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July 02, 2010
Lucy ate a lot this morning and is not sitting in her happy hut (a little tent thingy she sleeps in) 24/7. Her head is still tilted a little abnormally so called the vet again today to see if she can see her today. At least she's eating and you will love the recipe I made for her. AND since I wrote this note earlier this morning she is eating her regular food out of her regular bowl!!! I have been feeding her -- I know it sounds yuk but it's the only thing she would eat -- grits (she's always loved grits), baby bird formula, a little sugar, water, pineapple juice all mixed together and I feed her from my finger (while Lola barks because she can't stand that I'm not paying attention to her for two seconds). See? I know she's a Southern bird through and through!! She did fall out of a tree when she was a baby and was rescued and that's how I got her from a vet. I'm keeping my fingers crossed but I think between yesterday and today and feedings every two hours, that she just might be okay. The vet will be in around 11:30 and is calling me about her head. Thanks for all your notes and well wishes. She's not 100 percent but she's a lot better yesterday and today than she has been since Friday.
SUBJECT: FUN IN THE SUN - ORLANDO, FL - JULY 9 - 12, 2009.
FROM: ARLINE WINERMAN, LuvToDancArline@webtv.net
We are getting excited about being together for a great weekend of dancing in Orlando, FL --- July 9 - 12 for the fabulous FUN IN THE SUN event hosted by Jennifer and Jason Cameron. You still have time to register and book your hotel room. Contact Jennifer at: Linedanceshowdwn@aol.com for the details.
I will be teaching:
HUMAN - DANCER BY ALAN BIRCHALL
LIFE WITHOUT U BY MAGGIE GALLAGHER
(BOTH INT.)
U TURN BY ROBBIE MCGOWN HICKIE
T"MORRROW NEVER KNOWS BY MAGGIE GALLAGHER
(BOTH BEG.)
Look forward to seeing you there!
Luv - Arline
www.TampaLineDanceClassic.com
SUBJECT: MIDNIGHT RODEO, OCALA, FLORIDA
FROM: Marilyn McNeal, BoarsNestFarm@aol.com
Haven't posted for a while due to partying with our 4 grandkids around Orlando, at Sea World, Toby Keith concert and the backyard! Amazing how 4 kids can take up every moment, especially 2 & 4 year olds, and we REALLy appreciate our 13 year old twins this trip!
It's a blessing to have them all and our vacation time together is not over yet!
This Thursday I will be at the club! Last weeks reviewes were Coochie Bang Bang, Jesse James (which I'll teach at Fun in the Sun on Friday) and brought back TEXAS by Max Perry for a classic teach. We'll review Roomba again and a few more as we prepare for next weekend.
I hope you will join us for Jen and Jason's event in Orlando nexxt weekend. We're looking forward to another great time in their company and yours!
THE HILTON OF OCALA has offered us a really great rate of $99 per night, 2 queens or 1 king. This rate is good but what makes it even better is that they serve a FULL breakfast for $12.99 on the weekends, and have included this FREE with this room reservation! You can make your reservations online with the Hilton. Just go to my website and click on the URL for the Midnight Rodeo Dance Events. The Hilton is right off the Interstate and in a perfect location for all other good Ocala restuarants. Do consider it in your reservation plans for our events.
UPCOMING EVENTS ARE POSTED ON OUR SITE at www.Rhythm-in-my-soles,com. Please call me at (352) 804-1546 for any questions.
FLORIDA FUN IN THE SUN JULY 9-12 IN ORLANDO!
STEPPIN' OUT Improver/Easy Intermediate Workshop with ROSIE MULTARI, DARLENE MILLER & ME on September 26 at Midnight Rodeo.
WINTER WORKSHOP with JO THOMPSON SZYMANSKI on January 23, 2010 at Midnight Rodeo.
Day classes are on Summer Break, but dance with us every Thursday night at the club from 7-10PM. See you there!
Subject: Scott Blevins’ Step Sheet
From: Eugenia
It is uncomfortable to read discussions about step sheets reading when Scott’s gets picked on because I personally do not feel that way about his step sheets at all.
I think his step sheet is very well written. I even told him so at least once. I learned all his dances from his step sheets and have yet to have any problems or difficulties with them. I knew I am in the minority because I found out when I told my dancing friends or acquaintances about how I like Scott’s step sheets, they all think I am nuts.
