Monthly Archives: August 2009

Formation Classes Start This Week!

August 30, 2009 – 7:57 pm

One surfire way to improve your dancing is to give yourself a deadline! How about Oct. 29? That’s the day Dance Station’s two Formation Classes will perform at the Halloween Ball. Formation Teams are a fun way to learn new steps in a group setting. And the two Formation Classes will start the first week [...]

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Celebrate Santa Fe’s 400th With Dancing

August 30, 2009 – 12:16 pm

Santa Fe is turning 400 this year, and Viva Santa Fe is launching a year-long birthday celebration over the Labor Day Weekend. Dance Station is taking part in the activity-packed weekend, organized by the Santa Fe 400th committee. We are offering a series of free workshops at Fort Marcy Park on Saturday, September 5th. The schedule [...]

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Ask Poppy—Dancing Is Healing And You Are Never Too Old To Enjoy It!

August 27, 2009 – 12:15 am

Ms. Poppy Chiffon — the doyenne of dance, the baroness of ballroom etiquette, the sultana of Southern hospitality — is pleased to answer your dance-related questions. Here are a few queries that Poppy deigned to extract from her mailbag this week. If you have a question that you would like Poppy Chiffon to address, please [...]

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Gotta Dance? Here’s Where to Go Thursday — Sunday

August 27, 2009 – 12:10 am

If you just “Gotta Dance” in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico, here’s where you can go this weekend. This list is courtesy of Randy Forrester and Michelle Moore, co-hosts of Gotta Dance Radio, which airs 7 – 8 p.m. Sundays on KSFR, 101.1 FM. You can also catch live streaming broadcasts of the program [...]

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Ballroom Dancer’s Horoscope For August 26 — September 1

August 26, 2009 – 12:15 am

Venus enters Leo Thursday, August 27, offering a sexy Bolero Workshop starting at 6:45 p.m. learning the fundamentals with Mary. Venus will also be arousing your creative energy so sign up for September and October Formation Classes beginning next week September 2 and 3. The classes will perform their routines at the Halloween Party on October 29. With Mars in [...]

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Karen’s Dance Tip – Musical Chairs

August 25, 2009 – 9:10 am

Musicality is of course one of the most important skills to develop in our dancing. A clear basic understanding of timing in music, as it applies to our dancing is of tremendous importance. To understand the music for dancing we do not have to be a studied musician. We do however, have to train ourselves [...]

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Gotta Dance? Here’s Where to Go Tuesday — Wednesday

August 25, 2009 – 12:15 am

If you just “Gotta Dance” in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico, here’s where you can go Tuesday through Wednesday. This list is courtesy of Randy Forrester and Michelle Moore, co-hosts of Gotta Dance Radio, which airs 7 – 8 p.m. Sundays on KSFR, 101.1 FM. You can also catch live streaming broadcasts of the [...]

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