Doing Better, Turn Back the Clock, Beginner Classes, Ballroom Dance, West Coast Swing

Published: Fri, 08/22/14

Gainesville Ocala Swing and Social Dance Newsletter 2014-08-22

Doing Better, Turn Back the Clock, Beginner Classes, Ballroom Dance, West Coast Swing

Hello and Gainesville Ocala Social Dancers,

The other day, my Tango teacher said I was doing better. What do you know. After seven years some progress.

Sign Up Now for Beginning Tango and Swing

Register now for these five beginner classes starting in September via Santa Fe College Community Education under Dance .

  1. Beginning and Intermediate 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 and Intermediate 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

Join us on Mondays for Israeli Dancing at B'nai Israel at 7 pm and on Thursdays for Line Dancing at the Senior Center at noon.

This Week

Saturday Ray and Eileen have their regular Ballroom Dance at By Ear Musician. Wednesday Josh has his monthly West Coast Swing social at the Movement.

Next weekend is River City Swing in Ponte Vedra. www.RiverCitySwing.com

Maintaining Your Own Balance

Here is a quick thought about balance. Do you need to have a partner to practice your movements? In other words, do you move the same without your partner as you do with your partner? Or, do you need the physical support of your partner 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

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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

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  1. Saturday 08/23 - Ballroom Dance with Ray and Eileen
  2. Sunday 08/24 - Bachata and Specialty Latin
  3. Monday 08/25 - Israeli Dancing with Andy
  4. Tuesday 08/26 - Ballroom with Ray and Eileen
  5. Tuesday 08/26 - Salsa LA Style
  6. Wednesday 08/27 - West Coast Swing Dance Social with Josh
  7. Wednesday 08/27 - UF Argentine Tango Class and Dancing
  8. Thursday 08/28 - Senior Line Dancing with Andy via SFC Community Education
  9. Thursday 08/28 - Ballroom with Ray and Eileen
  10. Thursday 08/28 - Salsa LA Style
  11. Thu-Mon 08/28-09/01 - River City Swing in Jacksonville, www.RiverCitySwing.com
  12. Wednesday 09/03 - West Coast Swing Dance with Judi
  13. Thursday 09/04 - Beginning Argentine Tango with Andy 1 of 6
  14. Thursday 09/04 - Beginning West Coast Swing with Andy 1 of 6
  15. Saturday 09/06 - West Coast Swing Dance Party with Josh
  16. Sunday 09/07 - Argentine Tango Milonga Papirusa
  17. Sunday 09/07 - Contra Dance
  18. Friday 09/12 - Friday Night Social in Ocala
  19. Saturday 09/13 - Argentine Tango Milonga El Abrazo
  20. Sunday 09/14 - Swing Dance with Nick and the Swingtastics
  21. Friday 09/19 - West Coast Swing Dance Social with Josh
  22. Saturday 09/20 - Contra Dance
  23. Saturday 09/20 - Tango Y Te with David and Thuy
  24. 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. Private Lessons, classes for Novice Dancers, Wedding Dances, also for Argentine Tango, Contra, Hustle, Lindy, Line, West Coast Swing, Vintage Waltz contact Andy
  4. Beginning Argentine Tango starting September 4 from 6 to 7 pm for 6 weeks, sign up via SFC
  5. Beginning Israeli Dancing starting September 8 from 7 to 8 pm for 4 weeks, sign up via SFC
  6. Beginning West Coast Swing starting September 4 for from 7:10 to 8:10 pm for 6 weeks, sign up via SFC
  7. Line Dancing in Hawthorne starting September 9 from 6 to 7 pm for 4 weeks, sign up via SFC

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