Nuts as I am, I like the way he wrote his step sheets. J!
SUBJECT: STEPSHEETS
I rely on step sheets to learn dances on almost a daily basis.
Find it easiest for me to go to the Choreographers personal website if available to locate the step sheet that way no editing has been done. I prefer to learn the dance without the tweaks. Some find it difficult to learn from the step sheets luckily I’m not one of them. I rarely have issues when I learn the step sheet and then compare it with a video preferred of the choreographer dancing it. When I can go to an event and learn from the choreographer.
As far as Scott's dances, I have yet to find a step sheet I wasn't able to figure out. Just got done learning Coochie.... and b4 that Broken glass (though I did take the class in Ft Wayne), and Have fun go mad, etc.... No problems here.
A while back it was mentioned about taking each section of a dance and dividing it up among your students and let them learn that section and teaches the dance with different students teaching different sections of the dance in a lesson on how to read step sheets. I thought this was a great idea!
dncrohio@yahoo.com
SUBJECT: DANCIN' IN THE TOON
FROM: BIG DAVE
Great weekend - Thanks to everyone for coming to our annual Just Dance weekend in Newcastle with Paul, Dee & Rep - Craig & Dan were partying with us too - And with the help of two late nights we beat our target of 300 dances - Including more cool new dances .......................................
Dee taught her funky one Take Me Back co-written with Debbie Ellis - A hit teach over in Tucson & well received in the Toon too (Dee will be recapping this for us Saturday night if you are coming too our 4th July Social at South Gosforth) - Around 50% of the room maybe already knew Release Me, but we decided to do that one as a bonus teach - Going especially well for Dee this one & filled the floor over the weekend a couple of times - As well as these Dee also did Robbie's Scooby Doo (A 'Moonligh Kiss' sort of track/dance) & Ria's Ay Amor, lovely smooth cha cha - Both big hits in Holland the week before & well enjoyed this weekend too.
A big thanks to Rep, a regular at our Newcastle Just Dance weekend & great fun - Hats off for two great new dances from Rep this year - If you liked Rep's My Mamacita, check out his new one Dance In Armani - It's a great dance track/beat & a really cool dance that everyone enjoyed for sure - His 2nd was Single Girl Swag to Kristina Debarge's Goodbye - This one had a buzz about it too - A neat mainstream pop dance - My class dancers at the event have since mentioned wanting to carry on with both of these.
Craig & Paul took time out from partying to write a dance together which Craig taught Sunday morning for us - Treacle Not Pudding - A cool 32/4 one to Work by The Saturdays - Another cool pop one that was well received - I expect Craig will teach this one at our Sunday-Out in Burton in a few weeks time as well a brand new funky one he is working on.
It was great to do an event with Paul - We were co-hosting this one together - And as ever we had a blast - And more to the point Paul did us proud with 3 great new dances - I guess you might think I would say so - But the truth is all 3 were really well received, adding to the never ending headache of what to teach next !!!! :-) ......... On Friday night we had a quick teach of a cool West Coast mainstream one called On The Move, to the classic track 'Ain't No Stopping Us Now' - Then on Saturday Inclination For Syncopation (MJ - Remember The Time), coincidently written before the tragic news, but an awesome tribute non-the-less (Looking forward to checking out MaggieG's 2 of Us too) ..... And last but not least perhaps his hit teach of the weekend Green Light - A classic fast & funky dance from Paul to an awesome dance beat.
The Top 10 of the weekend - Holding On To Yesterday & Whiter Than White struck me as two hugely popular dances over the weekend but this is how the official Top 10 came out based on the dancers Top 10 submission :
-Poker Face
-J Ho
-MOJO Rhythm
Whiter Than White
-La Secret
-Jesse James
-Holding On To Yesterday
-Hush Hush
-Amame
-Life Without U
...........Other recent hits all still popular too like Tango Cha, Guantanamera, Moonlight Kiss, Feel, Human Dancer, Spotlight, Insomnia, In Control, Go With The Flow, We Believe, Headphones, It Hurts, Time To Swing etc. etc.
