Happy Fall, Y’all! October brings cooler nights, shorter days, and pumpkin spice everything. It’s also time to trade in shorts and swimsuits for long pants and cozy sweaters. Every year, when I switch out my closet for the new season, I stumble upon something from last year I forgot I had — always a nice […]
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Hope everyone is enjoying the dog days of summer. It is amazing how quickly the summer months pass. The clearance sales are in full swing, and believe it or not, I have already seen a back-to-school ad. An indication that summer is here is the Dance A Lot Annual Showcase — this year it had a fun
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by Mary Serico Happy New Year! I hope your holidays were filled with good times with family and friends. I am sure you probably had a few new year’s resolutions and may have broken one or two already. Well, Santa had a diet and exercise resolution. The only difference was that his resolution started in
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If it’s June, it must be time for Dance A Lot’s big annual showcase! We’ve done this 11 times, and I and my dance teacher Georgi always prepare a special dance for each year’s showcase. We have a professional choreographer come to the studio and design the dance at least ten months before June, so
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Dance lessons are an essential luxury for me, and for me to get the most out of my lessons, I need to practice every day, both scheduled and ad hoc. If I slack off between lessons, my dance teacher Georgi can tell within 5 minutes. For me, the perfect time to practice a Rumba Box
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Happy New Year! The turn of the calendar to a new year has me reflecting on how ballroom dancing has affected my life. There are so many interesting people from various countries and walks of life that I would have never met if not for ballroom dancing. My circle of friends has been very enriched by the people I have met as part of ballroom dancing.
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Well, now that I am back in person taking dance lessons for six months at Dance A Lot Ballroom Studio, I can say the first few weeks transitioning back were not as easy as I expected. It was quite an adjustment to dance with a partner after being a lone ranger for over a year.
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When we left Dance A lot after our lessons in March 2020, we knew things would be different, but little did we know how different and for how long.
