Corner Dance Hall

200 Franklin Street
Whittington, IL 62897

USA DANCE

 

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS CHAPTER # 2089

 

Next USA Dance Event

 

Who:  USA Dance

Where:  Corner Dance Hall, Whittington, IL

When:  Saturday March 27, 2010

Time: Lesson at 7:00pm - Dance at 8:00pm

Cost: $8.00 non-members; $5.00 members

Refreshments provided

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USA Dance

February Newsletter

 

Bring a snack for yourselves or to share with others.  Our snack table will be set up for you.  Coffee, tea and cold water plus mixed-snacks box available.

 

DANCING  WITH  THE  STARS  IS  BACK

The Dance Card is Full

The tenth season of Dancing with the Stars will premier March 22nd with the first week of two-hour shows.  The competitive Mondays will be cut back to 90 minutes.  Be sure to mark your calendars!

Here are this season's cast.

Kate Gosselin, 34, the scandal-plaqued, newly divorced reality-TV mom who just wrapped her series, Jon & Kate Plus 8.

Another contestant with too much on his plate will be Olympic figure skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek, (24).  Lysacek had already commited himself to the Smucker's Stars on Ice national tour before saying "yes" to Dancing.  Somehow, he'll do both.  "His real challenge will be his work-load.  If it was me, I'd be on my knees after two weeks.",  says Conrad Green, executive producer.  **

This season's Bachelor Jake Pavella, 32, will go directly from choosing his bride (if he proposes) to the rehearsal studios.

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, 80, is planning to give him a run for his money.  Aldrin, the oldest man ever to compete on the show, says he's ready to rumba.  "I'm  within 10 pounds of my plebe year at West Point," he says.

Two other new cast members are, Baywatch  icon Pamela Anderson, (42), and the top kitty of the "Pussycat Dolls" Nicole Scherzinter, (31).  The rest of the cast includes actors Aiden Turner, (32), of All My Children; Niecy Nash, (40), of Reno 911!; Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, (32); and ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, (31), who endured having a stalker shoot video of her through a hotel peephole.

Rounding out the group is former Beverly Hills, 90210 bad girl Shannen Doherty, (38), who says it was her dad's stroke on Christmas that brought her to the ballroom.  "He was in the hospital for a month.  When I told him I was offered the show, he got superexcited.  He wanted me to do it."

Information taken from the March 8-14, 2010 issue of TV Guide.

**Lysacek is the first United States Olympic men's Gold Medalist since Brian Boitano won this honor in 1988.

 

  Dance Lessons

There are other places to learn Ballroom Dancing than our dances.  We would certainly enjoy letting you know where some of these locations are.  Listed below are colleges in our area that have ballroom classes.

  • Rend Lake College

 Whittington - Corner Dance Hall

Ballroom Dancing I-II 

Thursdays 7:30 - 9;15 pm.

January 14 through May 6, 2010

Whittington - Corner Dance Hall

Teen and Young Adult Dance Class (Ages 16-21)

 Saturdays 3 - 5 pm.  (six weeks)

 January 23 through February 27, 2010

Whittington - Corner Dance Hall

 Social Dancing For Fun

Mondays 6:00 - 8:00 pm. (six sessions)

May 3 through June 14, 2010

(no class on May 31-Memorial Day)

   Mt Vernon -   Roland Lewis Building

Ballroom Dancing I-II

Latin Dancing I-II

Country Style Dancing

 January 14 through May 6, 2010

For Information, contact Rend Lake College at

(618)-437-5321, in district (800)-369-5321 Toll free

 

 

 

 

 

Pictures   

 

 

 Stain Glass Art by George White

Stan & Jill Dance Demonstration
Arnold & Opal*Arnold Downs is a retired DanceSport dancer that is now a member of Chapter 2089
Arnold & Opal

August Dance Class

Jan & Bob
 
Dr. Atkavi & Sue Sawadisavi 

 

Board of Directors Chapter # 2089 for 2010

 

  • Elizabeth Gulley
  • Jeremiah Linson
  • George White
  • Crystal Hodges
  • Gayle Erxleben
  • Dan Huebel
  • Robert Erxleben

Dance Information

 

From the White House website

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the Ambassadors Reception at the White House. Watch the four pairs of tango dancers  spontaneously begin dancing throughout the evening. July, 27, 2009 (public domain)

 

USA Dance Video

2009 USA DANCE Nationals J2 Silver/Gold Latin

                                                    Misc. Info. 

 Belated 90th Birthday Wishes to Marjorie Celeste Belcher!

 

Who, you might ask, is Marjorie Belcher?  Perhaps you would know her better as Marge Champion of Marge & Gower Champion.  She was born in Los Angeles September 2, 1919.  She was hired as a teen by Disney as a dance model for their film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  They copied her movements to enhance the realism of Snow White's movement.  She later modeled for the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio and the Dancing Hippo in Fantasia.

 

She became a Hollywood legend with second husband Gower Champion (1921-1980) as an accomplished dancing team during MGM's Golden Age of the 1940s and 50s.  MGM wanted them to remake Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films, but only one, Roberta, remade as Lovely To Look At, was completed.  Nonetheless, they appeared in many successful films for M, Everything I Have Is Yours.