Of the latest dances out the buzz was for Coochie Bang Bang & Senseless Cha/Halo ............. On the mainstream side Azer-Bai-Jan, Go Mama Go & Under A Spell - For Beginner it was Toes & Cabo San Lucas - And on the Newline side Shaz's Beautiful & Magic - The Climb was very popular too ............ We did lots of Paul's dances over the weekend too of course - Most popular probably Everything About U I'd say.
A few asked for the rockin' country dance Shaz & I wrote recently Hit The Ground which was cool to do for the first time since releasing it back in Tucson - And a few of us also learned ourselves & danced Sister Kate on Sunday moring which is great fun - Love it !! :-)
Next year it's Niels, Francien & Rep - Last weekend in June
Looking forward to Torquay next in a few weeks time with Teresa & Vera & Dee - Got a few places left for any late-birds ........... And before that this weekend hope to see some of you at our South Gosforth social this Saturday & our Sunday Afternoon With Shaz at Choppington near Morpeth - Contact me for details if you are tempted !! :-)
Cheers.
Dave
www.bigdavegastap.com
www.awesome-linedancing.com
www.newliners.org
07869-213549 (Dave)
07868-424587 (Pauline/Booking Line)
Dave Baycroft
48 Chatsworth Drive, Bedlington Station, Northumberland, NE22 5YS
SUBJECT: WHAT GRAHAM AND KATHY ARE TEACHING IN THE UK
After teaching two last week, we decided to go with an easier one this week CRANKY by Robbie McGowan Hickie 32 count 4 wall one restart. Music CRANK IT UP by Ashley Tisdale (CD Guilty Pleasure)
Unsure if it was the heat, but this was not as easy as we first thought it would be, and took a while to get. Although we got there in the end, a great upbeat to the music too, it's of the same level as IN CONTROL A & S and if this is one you like you will love this one too. Hopefully it will do well.
Oldie recap STOP IT five minute teach that they all soon pick up again, still a great dance, that's worth bringing back.
Recapped ROOMBA Guyton Mundy's fun funky dance that even with the arm movements is doing well. Love the music.
Recapped BEAUTIFUL Shaz Walton's from last week, this music really grows on you, I was not to sure about the music at first, but really love it now.
All the above mentioned are videoed on our site below.
Graham & Kathy Skinner
www.indout96.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
SUBJECT: Help!
FROM: ruthijay@cox.net
is anyone out there dancing Keywest by Kate Sala and Robbie McG Hickie to any country music OTHER THAN "Key's In The Conch Shell" by Kenny Chesney?? i would be interested in hearing about some alternate music choices. thanks for any help anyone can give me.
Subject: OHIO'S LARGEST LINE DANCE PARTY
From: Frank Trace www.traceofcountry.com
Join us SATURDAY, JULY 11th for Ohio's largest Line Dance Party at the "Canton Italian Festival" in Canton, Ohio. Your host and DJ is line dance instructor / choreographer Frank Trace. Dancing begins at 7:00 PM till 11:00 PM. Location is the Stark County Fairgrounds in Canton, Ohio. The dance party is held indoors. All levels of dancers are welcome. We dance the current line dance hits as well as the classic country line dances.
Be read to dance some of Frank's hit dances: DUCK SOUP, BRAZIL, MAMMA MARIA, SAG, DRAG & FALL, MAKIN' IT, HAPPY RADIO, ADAPTABLE and more.
Come early and enjoy this wonderful festival. Great Italian Food, Huge Craft Show, Casino, Amusement Rides and three stages of nightly entertainment. Something for everyone. FESTIVAL DATES JULY, 10, 11 and 12, 2009. Check the festival web site for more information. www.CantonItalianFesta.org If you have any questions, you can contact Frank Trace at franktrace@sssnet.com
Subject: The Grand Majestic Theater's New Shows in Pigeon Forge, TN
Ken and I had the opportunity of visiting Doug and Jackie in Pigeon Forge,Tennessee this week where we saw the first showing of their new interactive family show called "Scream N' Shout" performed by Michael Smith and Jackie Miranda. This show is very upbeat and lively with lots of songs and activities for the kids (and their parents!) to participate in. To our surprise there were lots of bubbles, soap suds, smoke rings, lights and action songs that kept the kids on their feet! It's a great show!
