaven
Monday, October 29, 2018
Warm-Up:
Blessed
Change My Ways
If You Ever
Perfect
Take Me To The River
New Teach:
The Bounce by Jo Thompson Szymanski & Scott Blevins. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate. 1 16-count tag done 3 times. Music “The Bounce” by Outasight. This is a GREAT dance! Peppy and fun!
Reviews:
Secrets We Keep
Globetrottin’
Taps
Diggin’
Sleepwalk With Me
Kiss Of Heaven
Requests:
I Hate Love Songs
Uphill Battle
Beyond Beautiful
Change Your Mind
Since most of the class has been exposed to “Change Your Mind” by Debbie Rushton & Joey Warren, and everyone really likes it, it’ll be the new teach for Friday.
Have a great week!
(Last practice is Wednesday!!!)
Friday, October 26, 2018
Friday was our first day back at the Vineyards!!! The community center is bright and airy with a new coat of paint and pretty new colors! Very nice to be back!
Warm-Up:
Beautiful Wonderful
My Heart Is In Havana
Follow My Footprints
Gypsy In The Night
The Mates Of Soul
New Teach:
Nancy taught us one of her favorites coming out of Windy City, “Secrets We Keep” by Shane McKeever, Guillaume Richard, and Niels Poulsen. 40 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate NC. Just a beautiful dance!
Reviews:
Do It Like This
Globetrottin’
Taps
Diggin’
Sleepwalk With Me
Kiss Of Heaven
Requests:
Dem Dey Go
Tightrope
Remember! The Vineyards has gone to a cashless system. Debit or credit cards ONLY. They will be creating a punchcard for us, for anyone interested in purchasing multiple classes - then only having to go to the window to get your card punched rather than waiting in line for credit/debit card purchases to be handled.
Here’s a peek at the upcoming schedule:
Class as normal on Monday, October 29
Friday, November 2
Monday, November 5
NO CLASS Friday, November 9
Monday, November 12 (Veteran’s Day)
Class as normal on Friday, November 16
Monday, November 19
NO CLASS Friday, November 23 (day after Thanksgiving)
Class as normal on Monday, November 26
Friday, November 30
Monday, December 3
NO CLASS Friday, December 7
Class as normal on Monday, December 10
Friday, December 14
Monday, December 17
Friday, December 21
NO CLASS Monday, December 24
Class as normal on Friday, December 28
Monday, December 31
Class continues as normal until Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 21. The Vineyards is closed that day for the holiday. The Vineyards is also closed President’s Day, Monday, February 18.
Have a great weekend! If you want a jump on Monday, the new teach will be The Bounce by Jo Thompson Szymanski and Scott Blevins!
Monday, October 22
Early-Birds:
Whatever It Takes
Warm-Up:
To The Moon & Back
I Won’t Let You Down
I Hate Love Songs
Thai Of My Life
Beautiful In My Eyes
New Teach:
Globetrottin’ by TEAM INTERNATIONAL (Daniel Trepat, Simon Ward, Fred Whitehouse). The pro choreography winning dance from Windy City. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate dance to the music “Off To See The World” by Lukas Graham. One restart. The class did really well with this!
Reviews:
Catch My Breath
Taps
Diggin’
Sleepwalk With Me
Danced:
Uphill Battle
The Language Of Love
Friday, October 19, 2018
Warm-Up:
Change My Ways
If You Ever
Perfect
Tightrope
Yeah!
Reviews:
Catch My Breath
Taps
Diggin’
Sleepwalk With Me
Kiss Of Heaven
Jukebox
Oh Ruby!
With These Eyes
Danced:
Lie To Me
Beautiful Flames
Blaze Of Glory
Light A Candle
The Last Word
Lost In Love
Monday, October 15, 2018
Early-Birds:
Part A of Change Your Mind
Warm-Up:
Beautiful Wonderful
My Heart Is In Havana
Follow My Footprints
Gypsy In The Night
The Mates Of Soul
New Teach:
Catch My Breath by Mark Furnell. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Lower Intermediate. Music “Catch My Breath” by Kelly Clarkson. No tags or restarts. We had learned this Saturday nightat the social and went over it again.
Reviews:
Taps
Diggin’
Sleepwalk With Me
Kiss Of Heaven
Jukebox
Oh Ruby!
With These Eyes
Dances/Requests:
Vampire City
Dirty Little Secret
Only Love
I Don’t Dance
Fully Clothed
Second Time Around
Where I Stood
Beyond Beautiful
HOLY
Friday, October 12, 2018
Friday’s Class:
Early-Birds:
Whatever It Takes
Warm-Ups:
To The Moon & Back
Thai Of My Life
I Hate Love Songs
Do It Like This
I Won’t Let You Down
New Teach:
Taps by Darren Bailey. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced. Music “Waiting For You” by Taps. No tags. No restarts. I had really liked this dance at the Marathon and it got buried under everything else. It was taught again in Chicago. It went very well and the class really seemed to like it. We danced it again at the very end of the class day.
Reviews:
Diggin’
Sleepwalk With Me
Kiss Of Heaven
Jukebox
Oh Ruby!
With These Eyes
Danced:
Lost In Love
The Last Word
Festikiss
Where I Stood
Uphill Battle
Make Way
Dem Dey Go
Beyond Beautiful
Monday, October 8
I was late... no early-bird dancing. But, since we were all there ahead of the regular class start time, we started early. So - still got to dance some early!
Warm-Up:
Tightrope
If You Ever
Perfect
Change My Ways
HOLY
New Teach:
Diggin’ by Amy (Glass) Bailey. 32 Count, 4 Wall Intermediate dance to the music “Diggin’” by Kovacs. Most of us had had this already, but wanted to make sure we all did.
Reviews:
Sleepwalk With Me
Jukebox
Oh Ruby!
With These Eyes
Kiss Of Heaven
Follow My Footprints
Light A Candle
Dance:
Beautiful Flames
Tip Pon It
Blaze Of Glory
Sober Saturday Night
The Language Of Love
Friday, October 5, 2018
Here’s what we did on Friday!
Early-Birds:
Naked
Warm-Up
Beautiful Wonderful
My Heart Is In Havana
Gypsy In The Night
The Mates Of Soul
Blessed
Reviews:
Sleepwalk With Me
Jukebox
Oh Ruby!
With These Eyes
Kiss Of Heaven
Follow My Footprints
Make Way
Danced:
Vampire City
Festikiss
Fully Clothed
Beyond Beautiful
Dem Dey Go
Lie To Me
Only Love
Dirty Little Secret
Where I Stood
The Last Word
Feel
Monday, October 1, 2018
Not 1, not 2, not 3.... but 4!!! teaches today!
Some of us went to the Classics Workshop this past weekend with Betsy Courant. So, naturally, we needed to go over those “new” dances!
Jukebox by Jo Thompson Szymanski
Oh Ruby! by Debbie Rushton
With These Eyes by Darren Bailey & Niels Poulsen
And, some of us went to the social in Pinnellas on Sunday and learned a new dance by Fred Whitehouse, “Sleepwalk With Me”. But, as I wasn’t one of those who went on Sunday, it was my first time actually learning and teaching a new dance at the same time! That was interesting!
Warm-Up:
I Won’t Let You Down
I Hate Love Songs
Thai Of My Life
Do It Like This
Review:
Follow My Footprints
Dances:
Lost In Love
Uphill Battle
Friday, September 28, 2018
We had a small but industrious class on Friday!
New teach - “Kiss of Heaven” by Niels Poulsen. 48 count, 2 wall, Intermediate dance. 2 restarts and one “taglet”. Deb has taught this in both Estero and Bonita and it was time to bring it to the rest of us!
Reviews & Requests:
Dirty Little Secret
Only Love
I Don’t Dance
Now Or Never
Beyond Beautiful
Fully Clothed
Won’t You Stay
Lie to Me
Dem Dey Go
Sober Saturday Night
The Language Of Love
Dive Right In
Where I Stood
The Last Word
To The Moon & Back
Slow Burn
85
Street Soul
Boots
Monday, September 24, 2018
No new teaches today... all reviews & requests.
Early-Birds:
Slow Burn
Til I’m Done
Warm-Up:
If You Ever
Tightrope
Change My Ways
Follow My Footprints
Perfect
Reviews/Dances:
Light A Candle
Tip Pon It
Make Way
Beautiful Flames
Lie To Me
Blaze Of Glory
Now Or Never
Second Time Around
Won’t You Stay
The Last Word
Make No Promises
Fully Clothed
Beyond Beautiful
Dem Dey Go
Requests:
Slow Burn (again)
Where I Stood
Friday, September 21, 2018
Warm-Up:
To The Moon & Back
My Heart Is In Havana
Gypsy In The Night
The Mates Of Soul
Beautiful Wonderful
Reviews:
Get It Right
Make No Promises
Dem Dey Go
Fully Clothed
Beyond Beautiful
I Don’t Dance
Only Love
Won’t You Stay
Danced:
Dirty Little Secret
Uphill Battle
Where I Stood
The Language Of Love
Monday, September 17, 2018
A little easier than Friday’s!
Warm-Ups:
I Won’t Let You Down
Change My Ways
Thai Of My Life
Do It Like This
I Hate Love Songs
New Teach:
“Get It Right” by Maddison Glover. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Improver. One tag (K-Step) done twice (Wall 4 - 6:00; Wall 6 - 12:00) and one Restart (after 16 counts, Wall 3). Music “Hard Not To Love It” by Steve Moakler. This dance is on Saturday’s Social playlist and is easy enough to pick up.
Reviews:
Fully Clothed
Beyond Beautiful
Now Or Never
Danced:
Stars In The Night Sky
Lost In Love
Vampire City
New Teach:
“Make No Promises” by Jose Miguel Belloque Vane & Jef Camps. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate. 1 16-Count Tag done at the end of Wall 1 and Wall 3 and then the first 8 counts of the tag with an additional new 8 counts to make the ending after Wall 5. Music “Promises” by Calvin Harris featuring Sam Smith. Amy Christian taught this dance at the “Big Boy Dance Workshop” at the White Buffalo in Sarasota this past weekend.
Reviews:
Dem Dey Go
Only Love
I Don’t Dance
Light A Candle
Danced:
Sober Saturday Night
Festikiss
Friday, September 14, 2018:
Can anyone anyone say “oofdah”? Bet everyone who came to class today can!!!
The earlybirds started the day by going over Dem Dey Go. And, using the TV, we put the Roy & Fiona video up on the screen and went over it and over it and over it. And then over it again. We looked at hand movements, chest pops, shoulder pops, heel taps, knee pops, and anything else that caught our eye. We went over A, and B, and the tag, and then did it all again. By the time we were done, the entire class had arrived and were all a part of this. By the time we were done (well over an hour later!), we had a pretty good handle on it!
And then we moved in to the regular plan for the class session!!!
I skipped the actual warm-ups. We danced The Last Word as our warm-up and then I taught Julia Wetzel’s “Beyond Beautiful”. This is such a pretty dance! The class just loved it!
We went over Now or Never and Only Love and then I taught “Fully Clothed” by Scott Blevins and Betsy Courant. A little tougher (which very well could’ve been the time of day as well as amount of material already gone over) but definitely another hit!
We finished with Where I Stood. There was time on the clock... but no one left on the floor!
Have a great weekend!
Monday, September 10, 2018:
What a surprise!!! Brenda came to class!!! How sweet of Nancy & Lexi to bring her down!
Early-Birds:
Poetry In Motion
Warm-Up:
Tightrope
Reviews:
Now Or Never
Only Love (Brenda)
Lie to Me
I Don’t Dance
Make Way
Dirty Little Secret
Uphill Battle
Where I Stood
Dances:
Blaze Of Glory
The Language Of Love
Festikiss
Second Time Around
Beautiful Flames
Can’t Cry Pretty
Don’t forget! Requests for the social are due by SATURDAY!!
Friday, September 7, 2018
Early-Birds:
Muddy Waters
I Don’t Dance
Warm-Up:
Follow My Footprints
Gypsy In The Night
If You Ever
My Heart Is In Havana
Perfect
(We massacred If You Ever so much that we went back to it and did it again - full version!)
New Teach:
Now or Never by Kathy Hunyadi. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced Cha. This is a classic dance that I will be teaching at Betsy’s next workshop - so it required a teach to our class first. Music “Groove With Me Tonight” by MDO (the Pablo Flores Spanglish Radio Mix).
Reviews:
Only Love
Make Way
Dirty Little Secret
Uphill Battle
Where I Stood
Festikiss
Light A Candle
Lie To Me
Dances:
Tip Pon It
Beautiful Flames
Groovy Love
Second Time Around
Sober Saturday Night
Can’t Cry Pretty
The Last Word
Monday, September 3, 2018
I threw my game plan out the window today!
Since there were only the four of us, we worked on (introduced Marion to) “Only Love” by Bradley Mather. This was Brenda’s teach yesterday in Estero. It’s an awesome dance but really requires a lot of time and attention!
I think by the time we were done with it today, we were all in pretty good shape with it! I felt a lot better about my ability to dance it after today anyway!
The rest of the class time was spent reviewing the rest of the latest new ones: I Don’t Dance, Lie To Me, Make Way, Dirty Little Secret. Then we did Only Love two more times!
We ended early (we started early!!!) due to the holiday and the Club Naples Labor Day picnic being moved indoors. Plus we had people that wanted to get off the roads before the major rains moved in.
All in all - it was a great class!!!
We will have practice on Wednesday and class on Friday!
Just a heads up for future planning - the next two teaches on my radar are a classic “Now Or Never” by Kathy Hunyadi and a new one “Take Me On” by Michael Barr & Christopher Gonzalez.
See you soon!
Friday, August 31, 2018
Today’s Class:
Early-Birds:
I Don’t Dance
Lie To Me
Warm-Up:
The Mates of Soul
Do It Like This
Change My Ways
Beautiful Wonderful
To The Moon & Back
New Teach:
Make Way by Fred Whitehouse, Guillaume Richard, & Derek Steele
Reviews:
Dirty Little Secret
Uphill Battle
Where I Stood
Festikiss
Light A Candle
Dances:
Blaze of Glory
Stars In The Night Sky
The Last Word
Vampire City
Lost In Love
The Language Of Love
Friday, August 17, 2018
Busy day!!! And we ended EARLY! Lots and lots of dancing today!
Early Birds:
Muddy Waters
Part-Time Girlfriend
Feel
Swing Your Chains
**teach** Dirty Little Secret
Warm-Up:
If You Ever
My Heart Is In Havana
I Won’t Let You Down
I Hate Love Songs
Thai Of My Life
Reviews:
Uphill Battle
Where I Stood
Festikiss
Light A Candle
The Last Word
Dances:
Beautiful Flames
Tip Pon It
Stars In The Night Sky
Blaze Of Glory
Lost In Love
Groovy Love
Sober Saturday Night
The Language Of Love
Vampire City
Second Time Around
Requests:
Perfect
Tightrope
Monday, August 13, 2018
Early-Birds:
Naked
Dirty Little Secret
To The Moon & Back
Warm-Up:
Beautiful Wonderful
Change My Ways
Gypsy In The Night
Follow My Footprints
Reviews/Dances/Requests:
Uphill Battle (twice)
Festikiss
Beautiful Flames
Festikiss (again)
Where I Stood
Tip Pon It
The Last Word
Lost In Love
Blaze Of Glory
The Language Of Love
Sober Saturday Night
Groovy Love
Stars In The Night Sky
Light A Candle
Second Time Around
Vampire City
Tightrope
Friday, August 10, 2018
Early-Birds:
Don’t Stay For Me
Won’t You Stay
Warm-Up:
Tightrope
Thai Of My Life
I Won’t Let You Down
Do It Like This
The Mates Of Soul
Reviews:
Light A Candle
Second Time Around
Vampire City
The Language Of Love
Sober Saturday Night
Lost In Love
Groovy Love
The Last Word
Festikiss
Where I Stood
Stars In The Night Sky
Uphill Battle
Monday, August 6, 2018
Well. There was brain matter all over the place today! Is it any wonder? 4 (yes, FOUR!) dances were taught today. Actually, for some people, there wasn’t anything new; for another it was only two new ones; and for others is was all four. But, it had to be done.
1. Groovy Love by Fred Whitehouse, Daniel Trepat, and Jonas Dahlgren. 32 count, 4 wall, improver dance to the music “If Jesus Loves Me” by Saint Lanvain, featuring Rahmsed. No tags, no restarts. Cute little dance that has been rocking the line dance charts since its release.
2. The Last Word by Fiona Murray and Roy Hadisubroto. 48 count, 2 wall, higher intermediate waltz to the music “The Last Word” by Frances. There is one tag at the end of wall 5. This is a very powerful dance that the class has watched during practice over the last couple weeks and it was time to get everyone involved.
3. Festikiss by Jef Camps & Esmeralda v.d. Pol. 64 count, 2 wall high intermediate cha to the music “One Kiss” by Dua Lipa featuring Calvin Harris. The class really liked this one - even with it being as FAST as it is! A fun dance!
4. Where I Stood by Jason Takahashi. 48 count, 2 wall, high intermediate NC2 to the music “Where I Stood” by Missy Higgins. This dance won the advanced division of the choreography competition at the Marathon and was a dance that brought tears to my eyes the very first time I saw it. It’s been danced in other classes for awhile now and was time to bring it to everyone else. A great dance!
We also warmed up with a few dances - I Hate Love Songs, If You Ever, Vanotek Cha, Boots, My Heart Is In Havana, and Perfect. And tossed Blaze Of Glory in the middle of the four teaches to clear the brains and make room for the next teaches.
Busy, busy day!
I promised there would not be another new teach on Friday - and there probably won’t be any more before I leave on vacation. So for the next three classes, we will be working on mastering the ones we have learned so far.
There will, however, be a new teach at practice on Wednesday - Annie will be teaching Joey Warren’s newest dance, “Uphill Battle,” to those who are interested in learning it.
See you Friday!!!
August 3, 2018
Early Birds:
The Last Word
Reviews/Dances:
Vanotek Cha (D)
Light A Candle (R)
Tip Pon It (D)
Lost In Love (R)
Second Time Around (R)
Beautiful Wonderful (D)
Blaze Of Glory (D)
Sober Saturday Night (R)
The Language Of Love (R)
Vampire City (R)
The Last Word (again)
Say Yes! (D)
Monday, July 30, 2018
(July 30? Seriously? WHERE IS SUMMER GOING???)
Early Birds:
Bittersweet Memory
Vampire City
Visitors! I love it when we have visitors!!! Candee came to join us this morning - and brought Elaine Simons with her!
Warm-Up:
Tightrope
To The Moon & Back
Follow My Footprints
Gypsy In The Night
Perfect
New Teach - by Elaine Simons!!!
Light A Candle by Shane McKeever & Fred Whitehhouse. Music “Losing Sleep” by Chris Young. Phrased, Advanced line dance. A = 24 counts; B = 40 counts. Excellent teach - great dance - am hoping I can recreate it the next time we dance!!!
Reviews/Dances:
Second Time Around
Blaze Of Glory
Vampire City
Language Of Love
Tip Pon It
Sober Saturday Night
Stars In The Night Sky
Great job, everybody!
Many thanks to Elaine for teaching and to both Elaine and Candee for visiting!!! Yay!
Friday, July 27, 2018
Early-Birds:
Muddy Waters
Mirrors
Second Time Around
Warm-Up:
Change My Ways
Bloodstone
Guilty As Hell
The Ghost Of You
Part-Time Girlfriend
New Teach:
Second Time Around
Reviews/Dances:
Vampire City
Language Of Love
Sober Saturday Night
Lost In Love
Stars In The Night Sky
Right Here
Blaze Of Glory
Pink Hearts
Naked
NOTE!!! We will have guests visiting class on Monday - Candee is coming over and bringing Elaine Simons (from the Orlando area) with her. Elaine will be teaching us “Light A Candle” by Shane McKeever & Fred Whitehouse (Phrased AB Dance).
See you Monday!!!
Monday, July 23, 2018
Early Birds:
Lost In Love
W
Warm-Up:
Lil Mama
The Mates Of Soul
Til I’m Done
Beautiful Wonderful
My Heart Is In Havana
New Teach - by Nancy:
Vampire City by Niels Poulsen & Shane McKeever. Phrased (AB) Nightclub/Funky Cha Cha. Advanced. Music “Ghost Town” by Adam Lambert. Funky cool dance that was a hit with dancers at FITS.
Reviews/Danced:
Vanotek Cha
Beautiful Flames
Cross Your Mind
Tip Pon It
Language Of Love
Sober Saturday Night
Lost In Love
Blaze Of Glory
Friday, July 20, 2018
Early-Birds:
Muddy Waters
Where I Stood
Make Ya Move (twice!)
