Register Now for Beginning Dance Classes, Turn Back the Clock

Published: Mon, 08/25/14

Gainesville Ocala Israeli and Folk Dance Newsletter 2014-08-17

Register Now for Beginning Dance Classes, Turn Back the Clock

Hello and Gainesville Ocala Israeli and Folk Dancers,

All the usual dancing this week. See the schedule below.

Israeli Dancing Monday at B'nai Israel at 7 pm, $5. Line Dancing at the Senior Center on Thursday at noon.

New dance classes start in September. Register now via Santa Fe College Community Education. Find the line dancing at the senior center under Seniors. All other programs you can find under Dance.

  1. Beginning Israeli on Mondays at 7 pm, 4 weeks
  2. Beginning and Intermediate Line Dancing in Hawthorne on Tuesdays at 6 pm, 4 weeks
  3. Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Line Dancing at the Senior Center on Thursdays at noon, 4 weeks
  4. Beginning Argentine Tango on Thursdays at 6 pm, 6 weeks
  5. Beginning West Coast Swing on Thursdays at 7:10 pm, 6 weeks

Maintaining Your Own Balance

Here is a quick thought about balance. Whether dancing in a circle holding hands or with a partner, do you need to have others dance with you to practice your movements? In other words, do you move the same without others as you do with them? Or, do you need the physical support of your partner, or those next to you in a circle, to move?

Turn Back the Clock

My mom and I saw a great movie tonight "Turn Back the Clock", a movie from 1933, great for its historicity. The Three Stooges with Curly make their first, an uncredited straight role, apppearance in film. Joe Gimlet, played by the star Lee Tracy, is happily married, but not financially well-off. He runs into an old friend from high school, who is now wealthy. Joe complains to his wife that he could have married the woman his friend married and been wealthy himself. He gets drunk. They have a fight. He walks out, gets hit by a car, goes to the hospital for an operation and dreams he has another shot at life from 20 years before.

There are the themes of if you made different choices would your life be better, appreciating what you have, and a depression era, money does not make you happy. The movie is a predecessor of "It's a Wonderful Life, Back to the Future, Family Man and many others." Wonder if this was the first talking movie of this genre and if the genre appeared in silent films.

Since he goes back in time, watching this film, there is a double-time warp for us as viewers. You have to imagine yourself living in 1933 to get the jokes. He goes back to before World War I. When Joe asks his mother which Roosevelt she is referring to, she is referring to Teddy, of course. The movie was made right after after Franklin got elected. The movie is filled with these contemporary-for-the-time gags, which movie goers then would have gotten, but to us, both seem archaic.

Which brings us lastly to why such a story would be in a dance newsletter. For me, watching this film of the past, which was so happy with itself for its clever references to its past, I think of what we do not know we owe to the people before us that we do not know.

Happy Dancing,
Andy

publish@gainesvilledance.com
352-327-3672

Dance Calendar for Gainesville and Ocala

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Dance Quotes

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas à Kempis

Dance Schedule

Confirm all programs before going

  1. Monday 08/25 - English Country Dancing
  2. Monday 08/25 - Israeli Dancing with Andy
  3. Monday 08/25 - Nia Holistic Movement
  4. Tuesday 08/26 - Square Dancing with Lon Ligon
  5. Wednesday 08/27 - Irish Set Dancing and Sean Nos at the Civic Media Center
  6. Thursday 08/28 - Senior Line Dancing 4 of 4 with Andy
  7. Thursday 08/28 - Israeli Dancing with Kol Simcha
  8. Friday 08/29 - Nia Holistic Movement Morning Session - confirm
  9. Friday 09/05 - International Folk Dancing
  10. Sunday 09/07 - Contra Dance
  11. Saturday 09/20 - Contra Dance
  12. Sunday 09/21 - Vintage Waltz Brunch

Ongoing Dancing

Classes with Andy

To sign up for classes offered via Santa Fe College Community Education (SFC) call Jennifer 352-395-5193 or visit www.sfcollege.edu/cied/communityed

  1. Israeli Dancing on Mondays at B'nai Israel, 3830 NW 16 Blvd, 7 pm, $5, no sign up required, ongoing.
  2. Line Dancing on Thursdays at noon at the Senior Center, sign up via SFC, ongoing.
  3. Beginning Argentine Tango starting September 4 from 6 to 7 pm for 6 weeks, sign up via SFC
  4. Beginning Israeli Dancing starting September 8 from 7 to 8 pm for 4 weeks, sign up via SFC
  5. Beginning West Coast Swing starting September 4 for from 7:10 to 8:10 pm for 6 weeks, sign up via SFC
  6. Line Dancing in Hawthorne starting September 9 from 6 to 7 pm for 4 weeks, sign up via SFC
  7. Private Lessons, classes for Novice Dancers, Wedding Dances, also for Argentine Tango, Contra, Hustle, Lindy, Line, West Coast Swing, Vintage Waltz contact Andy

Line Dances We Have Been Doing

See www.LineDancing.info for videos to the line dancing we have been doing.

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