 

Since retiring, Marge Champion works as a dance teacher and choreographer in New York City.  In 1982, she made a rare television acting appearance on the dramatic series Fame, playing a ballet teacher with a prejudice against African-American dance students.  In 2001 she appeared as Emily Whitman in a Broadway revival of Follies.

 

So, we in Southern Illinois who remember those MGM movies, wish you a Happy 90th Birthday!  Keep on dancing!

Marge and Gower Champion dance to "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" from the 1952 MGM Musical "Lovely To Look At" based on the original 1933 Jerome Kern Broadway Musical "Roberta." GM, such as the 1951 version of Show Boat and their own starring vehicle.

Click here to see video;

 Marge and Gower Champion

 

Dorothy Dale Kloss, (born October 27, 1923), began dancing when she was 3 years old.  While working with a young Bob Fosse in a Chicago class, she won a tap contest and catapulted to stardom doing her own act at the Empire Room in Chicago.  She toured the country from New York to California, and played Mexico City with the legendary Cantinflas.
She toured with Eddy Duchin until his orchestra was drafted during World War II, and then performed for the USO.  In 1946 she became the hostess and dance instructor of television shows, broadcasting out of Chicago on WBKB.
She has performed with  Liberace, The Mills Brothers, Mel Torme, Harry Richman, Howard Keel, Kay Starr, Frankie Laine, and Chico Marx.  She was accompanied by such bands as Ray Noble, Skinnay Ennis, Shep Fields and his "Rippling Rhythm", to name a few.
Ms. Kloss is currently performing at the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs, CA, with The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies, a vaudeville revue where she is a regular "Long-Legged Lovely", performing in ten shows weekly.
The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies holds the Guinness record for being the oldest professional chorus line (55-85) in the world, and one of its performers, Dorothy Kloss, holds the record - at age 85 - for being the oldest "still-performing showgirl".
Check out the video below, brought to you by AARP.

 World's Oldest Showgirl Dorothy Dale Kloss Still Kicking With the Fabulous Palm Spring Follies - AARP Bulletin Today.

 

What are techniques?

 

Learning a pattern or a step is just the beginning!  To be a good dancer you must also learn sound basic technique.  The proper footwork, dance positions, connections between partners, body shaping, hip actions, arm styling and many other elements will make you feel and look better when dancing the steps.  Learn some of these techniques and show yourself and others that you really know ballroom dancing!

 

New USA Dance

video commercial

 

http://www.youtube.com/usadanceinc 

 

 USA Dance Merchandis

We now have Membership pins and static cling car window decals The cost is $8.00 per pin and $5.00 per decal.  These items may be bought at a discount if bought in quantity.  If anyone would be interested in these items contact any member of the Board of Directors.                    

New Registration at Reception Table

                                                                                               We have a new system for the ticket table.  No more big tickets to fill out.  We have a new yearly check list for members.  Guests will have a Guest List to sign.  All in attendance will receive a ticket for all drawings such as our free tickets to our next monthly dance.  And don't forget our quarterly 50/50 drawing.The next drawing will be at our September dance.

Do you like to

watch dance videos?

They are very intertaining and you can learn some new steps just by watching!  USA Dance has videos on the internet.  To see them, all you  have to do is goto:

      www.youtube.com/usadanceinc

 

Our mission

 " Our Mission is to promote the quality and the quantity of ballroom dancing in the United States.  In furtherance of its educational and charitable purposes and goals, USA Dance:

 

  1. Serves as the National Governing Body for ballroom dancing and DanceSport, the competitive version of ballroom dancing, in the United States subject to the statutes of : a) the International DanceSport Federation (IDSF); b) the United States Olympic Committee (USOC); and c) the Amateur Sports Act of the United States Congress.
  2. Organizes and supports programs for the recreational enjoyment of ballroom dancing by all ages and creates affordable opportunities for the general public to participate in ballroom dancing and DanceSport;
  3. Promotes DanceSport as a sport both nationally and internationally and fosters its inclusion in the Olympic and Pan American Games;
  4. Organizes and supports DanceSport events internationally and nationally, including national, regional and local championships;
  5. Selects the DanceSport Athletes to represent the United States in the IDSF World DanceSport Championships and the World Games and helps to finance their participation;
  6. Promotes and supports ballroom dance programs in colleges and secondary schools;
  7. Applies special programs to attract beginners to ballroom dancing and to both encourage and assist these dancers in meeting their goals;
  8. Emphasizes to the public the healthful aspects of ballroom dancing; its physical, mental and social benefits;
  9. Organizes and supports programs to increase the number of dancers and to assist in the elevation of dancing skills, both competitors and recreational social dancers.

 

* Information taken from: www.usadance.org

 

USA Dance

website

 

Click on the link below

http://usadance.org/

 

Dance Etiquette

(Click On Me)

 

 

 

Interested in joining USA Dance Chapter # 2089

(Click the link below)

http://usadancemembership.org/

(For hard copy of membership form)

http://usadance.org/social-dance/forms-and-resources/

USA Dance Central Office Information:

 phone 800-447-9047

email:  central-office@usadance.org  

fax is 239-573-0946

 Location

The Corner Dance Hall is located at 200 Franklin St. Whittington, Illinois only a few minutes from Rend Lake.  Five miles North of Benton and fifteen miles South  of Mount Vernon.

 

 

 

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