DWG Logo Design Contest! Calling All Artists

$250 Cash Prize!!!

Logo must be submitted by December 10th

To register to participate in the DWG Logo Design click here.

 Videos Release Update

Hi Everyone!

Its 1:56 a.m. and I am still not asleep!  Editing these videos is a lot of work!!!!  Right now I (Grace) am in the editing suite about 30-32 hours a week adding graphics to make the video more interesting and full of information and tips to help you all dance better! We are also doing this in two languages which makes the process even longer because not many professional editors are Hispanic! Because the English and Spanish Intermediate video seems to be the most requested, I have edited these first.  The English version went to print November 28, 2005 so be on the lookout for it soon.  If all goes well they should be in our hands in 15 days.  The Spanish one will be in print by December 15, 2005.  As for the instructional salsa video release party which you will all be personally invited to, we will be having that sometime in March or April at Gardels.  Our students are our inspiration and we want you to be part of the release whether you buy a video or not!  We appreciate your dedication to salsa and hope that we have made it fun for you all!  Thank you for being patient as we are dedicated to giving you the best quality product on the market!

Take care!

Grace,  Editing All Day, Badillo

For a video teaser please click here.

Merry Christmas!

Grace and Hugo would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for making our entire year such a success.

For those of you who are offended by my use of "Christmas" in my holiday goodwill, TOO BAD! Christ is the reason for the season! :)

Merry CHRISTmas,

Grace and Hugo

PS.  Happy Birthday Jesus!!!!!

LAST CALL !!! for NUTCRACKER BALL at discounted price !!!

Saturday, December 10th
8:00 - 12:00 a.m.

Buffet Dinner and Dance
with Dance Exhibition by World Exhibition Dance Champions David & Sharon Savoy

Purchase tickets HERE for $37 - Tickets after Thursday will be $45

 

What's Ahead?

January Saturday Night Salsa Classes at Gardels!

8:00 - 9:00 PM

Lesson 1: Salsa Beginners Level I-II
                Learn the Basics!

Lesson 2: Beginner Intermediate
                Cross Body Lead With Turns

9:00 - 10:00 PM

Lesson 1: Hot Salsa Beginners Level II-III
                Beginner Combinations

Lesson 2: Intermediate Level III-Advanced
                Classy Combinations

 

Dance Shoes Available Online

We are proud to offer quality dance shoes from the Elegance Shoe Company. Check out our dance shoes at the DWG Store by clicking here.

If you have any questions about shoes please e-mail: DWGStore@dancingwithgrace.com

For a more affordable alternative to Elegance Shoes, Moon Light shoes are also available and will be on line by November 30, 2005.  See our catalog at the club.  $75 plus tax and s/h

Dance Quote

"It is more important who they are as people and only then is it important who they are as dancers"

- Marcia Haydee -

I love this quote so much that until I get a better one this is staying put!

Have a quote or poem about dance?  Email it to Grace and she may put it in the next newsletter! grace@dancingwithgrace.com

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Box # 513
Catonsville, MD 21228-3915

Phone:
(410) 903-0648

E-mail:
Grace@dancingwithgrace.com or
Elsybel@dancingwithgrace.com

To view newsletter online click December 2005 Newsletter

1. DWG LOGO DESIGN CONTEST!  Deadline Extended!

For those of you who have been working on a logo for our contest you are in luck!  Because of some requests and recent holiday we have extended the deadline to December 10, 2005.  If you are interested and haven't entered the contest read below.

Are you artistic?  Do you want to make some extra cash or have free private classes with Hugo and Grace?  This competition is a call for a logo design which will be identifiable with Dancing With Grace Productions. It will be used on the web site, all printed media, our future videos & e-mail, etc. It will also be used on Professionally Printed Products and must be sexy, elegant and graceful!

To register to be in the contest and see the contest rules please go to http://www.dancingwithgrace.com/logo-contest.html and submit your name and email address.