Then there's the new magic show called the Masters of Magic starring Michael Keating who has performed magic shows with other great magicians, most notably David Copperfield for 6 years. Jackie is his main assistant and does things beyond belief! Truly a show worth seeing. He makes her appear and disappear; squeezes her till she's 2 foot tall and then makes her tall (well, to her normal height :-) again; then he even made her levitate in the air and then vanish! Wooh...
The grand finale of course is the evening show - the new production of Swing Time with some great 50's songs and dances tacked onto the end. WOW! The new choreography, colorful new costumes, new sets, and new cast with their beautiful voices and acting abilities is tremendous!! Ken and I were so impressed with all the effort that Doug and Jackie are putting into making their theater a success. How Jackie does all three shows in a row, we'll never know... We wish them all the best and want to encourage any of you dancers to come and visit them in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You'll have a great time!
Regards,
Ken and Dorothy Lubin
Acton, Calif
SUBJECT: JJ JAM CLASSIC and JJ JAM 2009
FROM: Chris John and John Robinson, Event Directors
After hosting JJ JAM CLASSIC two weekends ago, we were both WORN OUT, and we're still recovering! We'd like to extend a huge, heartfelt THANK YOU to our instructors (everyone raved about how fun and friendly and helpful they are!), DJs (who played music all day during lessons and then keep the energy pumping til the wee hours of the morning), our volunteers (all the men and women who helped run event registration, put up decorations, prepared the auction items, assisted with Super J-Mart and so much more), and all the wonderful dancers (you know who you are and we love you all!) who attended and made the event such a resounding success. Due to the extremely positive response, we are planning another classic event for 2010. Details will be released on our website as soon as we confirm the date with the Adam's Mark Hotel.
It's now time for you to register for JJ JAM 2009, coming up in just four months: November 12-15 at the Marriott East in Indianapolis (same hotel as last November). In addition to our core instructors (Jamie Marshall, Joanne Brady, John Robinson, Junior Willis, Karen Hedges, and Cato Larsen from Norway), you'll have the opportunity to take lessons from and interact with Michael Barr and Michele Burton from California (two of the sweetest and friendliest instructors we know and choreographers of several worldwide hits!) - and Craig Bennett, a remarkably talented young man from the United Kingdom (choreographer of such hits as Poker Face, I'm Movin On, Unfaithful; and co-choreographer of Keep It Burnin' and Faith In Love).
Check out our newly updated website - www.jjjam.com - where you'll find all the details about the event, as well as a registration form you can print. We encourage you to take advantage of our early bird special. Those of you who register by September 12 will get the BEST rate: only $80 for the weekend package. From then until October 12, registration goes up to $90. Everyone who registers AFTER October 12 will pay the full rate of $105. By registering early, you help us prepare all the special goodies, activities, and information you'll need to have a super-enjoyable weekend!
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Sincerely, Chris John & John Robinson | Event Directors
JJ JAM 2009 Nov 12-15 & JJ JAM CLASSIC Jun 2010
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SUBJECT: NOTE ABOUT DANCES BEING POSTED ON THE NEW DANCES/VIDEO PAGE.
A few people have resubmitted dances for the New Dances/New Video page from year 2008. We are not going to add those dances because they are not NEW dances as of the date of the update. The sites (below) archive dances (and I'm sure there's other sites that also archive dances) and you can submit your older dances and new dances to them, also. If your site as listed below is not correct, please let me know. This is just a list that I have kept for awhile. Remember, our site is only to INTRODUCE brand new dances and they remain there for a short period of time and are either deleted or graduated to the next category as they continue to do well or not. Thanks for your cooperation.
www.kickit.to
http://www.copperknob.co.uk/
www.bigdavegastap.com
http://www.a-s-portal.com
www.linedancermagazine.com
http://www.geocities.com,
dancediary/newdances/LocalDances.htm
www.jg2country.com
http://members.aol.com/pbrown4715/dance01.htm
http://www.countrydancer.com/linedancesteps.htm
www.redhotcountry.com
www.country-time.com
www.stepsheetsinmotion.com
www.bannersandboots.co.uk
www.rompinrodeo.co.uk
http://www.yipee.per.sg/SearchStep.asp
www.linedancefun.com
www.countryedge.com
http://members.aol.com/cactusstar/home.htm
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