[CMUBDC] Ballroom Dance Club - Week of September 15th, 2024

Sun Sep 15 22:20:02 EDT 2024

Hello Ballroom Friends,

Thanks for making our first week of lessons great! This week we will be
located in Rangos Ballroom on Monday and the CUC Studio Theatre on
Wednesday. Make sure to check in with the table when you get here for your
lesson, and we will be starting to take payments this week! More details
later in the email.

Reminder for this week (09/16-09/22) - More details below!

- Painting the Fence! 11:45 pm this Friday (the 20th!)

- Mock Competition this Saturday the 21st! Bootcamp starts at 9am,
Competition starts at 1:30!
- Register for OSU! Individual Commitment Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeczkr8cujEq9vtwG_8wuW199hPn0z5ElPiRmKsXgRmYci-cQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>
& Partnership Commitment Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVDDrLFzAiTgQZhc7O9Vo62DymRn-7Yw_qOwF3KKiKqDb6vQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>
- Join a Buddy Boat!
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKqADPIL6fR0a4-lOT0aBP30ok-tXxAb_B1Pwuy61DhAKB0g/viewform>
- We are starting to take semester lesson payments! Check, Cash, or Cashnet!
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_1T5WMRG1t8QDjebvwHMo8VPniSbSbFHah879Vw22g/edit>

- Volunteer for Carnegie Classic! Sign up HERE!
<https://forms.gle/DNecY8Nod6q9yzmJ8>

- Join the slack by clicking this link!
<https://join.slack.com/t/cmuballroom/shared_invite/zt-2h427oryv-q~Y_rbzhxEuZLWKmrOrgYQ>

Newcomers/Beginners:

Our second set of regular lessons is this week! Don’t worry if you missed
any or all of rush, we are teaching the dances from scratch. Come for any,
come for all, we would love to see you there! The beginner lessons this
week are…

Monday 09/16 — Rangos 1/2/3

7:40–8:10 Professional Taught Beginner Standard

8:25–9:00 Veteran Taught Tango
9:00–9:30 Veteran Taught Smooth Foxtrot
9:30–10:00 Beginner Social Lesson – Salsa

Wednesday, 09/18 — Studio Theatre

7:40–8:10 Professional Taught Beginner Latin

8:25–9:00 Veteran Taught Rhythm Cha-Cha
9:00–9:30 Veteran Taught Rhythm Rumba

9:30–10:00 Beginner Social Lesson – Hustle

Payment Information:

We hope you are having a great time taking lessons with us! Your first two
lessons (excluding rush) are free. After that, we ask that students pay $40
and non-students pay $90 in membership dues. This amount covers all the
lessons we offer for the entire Fall semester.

Please bring cash or a check to the table at the door or follow these
instructions to pay online. As a reminder, we cannot accept Venmo or Zelle
because of university policy.

Here are more in depth payment instructions!
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_1T5WMRG1t8QDjebvwHMo8VPniSbSbFHah879Vw22g/edit>

Mock Competition:

Mark your calendars for our mock competition hosted on 09/21 in Rangos
Ballroom (This Saturday!) This will be a place to practice what you’ve been
learning and try out the format of an official competition! Please register
for mock comp using this google form by 9/18! You do not have to be
attending OSU or any competition this semester to go to Mock Comp, nor do
you have to attend Mock Comp to register for the competitions!

Register for Mock Comp!
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAMjUjZ6wehIZS8shgP04oq782JRLxDC8vWAjQTEyP0W7FtA/viewform?usp=sf_link>

Volunteer for Mock Comp!
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-lG_0OS6DgBkeq0nndlEU3tY0hcxrNt1uPnkRXtKymJa0qQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>

Mock Comp Schedule
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IBDa9-_tKf31OsDYxnE-etlM5RYk9GlNCuXHHxBgwHY/edit?usp=sharing>

OSU Competition:

Our first competition of the year is at Ohio State University during the
last weekend of September, 9/27 - 9/29, which is only a few weeks from
now!. This competition is very newcomer friendly, so we hope to see anyone
and everyone there. At OSU there will be newcomer dancing available in all
styles, and we will have a few ways for you guys to prepare for the
competition before we go, which are listed later in this email 🙂

If you are curious about the schedule, you can find that here: OSU Schedule
<https://ballroomcompexpress.com/viewschedule.php?cid=147>

At OSU, there will be team housing, team dinners, and lots of opportunities
to support your favorite CMU BDC dancers, as well as to meet dancers from
other schools who will be in the competition!  In addition to that, we will
also have buddy boats: buddy boats are small groups that are assigned by
the club where we are able to have both newcomers and veterans to allow for
feedback, support, and advice. This is the buddy boat sign-up if you’re
interested: Join a Buddy Boat!
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKqADPIL6fR0a4-lOT0aBP30ok-tXxAb_B1Pwuy61DhAKB0g/viewform>

The pricing is $35 for first-timers and open-only, and $55 for students and
$80 for non-students, which covers travel, housing, and registration fees.
If you are interested you must sign up before 9/21! This will give us time
to complete your registration and ensure that there is housing for everyone
who would like to come. There is also a partnership commitment form which
must be completed by 9/25, you do not need a partner to participate in OSU,
but this will allow us to find you a partner if you do not find one prior
to the competition.

