World Line Dance Newsletter Thursday 8/24 PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE
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Thursday 8/24
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SUBJECT: MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR SOCIAL IN PINELLAS PARK
NOTE FROM ME: Mark your calendars. The tentative date for our next social in Pinellas Park will be October 1st. It's always difficult to schedule things in Florida so please mark your calendars and I will confirm the date very soon. Hope you can join us. We have fun socials!!
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SUBJECT: Vegas Dance Explosion (Early Bird Registration cutoff is SEPTEMBER 1ST
FROM: Doug and Jackie Miranda, Event Directors
The countdown continues... 2 months and 2 weeks before we gather once again in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada!! The special early bird registration cutoff is September 1st (all passes will be $20 more after September 1st) ... so register now and come join us for the "LARGEST" Line Dance Event in North America: The Vegas Dance Explosion, November 7-12, 2017 at The Westgate Resort and Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton). That's 6 days of workshops and 6 nights of evening dances!
If you haven't already booked your room at the Westgate, please make sure to do so soon! We have reserved a room block to accommodate our dancers at special room rates we have negotiated just for you for this event. All Premium Rooms are $65 (plus tax, Sunday-Thursday) and $89 (plus tax Friday and Saturday). There is NO RESORT FEE! Make sure to mention the Vegas Dance Explosion or Group Code SVDE7R. Upgrades to Signature and Signature Concierge Rooms are also available.
Call 1-800-732-7117 or 1-702-732-5111.
Our current list of Instructors and Choreographers include:
INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTORS:
Jonas Dahlgren – Sweden
Rob Fowler – England
Maddison Glover – Australia
Jo & John Kinser – England
Rebecca Lee – Malaysia
Shane McKeever – Ireland
Peter Metelnick – England
Guillaume Richard – France
Raymond Sarlemijn – Netherlands
Philip Sobrielo – Singapore
Daniel Trepat – Netherlands
Roy Verdonk – Netherlands
Ivonne Verhagen – Netherlands
AMERICAN INSTRUCTORS:
Michael Barr – California
Joanne Brady – Delaware
Michele Burton – California
Will Craig – North Carolina
Amy Glass – Oregon
Doug & Jackie Miranda – Tennessee
Kat Painter – California
Brenda Shatto – California
Jo Thompson-Syzmanski – Colorado
Trevor Andrew Thornton – Florida
Ira Weisburd – Florida
NEW THIS YEAR:
West Coast Swing Award Winning Dancer/Instructor John Lindo - New Jersey
2016 CHOREOGRAPHY WINNERS:
Susan Dodge
Sue Demitropoulos
Wendy Johansson
YOUR DJs:
Michael Diven
Louie St. George
John Growler
Mary Kaye Johnson
JP Potter
At the Vegas Dance Explosion, you will enjoy:
*Repeat Workshops
*Large Ballrooms with Wooden Dance Floors
*Dedicated Ballroom for Beginner Dancers
*Workshops for all Levels
*Special Couples Workshops
*West Coast Swing Workshops (Private lessons available)
*NTA (National Teacher's Association) Certification Classes with Kelly Gellette
*Line Dance Lobby with open dancing all day
*6 Days and Nights of Line Dance FUN
*Evening Dance Parties
*Daily Special Technique Workshops
*New Line Dance Choreography Competition (Thu-Sat)
*Sunday Morning Line Dance Praise and Worship
*Discount Tickets to Shows
*Slot Tournament
Also NEW this year : NTA (National Teacher's Association) Dance Fundamental Classes:
- Level I class taught by Kelly Gellette. This class introduces proper foot positions, how to use the feet correctly and safe body mechanics for simple dance moves. The NTA is an International organization that offers personal training and coaching for dancers, incorporating many dance styles. The NTA makes learning to dance easier by knowing the basic dance fundamentals every dancer needs. It is a great starting point for new dancers as well as for those who may have been dancing longer and want to improve their knowledge of dance.
The event officially starts Tuesday, November 7th. We will also be providing Technique Workshops from many of our All Star line up of Instructors and Choreographers. In addition, one of our ball rooms will be dedicated to teaches of Classic Dances. Registration will begin at noon November 7th; Beginner, Intermediate, Specialty Technique Workshops and Classic Dance workshops will begin at 1 pm. Workshops will begin at 10 am everyday after that. We will also have a "Welcome to Vegas" evening dance beginning at 8:00 pm.
Register for a "Fast Pass" - limited to the first 200 people who purchase this pass in addition to their regular Gold or Platinum Pass! Fast Pass will allow those dancers early entry to our designated "Evening Show" ball room before other dancers. Our "Evening Show" ball room will have stadium seating to accommodate all 1500 dancers.