Warm-Ups:
I Won’t Let You Down
Do It Like This
I Was Wrong
Thai Of My Life
If You Ever
Reviews/Dances:
The Language Of Love (R)
Tip Toe (D)
Sober Saturday Night (R)
Pink Hearts (D)
Vanotek Cha (D)
Lost In Love (R)
Naked (D)
Blaze Of Glory (R)
Grow (R)
Legends & Heroes (R)
New Teach Monday: Vampire City!!!
Monday, July 16, 2018
Early-Birds:
Lost in Love
Sober Saturday Night
Stars In The Night Sky
Warm-Up:
I Hate Love Songs
Perfect
Follow My Footprints
Pull You Through
Tightrope
First New Teach:
Lost In Love by Maddison Glover & Simon Ward. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate Rolling-8. Music “Already Gone” by Mitchell Lee. This was one of the favorites coming out of FITS and a great dance to start with!
Reviews/Danced:
Legends & Heroes
Blaze of Glory
Tip Toe
Second New Teach:
Sober Saturday Night by Maddison Glover. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate NC2. Music “Sober Saturday Night” by Chris Young.
Great class day!
Friday, July 6, 2018
Early Birds:
To Be Human
Smooth Criminal
My Father’s Son
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Warm-Up:
Til I’m Done
To The Moon & Back
Boots
Part-Time Girlfriend
3 Rules
Reviews:
Blaze Of Glory
Grow
Stars In The Night Sky
Tip Pon It
Right Here
Hearts On Fire
Short Reviews/Just Danced:
Tip Toe
Pink Hearts
Hasta Luego
Naked
Cold Feet
Nice To Meet Ya
Monday, July 2.
(OMG! JULY!!! Where’d May & June go? It’s going to be “season” again before we know it!!!)
Early-birds:
We’ll Stay Young
My Father’s Son
Warm-Up:
The Ghost Of You
My Heart Is In Havana
Guilty As Hell
Beautiful Wonderful
Gypsy In The Night
New Teach:
Blaze Of Glory by Simon Ward, Niels Poulsen, Shane McKeever, & Fred Whitehouse. 32 count, 2 Wall Advanced NC2S. 1 tag done 6 times; 1 tag done once. Long intro (almost 40 seconds) before the dance starts. After hearing the music a few times, it got easier and easier to hear the tags. The timing for tag #2 will come with practice. The class was uncertain about the dance at the beginning and it really started to grow on them after a couple times through. Personally, I really like it - who could not love a dance to music by Bon Jovi???!
Reviewed “Grow” today (BIG review) and danced Tip Toe and Vanotek Cha.
That took up the entire class time!
See everyone Friday!
Friday, June 29, 2018
Early-Birds:
Stars In The Night Sky
Warm-Up:
I Hate Love Songs
Lil Mama
Doing The Walk
Dive Right In
Change My Ways
New Teaches:
Grow by Shane McKeever & Kerry Maus. Phrased (ABC) Intermediate, 2 Wall dance to the music “Grow” by Andy Grammar. A - 32, B - 32, C - 32. A was the easy part (16 counts, repeat). B - not so bad... start with hips, end with hips, put some funk in the middle. C - well, C took a little more work. Good thing we did this one first. It took us an hour to get through it and dance it a couple times. Peppy little bugger! But, all in all, the class liked it!
Tip Pon It by Shane McKeever, Steven Buhannic, Isabelle Delage, Coline Ragot, and Jonathan Yang. 64 Count, 2 Wall, High Intermediate Samba to the music “Tip On It” by Sean Paul featuring Major Lazer. We learned this one last night at Deb’s class so needed to include it as a part of today’s schedule. This was voted the Advanced Dane Winner at Eurodance last weekend. Fun dance with really different music!
Reviews:
Stars In the Night Sky
Right Here
Pink Hearts
Tip Toe
Monday, June 25, 2018
Early-Birds:
It’s Quarter After 3
Naked
Warm-Up:
Pull You Through
I Won’t Let You Down
Tightrope
Follow My Footprints
Gypsy In The Night
Reviews:
Stars In The Night Sky
Right Here
Tip Toe
Pink Hearts
Hasta Luego
Cold Feet
Cross Your Mind
Danced:
If You Ever
Thai Of My Life
Beautiful Wonderful
Vanotek Cha
Perfect
I appreciated the chance to run home and check on my patient! Thanks for dancing a few in my absence!
Friday, June 22, 2018
Warm-Up:
I Was Wrong
All Katchi, All Night Long
Bloodstone
We’ll Stay Young
Watch The Tempo
New Teach:
Stars In The Night Sky by Paul James Culshaw. 32 Count, 2 Wall, High Intermediate Nightclub. Music “Never Enough” by Loren Allred (The Greatest Showman). Once we mastered the first 3 counts, the rest of the dance moved along quickly & smoothly! And everyone liked it!
Reviews/Dances:
Right Here
Tip Toe
Pink Hearts
Hasta Luego
Naked
Nice To Meet Ya
Beautiful Flames
Vanotek Cha
Monday, June 18, 2018
Warm-Up:
Beautiful Wonderful
3 Rules
If You Ever
Boots
To The Moon & Back
New Teach:
Right Here by Joey Warren. 78 Count, 2 Wall Advanced Waltz with one restart. Music “He Is Right Here” by Kaden Slay. It took some effort to get everyone to slow down enough to fully appreciate the dance!
Reviews:
Tip Toe
Pink Hearts
Hasta Luego
Naked
Nice To Meet Ya
Cold Feet
Beautiful Flames
Cross Your Mind
Can’t Cry Pretty
Vanotek Cha
Hearts On Fire
Friday, June 15
Warm-Up:
Perfect
Serious Love
Love Remains
Take Me To The River
Part-Time Girlfriend
New Teach:
Tip Toe by Fred Whitehouse. Phrased (A-B) Advanced, 2 Wall dance to the music “Tip Toe” by Jason Derulo featuring French Montana. The class had a lot of fun with this one!
Reviews:
Do It Like This
Til I’m Done
Pink Hearts
Hasta Luego
Naked
Nice To Meet Ya
Cold Feet
Beautiful Flames
Cross Your Mind
Bring Me The Night
Monday, June 11, 2018
Valerie ventured down to visit us today!!! She’s ready to start learning the latest and greatest live and in person rather than from YouTube... albeit, still from a chair (I’m not sure I’ve ever seen her chilly before!).
Warm-Up:
The Ghost Of You
Slowly, Gently, Softly
Shady
Ain’t Misbehavin’
My Heart Is In Havana
New Teach (by Nancy):
Pink Hearts by Niels Poulsen. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate Nightclub. Music “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken” by Pink. There is a tag done 3 times in this dance. The tag is a repetition of the last 8 counts of the dance - either in full, in part, or in full and more. The sequence is not difficult at all once you put it with the music. Everyone did really well with this dance and liked it a lot!
Reviews:
Hasta Luego
Naked
Nice To Meet Ya
Bring Me The Night
Cold Feet
Beautiful Flames
Cross Your Mind
Requests:
Mates Of Soul
Capital Letters (with review)
Vanotek Cha
Pink Hearts (again)
Friday, June 8, 2018
Today’s Class:
Warm-Up:
Thai Of My Life
Strip That Down
Thumbs Up
Handclap
Til I’m Done
New Teach:
Hasta Luego by Debbie Rushton. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate dance to the music “Hasta Luego” by HRVY & Melu Trevejo. Quick teach, the class enjoyed this one!
Reviews:
Naked
Cross Your Mind
Beautiful Flames
Cold Feet
Nice To Meet Ya
Bring Me The Night
Can’t Cry Pretty
Back From The Fire
Also danced Vanotek Cha
Monday, June 4, 2018
Today’s Class:
Warm-Up:
I had Back From The Fire on the list - nope. Gonna need to review that one again.
Thinkin’ & Drivin’
Lady In Red
Pieces
I Won’t Let You Down
New Teach:
Naked by Scott Blevins & Rhoda Lai. 64 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced dance to the music “Naked” by James Arthur. 1 restart during wall 5.
Reviews/Dances:
Vanotek Cha
Cross Your Mind
Beautiful Flames
Cold Feet
Nice To Meet Ya
Monday, May 28, 2018
Happy MEMORIAL DAY!
As predicted, we started early due to the weather, knowing that the Park’s Memorial Day picnic would be moving indoors...
Candee came over from the East Coast... Carol and Nancy came down to join us... we had a full dance floor!!!
Warm-Up:
Feel
Time To Surrender
Crash
Corazon Diamante
Guilty As Hell
NEW TEACHES:
Cold Feet by Gary O’Reilly. 48 Count, 4 Wall Easy Intermediate Waltz to the music “Cold Feet” by Tenille Arts. 1 easy 12-count tag done on walls 3 & 5.
Nice To Meet Ya by Roy Verdonk, Daniel Trepat, & Laura Bartolomei. 48 Count, 2 Wall Easy Intermediate dance to the music “Mona Lisa” by Rak-Su. No tags or restarts.
The class picked these up really quickly leaving lots of time to review and dance numerous others:
Beautiful Flames
Cross Your Mind
Bring Me The Night
Vanotek Cha
I Hate Love Songs
We’ll Stay Young
Pull You Through
Mates Of Soul
If You Ever
Reminder: NO CLASS FRIDAY!
There will be practice on Wednesday.
Class resumes next Monday! See you after the Marathon will more new dances!!! 🤪
Friday, May 25, 2018
Early-Birds:
5 Million Pieces
Do It Like This
Warm-Up:
Boots
Yeah!
Love Remains
HOLY
Watch The Tempo
New Teach:
Beautiful Flames by Maggie Gallagher & Gary O’Reilly. 32 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate/Advanced nightclub. Music “Ashes” by Celine Dion. The teach went well and the class really liked it!
Reviews/Dances:
Cross Your Mind
Can’t Cry Pretty
Vanotek Cha
Bring Me The Night
Gypsy In The Night
Follow My Footprints
Tightrope
Do It Like This (again)
Friday, May 18, 2018
No new teach on Friday - all reviews. And a different time schedule due to me needing to leave a little early for the Orlando dance weekend.
Warm-Up Medley:
I Was Wrong
All Katchi, All Night Long
Beautiful Wonderful
Bloodstone
3 Rules
Reviews:
Capital Letters
Hearts On Fire
Don’t Stay For Me
Bring Me The Night
Vanotek Cha
Do It Like This
Can’t Cry Pretty
Thai Of My Life
Dive Right In
Doing The Walk
Lil Mama
Beautifully Broken
I Came To Love You
Monday, May 14, 2018
First day at Club Naples! We’ll be at the RV Park now until about the middle of October. And, it was raining - so we got to see Marion today!
Early-Bird Reviews:
Round Your Finger
If You Ever
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Change My Ways
The Ghost Of You
My Heart Is In Havana
Perfect
New Teach:
Can’t Cry Pretty by Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris. 48 Count, 4 Wall Intermediate Waltz. Music “Cry Pretty” by Carrie Underwood. One 12-count tag at the end of wall three. An easy teach that the class picked up quickly!
Reviews:
Do It Like This
Vanotek Cha
I Came To Love You
Beautifully Broken
Bring Me The Night
Mates Of Soul
Capital Letters, Hearts On Fire, and Don’t Stay For Me will get moved to Friday’s list as we ran out of time!
Have a great week!
Friday, May 11, 2018
Today was our last class at the Vineyards until next fall!!!
And the last class with Geoff & Celia as they will be returning home soon. Excited for your return in October! Many thanks to Geoff for teaching us 4 (yes, FOUR!!!) dances over the past couple weeks:
Beautifully Broken by Tina Argyle, Kim Ray, & Pat Stott. A 48 Count, 2 Wall
Intermediate dance to the music “Beautifully Broken” by John Berry.
Capital Letters by Maggie Gallagher. 64 Count, 2 Wall intermediate to the music
“Capital Letters” by Hailee Steinfeld (from the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack).
I Came To Love You by Gary O’Reilly & Dee Musk. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate to
the music “I Came To Love You” by Alexander Rybak. This was a special request
by me because Joe wanted a review of this before the Gary/Joey weekend! It’s a
great dance - thanks, Joe!!!
Hearts On Fire by Maggie Gallagher. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate to the music
“Hearts On Fire” by Gavin James.
All of these dances went over very well with the class and everyone seems to like them all!!!
I wasn’t going to teach anything today - but, of course, Deb taught a great dance last night in her class that I just couldn’t help but teach today! Another hit! And - luckily for Geoff - one he was looking at to be his first teach when he returned home!
Vanotek Cha by Gary O’Reilly. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate cha cha to the music “Back To Me” by Vanotek featuring Eneli.
And, we had a review from Nancy of Come Home! Great review - so glad we were able to look at this again in preparation for the upcoming Gary/Joey weekend!
Since I knew today was going to be filled to the brim, I skipped the warm-up medley and went straight in to dancing. We opened with I Hate Love Songs and Thai Of My Life.
After a couple of reviews from Geoff, we danced Doing the Walk and then I reviewed Bring Me The Night.
Then we danced Follow My Footprints followed by Nancy’s review of Come Home.
We wrapped up the morning with To The Moon & Back.
Welcome to summer!!!!
Monday, May 7, 2018
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Beautiful Wonderful
Feel
I Was Wrong
All Katchi, All Night Long
Beautiful In My Eyes
New Teach:
Bring Me The Night by Rhoda Lai. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced Rolling 8. Music “Bring Me The Night” by Sam Tsui featuring Kina Grannis. We took our time with this (an hour by the time we were done and had danced it!) but it was worth it. We worked out the tricky spots, talked about the arms, did the restarts and the 2-count tag (bridge). The class really seemed to like it!
Then we danced Thai Of My Life to clear our heads.
New Teach:
Geoff taught “Hearts On Fire” by Maggie Gallagher. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate. Music “Hearts On Fire” by Gavin James. Fun dance - the class enjoyed this one! (A piece of cake after the first teach!!!)
And then Tightrope to clear our heads.
Nancy reviewed “The Waiting Game” in preparation for the upcoming Gary/Joey Weekend.
Geoff reviewed Capital Letters and Beautifully Broken.
And then time ran out!
Friday, May 4, 2018
Warm-Up:
Time To Surrender
Change My Ways
The Ghost Of You
Slowly, Gently, Softly
Yeah!
Reviews:
Back From The Fire (Nancy)
Post Code Envy (Nancy)
Beautifully Broken (Geoff)
Capital Letters (Geoff)
Thai Of My Life
We’ll Stay Young
Doing The Walk
Dive Right In
New Teach:
I Came to Love You by Gary O’Reilly & Dee Musk. 64 count, 2 wall, 3 restarts. Joe had asked for this as a review as it was a dance he had learned during his time on the west coast. Being that Southwest Florida had not learned this dance when it was released... and that Geoff’s class has been dancing this for awhile, I asked Geoff if he would mind teaching it to our group. The class liked it!
Requests:
Follow My Footprints
Lil Mama
Tightrope
If You Ever
Watch The Tempo
Perfect
I Hate Love Songs
I Won’t Let You Down
Friday, April 20, 2018
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Change My Ways
The Ghost Of You
Feel
My Heart Is In Havana
Big Reviews:
Do It Like This
Thai Of My Life
Bloodstone
Quick Reviews:
Doin’ The Walk
Gypsy In The Night
Follow My Footprints
Don’t Stay For Me
Dive Right In
Requests:
Lil Mama
To The Moon & Back
Mates Of Soul
(Til I’m Done - but we ran out of time)
Monday, April 2, 2018
Warm-Up:
Coming Unplugged
Crash
Change My Ways
Handclap
Thinkin’ & Drivin’
New Teach:
Til I’m Done by Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate Cha Cha. 1 restart, 1 Tag. Music “Til I’m Done” by Paloma Faith. (Danced twice)
All-Request Day:
If You Ever
Somebody Wants You!
Gypsy In The Night (danced twice)
Dive Right In
Follow My Footprints
Doing The Walk
Don’t Stay For Me
We’ll Stay Young
Tightrope
I Hate Love Songs
Lil Mama
Boots
I Won’t Let You Down
Perfect
Part-Time Girlfriend
Friday, 3/9/18
Nancy wasn’t feeling the best yesterday or this morning so I did the class today.
WARM-UP:
Love Remains
The Ghost Of You
All Katchi, All Night Long
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Everbody’s Groovin’
NEW TEACH:
Follow My Footprints by Gary O’Reilly. 48 Count, 2 Wall High Intermediate NC2S. Music “Footprints” by Molly Kate Kestner. There are 3 restarts and 1 tag (done twice). Everybody did a great job learning this one!
REVIEWS:
Watch The Tempo (done twice)
Tightrope (done twice)
I Won’t Let You Down
Guilty As Hell
REQUESTS:
85
Change My Ways
3 Rules
To The Moon & Back
Friday, March 2, 2018
Warm-Up:
Change My Ways
Beautiful Wonderful
If You Ever
Lady In Red
Yeah!
New Teach:
Watch The Tempo by Team Xperience (Joey Warren, Fred Whitehouse, Gemma Ridyard, Shane McKeever, Guillaume Richard.
Reviews:
I Won’t Let You Down (Nancy)
We’ll Stay Young (Jamie)
Back From The Fire (Nancy)
Pull You Through (Nancy)
To The Moon & Back (Jamie)
Perfect (Jamie)
Danced:
3 Rules
Monday, February 26, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
Warm-Up:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Change My Ways
Beautiful Wonderful
If You Ever
Everybody’s Groovin’
New Teach:
We’ll Stay Young by Gary O’Reilly, Guillaume Richard, Shane McKeever. 48 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate Waltz. Music “The Rest Of Our Life” by Tim McGraw & Faith Hill.
Reviews:
Back From The Fire
3 Rules
Perfect
Pull You Through
Boots
To The Moon & Back
My Heart Is In Havana
Monday, February 12, 2018
Welcome Jackie!!! So glad you had a chance to visit class today! (Cindy, please share with Jackie - I don’t have her email address!)
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend, The Ghost Of You, Thy Will, Tango With Me Darling, Shady
New Teach:
Nancy taught today!!! (Not really of her own choice - but I gave a gentle shove!)
Nancy taught “Pull You Through” by Maddison Glover and Jo Thompson Szymanski. 32 count, 4 wall, intermediate with 1 restart on wall 6. Everyone did really well with the dance and Nancy, despite being nervous, did a great job with the teach! Whew! Got that first one out of the way! 😘😘😘
Reviews/Dances:
Yeah!
Boots
Perfect
To The Moon & Back
Bloodstone
85
All Katchi, All Night Long
Guilty As Hell
My Heart Is In Havana
Friday, February 9, 2018
We enjoyed Mecky’s visit today!!!
Warm-Up:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Beautiful Wonderful
Feel
Blue Ain’t Your Color
HOLY
Reviews:
Boots
Perfect
Guilty As Hell
To The Moon & Back
85 (had to correct the direction!)
Quick Walk-Thrus/Danced:
My Reason
3 Rules
Bloodstone
My Heart Is In Havana
All Katchi, All Night Long
Requested Review:
Taking Care Of You
Requests:
I Was Wrong
Change My Ways
If You Ever
Monday, February 5, 2018
Today we warmed up with:
Love Remains, Crash, Thumbs Up, Keep it Groovin’, and Lady In Red
New Teach:
Perfect by Alison Johnstone & Joshua Talbot. 32 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate to the music “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran. There are two restarts in this dance and a pivot at the end to return to the front for the ending. The class really liked this dance.
Reviews:
Guilty As Hell, To The Moon & Back, 3 Rules, Bloodstone, 85, My Heart Is In Havana, All Katchi All Night Long.
Requests:
Blessed
Yeah!
Friday, Februaray 2, 2018
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend, Change My Ways, Hot Damn, I Was Wrong, Time To Surrender.
Reviews:
My Reason
Freak A Little More
Guilty As Hell
Boots
To The Moon & Back
3 Rules
My Heart Is In Havana
Bloodstone
85
All Katchi, All Night Long
Requests:
I Was Wrong (full-length)
If You Ever
Everybody’s Groovin’
The Ghost Of You
Monday, January 29, 2018
Warm-Up:
Beautiful Wonderful
Peculiar Game
Italiano
The Ghost Of You
Oh Mama Hey
New Teach:
Freak A Little More by Scott Blevins. 32 count, 4 wall, intermediate to the music “Dance To the Music” by Sly and the Family Stone & WILL.I.AM.
Reviews:
85
Bloodstone
My Heart Is In Havana
3 Rules
Boots
To The Moon & Back
Guilty As Hell
Friday, January 26, 2018
Warm-Up:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Cry To Me
Feel
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
New Teach:
Guilty As Hell by Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate Rolling 8. Music “Guilty” by Paloma Faith. The dance fits the music so well!!!