Here is the link to the individual commitment form, and we sincerely hope
to see all of you there!

Individual Commitment Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeczkr8cujEq9vtwG_8wuW199hPn0z5ElPiRmKsXgRmYci-cQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>

This is the link to the partnership commitment form: Partnership Commitment
Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVDDrLFzAiTgQZhc7O9Vo62DymRn-7Yw_qOwF3KKiKqDb6vQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>

Carnegie Classic:

We are hosting Carnegie Classic, our annual home competition this October
12th in our very own Rangos Ballroom! We can’t wait to host competitors
from over 20 colleges and adults from across the nation.

We are looking for volunteers to help with our Carnegie Classic Competition
(October 11-13).We are so excited to be hosting this competition but we
can't do it without everyone's help! We have lots of opportunities for
volunteering, between picking up officials from the airport and acting as
Deck Captain during the competition!

Feel free to sign up for anything that seems interesting to you and
anything you would be willing to do - we won't double book you and will try
to get everyone the jobs they want! Sign up HERE!

<https://forms.gle/DNecY8Nod6q9yzmJ8>

Please fill out this form if you would like to help out the CMU Ballroom
team by hosting some dancers from other universities! It is pretty simple,
all you need is floor space and a bathroom for them to use. They will
basically sleep over Friday night and leave Saturday morning or Sunday
afternoon. If you have a couch or pillows for them, that's nice, but not
required. Sign up HERE! <https://forms.gle/WiQzV3SHs4oeZTPZ6>

Weekly Lesson Schedule

Monday 09/16 – Rangos 1/2/3

Professional-

Taught Standard

Int 3

5:20-5:55

Int 2

5:55-6:30

Int 1

6:30-7:05

Adv

7:05-7:40

Newcomer

7:40-8:10

Rounds

8:10-8:20

Veteran-

Taught

Lessons

Tango w/ Aditya & Abby

8:25-9:00

Smooth Foxtrot w/ Brenna & Vanessa

9:00-9:30

Professional-

Taught

Social Dance

Beginner Salsa

9:30-10:00

Int Salsa

10:00-10:30

Wed 09/18 – Studio Theatre

Professional-

Taught Latin

Rhythm

5:20-5:55

Int 2

5:55-6:30

Int 1

6:30-7:05

Adv

7:05-7:40

Newcomer

7:40-8:10

Rounds

8:10-8:20

Veteran-

Taught

Lessons

Cha-Cha w/ Sasha & Matias

8:25-9:00

Rhythm Rumba w/ Rebecca & Jamie

9:00-9:30

Professional-

Taught

Social Dance

Beginner Hustle

9:30-10:00

Int Hustle

10:00-10:30

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Reminder Details

Painting the Fence:

As the first team bonding event of the semester, we will be painting The
Fence on Friday, September 20 (i.e. the night before Mock Comp)! Painting
The Fence is a time-honored CMU tradition for students to participate in
and we welcome you all to join us (you don’t have to be a CMU student to
help)! We will meet at The Fence pit around 11:45 pm and start painting at
midnight. We have to be done by sunrise (around 6 am) and it must be done
entirely by hand, so the more help, the better and faster we can do it!
There will also be hot chocolate and marshmallows :)

Community Events

USA Dance Black and Gold Night - Saturday, September 21st
Wightman School Community Building - 7PM

September Practice Party - Friday, September 27th

Nova Ballroom - 7pm

Cranberry Ballroom Pumpkin Spice Dance  - Saturday, September 28th
Cranberry Township Municipal Center - 7pm

Resources

Slack:

The slack channel is a group chat where we talk about all things ballroom.
Ex: coordinating groups for dance outings, finding people to practice with
for the weekend, or reporting a lost item. We also use this to communicate
about competitions, especially travel and timelines.  Join the slack by
clicking this link!
<https://join.slack.com/t/cmuballroom/shared_invite/zt-2h427oryv-q~Y_rbzhxEuZLWKmrOrgYQ>

Google Calendar:
Click this link
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=YjYyOWVzNDVsZ2w2ZW0wNzM0ZjVpcWNibGtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ>
to add our google calendar and stay updated on lessons, practices, socials
and more fun events!

This week’s most meme-ingful message

Happy Dancing!

Abby, Brenna, Aditya, Kyr, Sasha, & Karishma
https://linktr.ee/cmubdt – cmuballroom at gmail.com
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