Please Note: Fast Pass holders WILL NOT be permitted to save seats for anyone! We will have 2 doors to our ball room which will open simultaneously allowing Fast Pass Dancers first entry. All evening shows and performances will begin at 8:30 pm.
There will be a total of 5 different ballrooms running simultaneously during the day, with open dancing being offered throughout the day in our Line Dance Lobby! Workshops will be repeated during the course of the event in order to allow you to catch a workshop you might have missed or to reinforce the lesson you may have already taken. One of our ballrooms will be solely dedicated to Beginner thru High Beginner Dances. That same ballroom will be designated each evening as our Beginner Dance Ballroom.
For added fun and excitement we will have "theme nights" for our evening dances! It is not mandatory for you to dress in costume but it sure is alot of fun!! Be as creative as you want!! Keep in mind that there will be loads of sales of Halloween costumes after October 31st!
THURSDAY Night - Back by popular demand: INTERNATIONAL NIGHT: Show your pride for your heritage by dressing in a style typical to the country of your origin! Be part of the International Parade and see how many countries and States are represented!
SATURDAY Night - It's a " Halloween Bash" - one big costume party... let your imagination run wild and be who or whatever you want to be...
SUNDAY Night - "Dress White at Night Gala" - An all white attire evening!
FLASH MOB - We have FILLED the Riviera Hotel lobby and the Westgate lobbies with our flash mobs! We aim to fill the Westgate lobby again! We are currently taking your suggestions for dances - please email them to us at Bona...@aol.com. We will have workshops scheduled for this dances so that everyone can participate!
SUNDAY MORNING - LINE DANCE PRAISE AND WORSHIP - A wonderful way to start your morning on the last day of the event, giving thanks and praising Him through scripture and DANCE!
ADDITIONAL INFO ABOUT OUR HOST HOTEL, THE WESTGATE RESORT AND CASINO:
There will be NO Resort Fee added to all rooms booked through our Vegas Dance Explosion (VDE) Room Block. FREE PARKING!
There will be NO additional charge for Wi-fi for registered VDE dancers.We have secured immense ballroom space for all workshops which will allow us to install larger dance floors. The amount of ballroom space allocated to VDE is more then double what we had at The Riviera.
Because we have larger ballrooms and huge dance floors we are increasing our attendance capacity to 1500 dancers. All our floors will be sprung wooden floors designed for dancers!
We will have our own designated personal Line Dance Lobby right outside our ballrooms in the Convention Area of the Hotel. The line dance lobby, in itself, will be larger then our Main Ballroom (which is really big)! We will have a huge dance floor in our lobby for open dancing during the day, with music being played at a comfortable level. There will be plenty of tables and chairs for everyone. Our Vendors will be located in our lobby as well! Eat, Socialize, Shop, AND DANCE all in one open room all day long!
Vegas Dance Explosion FREE SLOT TOURNAMENT!
The Vegas Dance Explosion will have it's own slot tournament called The Harvest Festival Slot Tournament with $3,000.00 in FREE SLOT PLAY! This is exclusively for VDE attendees (you must have an event badge to participate )
FOOD and BEVERAGE
Fast and Convenient : The Westgate will set up and operate our own VDE Cafe in our Line Dance Lobby.
The VDE Cafe will be open from 8am to 7pm Thursday thru Sunday.
Breakfast served 8am-11am
Lunch/Dinner 11am-7pm
Menu examples:
Breakfast Burritos, Breakfast Sandwiches, Turkey, Ham Roast Beef sandwiches, Veggies, Salads, Freshly Grilled Hamburgers, All Beef Hot Dogs, plus a large variety of other selections at a reasonable cost such as Fresh Fruit, Muffins, Nachos, Chili, Chips, Cookies and much, much more!
So there you have it! We're looking forward to our Biggest and BEST event yet!
For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us by
email: bona...@aol.com or call (951)756-4451.
Happy dancing!!
Doug and jackie Miranda
DDM Productions
Doug and Jackie Miranda
Event Directors
The Vegas Dance Explosion
at The Westgate Resort and Casino
Email: bona...@aol.com
Website: www.djdancing.com
Phone: 951-756-4451
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SUBJECT: THE BARN-ANZA 8
FROM: JANIS GRAVES danc...@hotmail.com
What a wonderful day we had at The Barn-Anza 8 with JOHN ROBINSON and TREVOR THORNTON. It was a fun filled time with many new dances taught. John taught "Drinking Problem" (Darren Bailey) and "10 Minute Walk" (Simon Ward and Bracken Ellis) and Trevor taught "The Pretty Girls Said" (Trevor Thornton & Megan Wheeler) before we took our lunch break. The afternoon teach by John was "Flatt Out Dance" (Bracken Ellis, Junior Willis & John Robinson) and Trevor taught "Honky Tonk Highway" (Kelly Cavallaro). They both wanted to teach "Lonely Drum" (Darren Mitchell) -- John won that teach. The Barn-Anza 8 included open dance, photos and door prizes for dinner and event passes. I love that it is sold out as I have limited floor space, but a few dancers that had won passes to it show up at the door. I am happy to accommodate them, but this diminishes the room on the dance floor and I may not have what they would have chosen for lunch. If you win a pass to any event, please let the host/hostess know that you plan to attend.