Reviews:
85
My Heart Is In Havana
Boots
My Reason
To The Moon & Back
All Katchi, All Night Long
Bloodstone
3 Rules
Part-Time Girlfriend
We also danced Swing Your Chains
1/22/18
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Change My Ways
Hot Damn
Thinkin’ & Drivin’
Tango With Me Darling
Reviews:
I Was Wrong
My Reason
My Heart Is In Havana
Bloodstone
85
3 Rules
Safe In These Arms
Shady
New Teaches:
To The Moon & Back by Gary O’Reilly & Debbie Rushton. 32 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate NC2S to the music “Moon & Back” by Alice Kristiansen.
Boots by Maddison Glover. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate dance to the music “Boots” by Kesha. Valerie did a great teach on this dance!
1/19/18
Warm-Up:
Beautiful Wonderful
The Ghost Of You
Katchi
Slowy, Gently, Softly
Thy Will
Reviews:
Feel
I Was Wrong
My Reason
Oh Mama Hey
My Heart Is In Havana
Bloodstone
85
3 Rules
To Be Human
Danced:
Belssed
In case you were planning to come to class on Monday (and I know some of you were!) - DON’T! The Vineyards is closed for Martin Luther King day.
Today’s class 1/12/18.
Warm-Up:
Lady In Red
The Ghost of You
Everybody’s Groovin’
Feel (we need to work on this one!)
Blessed
New Teach:
3 Rules by Paul Snooke and Guilluame Richard.
64 count, 2 wall upper intermediate dance to the music New Rules by Dua Lipa. This dance has a bridge (they call it a tag) which is 4 sways in the middle of the dance and then you keep going; and 2 restarts (different places). We danced it three times.
Reviews:
My Reason
My Heart Is In Havana
Bloodstone
Oh Mama Hey
85
Requests:
Safe In These Arms
Change My Ways
If You Ever
Monday, January 8, 2018
No new teaches today - Terry and Diana hadn’t seen Friday’s teaches yet; Pam hadn’t seen one of them - all reviews.
Warm-up: Up In Here, No Stress, Have Fun Go Mad, Heaven On Earth, and HOLY.
Reviews:
85
Bloodstone
My Heart Is In Havana
Quick Reviews:
I Was Wrong
My Reason
If You Ever
And danced Beautiful Wonderful and Change My Ways.
Maybe we’ll have new ones on Friday......
Friday, January 5, 2018
There were two ways class could’ve gone today. The “easy” way - just go over and dance all the dances from last fall through our last class in December; or the “hard” way - new teaches!
Guess what? I’ve never been one to do things the easy way! LOL!
So, we warmed up with Part-Time Girlfriend, Peculiar Game, Hurts Like A Cha Cha, Yeah!, and Love Remains.
Teach #1: My Heart Is In Havana by Bradley Mather (Sandy Albano’s grandson). Deb taught this last night and I really liked it - and just couldn’t wait to teach it! 96 count, 2 Wall, intermediate/advanced to the music “Havana” by Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug. Bradley won 1st place with this dance in the intermediate/advanced category at “not Tampa” (Florida Line Dance Classic) in Orlando at the end of November.
Then we danced Change My Ways and reviewed Oh Mama Hey.
Teach #2: Bloodstone by Neville Fitzgerald and Julie Harris.
32 Count, 4 Wall intermediate NC2 to the music “Bloodstone” by Guy Sebastian. 2 restarts - walls 3 & 7. I just LOVE this dance!
And, since the class was still standing.... I jumped right in and taught a 3rd one!
Teach #3: 85 by Rachael McEnaney-White and Kerry Maus. Phrased 80 count (AABBCCD) intermediate dance to the music “85” by Andy Grammar. This was a favorite coming out of the Rachael workshop we attended in December.
And with that - it was 12:00 and class was over! It couldn’t have been too awful - everyone was still talking to me at the end! LOL!
See what happens when I don’t get to dance for 2 weeks??? Plus - we had to keep dancing just to keep warm!!!
Monday, Deccember 18, 2017
But, it’s true. Today was our last class until Friday, January 5. The Vineyards is closed this upcoming Friday, the following Monday & Friday, and Monday, New Year’s Day.
No new teaches today. We warmed up with Blessed, Thinkin’ & Drivin’, Tick Tick Boom, NuFlow, and Ain’t Misbehavin’.
We reviewed Oh Mama Hey, My Reason, and I Was Wrong. Also did a review of Strip That Down and quick walks of Cry To Me and Feel.
The rest of the time was shortened versions (some by request, others just thrown out there) of: Bittersweet Memory, Girl Crush, Change My Ways, Hot Damn, Beautiful Wonderful, Serious Love, Throwback Love, To Be Human (we had to do it twice because it just wasn’t coming together the first time!), Everybody’s Groovin’, The Ghost Of You, All Katchi, If You Ever, Somebody Wants You, Time To Surrender, Italiano, Oops Baby, HOLY, Handclap, Take Me To The River, Shady, Crash, Keep It Groovin’, and Blue Ain’t Your Color.
Friday, December 15, 2017
Shortened warm-up: Time To Surrender & Have Fun Go Mad.
New Teach:
“Oh Mama Hey” by Guyton Mundy & Jo Thompson Szymanski. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate. 1 16-count tag done several times; 1 4-count tag done once. Music “Oh Mama Hey” by Chris Cox and DJ Frankie (feat. Crystal Waters) - Radio Edit.
Reviewed:
My Reason
I Was Wrong
Up In Here
Walk-Thrus/Just Danced:
Peculiar Game
All Katchi
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
The Ghost Of You
Change My Ways
Requests:
She Used To Be Mine
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Beautiful Wonderful
Part-Time Girlfriend
Safe In These Arms
Monday, December 11, 2017
Visitors today! Carol joined us today, and Cindy’s here for the winter from Minnesota!
Early-Birds: Feel
Warm—Up: Yeah!, Strip That Down, Thumbs Up, We’re In Heaven, Take Me To The Rivere
New Teach: My Reason by Roy Verdonk, Jef Camps, and Betty Alart. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Advanced with 2 restarts. Music “The Reason” by Brett Eldredge. We haven’t had a rolling 8 for awhile - and the class really seemed to like this one.
Reviews: I Wrong, All Katchi, Feel, Cry To Me, Hot Damn, If You Ever, Beautiful Wonderful.
Requests: Everybody’s Groovin’, The Ghost Of You, Shady, HOLY, Somebody Wants You!, and Your Place Or Mine.
On Friday we may pick up the pace a little with one of Guyton’s most recent dances (with Jo Thompson Szymanski), “Oh Mama, Hey!”
Friday, December 8, 2017
Excellent PARTY DAY yesterday!!! Awesome food, fun presents, great friends!
Monday, December 4, 2017
Early Birds: we worked on Hot Damn.
Warm-Up Medley: Taking Care Of You, Tango With Me Darling, SGS, Keep It Groovin’, Clap Snap.
New Teaches:
“I Was Wrong” by Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate. 1 restart and 1 tag/restart. Music “How Long” by Charlie Puth.
“All Katchi, All Night Long” by Kerry Maus. 72 Count, 2 All, Phrased Intermediate. Music “Katchi” by Ofenbah & Nick Waterhouse.
Reviews:
Feel
Cry To Me
Hot Damn
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
Beautiful Wonderful
Danced/Requested:
The Ghost Of You
Somebody Wants You!
Monday, November 27
Given the option of learning another classic from 2 weekends ago or to just review what has already been taught... the group chose to just review.
Early-Birds: Beautiful Wonderful
Warm-Up: Why Baby Why, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Oops Baby, No Stress, Serious Love
Reviews:
Feel
Cry To Me
Hot Damn
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
Peculiar Game
Danced/Walk-Thrus:
Change My Ways
The Ghost Of You
Part-Time Girlfriend
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Requests:
Crash
Blessed
To Be Human
Tell Your Heart To Beat Again
Throwback Love
Safe In These Arms
Swing Your Chains
Love Remains
Monday, November 20, 2017
For a “I’m not teaching anything new today” kind of day, we sure were busy!!!
The early-birds got a teach on Safe In These Arms.
Warm-Up Medley: Sign Of The Times, Handclap, Cry For Me (I forgot the ending!), Love Remains, and Summer Thing (which was a little tricky for everyone!).
Classics: Several of us attended the Classics Workshop on Saturday in Deerfield Beach. We learned Feel (S. Blevins), Cry To Me (P. McAdam), SXE (Rob Fowler), and Do Your Thing (M. Perry et al.).
I taught Feel and Cry To Me to the class today. I’ll go over SXE and Do Your Thing next Monday. And now that we’ve done these, they will be played a little more often to keep them in our heads!
Reviews:
Hot Damn
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
Turbo Reviews:
Peculiar Game
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Part-Time Girlfriend
Danced:
The Ghost Of You
Change My Ways
Beautiful Wonderful
Requests:
Somebody Wants You!
Kissing Strangers
Friday, November 17, 2017
Early Birds: Larger Than Life
Warm-Up Medley: Thinkin’ & Drivin’, Blessed, Poetry In Motion (well - not really since no one could pull it off!), Italiano, and Tick Tick Boom.
New Teach: Hot Damn by Scott Blevins and Rachael McEnaney-White. 32 Count, 4 Wall Intermediate/Advanced. Music “Hot Damn” by the Shadowboxers. There is one 4-count tag on wall 6. Most of the class has had this already - for the ones that this was new, they did well with it!
Reviews:
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Beautiful Wonderful
Part-Time Girlfriend
Peculiar Game
Walk-Thru:
Change My Ways
Requests:
Safe In These Arms
Boom Pow
Time To Surrender
Somebody Wants You!
Tell Your Heart To Beat Again
Monday, November 13, 2017
Early-Birds: Up In Here
Warm-Up Medley: Take Me To The River, Shady, Crash, Have Fun Go Mad, Lady In Red
New Teach:
Everybody’s Groovin’ by Rhoda Lai & Jo Thompson Szymanski. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate.1 restart done three times.
Music “Everybody’s Groovin’” by MaxAMillion.
Fun dance that the class picked up pretty quick and danced twice.
Reviews/Walk-Thrus:
If You Ever
Peculiar Game
Change My Ways (WT)
Beautiful Wonderful
Part-Time Girlfriend
The Ghost Of You (WT)
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Friday’s new teach:
Hot Damn by Rachael & Scott
Monday, November 6, 2017
No new teach today! All reviews and 4-rotation dances.
Friday, November 3 2017
Welcome Cheri Booth! Cheri has danced in my Thursday class and Chris’ Tuesday class for years. She winters in Naples and summers outside of Toronto, Ontario - Canada. We’ve been working on her to try our Vineyards class and she finally relented and came to class! Yay!
Early-Birds: No Stress by Shane McKeever
Warm-Up: HOLY, Brother, Tell Your Heart To Beat Again, Strip That Down, Heaven On Earth.
New Teach:
If You Ever by Joey Warren & Heidi Oswald.
32 count, 4 wall intermediate. There are three different restarts in this dance - 2 of them done twice each for a total of 5 restarts.
20-24-32-24-32-16-16-32-32
Music “Mercy” by Brett Young
We took our time with this and worked our way through the restarts and the class did GREAT! Such a wonderful dance!
Reviewed: Yeah!, The Ghost Of You, Peculiar Game, Beautiful Wonderful, Change My Ways.
Turbo Review/Danced: No Stress, Somebody Wants You!
We need to look ahead to the rest of the calendar year. We’re rapidly approaching the time of year when the Vineyards is closed a lot for the Holidays.
Here are the dates we WILL NOT be dancing (to be revised if I get approval from Club Naples to hold classes during these times):
FRIDAY, 11/10
FRIDAY, 11/24
FRIDAY, 12/1 (definitely NO CLASS as we’ll be in Orlando for the Florida Line Dance Classic)
FRIDAY, 12/22
MONDAY, 12/25
FRIDAY, 12/29
MONDAY, 1/1
The Vineyards also closes in observance of Martin Luther King Day and President’s Day - 1/15 & 2/19.
Other days we WILL NOT be dancing include Friday, February 16 (we’ll be in New Orleans for the Dance Xperience).
Our last class at the Vineyards is scheduled for Friday, May 11. We’ll return to Club Naples on Monday, May 14.
Because we’re only dancing one day next week, there will not be a new teach. We’ll use Monday as a practice and review day. The requested Early-Bird Teach will be Somebody Wants You! by Daniel Trepat, Niels Poulsen, Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris, and Roy Hadisubroto & Fionna Murray.
Monday, October 30, 2017
Great to get back to dancing after a week off to play pickleball! Many thanks to Valerie for keeping everyone going while I was gone!!!
Today’s Warm-Up Medley: Oops Baby, Thumbs Up, Love Remains, Holdin’ Me Back, Serious Love
New Teach: The Ghost Of You by Roy Verdonk & Sebastiaan Holtland. A 64 Count, 2 Wall tango with no tags or restarts. Music “The Ghost Of You” by Caro Emerald.
Reviews: Change My Ways, Beautiful Wonderful, Part-Time Girlfriend, Peculiar Game, Hurts Like A Cha Cha.
Other Dances: Yeah!, Clap Snap, Tango With Me Darling
Friday’s new teach could be “If You Ever” by Joey Warren - if I can get the restarts in their right places!
Friday, October 20, 2017
Welcome back, Colette!
No new teach today - still needed to teach Part-Time Girlfriend to Diana and Colette, and Marion hadn’t seen Sauced Up or Change My Ways, so we took a day to get everyone caught up!
Warm-Up Medley: Blessed, Keep It Groovin’, Blue Ain’t Your Color, Tango With Me Darling, and Corazon Diamante.
Reviews: Change My Ways, Sauced Up, Part-Time Girlfriend, Hurts Like A Cha Cha, Safe In These Arms, and Up In Here.
Requests: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Crash, Italiano, and Thy Will.
Valerie will take over next week on Monday and Friday - new teaches next week will be Beautiful Wonderful by Debbie Rushton and Jannie Toffe-Anderson and Peculiar Games by Fred Whitehouse and Georgina Dixon.
See everyone on the 30th!!!!
Monday, 10/16/17
Welcome back Diana and Terry!!!
Warm-Up Medley: Thinkin’ & Drivin’, Tick Tick Boom, Time To Surrender, Italiano, Crash.
New Teaches:
Change My Ways by Jose Miguel Belloque Vane & Roy Verdonk. 48 count, 4 wall, advanced. Music “Change My Ways” by Mike Zito. This dance has been around since last spring and has been a floor filler at several events.
Sauced Up (Valerie taught) by Dee Musk. 32 count, 4 wall, high intermediate. Music “Sauced Up” by Fifth Harmony. 2 restarts. This dance was taught at World Dance Master in England.
Review:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Danced:
Nancy Mulligan
Friday, 10/13/17
Last summer class at Club Naples! We start on Monday at the Vineyards!
Warm-Up Medley:
Shady, Tell Your Heart To Beat Again, Heaven On Earth, H.O.L.Y., Handclap
New Teach:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha by Team International (the winning choreography) - Simon Ward, Daniel Trepat, and Fred Whitehouse. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate Cha Cha to the music “Nothing Ever Hurt Like You” by James Morrison.
Reviews:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Up In Here
Safe In These Arms
Also reviewed/danced:
Swing Your Chains, Have Fun Go Mad, Serious Love, and Temple (Oh Lordy!)
Monday, 10/9/17
Warm-Up: Cry For Me, Taking Care Of You, Thumbs Up, Love Remains, Take Me To The River
New Teach:
Part-Time Girlfriend by Team USA (Scott Blevins, Joey Warren, Guyton Mundy). 84 Count, 2 Wall Waltz to the music “Make Me No 1” by Felicia Olsson.
Reviews: Lemonade (last day for this one), Up In Here, and Safe In These Arms
Danced: Thinkin’ & Drivin’, Woo Woo, To Be Human, Strip That Down, NuFlow, and Boom Pow.
Monday, 10/2/17
Chicago Prep!
Have Fun Go Mad
Poetry In Motion
Larger Than Life
Swing Your Chains
Lemonade
Come Home
Nancy Mulligan (Valerie reviewed - thanks!)
She Used To Be Mine
Tonight Again
Post Code Envy
A Lesson In Love
All Of Me
Scarlet Devil
And Get It On
Jesse James
From The Ground Up
Pom Poms
Friday, 9/28/17
Chicago Review: From The Ground Up, Pom Poms, Jesse James, Scarlet Devil, A Lesson In Love, All Of Me
Warm-Up: Lady In Red, Thy Will, Walk Of Shame, Blessed, The Anthem
New Teach: Lemonade by Jo Thompson Szymanski & Malene Jakobsen
Reviews/Danced:
Up In Here
Safe In These Arms
No Stress
The Mack
Yeah!
Everday’s A Holiday
Somebody Wants You!
Against All Odds
Take It Off
Serious Love
We’re In Heaven
Throwback Love
Holdin’ Me Back
Sign Of The Times
Monday, September 25, 2017
We started with a "Chicago Prep" session at 9 - reviewing Scarlet Devil and And Get It On.
Warm-Up Medley: Tango With Me Darling, Crash, Keep It Groovin', Oops Baby, and Pieces.
New Teach: Up In Here by Shea McCafferty.
Reviewed/Danced: Safe In These Arms, No Stress, The Mack, Yeah!, Everyday's A Holiday, Somebody Wants You, Against All Odds, Take It Off, Serious Love, NuFlow, and Strip That Down.
Poor Terry! Other than "Yeah!" which she got a teach on last Thursday afternoon, everything was new for her. There was brain-matter everywhere!!! LOL!
Friday, September 22, 2017
First class since Hurricane Irma tore through Southwest Florida!
Warm-Up Medley: Shady, Tell Your Heart To Beat Again, Heaven On Earth, Girls Like, Corazon Diamante.
New Teach:
Safe In These Arms by Dee Musk and Fred Whitehouse. 32 Count, 4 Wall NC2. Music "Run To You" by Michele Lea. Awesome dance! My favorite coming out of Hotlanta!
Reviewed/Danced: No Stress, The Mack, Yeah!, Everyday's A Holiday, Somebody Wants You, Take It Off, Against All Odds, Serious Love, To Be Human, Brother, Woo Woo.
Friday, September 8, 2017
It's a Hurricane Party! As we all prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Irma, we took a break and danced away our stress.
Warm-Up Medley: Cry For Me, Taking Care Of You, Thumbs Up, Love Remains, HOLY
New Teach:
No Stress by Shane McKeever. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate. Music "Mama" by Jonas Blue featuring William Singe.
Reviews: The Mack, Yeah!, Everyday's A Holiday, Somebody Wants You, Against All Odds, Take It Off, Serious Love
Danced: Time To Surrender, Thinkin' & Drivin', Woo Woo, Boom Pow
Monday, September 4, 2017
Today's new teach: The Mack by Trevor Thornton & Will Craig. 32 count, 4 wall, low intermediate dance. 2 restarts. Music "The Mack" by Nevada featuring Mark Morrison& Fetty Wap.
Warm-Up Medley: Lady In Red, Crash, Blessed, Italiano, Thy Will.
Reviews: Everyday's A Holiday, Yeah!, Take It Off, Serious Love
Danced: Tick Tick Boom, Throwback Love, We're In Heaven, Strip That Down, NuFlow.
Friday's teach: No Stress by Shane McKeever
Friday, September 1, 2017
(Can you believe it's SEPTEMBER already?!?!)
Early-birds: Against All Odds, Somebody Wants You, Serious Love, Take It Off
Warm-Up Medley: Tango With Me Darling, Tell Your Heart To Beat Again, Walk Of Shame, The Anthem, Falling
New Teach:
Everyday's A Holiday by Fred Whitehouse. 64 count, 2 wall, intermediate cha. Music "Holiday" by DJ Antoine vs. Mad Mark 2K15 Radio Edit. featuring Akon.
Reviews:
Yeah!
Against All Odds
Take It Off
Somebody Wants You
Just Danced (or quick reviews):
Boom Pow
Woo Woo
Holdin' Me Back
SGS
Clap Snap
Thinkin' & Drivin'
Happy Dance
To Be Human
Click Click Click
Summerthing
Kissing Strangers
Brother
Time To Surrender
Sign Of The Times
REMINDER!!!
Due to Labor Day activities at Club Naples, class Monday will start at 8:30am and go until 11:00am.
Have a great weekend!
*Early-birds: Somebody Wants You
Monday, August 21, 2017
Warm-Up Medley: Linger, Cry For Me, Corzaon Diamante, Thumbs Up!, Pieces.
Reviews: Take It Off (danced twice), Against All Odds (danced twice), Boom Pow,
Danced: Slowly, Gently, Softly; Blessed; and Crashed.
Quick Reviews/Just Danced: Brother, Summerthing, To Be Human, Holdin' Me Back, We're In Heaven.
Requests: Woo Woo, Strip That Down, Time To Surrender, Love Remains, Lady In Red, and Human After All.
Make sure to let Nancy know if you are NOT planning on attending class on Friday so she can make appropriate decisions.
See everyone Monday!
