[CMUBDC] Ballroom Dance Club - Week of August 25, 2025

[CMU Ballroom Dance Club]

Hello Ballroom Friends,

We hope you had a wonderful summer and are excited to join us for another
year of ballroom dancing!

Just a quick reminder:

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   For the first two weeks of the semester, we’ll be hosting Fall Rush—a
   perfect chance for beginners to try out ballroom dancing and for returning
   members to get back on the floor. More details are included below!
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   If you haven’t joined our Slack channel yet, you should! Join using this
   link
   <https://join.slack.com/t/cmuballroom/shared_invite/zt-34jz67dzn-N5sIDQeSZuKpIVe3zZddeA>!
   We use Slack to organize social events, share updates, and stay connected
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   For competition news and updates, join our #comp-team channel on Slack by
   clicking this link <https://cmuballroom.slack.com/archives/C098LHQL5HC>!
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      See information for Rochester Dancesport Festival below
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   This semester we’ll have our usual weekend practice spaces plus new
   Thursday evening rounds + mentoring sessions(starting the second week of
   lessons). Details below!

Fall Rush

Come enjoy free intro lessons, exciting showcases, fun raffles, and tasty
refreshments! Fall Rush is one of our most exciting events of the year, and
whether you’re a returning member or brand new to the club, we’d love to
see you there!

Monday 08/25 – Rangos

Standard

Audition

5:20 - 5:45

Int 1 Audition

5:45 - 6:30

Int 2/3 Audition

6:30 - 6:50

Adv Audition

RUSH

7:00 - 9:30

RUSH



Thursday 08/28 – Rangos

Latin

Audition

5:20 - 5:45

Int 1 Audition

5:45 - 6:30

Int 2 Audition

6:30 - 6:50

Adv Audition

RUSH

7:00 - 9:30

RUSH


Rochester Dancesport Festival

For our first travel competition of the semester, we will be traveling
to Rochester
Dancesport Festival in New York. The competition is approximately 4.5 hours
away. Car groups will be leaving the morning of Saturday, October 25th (or
potentially Friday depending on workshop interest and scheduling) and
returning to Pittsburgh the evening Sunday, October 26th.

To register, please fill out the Individual Commitment Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEdtpzj6OJascwBr27t2EiUlY37XdEQQkTeFezz2oOpoFtCA/viewform?usp=header>and
the Partnership Registration Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMchTV0EWWltEtbG7m7VfvkVQ7rjPbTErPW4jytJ71d9Z8ag/viewform?usp=header>.
The deadlines and prices for syllabus are as follows:

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   Super Early: Thursday, 8/28 - $35
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   Early: Wednesday, 9/24 - $40
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   Regular: Monday, 10/6 - $45

Open competitors do not have to pay any registration costs.

Practice Spaces

This semester we will be doing something a little different in terms of
practice spaces and rounds to add some structure and increased
opportunities to improve as a team and individually! For our regular
practice spaces (Saturday and Sunday) we will have rounds at the end of
each session. Saturday will have standard and smooth rounds while Sunday
will have latin and rhythm rounds. These will take place 15 minutes before
practice ends (approximately 1:15pm) and are a great opportunity to
practice in a competition setting!

We also will have practice space for four style competitive rounds and
mentoring sessions on Thursdays from 7-9pm starting the second week of
lessons. The first hour will consist of repeated four style rounds to
simulate competition and build stamina. The second hour will consist of
mentoring sessions which you can sign up to mentor or take a lesson at this
link here
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/186j8eao4HpN1bw-AXooxdMTM42T-8eG_6u3vNCBod_c/edit?usp=sharing>.
This is a great opportunity to encourage community and mentor newer dancers
within our team!

Saturday 08/30

12:00-1:30pm

CUC Kenner Studio

Sunday   08/31

12:00-1:30pm

CUC Kenner Studio

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-34jz67dzn-N5sIDQeSZuKpIVe3zZddeA>

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!

Helen, Brenna, Aditya, Kyr, Shakira, Isaiah, Karishma, & Sefi

https://linktr.ee/cmubdt – cmuballroom at gmail.com
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