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Fun Dips Workshop This Week

February 15, 2010 – 3:38 am

Make plans to attend Jason’s Fun Dips Workshop this Thursday, February 18th at 6:00 pm. This is a great opportunity for you to bring fun and interest to both your social and performance dancing. Jason will cover fundamentals for both lead and follow, with helpful combinations to make using dips in your dancing easy. All [...]

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From Elegant Ballroom to Earthy Salsa, Workshop Week Returns!

June 15, 2009 – 12:30 am

It’s back! By popular demand, Dance Station is bringing back Workshop Week — five days of fun, one-time workshops. There’s a workshop for everyone, from beginning to advanced dancers, and in styles ranging from elegant ballroom to earthy salsa. This is a great opportunity to try something new, or push yourself to the next level [...]

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Jason’s Dance Tip – Joints, Joints, Joints

May 26, 2009 – 3:32 am

First of all, we are talking about all of your joints- legs, arms, hands. We must, to make our dancing more comfortable and efficient, release all the joints in the body and make them available to us. Why this can be challenging is because when we are dancing we are often trying really, really, [...]

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Workshop Week Offers Something for All Levels of Dancers

March 9, 2009 – 3:42 am

We are pleased to announce the schedule for Workshop Week at Dance Station. The studio is hosting a series of workshops for dancers of all levels from March 30 through April 2. Workshops are $15 per person. However, if you register for two workshops, all others will be half price. This is a great opportunity [...]

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Tips & Technique: The Physics of a Dance Connection

February 24, 2009 – 3:30 am

Last week we talked about the language of connection. This week we’ll delve into the physics of connection. (And you thought ballroom dance was simple!) As Einstein once said (or might have had he been a ballroom dancer): Connection is energy in opposition. What does this mean? If the leader “leans” forward with his body [...]

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Instructors

January 4, 2009 – 12:35 pm

Owner and manager of Dance Station, Lawrence Black is a native New Mexican who since 1994 has taught hundreds of Santa Feans to dance. He came to Santa Fe to attend St. John’s College, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts. It was at St. John’s that he discovered ballroom and other [...]