Friday, August 18, 2017
Warm-Up Medley: Tick Tick Boom, Woo Woo, Sign Of The Times, Thinkin' & Drivin', Take Me To The River.
First teach: Take It Off by TB2 (Trevor Thornton, Brandon Roman, & Branden Swift). 128 Count, 1 Wall Phrased Advanced with 1 tag. Music "Take It Off" by Lil Jon featuring Yandel & Becky G. A- 32; B- 32; C- 32, D-32, Tag - 32. ABCD-ABCD-D-Tag-ACBD. It took damn near an hour to do - but by the time we were done and had danced it a couple times? Yes! Nailed it!
Reviewed Boom Pow, We're In Heaven, and Strip That Down.
Second teach: Against All Odds by Simon Ward. 38 Count, 2 Wall, High Intermediate NC2S with 1 restart and 1 tag. Music "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins. They thought I was kidding when I said I was going to teach 2! Ha! We ran out of time before we could dance it through again, but we did do it once and it was coming together nicely at the end. Beautiful dance!
Monday, August 14, 2017
Early-bird practice included Serious Love, Holdin' Me Back, and NuFlow.
The warm-up medley (after NuFlow, it was the cool-down medley!!!!): Lady In Red, Throwback Love, Time To Surrender, Slowly Gently Softly, Clap Snap.
Today's Teach: Boom Pow by Scott Blevins & Jo Thompson Szymanski. This 32-count, 4 wall dance has been on the circuit since March - well overdue for a teach! Two restarts (walls 2 & 5) and the music is "Boom Pow" by Alexandra Stan. Teach went well and after dancing it a couple times through, I think everyone had a good feel for it!
The rest of the class was spent reviewing: Brother, To Be Human, Strip That Down, Serious Love, NuFlow, Holdin' Me Back, Strip That Down, Summerthing, We're In Heaven. Well done, everyone!!!
Monday, July 17, 2017
Great class today! Everyone worked really hard and did soooo good!!! Awesome job!
We warmed up to a medley of Love Remains, Italiano, Falling, The Anthem, and Tell Your Heart To Beat Again.
First teach of the morning was "To Be Human" by Neville Fitzgerald and Julie Harris. A 48 count, 2 wall advanced level dance with one restart. Music of the same name by Sia featuring Labrinth.
We reviewed Throwback Love and Woo Woo.
2nd teach of the morning was "Brother" by Melissa Culbertson and John Robinson. 32 count, 2 wall intermediate dance with 2 different tags. The music of the same name by NEEDTOBREATHE featuring Gavin DeGraw.
A quick demo of NuFlow (Rachael McEnaney-White and Paul McAdam) and then a review of Tick Tick Boom and we were out of time! Where did the morning go???
Monday, July 10, 2017
Nothing new today!!!
And don't forget - NO CLASS FRIDAY!
Early-Birds:
I Don't Mind
Sign Of The Times
Tick Tick Boom
Holdin' Me Back
Today's Warm-Up Medley:
Heaven On Earth, Walk Of Shame, Italiano, Linger, Shake That
Reviews:
Throwback Love
Woo Woo
Tick Tick Boom
Sign Of The Times
Funky Sole
Pink Champagne
Come Home
Quick Reviews/Just Dance:
Clap Snap
Taking Care Of You
Time To Surrender
No new teach on Friday - all reviews. And a different time schedule due to me needing to leave a little early for the Orlando dance weekend.
Warm-Up Medley:
I Was Wrong
All Katchi, All Night Long
Beautiful Wonderful
Bloodstone
3 Rules
Reviews:
Capital Letters
Hearts On Fire
Don’t Stay For Me
Bring Me The Night
Vanotek Cha
Do It Like This
Can’t Cry Pretty
Thai Of My Life
Dive Right In
Doing The Walk
Lil Mama
Beautifully Broken
I Came To Love You
Monday, May 14, 2018
First day at Club Naples! We’ll be at the RV Park now until about the middle of October. And, it was raining - so we got to see Marion today!
Early-Bird Reviews:
Round Your Finger
If You Ever
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Change My Ways
The Ghost Of You
My Heart Is In Havana
Perfect
New Teach:
Can’t Cry Pretty by Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris. 48 Count, 4 Wall Intermediate Waltz. Music “Cry Pretty” by Carrie Underwood. One 12-count tag at the end of wall three. An easy teach that the class picked up quickly!
Reviews:
Do It Like This
Vanotek Cha
I Came To Love You
Beautifully Broken
Bring Me The Night
Mates Of Soul
Capital Letters, Hearts On Fire, and Don’t Stay For Me will get moved to Friday’s list as we ran out of time!
Have a great week!
Friday, May 11, 2018
Today was our last class at the Vineyards until next fall!!!
And the last class with Geoff & Celia as they will be returning home soon. Excited for your return in October! Many thanks to Geoff for teaching us 4 (yes, FOUR!!!) dances over the past couple weeks:
Beautifully Broken by Tina Argyle, Kim Ray, & Pat Stott. A 48 Count, 2 Wall
Intermediate dance to the music “Beautifully Broken” by John Berry.
Capital Letters by Maggie Gallagher. 64 Count, 2 Wall intermediate to the music
“Capital Letters” by Hailee Steinfeld (from the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack).
I Came To Love You by Gary O’Reilly & Dee Musk. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate to
the music “I Came To Love You” by Alexander Rybak. This was a special request
by me because Joe wanted a review of this before the Gary/Joey weekend! It’s a
great dance - thanks, Joe!!!
Hearts On Fire by Maggie Gallagher. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate to the music
“Hearts On Fire” by Gavin James.
All of these dances went over very well with the class and everyone seems to like them all!!!
I wasn’t going to teach anything today - but, of course, Deb taught a great dance last night in her class that I just couldn’t help but teach today! Another hit! And - luckily for Geoff - one he was looking at to be his first teach when he returned home!
Vanotek Cha by Gary O’Reilly. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate cha cha to the music “Back To Me” by Vanotek featuring Eneli.
And, we had a review from Nancy of Come Home! Great review - so glad we were able to look at this again in preparation for the upcoming Gary/Joey weekend!
Since I knew today was going to be filled to the brim, I skipped the warm-up medley and went straight in to dancing. We opened with I Hate Love Songs and Thai Of My Life.
After a couple of reviews from Geoff, we danced Doing the Walk and then I reviewed Bring Me The Night.
Then we danced Follow My Footprints followed by Nancy’s review of Come Home.
We wrapped up the morning with To The Moon & Back.
Welcome to summer!!!!
Monday, May 7, 2018
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Beautiful Wonderful
Feel
I Was Wrong
All Katchi, All Night Long
Beautiful In My Eyes
New Teach:
Bring Me The Night by Rhoda Lai. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced Rolling 8. Music “Bring Me The Night” by Sam Tsui featuring Kina Grannis. We took our time with this (an hour by the time we were done and had danced it!) but it was worth it. We worked out the tricky spots, talked about the arms, did the restarts and the 2-count tag (bridge). The class really seemed to like it!
Then we danced Thai Of My Life to clear our heads.
New Teach:
Geoff taught “Hearts On Fire” by Maggie Gallagher. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate. Music “Hearts On Fire” by Gavin James. Fun dance - the class enjoyed this one! (A piece of cake after the first teach!!!)
And then Tightrope to clear our heads.
Nancy reviewed “The Waiting Game” in preparation for the upcoming Gary/Joey Weekend.
Geoff reviewed Capital Letters and Beautifully Broken.
And then time ran out!
Friday, May 4, 2018
Warm-Up:
Time To Surrender
Change My Ways
The Ghost Of You
Slowly, Gently, Softly
Yeah!
Reviews:
Back From The Fire (Nancy)
Post Code Envy (Nancy)
Beautifully Broken (Geoff)
Capital Letters (Geoff)
Thai Of My Life
We’ll Stay Young
Doing The Walk
Dive Right In
New Teach:
I Came to Love You by Gary O’Reilly & Dee Musk. 64 count, 2 wall, 3 restarts. Joe had asked for this as a review as it was a dance he had learned during his time on the west coast. Being that Southwest Florida had not learned this dance when it was released... and that Geoff’s class has been dancing this for awhile, I asked Geoff if he would mind teaching it to our group. The class liked it!
Requests:
Follow My Footprints
Lil Mama
Tightrope
If You Ever
Watch The Tempo
Perfect
I Hate Love Songs
I Won’t Let You Down
Friday, April 20, 2018
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Change My Ways
The Ghost Of You
Feel
My Heart Is In Havana
Big Reviews:
Do It Like This
Thai Of My Life
Bloodstone
Quick Reviews:
Doin’ The Walk
Gypsy In The Night
Follow My Footprints
Don’t Stay For Me
Dive Right In
Requests:
Lil Mama
To The Moon & Back
Mates Of Soul
(Til I’m Done - but we ran out of time)
Monday, April 2, 2018
Warm-Up:
Coming Unplugged
Crash
Change My Ways
Handclap
Thinkin’ & Drivin’
New Teach:
Til I’m Done by Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate Cha Cha. 1 restart, 1 Tag. Music “Til I’m Done” by Paloma Faith. (Danced twice)
All-Request Day:
If You Ever
Somebody Wants You!
Gypsy In The Night (danced twice)
Dive Right In
Follow My Footprints
Doing The Walk
Don’t Stay For Me
We’ll Stay Young
Tightrope
I Hate Love Songs
Lil Mama
Boots
I Won’t Let You Down
Perfect
Part-Time Girlfriend
Friday, 3/9/18
Nancy wasn’t feeling the best yesterday or this morning so I did the class today.
WARM-UP:
Love Remains
The Ghost Of You
All Katchi, All Night Long
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Everbody’s Groovin’
NEW TEACH:
Follow My Footprints by Gary O’Reilly. 48 Count, 2 Wall High Intermediate NC2S. Music “Footprints” by Molly Kate Kestner. There are 3 restarts and 1 tag (done twice). Everybody did a great job learning this one!
REVIEWS:
Watch The Tempo (done twice)
Tightrope (done twice)
I Won’t Let You Down
Guilty As Hell
REQUESTS:
85
Change My Ways
3 Rules
To The Moon & Back
Friday, March 2, 2018
Warm-Up:
Change My Ways
Beautiful Wonderful
If You Ever
Lady In Red
Yeah!
New Teach:
Watch The Tempo by Team Xperience (Joey Warren, Fred Whitehouse, Gemma Ridyard, Shane McKeever, Guillaume Richard.
Reviews:
I Won’t Let You Down (Nancy)
We’ll Stay Young (Jamie)
Back From The Fire (Nancy)
Pull You Through (Nancy)
To The Moon & Back (Jamie)
Perfect (Jamie)
Danced:
3 Rules
Monday, February 26, 2018
Wam-Up:
Blessed
Crash
Part-Time Girlfriend
The Ghost Of You
Feel
New Teach:
Nancy taught one of the dances from the Scott Blevins workshop this weekend “I Won’t Let You Down” by Scott Blevins and Debbie Rushton. 32 Count, 4 Wall Nightclub with one tag done four times. Music “I Won’t Let You Down” by Erin McCarley.
Reviews:
We’ll Stay Young
Back From the Fire (Nancy reviewed)
Perfect
Pull You Through (Nancy reviewed)
I Was Wrong
85
My Heart is in Havana
To The Moon & Back
All Katchi, All Night Long
Friday, February 23, 2018
Warm-Up:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Change My Ways
Beautiful Wonderful
If You Ever
Everybody’s Groovin’
New Teach:
We’ll Stay Young by Gary O’Reilly, Guillaume Richard, Shane McKeever. 48 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate Waltz. Music “The Rest Of Our Life” by Tim McGraw & Faith Hill.
Reviews:
Back From The Fire
3 Rules
Perfect
Pull You Through
Boots
To The Moon & Back
My Heart Is In Havana
Monday, February 12, 2018
Welcome Jackie!!! So glad you had a chance to visit class today! (Cindy, please share with Jackie - I don’t have her email address!)
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend, The Ghost Of You, Thy Will, Tango With Me Darling, Shady
New Teach:
Nancy taught today!!! (Not really of her own choice - but I gave a gentle shove!)
Nancy taught “Pull You Through” by Maddison Glover and Jo Thompson Szymanski. 32 count, 4 wall, intermediate with 1 restart on wall 6. Everyone did really well with the dance and Nancy, despite being nervous, did a great job with the teach! Whew! Got that first one out of the way! 😘😘😘
Reviews/Dances:
Yeah!
Boots
Perfect
To The Moon & Back
Bloodstone
85
All Katchi, All Night Long
Guilty As Hell
My Heart Is In Havana
Friday, February 9, 2018
We enjoyed Mecky’s visit today!!!
Warm-Up:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Beautiful Wonderful
Feel
Blue Ain’t Your Color
HOLY
Reviews:
Boots
Perfect
Guilty As Hell
To The Moon & Back
85 (had to correct the direction!)
Quick Walk-Thrus/Danced:
My Reason
3 Rules
Bloodstone
My Heart Is In Havana
All Katchi, All Night Long
Requested Review:
Taking Care Of You
Requests:
I Was Wrong
Change My Ways
If You Ever
Monday, February 5, 2018
Today we warmed up with:
Love Remains, Crash, Thumbs Up, Keep it Groovin’, and Lady In Red
New Teach:
Perfect by Alison Johnstone & Joshua Talbot. 32 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate to the music “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran. There are two restarts in this dance and a pivot at the end to return to the front for the ending. The class really liked this dance.
Reviews:
Guilty As Hell, To The Moon & Back, 3 Rules, Bloodstone, 85, My Heart Is In Havana, All Katchi All Night Long.
Requests:
Blessed
Yeah!
Friday, Februaray 2, 2018
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend, Change My Ways, Hot Damn, I Was Wrong, Time To Surrender.
Reviews:
My Reason
Freak A Little More
Guilty As Hell
Boots
To The Moon & Back
3 Rules
My Heart Is In Havana
Bloodstone
85
All Katchi, All Night Long
Requests:
I Was Wrong (full-length)
If You Ever
Everybody’s Groovin’
The Ghost Of You
Monday, January 29, 2018
Warm-Up:
Beautiful Wonderful
Peculiar Game
Italiano
The Ghost Of You
Oh Mama Hey
New Teach:
Freak A Little More by Scott Blevins. 32 count, 4 wall, intermediate to the music “Dance To the Music” by Sly and the Family Stone & WILL.I.AM.
Reviews:
85
Bloodstone
My Heart Is In Havana
3 Rules
Boots
To The Moon & Back
Guilty As Hell
Friday, January 26, 2018
Warm-Up:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Cry To Me
Feel
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
New Teach:
Guilty As Hell by Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate Rolling 8. Music “Guilty” by Paloma Faith. The dance fits the music so well!!!
Reviews:
85
My Heart Is In Havana
Boots
My Reason
To The Moon & Back
All Katchi, All Night Long
Bloodstone
3 Rules
Part-Time Girlfriend
We also danced Swing Your Chains
1/22/18
Warm-Up:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Change My Ways
Hot Damn
Thinkin’ & Drivin’
Tango With Me Darling
Reviews:
I Was Wrong
My Reason
My Heart Is In Havana
Bloodstone
85
3 Rules
Safe In These Arms
Shady
New Teaches:
To The Moon & Back by Gary O’Reilly & Debbie Rushton. 32 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate NC2S to the music “Moon & Back” by Alice Kristiansen.
Boots by Maddison Glover. 64 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate dance to the music “Boots” by Kesha. Valerie did a great teach on this dance!
1/19/18
Warm-Up:
Beautiful Wonderful
The Ghost Of You
Katchi
Slowy, Gently, Softly
Thy Will
Reviews:
Feel
I Was Wrong
My Reason
Oh Mama Hey
My Heart Is In Havana
Bloodstone
85
3 Rules
To Be Human
Danced:
Belssed
In case you were planning to come to class on Monday (and I know some of you were!) - DON’T! The Vineyards is closed for Martin Luther King day.
Today’s class 1/12/18.
Warm-Up:
Lady In Red
The Ghost of You
Everybody’s Groovin’
Feel (we need to work on this one!)
Blessed
New Teach:
3 Rules by Paul Snooke and Guilluame Richard.
64 count, 2 wall upper intermediate dance to the music New Rules by Dua Lipa. This dance has a bridge (they call it a tag) which is 4 sways in the middle of the dance and then you keep going; and 2 restarts (different places). We danced it three times.
Reviews:
My Reason
My Heart Is In Havana
Bloodstone
Oh Mama Hey
85
Requests:
Safe In These Arms
Change My Ways
If You Ever
Monday, January 8, 2018
No new teaches today - Terry and Diana hadn’t seen Friday’s teaches yet; Pam hadn’t seen one of them - all reviews.
Warm-up: Up In Here, No Stress, Have Fun Go Mad, Heaven On Earth, and HOLY.
Reviews:
85
Bloodstone
My Heart Is In Havana
Quick Reviews:
I Was Wrong
My Reason
If You Ever
And danced Beautiful Wonderful and Change My Ways.
Maybe we’ll have new ones on Friday......
Friday, January 5, 2018
There were two ways class could’ve gone today. The “easy” way - just go over and dance all the dances from last fall through our last class in December; or the “hard” way - new teaches!
Guess what? I’ve never been one to do things the easy way! LOL!
So, we warmed up with Part-Time Girlfriend, Peculiar Game, Hurts Like A Cha Cha, Yeah!, and Love Remains.
Teach #1: My Heart Is In Havana by Bradley Mather (Sandy Albano’s grandson). Deb taught this last night and I really liked it - and just couldn’t wait to teach it! 96 count, 2 Wall, intermediate/advanced to the music “Havana” by Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug. Bradley won 1st place with this dance in the intermediate/advanced category at “not Tampa” (Florida Line Dance Classic) in Orlando at the end of November.
Then we danced Change My Ways and reviewed Oh Mama Hey.
Teach #2: Bloodstone by Neville Fitzgerald and Julie Harris.
32 Count, 4 Wall intermediate NC2 to the music “Bloodstone” by Guy Sebastian. 2 restarts - walls 3 & 7. I just LOVE this dance!
And, since the class was still standing.... I jumped right in and taught a 3rd one!
Teach #3: 85 by Rachael McEnaney-White and Kerry Maus. Phrased 80 count (AABBCCD) intermediate dance to the music “85” by Andy Grammar. This was a favorite coming out of the Rachael workshop we attended in December.
And with that - it was 12:00 and class was over! It couldn’t have been too awful - everyone was still talking to me at the end! LOL!
See what happens when I don’t get to dance for 2 weeks??? Plus - we had to keep dancing just to keep warm!!!
Monday, Deccember 18, 2017
But, it’s true. Today was our last class until Friday, January 5. The Vineyards is closed this upcoming Friday, the following Monday & Friday, and Monday, New Year’s Day.
No new teaches today. We warmed up with Blessed, Thinkin’ & Drivin’, Tick Tick Boom, NuFlow, and Ain’t Misbehavin’.
We reviewed Oh Mama Hey, My Reason, and I Was Wrong. Also did a review of Strip That Down and quick walks of Cry To Me and Feel.
The rest of the time was shortened versions (some by request, others just thrown out there) of: Bittersweet Memory, Girl Crush, Change My Ways, Hot Damn, Beautiful Wonderful, Serious Love, Throwback Love, To Be Human (we had to do it twice because it just wasn’t coming together the first time!), Everybody’s Groovin’, The Ghost Of You, All Katchi, If You Ever, Somebody Wants You, Time To Surrender, Italiano, Oops Baby, HOLY, Handclap, Take Me To The River, Shady, Crash, Keep It Groovin’, and Blue Ain’t Your Color.
Friday, December 15, 2017
Shortened warm-up: Time To Surrender & Have Fun Go Mad.
New Teach:
“Oh Mama Hey” by Guyton Mundy & Jo Thompson Szymanski. 32 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate. 1 16-count tag done several times; 1 4-count tag done once. Music “Oh Mama Hey” by Chris Cox and DJ Frankie (feat. Crystal Waters) - Radio Edit.
Reviewed:
My Reason
I Was Wrong
Up In Here
Walk-Thrus/Just Danced:
Peculiar Game
All Katchi
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
The Ghost Of You
Change My Ways
Requests:
She Used To Be Mine
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Beautiful Wonderful
Part-Time Girlfriend
Safe In These Arms
Monday, December 11, 2017
Visitors today! Carol joined us today, and Cindy’s here for the winter from Minnesota!
Early-Birds: Feel
Warm—Up: Yeah!, Strip That Down, Thumbs Up, We’re In Heaven, Take Me To The Rivere
New Teach: My Reason by Roy Verdonk, Jef Camps, and Betty Alart. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Advanced with 2 restarts. Music “The Reason” by Brett Eldredge. We haven’t had a rolling 8 for awhile - and the class really seemed to like this one.
