Dear All, As the snow season slips more decidedly behind us, we should all whisper a prayer of thanks to St. O’Boggin, (the Irish Catholic patron saint of sledding) for a fairly vigorous year of winter sports (they were still sledding on Snowman’s Hill just this last weekend!).  I suppose …

Dear All, Important news, everybody:  since March is a five Wednesday month, we will be using the first Wednesday (3/2/2022) to finish up with the Foxtrot.  Then, starting on 3/9, we will commence with Tango for the rest of the month.   Unless . . . unless we get a …

Dear All,   This week we thought we’d give you a break from our usual rantings and ravings about dance and its ensuant benefits (colloquially known as “dance rants”) and instead, spend this time revealing to you the solution to one of the Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe.  You know …

Dear All, It is the week of Valentine’s Day (or V-Day, as some are calling it) so it is a good week to be kind to the hearts of others and your own heart as well.  How? By taking them (the heart of another -and that other as well) and …

Dear All, The Tlhingan word for dance is literally defined as “movement for no other purpose than itself”.  Which may or may not apply to our word for dance (which is “dance” – for those of you who are not paying attention).  Indeed, many may ask: why would two otherwise …

Dear All,   Correction to last week: It wasn’t Virginia (Ginnie) Woolf but Gertrude (Trudy) Stein who made the “there is no there, there” comment.  But that in no way changes the applicability of the phrase to the ultimate goal of Ballroom Dancing, which gives each and every one of …

Dear All,   As January winds down (only one week left) we find ourselves pondering the ephemeral and transitory nature of the universe.  Everything seems to be nothing more than a process of moving from here to there.  Flux seems to be the only constant in current existence (even the …

Dear All,   Well, we are finally getting it worked out.  This simple switch of one dance from one day to another day (and vice-versa) has proven to be more troublesome than anticipated.  So:  this week, Waltz on Wednesday, Rumba/Cha-cha on Thursday, no ifs, ands or butts (spelling not an …