I'm looking toward The Barn-Anza 9 -- stay tuned.
NOTE FROM ME: I'm reposting this because the dances taught weren't included in the last one (my bad).
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Subject: The Line Dance Marathon, May 31-June 3, 2018. Raleigh/Durham NC
From: Scott Blevins
Proud to announce the 2018 Line Dance Marathon All Star team of instructors and Djs. Come join us in Raleigh-Durham NC May 31 - June 3, 2018 for four days of workshops and four nights of dancing. There will be 5 workshop rooms per hour to choose from during the day and your choice of three different huge ballrooms for evening dancing Thurs, Fri and Sat nights with an intimate farewell dance and pizza party on Sunday night. This is a must attend event so be sure to go to www.thelinedancemarathon.com to book your hotel room.
See you at the Marathon,
Scott Blevins and Jean Garr
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Today at The Round Up 1. Strip That Down by Maggie & Tim 2. Hide Away Cha (classic bring back) 3. Boom Pow by Scott & Jo ******************************
SUBJECT: Dancing' with Marilyn, Ocala, FL FROM: Marilyn McNeal, BoarsN...@aol.com
Have to comment on the exceptional group of Intermediate/Advanced dancers at my Wednesday night class tonight! You were AWESOME!
I was excited to teach Niels Poulsen's brand new dance No Sun on Sundays. Another excellent dance by Niels - one of those that touches you with beautiful movements to beautiful music. We LOVED it! Thanks Niels!
Second dance tonight was Times Up by Karl-Harry Wilson and Tina Argyle. Really fun dance to Travis Tritt music. Classic dance was Backstreet Attitude by Jamie Marshall, written in 90's! I remember teaching it at Stillwater's Saloon and Midnight Rodeo too. You may have been there! Was labeled Intermediate in those days.
Also walked through Wakey Wakey by request, and danced several others that we've learned lately.
It was a fun night and I appreciate your support and happy faces. Next week will be reviews of many of these currently popular dances that were taught in July and August. Snacks provided but bring your own drink please. See you then and have a wonderful week. P.S. Ray is steadily recovering from the strokes. It's going to be a while getting back to 100% but he well on his way. Our continued thanks for your prayers. ***************************** SUBJECT: VIDEO OF THE WEEK (COUPLES)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlj9bkzXK2c -- Vivian
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." - Mikhail Baryshnikov **********************************
Hope you had a good weekend! I'd like to announce a new single and line dance we will be promoting: Jake McVey - "Never Give Up"
Jake McVey grew up working on his family's farm in Iowa, but always wanted to pursue a career in music. After graduating high school, he moved to Phoenix, AZ to learn about guitar building at the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, and most of the guitars he performs with on stage today he built himself. He has a relentless touring schedule performing over 250 dates in the past year, and has shared the stage with some of country’s most acclaimed acts, including Dierks Bentley, Jason Aldean and Little Big Town. His new single, "Never Give Up" can be described as a "working man's anthem," and Jake has dedicated the song to our nation's first responders. It's positive message is something we could all use in this current day and age, and I hope you'll choose to play it! If you are interested in additional info about Jake, be sure to check out the Hightail link below which contains lyrics, bio, press shots, and more! An mp3 for the single is also attached to this email, and if you prefer a WAV file you can find it in the Hightail link as well.
Hightail Link with Additional Info: https://spaces.hightail.com/space/SeEKlkPYu3/files
We also have a new line dance for the song! "Never Never Give Up" that was choreographed by Karen Hedges! I've attached a step sheet if you're interested. Please let us know if you plan on using the dance!
Hope you enjoy the new music and if you get a chance to fill out our latest survey we'd love to know your thoughts about the new song as well as our other current titles.
Link to Survey: https://goo.gl/forms/mVhMrAkkD6nDwXBv2
Have a great day, and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!
James Freeman The AristoMedia Group 615-269-7071 ex. 141 1620 16th Ave S., Nashville, TN www.aristovideo.com | @AristoVideo
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