Reviews: I Wrong, All Katchi, Feel, Cry To Me, Hot Damn, If You Ever, Beautiful Wonderful.
Requests: Everybody’s Groovin’, The Ghost Of You, Shady, HOLY, Somebody Wants You!, and Your Place Or Mine.
On Friday we may pick up the pace a little with one of Guyton’s most recent dances (with Jo Thompson Szymanski), “Oh Mama, Hey!”
Friday, December 8, 2017
Excellent PARTY DAY yesterday!!! Awesome food, fun presents, great friends!
We also danced!!!
Early-birds: Hot Damn
Warm-Up: Brother, Heaven On Earth, Holdin’ Me Back, HOLY, and Woo Woo.
Reviews: I Was Wrong & All Katchi, All Night Long
Fun Christmas Teach: “Come On Christmas” by Betsy Courant. 32 count, 4 wall improve dance. Music “Come On, Christmas” by Matthew West.
All Request Dance:
Change My Ways, Throwback Love, Lady In Red, Woo Woo, Keep It Groovin’, Part-Time Girlfriend, The Ghost Of You, Coming Unplugged, Feel.
Back to work on Monday!!! New Teach will most likely be “My Reason” by Roy Verdonk, Jef Camps, and Betty Alart. Music “The Reason” by Brett Eldredge. 32 Count, 4 Wall, 2 Restart Intermediate rolling 8. http://www.copperknob.co.uk/stepsheets/my-reason-ID120061.aspx. Marilyn taught this at the Florida Classic (Not Tampa).
Monday, December 4, 2017
Early Birds: we worked on Hot Damn.
Warm-Up Medley: Taking Care Of You, Tango With Me Darling, SGS, Keep It Groovin’, Clap Snap.
New Teaches:
“I Was Wrong” by Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate. 1 restart and 1 tag/restart. Music “How Long” by Charlie Puth.
“All Katchi, All Night Long” by Kerry Maus. 72 Count, 2 All, Phrased Intermediate. Music “Katchi” by Ofenbah & Nick Waterhouse.
Reviews:
Feel
Cry To Me
Hot Damn
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
Beautiful Wonderful
Danced/Requested:
The Ghost Of You
Somebody Wants You!
Monday, November 27
Given the option of learning another classic from 2 weekends ago or to just review what has already been taught... the group chose to just review.
Early-Birds: Beautiful Wonderful
Warm-Up: Why Baby Why, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Oops Baby, No Stress, Serious Love
Reviews:
Feel
Cry To Me
Hot Damn
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
Peculiar Game
Danced/Walk-Thrus:
Change My Ways
The Ghost Of You
Part-Time Girlfriend
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Requests:
Crash
Blessed
To Be Human
Tell Your Heart To Beat Again
Throwback Love
Safe In These Arms
Swing Your Chains
Love Remains
Monday, November 20, 2017
For a “I’m not teaching anything new today” kind of day, we sure were busy!!!
The early-birds got a teach on Safe In These Arms.
Warm-Up Medley: Sign Of The Times, Handclap, Cry For Me (I forgot the ending!), Love Remains, and Summer Thing (which was a little tricky for everyone!).
Classics: Several of us attended the Classics Workshop on Saturday in Deerfield Beach. We learned Feel (S. Blevins), Cry To Me (P. McAdam), SXE (Rob Fowler), and Do Your Thing (M. Perry et al.).
I taught Feel and Cry To Me to the class today. I’ll go over SXE and Do Your Thing next Monday. And now that we’ve done these, they will be played a little more often to keep them in our heads!
Reviews:
Hot Damn
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
Turbo Reviews:
Peculiar Game
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Part-Time Girlfriend
Danced:
The Ghost Of You
Change My Ways
Beautiful Wonderful
Requests:
Somebody Wants You!
Kissing Strangers
Friday, November 17, 2017
Early Birds: Larger Than Life
Warm-Up Medley: Thinkin’ & Drivin’, Blessed, Poetry In Motion (well - not really since no one could pull it off!), Italiano, and Tick Tick Boom.
New Teach: Hot Damn by Scott Blevins and Rachael McEnaney-White. 32 Count, 4 Wall Intermediate/Advanced. Music “Hot Damn” by the Shadowboxers. There is one 4-count tag on wall 6. Most of the class has had this already - for the ones that this was new, they did well with it!
Reviews:
Everybody’s Groovin’
If You Ever
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Beautiful Wonderful
Part-Time Girlfriend
Peculiar Game
Walk-Thru:
Change My Ways
Requests:
Safe In These Arms
Boom Pow
Time To Surrender
Somebody Wants You!
Tell Your Heart To Beat Again
Monday, November 13, 2017
Early-Birds: Up In Here
Warm-Up Medley: Take Me To The River, Shady, Crash, Have Fun Go Mad, Lady In Red
New Teach:
Everybody’s Groovin’ by Rhoda Lai & Jo Thompson Szymanski. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate.1 restart done three times.
Music “Everybody’s Groovin’” by MaxAMillion.
Fun dance that the class picked up pretty quick and danced twice.
Reviews/Walk-Thrus:
If You Ever
Peculiar Game
Change My Ways (WT)
Beautiful Wonderful
Part-Time Girlfriend
The Ghost Of You (WT)
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Friday’s new teach:
Hot Damn by Rachael & Scott
Monday, November 6, 2017
No new teach today! All reviews and 4-rotation dances.
Early-birds: Somebody Wants You!
Warm-Up: To Be Human, Throwback Love, Woo Woo, Thy Will, We’re In Heaven (many need further review!!!)
Reviews: If You Ever, The Ghost Of You, Change My Ways, Hurts Like A Cha Cha, Part-Time Girlfriend.
Turbo Reviews/4-Rotation Dances: NuFlow, Boom Pow, Against All Odds, Swing Your Chains, Time To Surrender, Safe In These Arms, Up In Here, Yeah!
NO CLASS FRIDAY! The Vineyards is closed due to Veteran’s Day. See everyone Monday! (New teach will most likely be Everybody’s Groovin’ by Rhoda Lai and Jo Thompson Szymanski).
Friday, November 3 2017
Welcome Cheri Booth! Cheri has danced in my Thursday class and Chris’ Tuesday class for years. She winters in Naples and summers outside of Toronto, Ontario - Canada. We’ve been working on her to try our Vineyards class and she finally relented and came to class! Yay!
Early-Birds: No Stress by Shane McKeever
Warm-Up: HOLY, Brother, Tell Your Heart To Beat Again, Strip That Down, Heaven On Earth.
New Teach:
If You Ever by Joey Warren & Heidi Oswald.
32 count, 4 wall intermediate. There are three different restarts in this dance - 2 of them done twice each for a total of 5 restarts.
20-24-32-24-32-16-16-32-32
Music “Mercy” by Brett Young
We took our time with this and worked our way through the restarts and the class did GREAT! Such a wonderful dance!
Reviewed: Yeah!, The Ghost Of You, Peculiar Game, Beautiful Wonderful, Change My Ways.
Turbo Review/Danced: No Stress, Somebody Wants You!
We need to look ahead to the rest of the calendar year. We’re rapidly approaching the time of year when the Vineyards is closed a lot for the Holidays.
Here are the dates we WILL NOT be dancing (to be revised if I get approval from Club Naples to hold classes during these times):
FRIDAY, 11/10
FRIDAY, 11/24
FRIDAY, 12/1 (definitely NO CLASS as we’ll be in Orlando for the Florida Line Dance Classic)
FRIDAY, 12/22
MONDAY, 12/25
FRIDAY, 12/29
MONDAY, 1/1
The Vineyards also closes in observance of Martin Luther King Day and President’s Day - 1/15 & 2/19.
Other days we WILL NOT be dancing include Friday, February 16 (we’ll be in New Orleans for the Dance Xperience).
Our last class at the Vineyards is scheduled for Friday, May 11. We’ll return to Club Naples on Monday, May 14.
Because we’re only dancing one day next week, there will not be a new teach. We’ll use Monday as a practice and review day. The requested Early-Bird Teach will be Somebody Wants You! by Daniel Trepat, Niels Poulsen, Neville Fitzgerald & Julie Harris, and Roy Hadisubroto & Fionna Murray.
Monday, October 30, 2017
Great to get back to dancing after a week off to play pickleball! Many thanks to Valerie for keeping everyone going while I was gone!!!
Today’s Warm-Up Medley: Oops Baby, Thumbs Up, Love Remains, Holdin’ Me Back, Serious Love
New Teach: The Ghost Of You by Roy Verdonk & Sebastiaan Holtland. A 64 Count, 2 Wall tango with no tags or restarts. Music “The Ghost Of You” by Caro Emerald.
Reviews: Change My Ways, Beautiful Wonderful, Part-Time Girlfriend, Peculiar Game, Hurts Like A Cha Cha.
Other Dances: Yeah!, Clap Snap, Tango With Me Darling
Friday’s new teach could be “If You Ever” by Joey Warren - if I can get the restarts in their right places!
Friday, October 20, 2017
Welcome back, Colette!
No new teach today - still needed to teach Part-Time Girlfriend to Diana and Colette, and Marion hadn’t seen Sauced Up or Change My Ways, so we took a day to get everyone caught up!
Warm-Up Medley: Blessed, Keep It Groovin’, Blue Ain’t Your Color, Tango With Me Darling, and Corazon Diamante.
Reviews: Change My Ways, Sauced Up, Part-Time Girlfriend, Hurts Like A Cha Cha, Safe In These Arms, and Up In Here.
Requests: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Crash, Italiano, and Thy Will.
Valerie will take over next week on Monday and Friday - new teaches next week will be Beautiful Wonderful by Debbie Rushton and Jannie Toffe-Anderson and Peculiar Games by Fred Whitehouse and Georgina Dixon.
See everyone on the 30th!!!!
Monday, 10/16/17
Welcome back Diana and Terry!!!
Warm-Up Medley: Thinkin’ & Drivin’, Tick Tick Boom, Time To Surrender, Italiano, Crash.
New Teaches:
Change My Ways by Jose Miguel Belloque Vane & Roy Verdonk. 48 count, 4 wall, advanced. Music “Change My Ways” by Mike Zito. This dance has been around since last spring and has been a floor filler at several events.
Sauced Up (Valerie taught) by Dee Musk. 32 count, 4 wall, high intermediate. Music “Sauced Up” by Fifth Harmony. 2 restarts. This dance was taught at World Dance Master in England.
Review:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha
Danced:
Nancy Mulligan
Friday, 10/13/17
Last summer class at Club Naples! We start on Monday at the Vineyards!
Warm-Up Medley:
Shady, Tell Your Heart To Beat Again, Heaven On Earth, H.O.L.Y., Handclap
New Teach:
Hurts Like A Cha Cha by Team International (the winning choreography) - Simon Ward, Daniel Trepat, and Fred Whitehouse. 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate Cha Cha to the music “Nothing Ever Hurt Like You” by James Morrison.
Reviews:
Part-Time Girlfriend
Up In Here
Safe In These Arms
Also reviewed/danced:
Swing Your Chains, Have Fun Go Mad, Serious Love, and Temple (Oh Lordy!)
Monday, 10/9/17
Warm-Up: Cry For Me, Taking Care Of You, Thumbs Up, Love Remains, Take Me To The River
New Teach:
Part-Time Girlfriend by Team USA (Scott Blevins, Joey Warren, Guyton Mundy). 84 Count, 2 Wall Waltz to the music “Make Me No 1” by Felicia Olsson.
Reviews: Lemonade (last day for this one), Up In Here, and Safe In These Arms
Danced: Thinkin’ & Drivin’, Woo Woo, To Be Human, Strip That Down, NuFlow, and Boom Pow.
Monday, 10/2/17
Chicago Prep!
Have Fun Go Mad
Poetry In Motion
Larger Than Life
Swing Your Chains
Lemonade
Come Home
Nancy Mulligan (Valerie reviewed - thanks!)
She Used To Be Mine
Tonight Again
Post Code Envy
A Lesson In Love
All Of Me
Scarlet Devil
And Get It On
Jesse James
From The Ground Up
Pom Poms
Friday, 9/28/17
Chicago Review: From The Ground Up, Pom Poms, Jesse James, Scarlet Devil, A Lesson In Love, All Of Me
Warm-Up: Lady In Red, Thy Will, Walk Of Shame, Blessed, The Anthem
New Teach: Lemonade by Jo Thompson Szymanski & Malene Jakobsen
Reviews/Danced:
Up In Here
Safe In These Arms
No Stress
The Mack
Yeah!
Everday’s A Holiday
Somebody Wants You!
Against All Odds
Take It Off
Serious Love
We’re In Heaven
Throwback Love
Holdin’ Me Back
Sign Of The Times
Monday, September 25, 2017
We started with a "Chicago Prep" session at 9 - reviewing Scarlet Devil and And Get It On.
Warm-Up Medley: Tango With Me Darling, Crash, Keep It Groovin', Oops Baby, and Pieces.
New Teach: Up In Here by Shea McCafferty.
Reviewed/Danced: Safe In These Arms, No Stress, The Mack, Yeah!, Everyday's A Holiday, Somebody Wants You, Against All Odds, Take It Off, Serious Love, NuFlow, and Strip That Down.
Poor Terry! Other than "Yeah!" which she got a teach on last Thursday afternoon, everything was new for her. There was brain-matter everywhere!!! LOL!
Friday, September 22, 2017
First class since Hurricane Irma tore through Southwest Florida!
Warm-Up Medley: Shady, Tell Your Heart To Beat Again, Heaven On Earth, Girls Like, Corazon Diamante.
New Teach:
Safe In These Arms by Dee Musk and Fred Whitehouse. 32 Count, 4 Wall NC2. Music "Run To You" by Michele Lea. Awesome dance! My favorite coming out of Hotlanta!
Reviewed/Danced: No Stress, The Mack, Yeah!, Everyday's A Holiday, Somebody Wants You, Take It Off, Against All Odds, Serious Love, To Be Human, Brother, Woo Woo.
Friday, September 8, 2017
It's a Hurricane Party! As we all prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Irma, we took a break and danced away our stress.
Warm-Up Medley: Cry For Me, Taking Care Of You, Thumbs Up, Love Remains, HOLY
New Teach:
No Stress by Shane McKeever. 32 Count, 4 Wall, Intermediate. Music "Mama" by Jonas Blue featuring William Singe.
Reviews: The Mack, Yeah!, Everyday's A Holiday, Somebody Wants You, Against All Odds, Take It Off, Serious Love
Danced: Time To Surrender, Thinkin' & Drivin', Woo Woo, Boom Pow
Monday, September 4, 2017
Today's new teach: The Mack by Trevor Thornton & Will Craig. 32 count, 4 wall, low intermediate dance. 2 restarts. Music "The Mack" by Nevada featuring Mark Morrison& Fetty Wap.
Warm-Up Medley: Lady In Red, Crash, Blessed, Italiano, Thy Will.
Reviews: Everyday's A Holiday, Yeah!, Take It Off, Serious Love
Danced: Tick Tick Boom, Throwback Love, We're In Heaven, Strip That Down, NuFlow.
Friday's teach: No Stress by Shane McKeever
Friday, September 1, 2017
(Can you believe it's SEPTEMBER already?!?!)
Early-birds: Against All Odds, Somebody Wants You, Serious Love, Take It Off
Warm-Up Medley: Tango With Me Darling, Tell Your Heart To Beat Again, Walk Of Shame, The Anthem, Falling
New Teach:
Everyday's A Holiday by Fred Whitehouse. 64 count, 2 wall, intermediate cha. Music "Holiday" by DJ Antoine vs. Mad Mark 2K15 Radio Edit. featuring Akon.
Reviews:
Yeah!
Against All Odds
Take It Off
Somebody Wants You
Just Danced (or quick reviews):
Boom Pow
Woo Woo
Holdin' Me Back
SGS
Clap Snap
Thinkin' & Drivin'
Happy Dance
To Be Human
Click Click Click
Summerthing
Kissing Strangers
Brother
Time To Surrender
Sign Of The Times
REMINDER!!!
Due to Labor Day activities at Club Naples, class Monday will start at 8:30am and go until 11:00am.
Have a great weekend!
Monday, August 28, 2017
*Early-birds: Somebody Wants You
*Warm-Up Medley: Taking Care Of You, Shady, Heaven On Earth, Keep It Groovin', Oops Baby.
*Reviews: Take It Off, Against All Odds, Boom Pow
*New Teach: Yeah! by Michael Barr. 32-count, 4-wall improver dance to the music "Can't Sleep Love" by Pentatonix.
Quick Reviews/Just Danced: Thinkin' & Drivin', Sign Of The Times, Serious Love, Tick Tick Boom, Throwback Love, We're In Heaven, Brother, Strip That Down, To Be Human, Summerthing.
*Requests: Time To Surrender, Nu Flow.
Monday, August 21, 2017
Early-birds: Kissing Strangers, Run Me Like A River, and a teach on Somebody Wants You.
Warm-Up Medley: Linger, Cry For Me, Corzaon Diamante, Thumbs Up!, Pieces.
Reviews: Take It Off (danced twice), Against All Odds (danced twice), Boom Pow,
Danced: Slowly, Gently, Softly; Blessed; and Crashed.
Quick Reviews/Just Danced: Brother, Summerthing, To Be Human, Holdin' Me Back, We're In Heaven.
Requests: Woo Woo, Strip That Down, Time To Surrender, Love Remains, Lady In Red, and Human After All.
Make sure to let Nancy know if you are NOT planning on attending class on Friday so she can make appropriate decisions.
See everyone Monday!
Friday, August 18, 2017
Early-birds got to take a look at Somebody Wants You, Serious Love, Happy
Dance, and NuFlow.
Warm-Up Medley: Tick Tick Boom, Woo Woo, Sign Of The Times, Thinkin' & Drivin', Take Me To The River.
First teach: Take It Off by TB2 (Trevor Thornton, Brandon Roman, & Branden Swift). 128 Count, 1 Wall Phrased Advanced with 1 tag. Music "Take It Off" by Lil Jon featuring Yandel & Becky G. A- 32; B- 32; C- 32, D-32, Tag - 32. ABCD-ABCD-D-Tag-ACBD. It took damn near an hour to do - but by the time we were done and had danced it a couple times? Yes! Nailed it!
Reviewed Boom Pow, We're In Heaven, and Strip That Down.
Second teach: Against All Odds by Simon Ward. 38 Count, 2 Wall, High Intermediate NC2S with 1 restart and 1 tag. Music "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins. They thought I was kidding when I said I was going to teach 2! Ha! We ran out of time before we could dance it through again, but we did do it once and it was coming together nicely at the end. Beautiful dance!
Monday, August 14, 2017
First official day back! Whew!!!
Early-bird practice included Serious Love, Holdin' Me Back, and NuFlow.
The warm-up medley (after NuFlow, it was the cool-down medley!!!!): Lady In Red, Throwback Love, Time To Surrender, Slowly Gently Softly, Clap Snap.
Today's Teach: Boom Pow by Scott Blevins & Jo Thompson Szymanski. This 32-count, 4 wall dance has been on the circuit since March - well overdue for a teach! Two restarts (walls 2 & 5) and the music is "Boom Pow" by Alexandra Stan. Teach went well and after dancing it a couple times through, I think everyone had a good feel for it!
The rest of the class was spent reviewing: Brother, To Be Human, Strip That Down, Serious Love, NuFlow, Holdin' Me Back, Strip That Down, Summerthing, We're In Heaven. Well done, everyone!!!
Monday, July 17, 2017
Great class today! Everyone worked really hard and did soooo good!!! Awesome job!
We warmed up to a medley of Love Remains, Italiano, Falling, The Anthem, and Tell Your Heart To Beat Again.
First teach of the morning was "To Be Human" by Neville Fitzgerald and Julie Harris. A 48 count, 2 wall advanced level dance with one restart. Music of the same name by Sia featuring Labrinth.
We reviewed Throwback Love and Woo Woo.
2nd teach of the morning was "Brother" by Melissa Culbertson and John Robinson. 32 count, 2 wall intermediate dance with 2 different tags. The music of the same name by NEEDTOBREATHE featuring Gavin DeGraw.
A quick demo of NuFlow (Rachael McEnaney-White and Paul McAdam) and then a review of Tick Tick Boom and we were out of time! Where did the morning go???
Monday, July 10, 2017
Nothing new today!!!
And don't forget - NO CLASS FRIDAY!
Early-Birds:
I Don't Mind
Sign Of The Times
Tick Tick Boom
Holdin' Me Back
Today's Warm-Up Medley:
Heaven On Earth, Walk Of Shame, Italiano, Linger, Shake That
Reviews:
Throwback Love
Woo Woo
Tick Tick Boom
Sign Of The Times
Funky Sole
Pink Champagne
Come Home
Quick Reviews/Just Dance:
Clap Snap
Taking Care Of You
Time To Surrender
Friday, July 7, 2017
I think everyone's ready for the social!!! Prior to class this morning, we looked at Strip That Down, Pins & Needles, Your Place Or Mine, Keep It Groovin', Sunshine In My Pocket, Without Fire, The Boogie...