Prize Information

1st Place  (Choose one of the following:)

      $250 Cash

      1 Free 2 Day Intermediate/Advanced Workshop (2006)

      4 Private Classes

      3 Pairs of Your Choice of Moonlight Shoes (Women)

      2 Pairs of Moonlight shoes for men and 1 Private Class

 

2nd Place  (Choose one of the following:)

      $150.00 Cash

      2 Private Classes

      2 Pairs of Moonlight Shoes

      Free Saturday Night Classes to Gardels for 1 Month

 

3rd Place  (Choose one of the following:)

      $75.00 Cash

      1 Private Class

      1 Pair of Moonlight Shoes

 

2.  La Palapa Beginner & Beginner-Intermediate Classes For The Dedicated Learner!

Feel like brushing up on basic salsa or learning your cross body lead with a turn?  Try Antonio and Elsy on at the quaint La Palapa on Main Street in Ellicott City. If you can't make it on Tuesday or Saturdays night to our other classes, then this is the perfect place to be.  Class prices will increase to $10 per class or $15 for both.

Salsa Beginners I-III  8-8:50 p.m.:  We all need to practice our beginner steps and movements!  If you cant dance all of your basics to fast music you still need to take this class!

Beginner Intermediate  Salsa or Bachata 9-9:50 p.m.:  Depending on how many people request Bachata or Salsa this class is open for our instructor to choose which dance to teach. Salsa: Practice the most important movement in salsa by learning/leading your cross body lead with a turn in a beginner intermediate combination if you are ready or Beginner Intermediate Bachata Moves!

No Classes at La Palapa December 29, 2005 (Christmas Season)

3. Tuesday Nights at the Promenade Dancesport Facility.  Bachata Series Class Coming Soon!  Sign up Today!

December:

- Beginner Salsa  7-8 p.m.

- Bachata Series Class  7-8 p.m.

- Beginner Intermediate Salsa 8-9 p.m.  Bored in the beginner class and need to learn more to get into the Intermediate/Advanced class?  Here is your chance.  Work on how to lead a Cross Body Lead with a turn, Beginner Intermediate Patterns and how to do different styles of this as a follower including your footwork breakdown on the turns!

- Intermediate/Advanced Salsa Combinations 8-9 p.m.

 

December-January Bachata Series Class:  7-8 p.m. every Tuesday Night

December 6-January 31, 2006 (No Classes December 27, 2005)

Want a progressive Bachata Class?   Learn the fastest growing dance in America next to salsa!  Bachata is a fun and sexy dance.  Grace & Sheena will be teaching this fabulous Bachata Series.  Learn how to spin with your partner!

Bachata 8 week series class:  $75.00 for the series or $15 drop in classes.  For Your Information: The reason drop in classes are expensive is because when people drop in the series class slows down so I want them to pay more since I will have to have someone else take them to the side to catch them up to the class.  Save money by signing up and paying on-line by clicking here.   No refunds for classes that you do not attend.

 

NO CLASSES DECEMBER 27, 2005

Promenade Dance Sport Facility on 2605 Lord Baltimore Drive.  For directions and more information click here.

4.  Saturday Night Salsa Classes at Gardel’s

Learn Salsa with the only Certified Salsa Instructors in the State of Maryland, DC, Virginia, and Pennsylvania!

CLASSES ARE HELD ON THE SECOND FLOOR! $10.00 Each

If you come at 9 and pay downstairs, you should receive a ticket and hand it to our sign in person.  You should not have to pay twice (to get in and for the class).

 

January Schedule:

- Salsa Beginners Level I-II: 8-9 p.m. Learn the Basics!

 - Beginner Intermediate:  8-9 p.m.  Cross Body Lead With Turns!

 - Hot Salsa Beginners Level II-III:  9-10 p.m.  Beginner Combinations!

 - Intermediate Level III-Advanced: 9-10 p.m.  Classy Combinations!

 

To our students at Gardels. Thank you so much for your continued support and interest in the dance of Salsa.  We encourage you to take cha-cha classes in December (details below) so that you can understand Latin dance better!

 

December classes:  Cha-Cha-Cha, see below.

 

Gardel’s Supper Club is located on 29 S. Front Street, right across from the Port Discovery Balloon on the other side of President Street.  Its 18,000 Square feet big and has 3 floors so if you haven’t been come join us.

For directions and more information click here.

Warning: If you come for the 9:00 PM lesson at 9:00 PM or 1 minute afterward, the owner will charge you an entry fee of $10.00 at the door; you should receive a ticket.  If you want to take the Intermediate/Advanced class hand the ticket to the sign in person and do not pay cash for the class.  You should not have to pay at the door and at the class too!  By the way, I think their clock is 5 minutes fast. Please come early so you can get in free and only have to pay for the class.  No Jeans, No Sneakers! 

5. December Cha-Cha-Cha Classes at Gardels!

Leslie & Dan Darlington are scheduled to come to teach Cha-Cha-Cha classes in December 2005 so plan to get your cha-cha groove on! 

