RACHAEL WORKSHOP

October 26, 2019

Another great Rachael Workshop! 6 dances taught: 10,000 More (Shane), Choose Joy, Half Past Tipsy (with Maddy), Honestly (my favorite of the day), She Will Be Loved (classic), Teeth (Guillaume).

Just the 4 of us here this trip - me, Deb, Nancy, & Brenda. Rare to only have 1 car here! Next workshop is April 4 - we’ll probably have more here then.

More new teaches.......

SIMON WARD - ORLANDO 9/28/19

The Simon Ward workshop was exceptional! Five dances taught: two from Nashville: Moves & Reminiscence; a classic - Show Me The Love; and Rolling In Love (with Heather Barton) and Up In The Air (with Rachael).

First teaches will be Reminiscence (me), Show Me The Love (Nancy), Up In The Air (Valerie), and Rolling In Love (Annie).

WINDY CITY 2019

Chicago - Windy City 2019

Another excellent weekend in Chicago! Many thanks to Mark & Eve for putting on such a great event, to all the staff and volunteers that help make it amazing, and the choreographers that bring their “A” games to teach us the best dances!

Thursday night was open dance.

Friday’s schedule was jam-packed with 43 different dances! I took one new teach - “Unforgettable” by Darren Bailey and two repeat teaches (from Nashville) - “Take A Look At This” by Joey Warren & “Party In The HIlls” by Fred Whitehouse (with Joey Warren & Shane McKeever). And more dancing Friday night.

Saturday’s schedule included the professional choreographer competitions - and I was in the ballroom for both. The returning champions debuted “Chicago Gold” - which is a really fun dance; and the challengers debuted “Cherry On Top” which was the winning choreography - an excellent dance! I learned them both and will be teaching each of them! There were several classes held during the day that I had the best intentions of attending - but... didn’t. LOL!

Saturday night’s show was a wonderful display of such amazing talent! We are so lucky to have these folks as the creators of all the awesome dances we enjoy! And congratulations to the amateur choreographers who competed during the day on Friday! The winners of Heat 1 (Chris Jacques) and Heat 2 (Rob Holley) competed Saturday night and each are winners in my book! Congratulations to Chris Jacques who was the overall winner!

With our flight schedule on Sunday, the opportunity to dance was pretty limited... I did make it to Dance Monkey Dance (Roy & Fiona) before heading to the airport. Crazy fun!

Again - thanks to everyone who worked so hard to bring together such an amazing event!