And then in class we warmed up with Oops Baby, Love Me Like You Do, Tango With Me Darling, Girls Like, and Tell Your Heart To Beat Again (some of which are in need of some additional attention!).
We reviewed Throwback Love, Woo Woo, Tick Tick Boom, Sign Of The Times, Serious Love, and Holdin' Me Back.
And finally, we looked at more for the social - Falling, Let It Out, Thinkin' & Drivin', Thankful, The Remix, and Pieces.
Also decided to put aside Whistle While We Work It, Recovering, Blue Ain't Your Color, Tonight Again, Pom Poms, The Rose, It's Gotta Be You, and Tennessee Whiskey.
We'll keep Funky Sole, Heaven On Earth, Pink Champagne, Walk Of Shame, Falling, Looking Like That, and Come Home....
Monday 7/3/17
Early Arrivals: Bittersweet Memory, Outta Control, Way Down We Go, Can't Feel My Face, Serious Love, Main Attraction, Kissing Strangers, Fragile, Walk Of Shame, From The Ground Up
Warm-Up Medley: She Used To Be Mine, Crash, Blessed, Woman Up, Handclap.
New Teach: Throwback Love by Pim van Grootel, Jose' Miguel Belloque Vane, Raymond Sarlejimn, and Jean-Pierre Madge. A 56 count, phrased intermediate dance to the music of the same name by Meghan Trainor.
Reviews:
Woo Woo
Tick Tick Boom
Sign Of The Times
Serious Love
Walk-Thrus/Just Dance:
Clap Snap, Taking Care Of You, Lady In Red, Time To Surrender, Slowly Gently Softly
Request:
The Smell Of Your Sweet Perfume
Friday, June 30, 2017
Warm-Up Medley: Take Me To The River, Keep It Groovin', Blue Ain't Your Color, Shady, Corazon Diamante.
New Teach: Woo Woo by Rachael McEnaney-White. 64 count, 2-wall, advanced dance. Music "Hold Up Wait A Minute (Woo Woo)" by Antonique Smith.
Reviews: Tick Tick Boom, Sign Of The Times, Serious Love, Nancy Mulligan.
Short Reviews/Just Danced: Clap Snap, Cry For Me, Lady In Red, Thinkin' & Drivin'.
Monday, June 26, 2017
Warm-Up Medley: Italiano, Why Baby Why, The Anthem, High On Loving You (H.O.L.Y.), Thy Will.
New Teach: Tick Tick Boom by Debbie Rushton, Tim Johnson, Jean-Piierre Madge. 80-count, 1 wall phrased high intermediate dance to the music "Stay" by Zedd & Alessia Cara.
Reviews: Sign Of The Times, Serious Love, Clap Snap, Holdin' Me Back (Valerie), and Nancy Mulligan (Valerie).
Danced: Love Remains, Cry For Me, Thinkin' & Drivin', Time To Surrender, and The Smell Of Your Sweet Perfume.
Friday, June 23, 2017
My first offiicial day back after our trip out West (yes, I was at class on Monday, but it was Valerie's class to teach).
Early arrivals worked on Serious Love.
Warm-up Medley: Thumbs Up, Pieces, Tango With Me Darling, A Lesson In Love, Keep It Groovin', Blue Ain't Your Color
New teach (from the Marathon): Sign Of The Times by Ruben Luna & Melisssa Culbertson. A 32-count, 2-wall intermediate nightclub to the music "Sign of the Times" by Harry Styles.
Reviews: Serious Love, Clap Snap, and Holdin' Me Back
Danced: Time To Surrender, Taking Care Of You, Thinkin' & Drivin', Refund To My Heart, Cry For Me, Happily Ever After, Slowly Gently Softly (SGS), and Lady In Red.
Monday, May 29, 2017
Early-arrivals today reviewed Lady In Red and Way Down We Go.
Warm-up Medley: Blessed/Linger/Crash/Just Have Faith/Thy Will/Way Down We Go.
Reviews: Refund To My Heart, Last Text, Slowly-Gently-Softly, Thinkin' & Drivin', Happily Ever After.
Last Summer Review: Princess Cha
Turbo Reviews/Just Dance: Taking Care Of You, Cry For Me, Lady In Red, Time To Surrender, Funky Sole, She Used To Be Mine, Love Remains, Italiano.
Friday, May 26, 2017
We had a good class today!
Early arrivals worked on Pins and Needles (Joey Warren).
Warm-up Medley: Why Baby Why, Shady, Take Me To The River, Walk Of Shame, H.O.L.Y., and Heaven On Earth.
Reviews: Slowly, Gently, Softly (Gary O'Reilly), Thinkin' & Drivin' (Joey Warren), Last Text (Gary O'Reilly), and Time To Surrender (Simon Ward).
Last Summer Revival: Princess Cha (Niels Poulsen, Maddison Glover, Chris Watson).
Requests: Levels (Will Craig), Shape Of You (Roy & Fionna), Lady In Red (Simon), Human After All (Ria Vos), Refund To My Heart (Ria), Taking Care Of You (Ria).
There will be class on Monday (Memorial Day)!
Busy day in class today!
2 new teaches, plenty of reviews, and some short-wall dances!
I taught both Slowly, Gently, Softly (SGS) by Gary O' Reilly (32 Count, 2 Wall, 1 tag, 1 "slow-down" to the music Despacito, featuring Justin Bieber) and Thinkin' & Drivin' by Joey Warren (32 Count, 2 Wall, 1 tag (3 times), 1 bonus, and 1 restart to the music Think & Drive by Seth Ennis).
Both of these were favorites coming out of the Joey/Gary Workshop we attended in Orlando this past weekend.
The teaches went well and the class picked them up quickly (it helps when most of the class had been in Orlando and it was just refreshers for them!).
Our warm-up medley this morning was Thumbs Up/ Pieces/ Tango With Me Darling/ A Lesson In Love/ Keep It Groovin'/ Blue Ain't Your Color.
Reviews today included:
Refund To My Heart (R. Vos)
Time To Surrender (Simon Ward)
Last Text (G. O'Reilly)
Happily Ever After (Maddison Glover)
With about 15 minutes left of class, we danced short versions of Taking Care Of You (R. Vos), Cry For Me (D. Rushton), and Lady In Red (S. Ward).
Friday, May 19, 2017
Early-Birds: Lady In Red, Straight To The Castle
Warm-up Medley: Tell Your Heart To Beat Again/Corazon Diamante/Falling/Sunshine In My Pocket/She Used To Be Mine/Shake That
Reviewed:
Last Text
Time To Surrender
Happily Ever After
Quick Reviews/Walk-Thru's (weekend prep):
Lady In Red
The Boogie
Girls Like
Monday, May 15, 2017
1st class of the summer!!!
Warm-up medley: Woman Up/Recovering/Tonight Again/Love Remains/Handclap/Come Home.
New Teaches:
Last Text (Gary O'Reilly. 48 count, 3 wall, intermediate. Music "Last Text" by Jacob Sartorius)
Time To Surrender (Simon Ward. 96 count, 2 wall intermediate waltz. Music "The Pieces Don't Fit Anymore" by James Morrison)
Reviews:
Whistle While You Work It
Taking Care Of You
Cry For Me
Come Home
Just Dance:
Lady In Red
Can't Feel My Face
Post Code Envy
Friday's warm-up medley will be: Tell Your Heart To Beat Again/Corazon Diamante/Falling/Sunshine In My Pocket/She Used To Be Mine/Shake That
Friday, March 3, 2017
Warm-up medley: Woman Up/Recovering/Tonight Again/Love Remains/Handclap/Come Home.
New Teaches:
Last Text (Gary O'Reilly. 48 count, 3 wall, intermediate. Music "Last Text" by Jacob Sartorius)
Time To Surrender (Simon Ward. 96 count, 2 wall intermediate waltz. Music "The Pieces Don't Fit Anymore" by James Morrison)
Reviews:
Whistle While You Work It
Taking Care Of You
Cry For Me
Come Home
Just Dance:
Lady In Red
Can't Feel My Face
Post Code Envy
Friday's warm-up medley will be: Tell Your Heart To Beat Again/Corazon Diamante/Falling/Sunshine In My Pocket/She Used To Be Mine/Shake That
Friday, March 3, 2017
On Monday I taught Scott's new one "The Anthem" that we had learned over the weekend. And I also had a request to teach Rachael's "Italiano" - so there were two new teaches. (The class was sufficiently glazed by the time we were done!)
Also reviewed:
The Rose
Tell My Heart To Beat Again
Tango With Me Darling
And then just danced:
Blessed
Oops Baby
Beautiful Goodbye
It's Gotta Be You
Take Me To The River
Keep It Groovin'
And then today, I taught another new one from Scott and Jo Thompson Szymanski "Thumbs Up."
Reviewed:
The Anthem
Italiano
Pink Champagne
Tell Your Heart To Beat Again
The Rose
Danced:
Coming Unplugged
Corazon Diamante
Tango With Me Darling
Heaven On Earth
Blessed
Oops Baby
Blue Ain't Your Color
Nancy will be back again on Monday - and she's going to have a steep learning curve to quickly learn these three new ones! LOL!
Friday, October 14, 2016
Today wrapped up our summer dance program! The torch is now being passed back to Nancy - who will start Monday at the Vineyards! Where did the summer go????
It was "all request Friday" today, and we danced:
Zillionaire
Ain't No Way
Tonight Again (twice)
Get My Name
Out Like That
The Wild Life
Young & Stupid
Bittersweet Memory
I'm Mad
Hurt Me Carefully
Worldwide
You Make It Real
No Mercy
Love Me Like You Do
A Lesson In Love
Pieces
Extreme Love
My Father's Son
Somewhere With You
Thank you to everyone who came out and danced with me this summer! We certainly learned a lot of dances!!! And in the past couple of weeks, have reviewed a lot of them along with the dances that Nancy taught last year!
Over the summer we learned (in no particular order):
*Desperado
Spotlight (classic - by request)
Jesse James (classic - by request)
*Linger
Die A Happy Man
Still Mine?
*Right About Now
I Never Knew
Dangerzone
*Girls Like
*Love Me Like You Do (resurrected from the past)
If You Are
*Just Have Faith
*Corazon Diamante
*Make You Move
*Sunshine In My Pocket
Shouldn't Be This Hard
*How I Want Ya
Way Down We Go
*More Dessert
*Woman Up
*Pieces
*Shake That
*Funk 'N Feel It
*Why Baby Why
Princess Cha
*High On Loving You (H.O.L.Y.)
*A Lesson In Love
*Sugar Honey I.T.
Young & Stupid
Worldwide
Handclap
Boys & Girls
*Fragile
Frankie Fever
*You Make It Real
No Mercy
*Blue Ain't Your Color
*Take Me To The River
*The Wild Life
*Zillionaire
*Tonight Again
Those marked with an asterisk are those that Nancy is planning to continue as her new season begins (we'll have to work on her to keep Handclap!).
And the dances from last season that we have looked at (at least once!) over the past couple weeks include:
Ain't Misbehavin'
Extreme Love
From The Other Side
Lover Come Back
Part Of The List
Save The Day
Strip It Down
Round Your Finger
Ain't No Way
Your Place Or Mine
Heart In My Hand
Making History
Running
From The Ground Up
Tuesday Blues
Spiderweb
Cake By The Ocean
Won't Tell A Soul
Lately
The Dancing Tree
The Waiting Game
My Father's Son
Darling Hold My Hand
Again - thanks to everyone who came out and danced the summer away! Looking forward to a great 2017 season with Nancy!
Monday, October 10, 2016
This week's classes and practice will be by request - whatever anyone wants to do!
Today we reviewed:
The Wild Life
Bittersweet Memory
Girl Crush
Take Me To The River
You Make It Real
Kiss The Sky
Your Place Or Mine
Love Me Like You Do
I'm Mad
Islands In The Stream
Handclap
We did "mini" teaches for those who didn't know these:
Corazon Diamante
Have Fun Go Mad
Back It Up
Ring My Bells
Hurt Me Carefully
And today's teach (which, I know, I PROMISED I wouldn't do any more teaches - but I just HAD to do it!) was:
Tonight Again by TEAM USA (John Robinson, Guyton Mundy, Jo Thompson-Szymanski). This is a 32-count, 2 Wall, Intermediate dance with a 16-count tag that is done three times during the course of the dance and there is one restart. We watched the video first, then had the teach, danced the teach, and danced one more time. It went over well.
Dances that were asked for but we ran out of time:
Worldwide
Out Like That
Young & Stupid
Get My Name
Darling Hold My Hand
Friday, October 7, 2016
Dances from last season that we reviewed/danced today:
Making History
Carry You Home
From The Other Side
Won't Tell A Soul
(also worked on Darling Hold My Hand and Heart In My Hand during early practice)
Current dances we reviewed/danced:
Zillionaire
The Wild Life
How I Want Ya
Take Me To The River
Make You Move
Blue Ain't Your Color
Corazon Diamante
Sunshine In My Pocket
Pieces
Woman Up
Princess Cha
Shake That
Young & Stupid
Other dances reviewed:
Can't Feel My Face
Lay It Right
Ring My Bells
Monday, October 3, 2016
Dances from last season that we reviewed/danced today were:
Ain't Misbehavin'
Lately
Extreme Love
Heart In My Hand
Your Place Or Mine
Current dances we reviewed/danced:
Desperado
Young & Stupid
Zillionaire
Die A Happy Man
The Wild Life
Sugar Honey I.T.
Take Me To The River
High On Loving You (H.O.L.Y.)
Handclap
Why Baby Why
Friday, September 29, 2016
Busy day in class today! A big THANK YOU!!! to everyone for my card! It's so awesome to have friends to dance with all summer long!!!
Dances from last season that we reviewed/danced today were:
Running
The Waiting Game
From The Ground Up
Ain't No Way
Part Of The List
My Father's Son
Current dances we did today:
Right About Now
You Make It Real
The Wild Life
Worldwide
Take Me To The River
Zillionaire
Shake That
Princess Cha
A Lesson In Love
Corazon Diamante
Sunshine In My Pocket
Monday, September 26, 2016
We continue to pick away at our list!
Dances from last season that we reviewed/danced today were:
Cake By The Ocean
Lover Come Back
Current dances from "the list" that we did today were:
The Wild Life
Take Me To The River
More Dessert
Blue Ain't Your Color
Girls Like
Woman Up
High On Loving You
Pieces
Why Baby Why
Corazon Diamante
A Lesson In Love
Linger
Sunshine In My Pocket
Other current dances we reviewed/danced were:
Handclap
Princess Cha
Since I said I wasn't going to teach anything else... We "practiced" a dance that has been taught in the Sunday class, Thursday night class, and at yesterday's Pinellas social - Zillionaire. I didn't teach it - I promise! For those of us who have already had a teach on it - we just practiced! Honest! LOL!
Friday, September 23
We're picking away at the list!
Today we reviewed/danced:
Love Me Like You Do (needs to be done again)
Make You Move (needs to be done again)
The Wild Life
Take Me To The River
Shouldn't Be This Hard
Handclap
Darling Hold My Hand
A Lesson In Love
Pieces
From The Ground Up
Blue Ain't Your Color
Save The Day (certainly needs to be done again!)
The Dancing Tree
Tuesday, September 20
Nancy has given us a list of dances that she'd like us to know when we start up with her class in October. It's a pretty comprehensive list! Here it is:
FROM THIS SUMMER:
Fragile
Sugar Honey I.T.
Love Me Like You Do
Make You Move
How I Want Ya
The Wild Life
Take Me To The River
More Dessert
Funk 'N Feel It
Just Have Faith
You Make It Real
A Lesson In Love
Linger
Corazon Diamante
Shake That
Sunshine In My Pocket
High On Loving You
Blue Ain't Your Color
Right About Now
Pieces
Girls Like
Woman Up
Why Baby Why
Carry You Home
Desperado
FROM LAST SEASON:
Ain't Misbehavin'
Extreme Love
From The Other Side
Lover Come Back
Part Of The List
Save The Day
Strip It Down
Round Your Finger
Ain't No Way
Your Place Or Mine
Heart In My Hand
Making History
Running
From The Ground Up
Tuesday Blues
Spiderweb
Cake By The Ocean
Won't Tell A Soul
Lately
The Dancing Tree
The Waiting Game
My Father's Son
Darling Hold My Hand
Monday, September 19, 2016
Sugar Honey I.T.
Princess Cha
How I Want Ya
The Wild Life (x3)
Take Me To The River (x3)
Why Baby Why
A Lesson In Love
Woman Up
Corazon Diamante
Shake That
Worldwide
Ain't Misbehavin'
Extreme Love
Strip It Down
Blue Ain't Your Color
Pieces
Friday, September 16, 2016
More reviews for Saturday's social, including:
A Lesson In Love
Linger
Desperado
Sunshine in My Pocket
Corazon Diamante
Shake That
From The Ground Up
My Father's Son
Tuesday Blues
Darling Hold My Hand
Handclap
Woman Up
Also reviewed You Make It Real, Get My Name, Rolling In The Deep, and Out Like That.
Took some time and did a thorough review of The Wild Life and taught Take Me To The River (by Roy Verdonk) that Deb has taught to the Sunday and Thursday night classes.
Monday, September 12
Great to be back at class!!! Admittedly, I struggled the entire time trying to remember dances... And ended up on the wrong wall on more than one occasion! LOL! By the time we were done, my EVERYTHING hurt! Three weeks is a longggg time to be away from dance!
The early morning practice session included The Waiting Game, Darling Hold My Hand, A Lesson in Love, Shake That, Pieces, and Why Baby Why.
The early morning practice session included The Waiting Game, Darling Hold My Hand, A Lesson in Love, Shake That, Pieces, and Why Baby Why.
We spent the morning reviewing (for me... and for Saturday's social):
Handclap High On Loving You Round Your Finger
Blue Ain't Your Color Right About Now Spiderweb
Worldwide Pieces Bittersweet Memory
Girls Like Why Baby Why Get My Name
Woman Up Carry You Home
The plan for Friday is to continue reviewing for Saturday - the ones we didn't get to on Monday were:
Twisted Sister Desperado Darling Hold My Hand
Sunshine in My Pocket From The Ground Up Funk 'N Feel It
My Father's Son Linger Tuesday Blues
Corazon Diamante Shake That
Monday, August 22, 2016
Welcome Back, Janet!!!
No class (or practice) again until Monday, September 12!
In today's class we:
REVIEWED
Boys & Girls
Handclap
Worldwide
A Lesson in Love
Princess Cha
Blue Ain't Your Color
You Make It Real
Fragile
WALK THRUs/DANCED
Why Baby Why
Girls Like
Corazon Diamante
Woman Up
Pieces
Shake That
Friday, August 19, 2016
Warm Up: Carry You Home and Spiderweb
Today's Reviews/Dances:
Boys & Girls
Handclap
Blue Ain't Your Color
Frankie Fever
Fragile (twice)
Why Baby Why
Princess Cha
You Make It Real
No Mercy
Die A Happy Man
High On Loving You
Sunshine In My Pocket
Monday, August 15, 2016
Warmed up to cut versions of: Can't Feel My Face, Die A Happy Man, The Remix, and Coming Unplugged.
Big Reviews: Worldwide, Boys & Girls (danced twice), Love Me Like You Do.
Reviewed: Sugar Honey I.T., Princess Cha, Just Have Faith, Frankie Fever, No Mercy, You Make It Real, Blue Ain't Your Color.
Walk-Thrus: Handclap
Just Danced: Why Baby Why, A Lesson In Love
Friday, August 12, 2016
More prep for Saturday!
Reviewed: Why Baby Why, Make You Move, Part Of The List, The Avener, Worldwide, Darling Hold My Hand, Desperado, Fly Like A Bird, Young & Stupid, Lover Come Back, Have Fun Go Mad, Handclap, and Right About Now.
Big review on Boys & Girls.
Super big review on Fragile which Debbie taught last night.
Two "warm-up" dances: Beautiful In My Eyes and Darling Hold My Hand.
Monday, August 8, 2016
Oh the joys of a new wall!!! Everyone did really well with a "new" front wall for all the dances.
We reviewed Boys & Girls, Handclap, Worldwide, A Lesson In Love, and Princess Cha.
We walked through Right About Now.
We worked on dances for Saturday's workshop & social: The Avener, Shake That, Desperado, Eternal Secret, Your Loving Arms, Lover Come Back, Your Place Or Mine, and Linger.
Wednesday's Practice and Friday's Class will all be focused on reviewing dances for Saturday.
Friday, August 5, 2016
Warm-up: Part of the List, Ain't No Way, and Woman Up.
Review: Worldwide, Handclap, Young & Stupid, Sugar Honey I.T., A Lesson In Love, Part Of The List.