 

First Floor Demonstration:  7:30 p.m.

Beginners 8-9 p.m.

Intermediate 9-10 p.m.

Dan and Leslie Darlington each studied ballroom and Latin dancing since the early 1980's. Dan's training also includes swing dance; Leslie's in classical dances (ballet, modern and jazz.)  When Dan moved to Baltimore from San Francisco in 1989, he brought with him the freshness of West Coast Swing and his peers were impressed with his dancing. He was encouraged to teach these new moves and his lessons soon expanded to include East Coast Swing and St. Louis Shag, then ballroom dance.  His teaching venues include: Swing on a Star (Philadelphia Swing Dance Society) Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom (Washington Swing Dance Council) Avalon Dance Studio, the Potomac Swing Club, The Promenade Dance Sport, and the Towson Dance Studio. 

Leslie's dance and performing experience started at age 6 and her classical training extended into college, where she was a member of the Towson University Dance Company. During a winter college break, she auditioned for and was accepted as a dancer for a one ring circus Circus America that performed at the Nissan Center (former Capital Center). After college, she performed with a modern dance troupe called Movement Arts Parasol. During college, she taught dance for Baltimore County Recreation and Parks, Towson University Children's program and Lester Holmes dance studio. Her students have ranged in age from 4 to 74. Soon after learning ballroom dance she competed and taught.

Most recently, the Darlingtons have taught at the Towson Dance Studio and the Promenade Dance Sport in Baltimore. Collectively Dan and Leslie have hundreds of hours of training, performances, workshops, showcases, dinner shows, dance conventions and teaching experiences under their belts.

For the past three years, they have been members of "Capital Swing" a competitive West Coast Swing dance team based in Bethesda, Maryland. Capital Swing captured first place at "Swing Fling" competition August 2002, third place at"The Virginia State Open" competition September 2002, first place MAD Jam, 2003 and first place at 2005 Swing Fling. Dan and Leslie are gearing up for another team competition this coming fall.

Meanwhile, they are available for demos and dance entertainment for corporate and individual parties. They also teach privately from their home in Catonsville, Maryland. For more information, visit http://www.home.earthlink.net/~ldarlington

6.  Performance Class Sign Up.

Are you interested in taking your dancing to a new level? We are now signing people up for a performance class session.   We will be having an information meeting about this type of class coming up soon.  We are looking at an April 2006 date for beginning this class so if you are not an intermediate dancer yet but are interested, you do have time to work on your dancing level before you enter this class.

During this session a group of students will learn a choreography that they will perform at the end of the session at a non-threatening location to start. Depending on how well the class does together, you may or may not be chosen to perform at some of the upcoming parties to be held by DWG. The class is responsible for training on a specific class evening and then getting together at least once a week without me to practice what you have learned in class. If you are interested please sign up. This is a 6 week session that costs $300.00 to non-DWG employees.  This class can also be taken by DWG instructors who are not yet in the performance arena for $150.00 and is worth 50 training hours. If you aren't ready to dedicate time and serious effort please do not take this session. You must be an Intermediate II-III to Advanced Dancer (capable of many intricate patterns and at least attempting double turns and footwork). You may have the opportunity to be hired by DWG as a performer if you do well enough. To sign up for this class email Grace's Assistant Elsybel. Be on the lookout for the date of this class. Once I have enough people signed up, I will announce the date and time of the meeting.

7.  Events for Your Entertainment and more.

Many of my students dance hustle with Dance Champions Jonathan GQ Bowers & Ivanna Matsuka.  So come to the Ballroom Dance Party Friday December 16, 2005 from 7 till ??  They will have a spectacular show and a $10 Workshop from 8-9 p.m. (International Style Hustle) For Beginners/Intermediate at The Promenade!

Promenade Dance Sport Facility on 2605 Lord Baltimore Drive.  For directions and more information click here.  Call to reserve your table:  410-277-0234

8.  Mad Hot Ballroom Documentary

"Mad Hot Ballroom" is a film documentary about a group of New York City kids training for a ballroom dancing competition. To read two articles about this documentary click on the following links:

      A Matter of Life and Dance

      Where Kids Stand on Their Own Two Feet

9.  Club Mate: No Classes.

We will no longer be having classes at Club Mate due to the full schedule we are facing for 2006.  We may do a session next year there so be on the look out!  

 


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