Walk-Throughs: Die A Happy Man, Girls Like, Desperado.
New Teach: Boys & Girls by Rhoda Lai. A 64-count, 2 wall, high intermediate dance to the music "Boys & Girls" by will.i.am featuring . There is a 4-count free-style tag at the ends of walls 1 and 3 and a restart during wall 5. There are some tricky timing parts to this dance but after dancing it the second time through, people were feeling pretty good about what they had learned!
We started to try and dance to the side walls since next Saturday's workshop will turn the room on its side - and struggled miserably. So next week's classes and practices will all be on the side wall (the new front wall)!
Monday, August 1, 2016
Welcome to August!!!
I wasn't sure as of Friday whether I was going to teach anything new today or not - and was encouraged to NOT... So, I didn't. The class appeared relieved! LOL!
We spent quite a bit of time on A Lesson In Love, Handclap, Young & Stupid, Princess Cha, and Worldwide. Also looked at Shouldn't Be This Hard and Sugar Honey I.T.
We also danced Why Baby Why, H.O.L.Y., Pieces, Bittersweet Memory, Sunshine In My Pocket, Linger, and I Never Knew.
Friday, July 29, 2016
The good news about attending Debbie's class on Thursday night is getting to learn other new dances. The bad news? We want to go over them again right away Friday morning!!! LOL!
Debbie taught us Worldwide by Kayla Cosgrove last night. So - we reviewed it, went over it, practiced it, and danced it - twice! this morning. Can't even call it peppy! It's just downright FAST! But - we did it!!!
Spent some time reviewing A Lesson In Love (which Nancy taught us on Monday), Princess Cha, and Sugar Honey IT (which Nancy taught on Monday and I, unfortunately, did not do my homework on so it was a miserable review! My apologies to the class!!!).
Chris taught Handclap by Bracken Ellis and Brandon Zahorsky. This is a phrased (AB) dance with a 56-count part A and 32-count part B to the music Handclap by Fitz and The Tantrums. Thankfully it is only a one-wall dance! Peppy dance, tho. You dance the full A section twice, then two B's, 1/2 of A, a full A, two more B's, and then two 1/2's of A and then only the first 16 of A with a direction change to bring you to the front and be done. The class picked it up well and we danced it twice.
After that, we took a look at Why Baby Why, High On Loving You, and If You Are.
We did a bigger walk-through of Young And Stupid, and then dancedd From The Ground Up and Can't Feel My Face.
Whew! What a morning!
Monday, July 25
Nancy visited us today! She brought two dances for us to learn: A Lesson In Love and Sugar Honey I.T.
A Lesson In Love by Simon Ward & Dee Musk is a 48 count, 2 wall advanced nightclub two step to the music "All I Ask" by Adele. There are two restarts with this dance and they both require step changes and are done in different spots - one on wall 3, the other on wall 6. There are some tricky spots in this dance but we got through them and danced it a couple times.
Sugar Honey I.T. is by Johanna Barnes and is a 32-count, 4 wall intermediate dance that continues to fill the floor at the various events we've been to. The music is "Sugar.Honey.Ice.Tea" by Charlie Wilson. There is a restart after 16 counts on walls 2 and 4 (even though the sheet says 5).
The rest of today included reviews of Princess Cha, Why Baby Why, High On Loving You; quick reviews of Die a Happy Man and Dangerzone; and dances of Make You Move, More Dessert, The Waiting Game, Woman Up, More Dessert, and Pieces.
The early-morning practice session included Pieces, Sunshine In My Pocket, and I Never Knew.
Chris will be teaching Handclap on Friday - get ready for a peppy dance!
Friday, July 22
We did some reviews today of some dances that have been left off the radar recently:
Desperado, Linger, Die A Happy Man, Dangerzone, Girls Like, Shouldn't Be This Hard, and Way Down We Go.
We also reviewed some of the recent dances: Funk N Feel It, Shake That, and Sunshine In My Pocket.
At the end of class, we had time to just dance Pieces, Woman Up, and Corazon Diamante.
We did intensive reviews of Why Baby Why and High On Loving You.
The new teach for today was Princess Cha by Maddison Glover, Chris Watson, and Niels Poulsen. This is a 64-count, 2 wall, intermediate cha cha to the music "Miss You" by Nadiya featuring Enrique Iglesias. Make sure you get the 3:56 version by NADIYA not the 3:21 version by Enrique. What a difference a song can make!!! The class picked the dance up quickly and we were able to dance it a couple times before moving on.
Nancy will be coming on Monday and bringing A Lesson In Love by Dee Musk and Sugar Honey I.T. by Johanna Barnes (which fills the floor everywhere we go!)
Monday, July 18
Well! Miss Betty came to class today - first time in FOREVER! And Annie got to come today! And Carol got to come today! Yay!!!
New teach straight out of FITS: "Why Baby Why" by Maddison Glover to the music "Why Baby Why" by Mickey Guyton. A favorite from the weekend, this 72-count waltz is an intermediate level dance with two easy restarts. We did the teach and then danced it twice.
The other dance we took a look at this morning was Will Craig's "High On Loving You" to Florida Georgia Line's "H.O.L.Y." This is a 48-count, 3-wall intermediate dance with 4 restarts. Some of the class had already had a teach on this, then Mary Sue and Janet took the class at FITS and liked it, so we went over it today and Carol and Betty got their first teach on it.
Other dances that we did this morning included:
Shake That
Woman Up
Pieces
Funk N Feel It
Sunshine In My Pocket
More Dessert
Right About Now
Our warm-up and finish-up cut dances included:
Warm-Up Dances:
All I Can Say
Sunshine In My Pocket
Just Have Faith
Ain't Misbehavin'
My Father's Son
Finish-Up Dances:
Shake That
Spiderweb
Monday, July 11
Pre-class Warm-Up included cut versions of:
Cake By The Ocean
How I Want Ya
Tuesday Blues
Lover Come Back
Save The Day
Your Place Or Mine
Big Reviews:
Funk N Feel It
Shake That
Pieces
Shouldn't Be This Hard
Don't
Smaller Reviews/Walk-Thrus:
Woman Up
Sunshine In My Pocket
More Dessert
Make You Move
Corazon Diamante
Just Have Faith
Right About Now
Running
End of Class Cut Versions:
The Avener
From The Ground Up
Jesse James
Half Past Nothin'
No class Friday - see everyone again next Monday!
Friday, July 8
Janet was back today! Nancy Dixon is here for a week! Vicki's back! We were at pretty much full-strength! Great to see everyone!
Tried something new today - same trick I used on my Thursday class. I've taken the dances we should all pretty much know (or will pretty much know shortly) and have cut the music to just 4 rotations (if I did it right!). I shuffle the playlist so we don't know what's next and let it play. Half the fun is trying to figure out what dance it is followed by how does it start? How does it go? Our little warm-up this morning was with Bittersweet Memory, All I Can Say, Sunshine In My Pocket, and Ain't Misbehavin'. I think it went pretty well!
No new teaches today - but for some, almost everything we did was new.
We worked on:
Shake That
Pieces
Woman Up
If You Are
More Dessert
Sunshine In My Pocket
Don't
Funk N Feel It
One more class and then we're off to FITS!
Friday, July 1
Can you believe it is now July??? Wow!
NO CLASS MONDAY!!! There will be no class on the 4th.
We will have class on Friday and then the following Monday (7/11) and then NO CLASS FRIDAY 7/15! (We will be gone to FITS.)
We reviewed last night's teach by Brenda, "Pieces" and danced it a couple times. And we reviewed Woman Up. We also reviewed Shouldn't Be This Hard and Sunshine In My Pocket. We walked through Part Of The List, Knockin' On Wood, and spent considerable time on Just Be (which is on the playlist for tomorrow night's social).
Since no one was brain-fried yet at that point, I taught a new one (which I was saving for next week! LOL! Couldn't wait!!!) "Shake That." This is an A-B dance with some tags by Maddison Glover to the music "Shake That" by Samantha Jade featuring Pitbull.
Part A is 32 counts and always done twice. Part B is 16 counts and always done at least twice. Tag #1 is 16 counts. Tag #2 is just the second part of Tag #1. Tag #3 is simply a 4-count step to the side and raise your arms. The sequence is AA Tag #1 BB; AA Tag #1 BB; Tag #2 (just the second half of the first tag); AA Tag #3 (step to the side, raise arms); BBBB. And they LOVED it! Yay! Such a fun dance!
Again, no class on Monday; reviews of all of these and then some on Friday along with a teach of "Don't" by Amy Glass.
Happy 4th!
Monday, June 27
Taught "Woman Up" by Rachael McEnaney-White and Amy Christian. 48-count, 4 wall, intermediate dance to "Woman Up" by Meghan Trainor. Very fun dance - easy 16 count tag at the end of wall 5 (repeat the last 16 counts). We danced this three times this morning!
Also reviewed Sunshine In My Pocket, More Dessert, Make You Move, Corazon Diamante, If You Are, Knockin' On Wood, and Suffer.
And just danced Night Train, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Your Place Or Mine, Linger, Girls Like, and Round Your Finger.
Wednesday's Practice and Friday's Class will include a review of "Woman Up" and then quick reviews of dances for the social: Part Of The List, Out Like That, The Remix, Dear Future Husband, Have Fun Go Mad, Your Loving Arms, How I Want Ya, From The Ground Up, Desperado, Right About Now, and Silver Lining. And at least I will need to spend more than just a quick review of Just Be.
And make a note: there will NOT BE CLASS on Monday, July 4 (the park has scheduled an early poolside party which means people will be using the hall in the morning...).
Practice Wednesday at 10
Class Friday at 9:30 (and you know I'm there earlier)
Social Saturday 6-???
NO CLASS MONDAY
Practice Wednesday 7/6
Class Friday 7/8
Friday, June 24, 2016
What started out as a review from last night's class with Debbie turned into a teach of More Dessert by Guyton Mundy and Klara Wallman. This is an A-B dance (32 count A, 32 count B) that has been filling floors at the events we've been to in recent past. Great dance!
We worked on Sunshine in My Pocket (danced it twice) and Shouldn't Be This Hard (twice), If You Are, How I Want Ya, Right About Now, I Never Knew, Dangerzone, Desperado, Die A Happy Man, Lover Come Back, Can't Feel My Face, Way Down We Go, Make You Move, and From The Ground Up, and Corazon Diamante.
Don't konw what Monday will bring - a lot will depend on what comes out of Rachael's workshop this weekend. And we still have to work on Amy Glass' "Don't."
Monday, June 20, 2016
Nancy came to class again today!
Two new teaches:
Sunshine In My Pocket by Amy Glass. An A-B-C dance by Amy Glass to the song "Can't Stop The Feeling" by Justin Timberlake. A = 32 counts; B = 64; and C = 32. Plus a 4-count tag. Nancy taught this dance and the class picked it up really well. It's a fun dance.
Shouldn't Be This Hard was the bonus teach at the Dance Xperience Orlando in April and was taught again at the Marathon. This is a 48-count Intermediate dance by Neville Fitzgerald and Julie Harris to ths music "Love Shouldnt Be This Hard". Not a difficult dance and has only one restart on the very first wall. I taught this one.
We also reviewed:
Make You Move
Corazon Diamante
If You Are
Just Have Faith
And we danced:
Love Me Like You Do
Save The Day
Cake By The Ocean
I Never Knew
Desperado
The Waiting Game
Spiderweb
Right About Now
How I Want Ya
My Father's Son
Friday, June 17, 2016
Huge (HUGE-AH) day of dance today!!!
Big reviews of Make You Move, Corazon Diamante, and If You Are.
Reviews of Just Have Faith and Carry You Home.
Walk-thrus of Dangerzone, Die A Happy Man, I Never Knew, Desperado, Right About Now, Lover Come Back, Part Of The List, and From The Ground Up.
Just danced: Linger, Love Me Like You Do, and Girls Like
And still had time for requests: Jesse James, Bittersweet Memory, How I Want Ya, Lay It Right, No Vacancy, and My Father's Son!
Whew!
Next teach: Shouldn't Be This Hard by Neville Fitzgerald and Julie Harris. 48 count, 4 wall, easy intermediate dance with one restart. Music: "Love Shouldn't Be this Hard" by Olly Murs.
Also need to start working on Bittersweet Memory for those who don't know it; and Don't.
Monday, June 13, 2016
So proud of this dance class! Not only did they learn Corazon Diamante this morning (Nancy teach) but they learned the first 64 counts of Make You Move and then wanted the rest of the dance! And we danced it! First pitched down a bit - then again at full speed! And they made it!!! They all did such a great job!
We had a big review of Just Have Faith, walk thrus of Linger and Right About Now, and quick reviews with just a couple walls danced of Love Me Like You Do, Die A Happy Man, and I Never Knew. And Chris reviewed Dangerzone.
Nancy taught "Corazon Diamante" by Roy Verdonk, Maggie Gallagher, and Gary O'Reilly. This is a 48-count, 2 wall intermediate dance with music "Duele El Corazon" by Enrique Iglesias (featuring Wisin). Great dance with a latin feel and 2 restarts. Danced it three times - class liked it. A lot!
And I taught "Make You Move" by Scott Blevins. A 144-count "phrased" high intermediate dance to the music "Get Up" (but you have to use the SB version - he cut it and trimmed it to make the dance work). I was only going to teach the first 64 counts (which are only done twice - once on the front wall and once on the back) but once we got through those, the class wanted to go on so we added counts 65-144 and finished the dance. Once the steps were learned, it was just a matter of sequence - which really isn't bad at all. And we danced it all the way through pitched down some; and then all the way through at full speed. We made it! Yay!
And then we danced Spiderweb, just to clear our heads, and then headed out to lunch. Needed a treat today!
Friday, June 10, 2016
Busy day in class today! Heads were spinning by the end! My work here is done. :-)
Big reviews of I Never Knew and Lover Come Back.
Little reviews of Love Me Like You Do (twice!), Dangerzone (Chris), Girls Like, and Die A Happy Man.
Walk-thrus of Linger, Desperado, Still Mine?, and Right About Now.
Two new teaches:
If You Are by Julia Wetzel. A 32-count, 4 wall intermediate dance with one restart and one easy tag to the music "If You Are" by Alyssa Reid.
Just Have Faith by Gary O'Reilly. A 32-count, 4 wall intermediate dance to the music "It's Alright, It's OK" by Shirley Caesar featuring Anthony Hamilton. There are no tags or restarts in this one.
Requests at the end of the class: Round Your Finger, Jesse James, and Coming Unplugged.
Monday - Nancy Delaney will be coming to class and teaching Corazon Diamante (new from the Marathon). And if anyone is interested, we're going out to lunch afterward so join us if you can!
Also on Monday, I'd like to teach the first 64 counts of Scott Blevins' new dance "Make You Move." This is a 144-count dance, but once you get through that first 64, the rest is easier and repetitive. It is a great dance and a lot of fun - a must learn for everyone!
Monday, June 6
Heavy sighs of relief when the class learned that there wouldn't be a new teach today from the Marathon. But there will be several over the next month - lots of good stuff came out of Raleigh.
Big Reviews for today: Love Me Like You Do, Dangerzone, Girls Like, Die A Happy Man, Lover Come Back.
Walk-Thru Reviews included Right About Now, Linger, and Desperado.
Other dances for the morning: My Father's Son, Extreme Love, and Spiderweb.
Monday, May 30
We had a lot of fun with Nancy Delaney today! Hit her with three of our new ones - she gave us one that she had "reviewed" taught at her Sunday class yesterday. Seemed like a fair trade, right? LOL! Her head was spinning when she left. 😛
REMEMBER!!! NO CLASS FRIDAY! See everyone next Monday.
Early morning session worked on:
Linger
Desperado
Girls Like
During class we worked on:
Geoff's three dances - Carry You Home (the waltz), Seize The Moment, and Top Gear
Right About Now
Spiderweb (just danced)
Dangerzone (Chris)
Darling Hold My Hand (just danced)
Die A Happy Man
Nancy taught us:
Love Me Like You Do (Ria Vos)
Friday, May 27, 2016
Early morning practice included Lay It Right, Part Of The List, Talkin To The Moon, and Die A Happy Man. Class included dances of Top Gear, Seize The Moment, Carry You Home, The Waiting Game, Linger, and Jesse James. Big reviews of Right About Now and I Never Knew.
Two new teaches: Dangerzone and Girls Like.
Chris taught Dangerzone. A 32 count, 4 wall, easy intermediate dance by Ria Vos to the music "All Night Long" by Rochelle. This is a peppy dance with great music. The class picked it up right away and we danced it twice.
I taught Girls Like - a 64 count, 4 wall intermediate dance by Neville Fitzgerald and Julie Harris to the music "Girls Like..." by Tiny Tempah featuring Zara Larsson. Since half the class already knew this dance, it was time to bring the rest up to speed.
Monday, Nancy Delaney will be joining us and I don't expect to have any new teaches and there won't be any class on Friday. Lots of new stuff coming starting the following week from the Marathon!
Monday, May 23, 2016
Early morning practice included Girls Like, Desperado, and Linger. Class included dances of Running, My Father's Son, The Waiting Game, and Lover Come Back. The rest of the day was spent on two new teaches: Right About Now and I Never Knew.
We learned "Right About Now" at FloriDance. This is a phrased (AB) dance by Will Craig to the music "Good To Be Alive" by Andy Grammar. Part A of the dance is 32 counts and danced primarily on walls 12:00, 6:00, and 9:00 - however, it is danced once at 3:00. Part B of the dance is 40 counts and primarily danced at 3:00 - however, it is danced once at 12:00. Part A has one restart at count 16. The sequence is A B A A 1/2A B A A B A A. We spent quite a bit of time walking through this dance and then danced it three times before we moved on. The class liked it!
The second teach of the day was "I Never Knew" - a 32 count, 4 wall, Intermediate NC2S by Simon Ward. The music "What I Never Knew I Always Wanted" by Carrie Underwood. There is one "tart" restart/tag on wall 1 and an easy tag at the end of wall six (two nightclub basics). We learned this dance yesterday at the Pinnellas Park social where Lindy Bowers taught it. Again, once we got throught the teach, we danced it three times. Again - the class liked it.
I was going to teach "Girls Like" this morning - but 11:40am seemed a bit late in the class session to try and do a third teach. Will save that one for Friday. And Chris is teaching Dangerzone by Ria Vos on Friday as well. Plus any reviews needed before the social on Saturday! It will be another busy day!
Friday, May 20, 2016
No new teaches today - but lots of reviews.
We reviewed the three dances Geoff taught: Top Gear, Seize The Moment, and Carry You Home. We also reviewed Spotlight, which Chris had taught. We went over the Waiting Game and Lover Come Back.
We spent quite a bit of time going over Die A Happy Man and Linger; and a fair amount of time on Desperado. Also reviewed Still Mine? - but that wasn't a big review at all.
We also just danced Extreme Love, Your Place Or Mine, Round Your Finger, and Save The Day. I had more on my list - but we ran out of time. There is just never enough time!
Next week - will probably teach a new one from FloriDance - either Will Craig's "Right About Now" or Amy Glass's "Sunshine In My Pocket". And will probably throw in Girls Like since we're doing it on Thursday nights and some of the class already knows it - and likes it.
Monday, May 16, 2016
Always amazes me that time can go by so quickly! We danced Spiderweb, Ain't No Way, and Lately to warm up... Reviewed the Waiting Game and Lover Come Back... I taught Die A Happy Man (Rachael McEnaney-White, 48 count, 2 wall intermediate dance to the music "Die A Happy Man" by Thomas Rhett). This is a big dance - and we took a lot of time with it to try and get the count right. It's sections 2 and 3 that are the tricky parts - once through those, everything else comes pretty naturally. I think it's going to have to grow on some folks - but hopefully it will succeed as it's climbing the charts quickly.
Then we danced Talking To The Moon, Chris reviewed Spotlight, and then I taught Linger (Neville
Fitzgerald and Julie Harris, 32 count, 4 wall intermediate dance with two easy restarts).
We finished up with a review of Desperado and then ran out of time. Didn't have a chance to go over Geoff's dances, Still Mine?, or Jesse James... Maybe next time...
Friday, May 13, 2016
Chris' day to teach today. She taught Spotlight and Jesse James - both requests by class members to be taught/reviewed. Geoff reviewed Top Gear, Seize The Moment, and Carry You Home. I reviewed Desperado. We also danced Making History, I Got It Easy, Uptown Funk, From The Ground Up, Ain't Misbehavin', Cake By The Ocean, My Father's Son, and Strip It Down.
Monday, May 9, 2016
Welcome to Summer!!! Classes started at Club Naples this morning. Geoff reviewed the three dances that he has taught over the past couple weeks: Seize The Moment, Top Gear, and Carry You Home. I reviewed the Waiting Game and Lover Come Back.
We also danced: Beautiful In My Eyes, Part Of The List, Cliche Love Song, Riversoul, and The Avener.
I taught two new dances this morning (wanted to do 3 - ran out of time!):
Desperado by Neville Fitzgerald and Julie Harris
32 Count, 2 Wall Intermediate dance with one restart
Music "Desperado" by Rhianna
Still Mine? by Jessica Bostrom
32 Count, 2 Wall Easy Intermediate dance with no tags or restarts
Music "Unchained Melody" by Jonathan Jackson (Avery from the TV show Nashville) - Live at the Grand Ole Opry
The other dance I wanted to do was Linger by Neville & Julie - it will have to wait until next week. And then Die A Happy Man by Rachael is coming, too - as soon as I get the count figured out. Plus whatever comes out of FloriDance this weekend. No time to rest!
Monday, March 28
Last Monday, immediately following a Rachael workshop weekend in Orlando, I offered to teach "Part Of The List" to the class. Nancy took me up on the offer so I taught the 32-count "rolling eight" 2 wall advanced dance. It has an easy tag at the end of walls 1 & 3. The class seemed to pick it up fairly well and we danced it a few times.
There was no class on Friday (Good Friday) and I taught Nancy's class today while she continues to stay off her foot.
We opened with Ain't Misbehavin' and Cake By The Ocean and Making History. Then reviewed Part Of The List. Based on my early session with Kathy, I figured we were in need of a pretty intensive review. And we danced it a couple times after the review.
Moved on to some other dances that we could "just dance" like Save The Day, Your Place Or Mine, Talking To The Moon.
Then, I couldn't wait to teach "From The Ground Up" by Rachael and Rob Fowler (also from the workshop weekend). 96-count, 2 wall advanced waltz. I hadn't studied to teach this like I should've, but I think I did an okay job. At least the class got it and we danced it a few times.
Wrapped up with Ain't No Way, Cliche' Love Song, and Extreme Love.
Hoping Nancy's foot is okay for class on Friday!
Friday, November 27
Had a great class today! I have no idea where the time went - but we certainly ran out of it!!!
We opened with Cliche' Love Song - as that was the dance the class thought most people knew.
Then we worked on Tuesday Blues. And spent a good amount of time on it. I think most people have a good grasp of it now (at least those who have had a teach on it before - those who saw it for the first time today - they may need more of it again!).
Then a quick review of Like A Phoenix. I was only going to do a few walls of it - but got absorbed in the music and ended up dancing the whole thing. :-)
Then we moved on to Dirty Work and spent a fair amount of time on it. The funky tag seems to be the biggest hangup of this dance. That, and the 3rd set of eight. But, it's coming along.
Then a quick review and just a few walls of Mr. Put It Down.
After that, it was Extreme Love. It's all in the timing. Most are getting the first set of eight. And even most of the second. It's the end of the second set of eight where we weave to the left and do a 1/4 then 1/2 turn with the sweep/tap step that seems to be the hardest part. Once we get through that, and remember to just do toe touches (don't step down), when we get to the rocking section - we're all good. Then it's just a matter of timing to do cross twinkle weave lunge recover and turn into the start again. But, after spending a good amount of time on it, I think people were feeling better about the dance.
I think by this time we were looking at it being 11:30 already or almost 11:30 so we took a look at all the dances that are on the playlist for the social and picked some of the ones with the most concern: Lay It Right, Bittersweet Memory, Coming Unplugged, The Avener, Ain't No Angel, Alcazar, Darling Hold My Hand, and I Got It Easy.
We had a good number show up today! Hopefully we'll be able to use the clubhouse again for a couple of Mondays in January that the Vineyards is closed.
Monday, October 19
Last "summer" class!
The "early birds" wo/rked on Mr. Put It Down.
The teach for the day was "Shots With Somebody" - 64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate dance by Rachael McEnancy-White. Music is "No Doubt About It" from the Empire Cast. We learned this dance at Rachael's workshop over the weekend and Nancy and I both liked it for the Monday/Friday class.
Rest of class-time was spent on: Cliche' Love Song, Dirty Work, Riversoul, Let It Be Me, Lay It Right, Like A Phoenix, Suffer, Can't Feel My Face, and Eternal Secret.
Friday, October 16
The "early birds" worked on Rolling In The Deep and Mr. Put It Down.
Class-time included reviews on Cliche' Love Song and Dirty Work as well as Pop 'N Drop. Also reviewed/danced: Girl Crush, Like A Phoenix, Turn The Beat Around, Never Been To Spain, Mr. Put It Down, and Ring My Bells.
Monday, October 12
No class today.
Monday, October 5
The "early birds" worked on Mr. Put It Down, I'm Ready, and Sugar Rush.
Class-time included Pop 'N Drop, Never Been To Spain, Shut Up And Dance, Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Let It Be Me, Turn The Beat Around, Slam Goes The Door, And Get It On, Body Goes Boom, Down To The River, WTF, and You'll Be Okay.
Requests included Eternal Secret, The Avener, and Mr. Put It Down.
Friday, October 9
The "early birds" worked on Mr. Put It Down, Let It Be Me, and Pop 'N Drop.
Class-time included Pop 'N Drop, Make It Rain, Suffer, Darling Hold My Hand, Earned It, and Alcazar.
Two teaches for the day:
#1 "Cliche' Love Song." This is a 32-Count, 2-Wall, Intermediate level dance (with a 52-count tag and 3 restarts) choreographed by Team USA at the Windy City Linedance Mania event in Chicago last weekend. Team USA consisted of Jo Thompson Syzmanski, John Robinson, and Guyton Mundy. This dance won over Team International's waltz. This is a fun and peppy dance. The music is "Cliche'" by Basim.
#2 "Dirty Work" choreographed by Scott Blevins. This is a 32-Count, 4-Wall, Intermediate line dance with two different tags. The music is "Dirty Work" by Austin Mahone. The teach on this dance came pretty late in the class and brains were pretty mushy. It took a bit of practice to accomplish some of the trickier footwork but perseverance pays off! It's one of my favorites of Scott's new ones.
Friday, October 2
Continued with a review of some of the "older" dances - took a look at I'm Ready, And Get It On, Hands Up, Body Goes Boom, Hard Work, All I Can Say, Earned It, Down To The River, Stonecold, Ain't No Angel, and Lay It Right.
Worked on Pop 'N Drop, Mr. Put It Down, Suffer, 4-5 Seconds, and Darling Hold My Hand.
Had time for one request: The Avener.
Requests were made to put And Get It On, Body Goes Boom, and Down To The River back on the list for Monday.
Monday, September 28
Starting to work on some of the "older" dances to refresh ourselves with them and start thinking about Nancy's return and Tampa. Reviewed Pop 'N Drop, Suffer, and Never Been To Spain. Playlist for the day included The Avener, Mr. Put It Down, Let It Be Me, Eternal Secret, Dear Future Husband, Your Loving Arms, and Yes!
Requests included Can't Feel My Face, Like A Phoenix, Turn The Beat Around, Riversoul, Wakey Wakey, and Girl Crush.
Friday, September 25
Chris taught "Pop 'N Drop". A 64-count, 2-Wall, Intermediate dance by Dee Musk and Ria Vos to the music "Emergency" by Icona-Pop. No tags, no restarts and FAST! Some timing issues which keep the dance interesting and a whole lotta fun!
Also danced Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Never Been To Spain, Suffer, and Darling Hold My Hand. Reviewed Mr. Put It Down, Let It Be Me, Wakey Wakey, and Slam Goes The Door.
Eternal Secret and the Avener were requested for Monday.
Monday, September 21
No new teaches. Class time was spent reviewing Mr. Put It Down, Let It Be Me, 4-5 Seconds, Shut Up And Dance, and Somewhere In My Car. Also walked-thru Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Never Been To Spain, Suffer, Darling Hold My Hand. And Rolling In The Deep and Turn The Beat Around were requested, so we reviewed and danced those as well.
Friday, September 19
"Pre-Class" worked on Lay It Right, Ain't Wot U Do, and Coming Unplugged - on the social wall.
Class time was spent on the social wall with Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Never Been To Spain, Suffer, Darling Hold My Hand, Lay It Right, Like A Phoenix, The Avener, Slam Goes The Door, No Vacancy, and Intrigue.
On the regular wall, big reviews of Mr. Put It Down and Let It Be Me which Nancy taught on Monday.
Monday, September 14
Fun class today with Nancy Delaney visiting us! And then those of us who could, went out to lunch! And why aren't we doing lunch more often??? What fun!
"Pre-class" worked on more dances on the "social" wall - Ain't No Angel, Make It Rain, The Remix, The Avener.
Class time was spent reviewing Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Never Been To Spain, Dear Future Husband, Beautiful Goodbye, Suffer, Eternal Secret, Make It Rain, Darling Hold My Hand, Wakey Wakey. Plus we just danced Girl Crush and Twisted Sister.
Nancy taught Mr. Put It Down. This is a 64-count, 2-wall High Intermediate/Advanced dance choreographed by Rachael McEnaney-White and Trevor Thorton. There are no tags or restarts in this dance and it's fast! The music is "Mr. Put It Down" by Ricky Martin featuring Pitbull.
And, at the end of class, we were looking for requests and a discussion surfaced about a new little waltz by Darren Bailey and Amy Glass called "Let It Be Me." Before I knew it, Nancy was teaching it! Very pretty waltz. 48 count, 4 wall Intermediate level dance. Music is "Let It Be Me" by Ray LaMontagne. Quick teach but easy enough to learn and very nice!
Friday, September 11
"Pre-class" worked on several dances on the "social" wall - Suffer, Like A Phoenix, WTF, Ain't No Angel, Ain't Wot U Do.
The class time was spent reviewing most of the new dances as well as starting to take a look at some of the dances for the upcoming social. Dances included: Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Never Been To Spain, 4-5 Seconds, Shut Up And Dance, Suffer, Eternal Secret, Darling Hold My Hand, Somewhere In My Car, Slam Goes The Door, Stonecold, Intrigue, The Remix, The Avener, No Vacancy, and Uptown Funk.
Monday's class will have Nancy Delaney visiting us and we're going out to lunch afterward for anyone who can join us!
Monday, September 7
Busy class day for a Monday holiday! Raining out - so Marion was with us this morning; abd Carol came down from Fort Myers! Happy Labor Day!
"Pre-class" worked on WTF, Coming Unplugged, Never Been To Spain.
Corrected the mis-guided steps in Never Been To Spain (much easier with just a 1/2 hitch!).
The new teach for the day:
Somewhere In My Car by Rachael McEnaney-White
64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate
1 Restart
Music: Somewhere In My Car by Keith Urban
Other dances today included:
Won't You Stay
WTF
Ain't No Angel
Twisted Sister
Like A Phoenix
The Avener
Riversoul
Suffer
Darling Hold My Hand
Can't Feel My Face
4-5 Seconds
Shut Up And Dance
Friday, September 4
"Pre-class" worked on Suffer. Many, many times. And one round of Ain't No Angel.
The new teach for the day: Never Been To Spain. Of course, after class, I reviewed the stepsheet again and realized that I taught the 2nd set of 8 incorrectly! It's a 1/2 hitch and full run-around rather than a full hitch and 1/2 run-around. That'll have to be fixed on Monday. Geez!
Never Been To Spain by Jo Thompson Szymanski
48 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced Dance
No tags or restarts
Music: Never Been To Spain by The No Refund Band
Rest of the dances for the day included:
Won't You Stay (requested from last summer's class)
Girl Crush
The Avener
Eternal Secret
Riversoul
Suffer
Darling Hold My Hand
Can't Feel My Face
Monday, August 31
This "once-a-week" dancing has got to stop! LOL!
The "pre-class" group focused on Lay It Right, The Avener, Stonecold, and You'll Be Okay. Class time focused on intensive reviews of Suffer, Ain't No Angel, and Eternal Secret. We started the class with "Beautiful In My Eyes" and also danced The Avener.
We also reviewed/walked through Riversoul, Stonecold, Can't Feel My Face, and Darling Hold My Hand.
Future teaches include Never Been To Spain by Jo Thompson Szymanski, Somewhere In My Car by Rachael McEnaney-White, and Mr. Put It Down - also by Rachael.
Monday, August 24
Welcome back Nancy Dixon and Betty Hagedorn! Longgg time, no see!
We spent today's class working on Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, and Darling Hold My Hand. Since we had the two returnees and Chris hadn't seen these dances (or at least hadn't seen them in awhile), we took our time and really got them implanted in our brains. We saved Suffer for Friday, along with Eternal Secret and Ain't No Angel. We'll take our time and review/go over/reteach these dances on Friday.
Other dances we danced/reviewed today included: Gentle, Eternal Secret, Ain't No Angel, No Vacancy, Like A Phoenix, Dear Future Husband, Sugar Rush, The Avener.
Friday, August 21
The majority of the class time was spent reviewing the four dances that Nancy had taught the week before: Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Darling Hold My Hand, and Suffer. Also reviewed/danced: Girl Crush, The Avener, Make It Rain, Pontoon, Like A Phoenix, Slam Goes The Door.
Richard came to class today and brought a guest - Jean is a dancer in Virginia and visited our class today. Hopefully she'll be able to visit us again! Good to see Richard again and hope he returns to Florida soon!
Friday, August 14
Fun class today with Nancy Delaney visiting us! And then those of us who could, went out to lunch! And why aren't we doing lunch more often??? What fun!
"Pre-class" worked on more dances on the "social" wall - Ain't No Angel, Make It Rain, The Remix, The Avener.
Class time was spent reviewing Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Never Been To Spain, Dear Future Husband, Beautiful Goodbye, Suffer, Eternal Secret, Make It Rain, Darling Hold My Hand, Wakey Wakey. Plus we just danced Girl Crush and Twisted Sister.
Nancy taught Mr. Put It Down. This is a 64-count, 2-wall High Intermediate/Advanced dance choreographed by Rachael McEnaney-White and Trevor Thorton. There are no tags or restarts in this dance and it's fast! The music is "Mr. Put It Down" by Ricky Martin featuring Pitbull.
And, at the end of class, we were looking for requests and a discussion surfaced about a new little waltz by Darren Bailey and Amy Glass called "Let It Be Me." Before I knew it, Nancy was teaching it! Very pretty waltz. 48 count, 4 wall Intermediate level dance. Music is "Let It Be Me" by Ray LaMontagne. Quick teach but easy enough to learn and very nice!
Friday, September 11
"Pre-class" worked on several dances on the "social" wall - Suffer, Like A Phoenix, WTF, Ain't No Angel, Ain't Wot U Do.
The class time was spent reviewing most of the new dances as well as starting to take a look at some of the dances for the upcoming social. Dances included: Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Never Been To Spain, 4-5 Seconds, Shut Up And Dance, Suffer, Eternal Secret, Darling Hold My Hand, Somewhere In My Car, Slam Goes The Door, Stonecold, Intrigue, The Remix, The Avener, No Vacancy, and Uptown Funk.
Monday's class will have Nancy Delaney visiting us and we're going out to lunch afterward for anyone who can join us!
Monday, September 7
Busy class day for a Monday holiday! Raining out - so Marion was with us this morning; abd Carol came down from Fort Myers! Happy Labor Day!
"Pre-class" worked on WTF, Coming Unplugged, Never Been To Spain.
Corrected the mis-guided steps in Never Been To Spain (much easier with just a 1/2 hitch!).
The new teach for the day:
Somewhere In My Car by Rachael McEnaney-White
64 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate
1 Restart
Music: Somewhere In My Car by Keith Urban
Other dances today included:
Won't You Stay
WTF
Ain't No Angel
Twisted Sister
Like A Phoenix
The Avener
Riversoul
Suffer
Darling Hold My Hand
Can't Feel My Face
4-5 Seconds
Shut Up And Dance
Friday, September 4
"Pre-class" worked on Suffer. Many, many times. And one round of Ain't No Angel.
The new teach for the day: Never Been To Spain. Of course, after class, I reviewed the stepsheet again and realized that I taught the 2nd set of 8 incorrectly! It's a 1/2 hitch and full run-around rather than a full hitch and 1/2 run-around. That'll have to be fixed on Monday. Geez!
Never Been To Spain by Jo Thompson Szymanski
48 Count, 2 Wall, Intermediate/Advanced Dance
No tags or restarts
Music: Never Been To Spain by The No Refund Band
Rest of the dances for the day included:
Won't You Stay (requested from last summer's class)
Girl Crush
The Avener
Eternal Secret
Riversoul
Suffer
Darling Hold My Hand
Can't Feel My Face
Monday, August 31
This "once-a-week" dancing has got to stop! LOL!
The "pre-class" group focused on Lay It Right, The Avener, Stonecold, and You'll Be Okay. Class time focused on intensive reviews of Suffer, Ain't No Angel, and Eternal Secret. We started the class with "Beautiful In My Eyes" and also danced The Avener.
We also reviewed/walked through Riversoul, Stonecold, Can't Feel My Face, and Darling Hold My Hand.
Future teaches include Never Been To Spain by Jo Thompson Szymanski, Somewhere In My Car by Rachael McEnaney-White, and Mr. Put It Down - also by Rachael.
Monday, August 24
Welcome back Nancy Dixon and Betty Hagedorn! Longgg time, no see!
We spent today's class working on Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, and Darling Hold My Hand. Since we had the two returnees and Chris hadn't seen these dances (or at least hadn't seen them in awhile), we took our time and really got them implanted in our brains. We saved Suffer for Friday, along with Eternal Secret and Ain't No Angel. We'll take our time and review/go over/reteach these dances on Friday.
Other dances we danced/reviewed today included: Gentle, Eternal Secret, Ain't No Angel, No Vacancy, Like A Phoenix, Dear Future Husband, Sugar Rush, The Avener.
Friday, August 21
The majority of the class time was spent reviewing the four dances that Nancy had taught the week before: Riversoul, Can't Feel My Face, Darling Hold My Hand, and Suffer. Also reviewed/danced: Girl Crush, The Avener, Make It Rain, Pontoon, Like A Phoenix, Slam Goes The Door.
Richard came to class today and brought a guest - Jean is a dancer in Virginia and visited our class today. Hopefully she'll be able to visit us again! Good to see Richard again and hope he returns to Florida soon!
Friday, August 14
I asked Nancy to come to class today to teach. There were so many dances I wanted to learn that it ended up being like a mini-workshop! She taught Riversoul, Suffer, Darling Hold My Hand, and Can't Feel My Face! Great class!
We also reviewed (for the upcoming social): Hands Up, Sugar Rush, Islands In The Stream, Girl Crush, Like A Phoenix, Ain't No Angel, You'll Be Okay, and the Avener.
Many thanks to Chris for teaching throughout July and August! I'll have to figure out the list of all the dances she taught and plug them in here!
Dances Reviewed:
Like A Phoenix
Stonecold
And Get It On
I'm Ready
Sugar Rush
Marilyn Monroe
Twisted Sister
I Got It Easy
Dances Just Danced:
Make It Rain
Lay It Right
Slam Goes The Door
Ain't No Angel
WTF
Run
Down To The River
Remix
Coming Unplugged
That's The Day
****
Monday, June 29
Dances Reviewed:
Like A Phoenix
Stonecold
And Get It On
I'm Ready
Sugar Rush
Make It Rain
Lay It Right
Slam Goes The Door
Ain't No Angel
Hands Up
WTF
Your Loving Arms
Girl Crush
****
Friday, June 26
Dance Taught:
Like A Phoenix by Rhoda Lai
48/4 Intermediate/Advanced
Music: Phoenix by Molly Sanden
Dances Reviewed:
Stonecold
And Get It On
I'm Ready
Slam Goes The Door
Ain't No Angel
Beautiful Goodbye
Body Goes Boom
Dances Just Danced:
Uptown Funk
Make It Rain
Earned It
You'll Be Okay
****
Monday, June 22
Dance Taught:
Stonecold by Niels Poulsen & Maria Maag
Phrased Advanced
Music: Heat by Scarlet Pleasure
Dances Reviewed and Danced:
And Get It On
I'm Ready
Sugar Rush
Slam Goes The Door
Marilyn Monroe
Ain't No Angel
Hands Up
Run
Wakey Wakey
Lay It Right
Make It Rain
****
Friday, June 19 Dance Class
Dances Taught:
And Get It On by Daniel Trepat & Jose Miquel Belloque Vale
32/4 Intermediate
Music: Marvin Gaye by Charlie Puth ft. Meghan Trainor
I'm Ready by Amy Glass
32/4 High Intermediate
Music: Ready For The Good Life by Paloma Faith
Dances Reviewed:
Sugar Rush
Slam Goes The Door
Marilyn Monroe
Ain't No Angel
WTF
Lay It Right
Twisted Sister
Make It Rain
Thanks Nancy, Lesson in Love is a beautiful new dance and hard work but worth the effort! I'm so glad to have a teach in Sugar Honey IT, now I can dance it at the workshops.
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